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Queer Bodies: A (Re)Orientation to Henry James, Oscar Wilde and the Genealogy of Same-Sex Desire
(UMA Editorial, 2023)This PhD thesis aims to explore the concept of the “queer body” as a historiographical tool through which to understand the literary and cultural genealogy of same-sex desire between men. To achieve this aim, the thesis ... -
Reading, Writing, and Re-Visioning the Past: the historical novel in history. (Part I)
(2016-12-19)The extraordinary popularity of historical fiction shows no sign of abating. Historical novels have been attempted by most major contemporary novelists; they regularly top bestseller lists and win literary prizes; and the ... -
Recreaciones contemporáneas de Pride and Prejudice de Jane Austen
(Servicio de Publicaciones y Divulgación Científica, 2016)No cabe duda de que Jane Austen (1775-1817) es a día de hoy no sólo una figura preeminente dentro de la literatura en lengua inglesa sino que de igual modo es una de las novelistas más conocidas por el gran público, un ... -
Reinventing Female Fashion: From Victorian Apparel to Steampunk Expression of the Self
(2015-11-30)First impressions have always been said to be extremely important in most situations. Traditionally, outfit is linked to one’s conception of the society one lives in. Some scholars, such as Roberts, argue that fashion was ... -
‘Remedies to cure the diseases or ill-affections of the Eares, Eies, Nose and Mouthe.’ Punctuation in London, Wellcome Library, MS. 676.
(2023)Punctuation is an essential component of the written text, due to their shared history these two elements are bound (Parkes 1992, 1). Both modern and medieval punctuation are essentially of a syntactic structure, marking ... -
Remembering a Present-Oriented Future in Lois Lowry’s "The Giver" (1993)
González-Campos, Miguel Ángel
(Universitat de les Illes Balears, 2022)
Futures Studies as a multidisciplinary academic field developed in the last decades has emphasized the meaningful and revealing nature of the images of the future originating in every society. In this sense, Piotr M. Szpunar ... -
“Remembering the future”: shaping a collective future in Lois Lowry’s The Giver (1993) and its film adaptation by Phillip Noyce (2014)
González-Campos, Miguel Ángel (2018-11-15)
Futures Studies is a multidisciplinary academic field that has developed in the last decades. Pioneering studies on the subject, such as those Wendell Bell (1997) or David Wilson (2000), have emphasized the meaningful and ... -
Reorientación del patrimonio a través de la ficción literaria y audiovisual.
Este trabajo lleva a cabo una aproximación a la capacidad de la ficción literaria y audiovisual para modificar y recrear la percepción de espacios físicos reales cuando estos entran a formar parte de las historias narradas, ... -
Representations of Human and Environmental Vulnerability in North American Literature.
Chapman, Ana María; Bennett, Lucía (Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2022)
Since the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center somberly inaugurated the new millennium, critical discourses on trauma, grieving and vulnerability have gained relevance in the academic sphere. The global dimension of ... -
Restaging Femininities on the Neo-Victorian Popular Stage.
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (2023)
The neo-Victorian fascination with nineteenth-century popular entertainment has been consistent since Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus (1984) and it has proved a fruitful ground for contemporary authors to explore ... -
La revisión de la memoria cultural a través de la figura de la maestra de la primera mitad del siglo XX en novelas contemporáneas de España y Reino Unido.
(UMA Editorial, 2024)El presente trabajo ofrece un análisis de la representación literaria de la figura de la maestra a lo largo de la primera mitad del siglo XX en España y Reino Unido, examinando cómo la articulación de dicha representación ... -
Revisiting the origin and development of pleonastic that in English
Calle-Martín, Javier (2016-09-21)
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 ... -
Rewriting the American Dream for the Trump Era and Beyond in Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success (2018)
Bryla, Martyna Marika (Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos. AEDEAN, 2022)
This essay analyses Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success (2018) as an inquiry into the formative narratives of the American identity—the American Dream and self-making—through the story of a hedge-fund manager, Barry, who abandons ... -
Riots, Foster Homes and a Royal Wedding: The Unequal Allocation of Vulnerability in Kit de Waal's My Name Is Leon
Kit de Waal’s debut novel, My Name Is Leon (2016), was an instant success. Both critics and readers praised de Waal’s ability to capture the social complexities of Britain in the 1980s, a moment largely marked both by the ... -
Sacred Sexuality: Spirituality and Wholeness in African American Women’s Texts
Castro-Borrego, Silvia Pilar (AEDEAN EBook, 2014-02)
Esta mesa redonda es una aproximación a la problemática del silencio de la sexualidad femenina en la literatura contemporánea feminista norteamericana -
Santé, bien-être et mieux-être : promesses et génération de valeur dans la publicité touristique
Turci-Domingo, María Isabel (2017-06-06)
Des promesses de santé, de bien-être, de mieux-être remplissent la publicité concernant le tourisme de santé, voire le débordent. Décliné sous différentes facettes, le bonheur que le voyage procure s’oppose à un quotidien ... -
Scribal punctuation of coordinate and subordinate clauses in Late Middle English and Early Modern English
Esteban-Segura, María Laura; Calle-Martín, Javier (2018-10-03)
The study of punctuation has traditionally focused on Old and Middle English handwritten material—literary and scientific texts in particular, while the early modern period has been left unexplored (Calle-Martín forthcoming). ... -
'The Sea is History': Transoceanic Perspectives on the Neo-Victorian Maritime Novel
Martín-González, Juan José (UMA Editorial, 2019-10)
This PhD thesis examines a selection of postcolonial neo-Victorian novels in the context of oceanic migration during the nineteenth century. The Victorian period (1837-1901) in Britain features today as a fulcrum point for ... -
Semiosfera turística: crear el acontecimiento
Turci-Domingo, María Isabel (2018-07-30)
Si el efecto persuasivo culmina en el plano perlocutivo, la promesa gobierna el plano discursivo y con ello la retórica del discurso promocional turístico. Sobre esta hipótesis fuerte, fundamentada en la observación, que ... -
Sémiosphère touristique : la construction de la promesse par l’événement dans la publicité
Turci-Domingo, María Isabel (2018-04-23)
Une marque de destination ou brand serait porteuse d’une promesse détenue par l’objet touristique véhiculant un imaginaire valorisant sinon euphorique. Sous-tendue par la doxa inhérente à la sémiosphère touristique, qui ...