Books published by Verlag Peter Lang

Since its inception cinema has served as a powerful medium that both articulates and intervenes in visions of identity. This book offers a critical approach to study of Ireland's colonial and postcolonial heritage through a comparative exploration of such filmic visions, yielding insights into operations of colonial, and postcolonial discourse.

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw an explosion in Europe of interest in foreign languages and literatures. This book explores how early generations of women writers formed connections with each other across national boundaries.

Brings together research providing perspectives on the status quo and challenges for the future of Queer Theory/Queer Studies. In this title, the chapters offer analyses and insights into changing academic and public discourses on sexual and gender normativities within a wide multi- and trans-disciplinary scope.

Europe and its Others

Examines the films that the Kaurismaekis produced, individually and in collaboration, between 1981 and 1995 - films which mobilise various methods to reflect, criticise, counteract and contribute to the globalisation of Finnish society in the era of late capitalist development. This title provides an analysis of these films.

Bloody Living

Uncovers an ancient Irish perspective of learning and reconfigures it to offer a vitality-restoring vision for education in our digital age. This book aims to help re-engage learners of the Net generation meaningfully and with enjoyment in the learning process.

Drawing upon research from a variety of disciplines, the author examines the push toward privatisation in diverse national settings, its profound impact on organised labour, and the often innovative responses of workers and their unions in the affected industries.

Explains the radical reconfiguring of Jewish education in England in historical and sociocultural terms. This book explores the transformations that took place in every aspect of Jewish education: curriculum, religious/ideological orientation, school format (afternoon classes vs day schools), funding (private vs state), and more.

Describing Irish as 'female' and 'bestial' is a practice dating back to twelfth century, while for women, inside and outside of Ireland, their association with children and other 'savages' has had a long history, this study examines a tradition of Irish women writers deploying 'natural' as a gesture to paternalist regulation of female energies.

This book follows the work of a group of right-wing nationalist writers from 1890 to 1960, whose writings both paved the way for the rise of Nazism and continued to stimulate debate about German cultural and political identity after 1945. The volume features studies of Hans Grimm, Kolbenheyer, Schafer, Strauss, von Munchhausen and Binding.

A collection of essays that is conceived not as a summary of past endeavours but as the beginning of an attempt to present a sense of the wholeness of a distinctively English literature from Beowulf to Spenser.

Why would a poem about courtly love remain so popular for so long? This book analyses literary and historical publishing evidence about "The Assembly of Ladies", to show that poem has remained in print not for its literary merit, but because its anonymity has allowed it to be appropriated for their own particular social and political causes.

Examining literary production from eleventh century until present, this title argues that the body in North Africa and Latin America serves as a physical and symbolic terrain upon which textual, national, racial and linguistic identities are vectored and through which postcolonial and hegemonic antagonisms of power and identity are resolved.

The intersection between space and narrative has often aroused critical interest, especially in cross-fertilization of language and imagination. In this title, the essays address ways in which three generations of British and American artists responded to these ontological changes, as they were both literally and metaphorically 'thrown' on roads.

Focuses on how development-oriented non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs) are suited to the dual development process of improving the wellbeing and empowerment of the poor and other marginalized people (especially women) in Africa and other developing countries, focusing on Uganda.

What is Horace's real motive for lecturing on miserly greed in his first satire? Who is the modern Hollywood star whom Horace most closely resembled? What is Horace doing while Damasippus rattles on, recounting the words of his guru Stertinius, in Satires 2.3? This title deals with these questions.

Crossing the Wall

Recent years have seen a great debate and much progress in corporate social responsibility (CSR). Headway has been made in the development of the CSR agenda and dissemination of management models. This title offers a re-reading of fundamental issues for business management such as the stakeholder relationship, and meaning of success in business.

Focuses on the ideas of W.B. Yeats and explores his thinking on a wide range of fundamental subjects. In this book, the author considers Yeats' adherence to various anti-empirical belief systems and the transformation of his view of sex as largely a romantic concern to his later more 'earthy' perspective.