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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 ... -
"Write as we speake": on the question of spelling reform today
(2022)English has been characterised by the variability of its spelling throughout history, since it was only standardised by the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Other than its history of unstability, the resulting ... -
"Writing and Developing Research Proposals: MA Theses and PhD Dissertations"
(2014-04-30)Designing research proposals, writing MA Theses, and Doctoral Dissertations are task that are closely related to the development of research competencies, thinking and planning abilities, and writing skills. The purpose ... -
Writing Prague: Philip Roth's and John Updike's Literary Takes on the Czech Capital.
Bryla, Martyna Marika (Purdue University Press, 2020)
In this essay, a productive critical dialogue is established between Philip Roth’s and John Updike’s representations of Prague under communism in The Prague Orgy (1985) and “Bech in Czech” (1987). Focusing on two central ...