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Uncanny secrets in _Burnt Island_
Martin-Lorenzo, Maria Remedios
(2018-11-23)
My aim here is the analysis of the uncanny element in Alice Thompson’s Burnt Island (2013). This modern gothic novel (which uses conventions of different genres) relies heavily on the unbalanced personality of frustrated ... -
Under Bech's eyes: emotional geographies of the European East in John Updike's short stories.
Bryla, Martyna Marika (Universidad de Sevilla, 2018)
John Updike’s short stories about Henry Bech’s diplomatic adventures in the European East have been analysed mainly in the context of the Cold-War balance of power and Updike’s ambivalent attitude to communist Russia. While ... -
Understanding CLIL from an ELF perspective: language in Taiwanese primary bilingual education
Pineda-Hernández, Inmaculada Concepción; Tsou, Wenli (De Gruyter Mouton, 2021-12-31)
Recent global developments have intensified the use of English as a lingua franca (ELF), the principal means of communication employed among speakers of different linguistic backgrounds to interact worldwide. Consequently, ... -
Understanding the Other Europe: Philip Roth’s Writings on Prague.
Bryla, Martyna Marika (Editorial de la Universidad de Sevilla, 2013)
The aim of this essay is to explore the representation and significance of post-war Prague in the works of one of the finest contemporary American authors, Philip Roth. Kafka’s hometown is the locale ... -
El uso de las TIC y el enfoque AICLE en la educación superior (Kahoot!, cortometrajes y BookTubes)
Yélamos-Guerra, María Salomé; Moreno-Ortiz, Antonio Jesús (Universidad de Sevilla, 2021-12-20)
Este artículo describe un estudio llevado a cabo en la Universidad de Málaga en el Grado de Estudios Ingleses con alumnos de segundo, tercer y cuarto curso. En él se describen diferentes proyectos AICLE, que van desde ... -
El uso del aprendizaje basado en juegos como medio de motivación en las aulas del SESO IES Dunas de las Chapas
Yélamos-Guerra, María Salomé (2021-10-06)
Con los recientes cambios en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje experimentados en las últimas décadas, los profesores del s. XXI deben adaptarse a una nueva realidad docente. La motivación del alumnado es crucial para ... -
Victorian Pornography versus Contemporary Pornography: Belinda Starling’s The Journal of Dora Damage (2008) and Women’s Agency and Emancipation.
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel (2016-11-16)
Pornography is and has been a contentious issue in the Victorian past and in our contemporary societies, and the role of women in the business has been very much discussed by Victorian and contemporary critics and academics ... -
Virtual English as a lingua franca, Transmodal, Translingual and transcultural strategies in Twitter
Pineda-Hernández, Inmaculada Concepción (Routledge, 2023-06-12)
Scholars around the world have studied the impact that using social media in formal learning settings can have on students: from improving the understanding of content, to having access to information about current affairs, ... -
Virtual English as a Lingua Franca: Investigating the Discourse of Digital Exchanges and Understanding Technology- Enhanced Learning.
Pineda-Hernández, Inmaculada Concepción; Rino, Bosso (Routledge, 2023-06-12)
How do people make pragmatic meaning in an interconnected, English-speaking, and technology-enhanced globalized world? How do they manage to achieve their communicative goals when engaging in exchanges with Internet users ... -
Vulnerability as potential: the search for agency in Deborah Levy’s _Hot Milk_ (2016)
Flores-Quesada, María Magdalena (2019-07-04)
Departing from Agamben’s idea of potentiality, I propose to explore this notion in connection to the critical term of vulnerability, to show that they are not that different as one could think at first. In order to do so, ... -
Vulnerability through the Invulnerable Transhuman LensEthics and Disruption of Emotional Connections and Mental Affections in Maniac (2018)
Chapman, Ana María (Routledge, 2023)
This chapter examines representations of mental conditions in the dystopian backdrop for transhumanism in Netflix’s series Maniac. In the quest for human perfectionism, vulnerabilities are exposed and intensified by ... -
'We kissed one another and parted good friends’. On the Expression of Reciprocity in Early Modern English
Calle-Martín, Javier (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2020-06)
El estudio cualitativo indaga, por un lado, en el proceso de gramaticalización y lexicalización de la forma discontinua anglosajona ælc + oþer en la forma fosilizada each other ya en el siglo XIII, que convivieron en ... -
Weed-ing the Roots: Constructing Immigrant Identity in A.M. Bakalar’s Madame Mephisto (2012)
Bryla, Martyna Marika (2014-07-21)
Poles are one of the three largest non-UK born ethnic groups in all countries and most regions of the United Kingdom. Since Poland’s accession to the European Union in May 2004, thousands of Poles have come to the UK in ... -
Weeding out the Roots? Migrant Identity in A.M. Bakalar’s Polish-British Fiction
Bryla, Martyna Marika (Universidad Complutense, 2020)
Poles are one of the largest non-UK born ethnic groups in all countries and most regions of the United Kingdom. Since Poland’s accession to the European Union in May 2004, thousands of Poles have migrated to the UK, hoping ... -
‘What’s done can’t be undone’: Verbal Contractions in Modern English.
The habit of contracting words originates in the intrinsic tendency of languages to assimilate the pronunciation of two neighbouring sounds. In Present-day English, this phenomenon is most plainly observed in the so-called ... -
Women and The City of London in Doris Lessing’s The Diaries of Jane Somers (1984)
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (Universidad de La Laguna, 2014)
This paper examines the feminine perspective of London in Doris Lessing’s The Diaries of Jane Somers (1984). Lessing offers a feminist vision of the city representing London as a stage. Janna, the protagonist, strolls ... -
Women’s Bodies and Emotions: Desertion, Illegitimacy and the Cambridge Union Workhouse in the late Victorian period.
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel (2023)
Cambridge Union Workhouse was built a mile away from the city, surrounded by fields to avoid any interference with members of the University or with commercial life. The site was located at 81A, Milton Road, quite close ... -
Women’s Fluid Spaces and Gendered Spatial Orientations in Victorian Literature and Culture.
Arias-Doblas, María Rosario; Borham Puyal, Miriam; Monrós Gaspar, Laura; Pettersson, Lin Elinor (Ediciones Universidad de Cantábria, 2021)
In this roundtable we focused on the spatial significance of ‘orientation’, implying movement, and process, for Victorian women, engaging with the mobility turn, or “the mobility paradigm” in the study of women’s liminal ... -
Wonderful Creatures and Liminality in A.S. Byatt's Short Fiction.
Lara-Rallo, Carmen (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023)
This chapter departs from the anthropological concept of liminality as a fruitful theoretical framework to examine the recurrence of wonderful creatures in Byatt’s fiction, and particularly in her short stories. My contention ... -
Words and their many meanings
(2014-11-28)Words and their many meanings Professor Carita Paradis (University of Lund, Sweden) Words are very slippery customers. This is both good and bad for human communication – good if we want to be creative, flexible or ...