Books published by Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

In this fascinating reappraisal of the non-literary drama of the late 19th - early 20th century, Christopher Fitz-Simon discloses a unique world of plays, players and producers in metropolitan theatres in Ireland and other countries where Ireland was viewed as a source of extraordinary topics at once contemporary and comfortably remote.

This book examines approaches and responses to working with the asylum-seeking, refugee and migrant communities in Ireland.

What are Monsters? Monsters serve as a warning about something amiss in our surroundings. This collection of original and accessible essays looks at a variety of contemporary monsters from literature, film, television, music and the internet in their respective cultural contexts. Texts range from District 9 to Cleverman to Lady Gaga.

In Synge and the Making of Modern Irish Drama, Anthony Roche draws on twenty-five years of engagement with Synge's plays to present ten chapters on the unfolding of a double narrative. It will be of considerable interest to students of Irish drama both in Ireland and worldwide.

Ireland on Stage: Beckett and After, a collection of ten essays on contemporary Irish theatre, focuses primarily on Irish playwrights and their works, both in text and on the stage, in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Die Beitrage des Bandes konzentrieren sich auf die unterschiedlichen Formen und Medien einer oeffentlichen Erinnerungskultur im deutsch-franzoesischen Kontext. Der Band leistet somit einen wichtigen Beitrag zur interdisziplinaren Vernetzung sowie zur Erweiterung der theoretischen Ansatze im Rahmen der Lion-Feuchtwanger-Forschung.

Ana Duffy holds a PhD in Latin American Literature from the University of Queensland, Australia. She has worked in various Australian universities as a lecturer and tutor in the fields of Latin American studies and literature, Spanish and, being a writer herself, in creative writing and literary studies.

Bloomsbury critics Roger Fry and Clive Bell instigated a new way of looking at art that focused on the visionary genius of the artist. This book traces the Anglo-American dialogue they inspired and demonstrates how Bloomsbury's new aesthetic was taken up by the urban intelligentsia in 1920s.

L'auteur montre comment, sous la plume de Jean Lorrain, de Marie Corelli, de Henry Rider-Haggard ou de Renee Vivien, des silhouettes mythologiques, bibliques et historiques invitent a nuancer l'omnipresence de la femme fatale dans le second dix-neuvieme siecle et a interroger la notion meme de fatalite.

This collection of essays and papers written over the span of fifteen years explore the dialogic element in selected works from late Romanticism to early Modernism. Essays discuss Byron, Ruskin, George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Hopkins, Ouida, Joyce and T. S. Eliot.

This book is based on a study of Australian documentary films produced by and about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders since the early twentieth century. The book aims to expose the course of race relations in Australia in documentary film by Aboriginal filmmakers, tracing their struggle to achieve social justice and self-representation.

Documentary in Wales has emerged only recently, with a new Welsh-language broadcaster launching in 1982. It has been modulated by the enriching, but sometimes uneasy, relationship between both national languages (Cymraeg and English). This book explores the unique Welsh context and its effect on the development of documentary.

Global military integration is yet a missing link towards abolishing war and nuclear weapons. Only if all state were joined in a truly Global NATO would it be possible to overcome the security dilemma and hence war

Providing unique and new perspectives that have been evolved mostly from papers read at an international conference held in Kyoto, Japan, this collection attempts to reassess and explore the values of Irish literature in a global context.

The essays incorporated into this volume share an ambitious interest in investigating death as an individual, social and metaphorical phenomenon that may be exemplified by themes involving burial rituals, identity, and commemoration.

This volume affords an opportunity to reconsider international connections and conflicts from the specific standpoint of translation as a dynamic, sociocultural activity. The chapters pivot around the relationships that are established between translation and ideology, re-narration, identity, cultural representation and knowledge reproduction.

This book explores how and why some Muslim individuals and communities seek to live apart in isolated enclaves, providing a compelling new perspective from which to understand the lives of contemporary British Muslims. The author examines everyday life in Muslim enclaves.

Peter Raina's study, with its admirable selection of "Dadie" Rylands' marvellously lucid radio talks (hitherto unpublished) and its sampling of the multitude of letters he wrote and received, brings to life this legendary figure in academic and theatrical circles of the twentieth century.

A frank, honest, and probing account of a much commented upon and controversial period in the history of the national theatre. These diaries provide fascinating personal insights into the day to day pressures, joys, and frustrations of running one of Ireland's most iconic institutions.

This informative and incisive collection of essays sheds new light on the literary interrelations between Ireland, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Czech Republic. It charts an under-explored history of the reception of modern Irish culture in Central and Eastern Europe and investigates how key authors have been translated, performed, and adapted.

Modern Death is written in the form of a symposium, in which a government agency brings together a group of experts to discuss a strategy for dealing with an ageing population.

This volume embraces the critical turn of new materialism in order to address how creative and social practices allow for the definition of alternative subject positions and to examine how power relations operate at an embodied, relatable level: it proposes to think global but act local.

This book presents an analysis of more than 30 plays written by Irish dramatists and poets that are based on the tragedies of Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. These plays proceed from the time of Yeats and Synge through MacNeice and the Longfords on to many of today's leading writers.

This is the first book to provide comprehensive treatment of Robert Lowell's engagements with Irish poetry. It includes original contributions by leading and emerging scholars from both sides of the Atlantic.

Analyses the influence of the Guinness brand's provenance on advertising campaigns aimed at consumers living in Ireland between 1959 and 1999, and the extent to which Guinness's advertising has influenced Irish culture and society.

Combining traditional archival with innovative digital research, this book narrates global integration and imperial governance through individuals, from Boy Scout founder Robert Baden-Powell and imperialist Alfred Milner to Canadian Mountie Sam Steele, and, foremost, thousands of SAC men.

I saggi raccolti in Iconografie pirandelliane esplorano una fitta serie di domande relative alle molteplici sfaccettature della cultura visiva nell'opera e nell'immagine pubblica di Luigi Pirandello. Il volume offre una panoramica variegata e unica sui molteplici temi legati a Pirandello e alla cultura visiva.

In light of changes to the English national educational policy context since the Academies Act 2010, this book examines the relationship between the Catholic Church and the English State with regard to the provision of education in diocesan Catholic schools

Billy Roche - musician, actor, novelist, dramatist, screenwriter - is one of Ireland's most versatile talents. This anthology, the first comprehensive survey of Roche's work, focuses on his portrayal of one Irish town as a microcosm of human life itself, elemental and timeless.