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Narratology in Early Modern Medical Manuscripts: The Case of London, Wellcome Library, MS 213.
Esteban-Segura, María Laura
(2023)
It has been argued that narrative elements can be found throughout the history of English scientific writing. Narratives can be linked to specific genres; thus, learned texts for medical doctors were different from those ... -
Natural elements and spaces in A.S. Byatt’s short stories
Lara-Rallo, Carmen (2014-12-18)
This paper examines the centrality of nature in Byatt’s short fiction, tracing the presence of natural elements and spaces in some of her short stories, and their association with female characters and experiences. In the ... -
(Neo)Victorian Globalisation and Sino-Indian Relations in Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke (2011)
Martín-González, Juan José (2019-01-16)
In light of renewed perspectives on Victorian global politics and international relations, this paper provides a close reading of Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke (2011). Set in 1839, this second instalment in the so-called ... -
Neo-Victorian Incest Trauma and the Fasting Body in Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (Nordic Irish Studies, 2017)
The Catholic nuclear family, as a product of historical and cultural contingencies, has predominantly figured as dysfunctional in Irish literature. Emma Donoghue’s most recent novel, The Wonder (2016), builds on trauma, ... -
Neo-Victorian Novels of Spectacle: Mapping Gendered Spaces in the City
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (Universidad de Málaga, Servicio de Publicaciones y Divulgación Científica, 2013)
The scope of the present PhD thesis is to analyse the process of spatialising identities in neo-Victorian literature. This study explores how space and gender converge in the formation of subjective identities using a ... -
Neo-Victorian Orientations towards the Fictional Writer: Jane Harris’s - The Observations
Arias-Doblas, María Rosario (2019-11-04)
Jane Harris’s The Observations (2007) narrates the story of Bessy Buckley, an Irish girl who searches for work and finds it in Castle Haivers, employed by Arabella. While learning how to become a maid-of-all work, she is ... -
Neo-Victorian Wasted Lives and Detection in Lee Jackson’s A Metropolitan Murder (2004).
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel (2023)
In one of his seminal works, Wasted Lives: Modernity and its Oucasts (2004), Zygmunt Bauman defines the idea of “wasted lives” as a ripple of modernity creating the figure of “the outcast”. According to him, the production ... -
“New Critical Approaches to the History of the Early English Novel”
(2017-10-16)The critical appraisal of the rise of the novel in English has changed drastically from the publication of Ian Watt’s homonymous study in 1957. Some thirty years later, one of Watt’s disciples, Michael McKeon, suggested a ... -
'No cat could be that hungry!’ This/that as Intensifiers in American English
Calle-Martín, Javier (Routledge - Taylor and Francis, 2019-02-22)
Estudio léxico-semántico de los intensificadores this y that como modificadores de adjetivos y adverbios en inglés americano, la variedad del círculo interno donde este fenómeno se detecta con mayor protagonismo. El estudio ... -
“Not the Kind of Thing Anyone Wants to Spell Out”: Lesbian Silence in Emma Donoghue’s Neo-Victorian Representation of the Codrington Divorce
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (Lambda Nordica, 2013)
This article looks into how Donoghue uses the trope of silence to reiterate lesbian history in her reimagination of the relationship between Helen Codrington and Emily Faithfull. I will argue that the public/private dichotomy ... -
On how adopting an ELF pedagogical perspective can help CLIL teachers.
Pineda-Hernández, Inmaculada Concepción (Dr. Kovac Verlag, 2022-01-09)
English as a global language has visibly undergone a number of changes and its fluidity and variability both functional and formal are evident (e.g. Archibald et al. 2011; Baird et al. 2014; Seidlhofer 2011). Current ... -
On linearization as part of narrow syntax. The case of OSV/OVS structures.
Castillo-Orihuela, Concepción (The Slovak Association for the Study of English, 2017)
In this paper I explore an approach to linearization where this is part of core or narrow syntax. Based upon Kayne´s (2011/2013) algorithm that processing follows the order of production, that is from left-to-right, and ... -
On the competing grammar approach to the derivation of sentences in OE
Castillo-Orihuela, Concepción (2014-10-02)
Este trabajo asume el análisis de la doble estructura de base sintáctica postulada para explicar la alternancia OV/VO en inglés antiguo, así como las diversas combinaciones de Aux, V, y O (o bien V1, V2, y O), y propone ... -
On the Decline of Pleonastic "that" in Late Middle English and Early Modern English
Calle-Martín, Javier (2016-04-21)
The origin of pleonastic that can be traced back to Old English where it could appear in syntactic constructions consisting of a preposition + demonstrative pronoun (i.e. for þy þat, for þæm þe) or a subordinator (i.e. oþ ... -
On the development of relativization in the English language
Castillo-Orihuela, Concepción (2019-07-16)
The discussion is about relative clauses in Old English and the transition to the Middle English period. More specifically, it deals with the phenomenon of preposition stranding in one type of relative clauses but not in ... -
On the licensing of finite T and finite v
Castillo-Orihuela, Concepción (2014-10-01)
El trabajo trata sobre la interacción entre T, v/V y el DP sujeto en una oración finita de una típica lengua SVO, y se centra por una parte en el movimiento de V-a-T y por otra en el fenómeno de la concordancia de sujeto. ... -
On the processing of agreement morphology
Castillo-Orihuela, Concepción (2018-03-22)
The paper deals with the role played by morphology in core syntax within a generative minimalist framework: more specifically it deals with the theory of valuation of agreement or phi-features (that is, person and number ... -
On the rise and diffusion of new intensifiers: this/that in some asian varieties of english
Calle-Martín, Javier; Lorente-Sánchez, Juan (Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies, 2021-12)
Estudio léxico-semántico de los intensificadores this y that como modificadores de adjetivos y adverbios en cuatro variedades del inglés asiático. El estudio cuantitativo confirma, por un lado, la influencia del inglés ... -
On the Use of make to vs. make ø in early English Medical Writing
Calle-Martín, Javier; Romero-Barranco, Jesús (2014-10-23)
OBJECT INFINITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS are the most frequent type of non-finite complement clauses, in which the object infinitive may occur either marked (+TO) e.g. to-infinitive or unmarked (-TO) e.g. bare infinitive (Fischer ...