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Narratology in Early Modern Medical Manuscripts: The Case of London, Wellcome Library, MS 213
(Universitat Jaume I, 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 ... -
Neo-Victorian Incest Trauma and the Fasting Body in Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder
(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 Transcorporeality: Narrating Julia Pastrana's Body.
(Universitat Jaume I, 2023-05-15)Julia Pastrana (1834-1860) features prominently in neo-Victorian biofiction, which is probably indebted to her tragic life and posthumous exploitation in the hands of her husband-manager Theodore Lent. Pastrana’s career ... -
'No cat could be that hungry!’ This/that as Intensifiers in American English
(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
(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 linearization as part of narrow syntax. The case of OSV/OVS structures.
(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 rise and diffusion of new intensifiers: this/that in some asian varieties of english
(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 ... -
Orientation towards otherness in the social and literary spaces of today’s Europe
(Palgrave Communications, 2018)This paper addresses current narratives on refugees and Muslim others within the social and literary spaces of today’s Europe. Drawing on Sara Ahmed and others, it sets out to better comprehend what lies behind European ... -
Pearl Cleage: entre la esperanza y la desesperación
(Universitat Jaume I, 2012)El presente artículo analiza el desarrollo que Pearl Cleage hace de la oposición binaria esperanza-desesperación en su obra teatral. Se describe brevemente la vida de esta dramaturga negra contemporánea y se estudian una ... -
Pictures Worth a Thousand Words: Metaphorical Images of Textual Interdependence.
(The Nordic Association for English Studies, 2009)The forty-year history of the notion of intertextuality has witnessed the proliferation of an increasing number of divergent and even contradictory approaches to the unavoidably connective nature of texts. Many of such ... -
Piecing Together: Body Control, Mutability and Entertainment Technology in Infinite Jest.
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)The aim of this essay is to explore body representation and its significance in David Foster Wallace’s novel Infinite Jest (1996). By doing so, it will correlate (ab)use and domination of entertainment to the description ... -
Polymorphous Eroticism: New Paths to Survival in Black Women's Writings.
(Servicio de Publicaciones Universidad de La Laguna, 2016-11-11)Partiendo de la afirmación de la escritora afroamericana Audre Lorde de que la sexualidad de la mujer negra puede ser interpretada como una expresión de la reclamación del desdeñado cuerpo negro, enfatizando el deseo y la ... -
Post-postmodernist Aesthetics of Irrelevance: Textual Disability as Narrative Prosthesis (The Lin/Wallace Connection)
(Taylor & Francis, 2021)The present article explores Tao Lin’s Alt Lit novel Taipei (2013) as a hallmark in a post-postmodernist esthetic continuum that was first theorized by David Foster Wallace in “E Unibus Pluram” (1993), and later instantiated ... -
Postdependent Eastern Europe: Critical Avenues and Literary Representations.
(2020)Is Eastern Europe postcolonial? This question has animated scholarly debate in the region and beyond for two decades, and while there is no conclusive answer to it, postcolonial theory has been used to illuminate Eastern ... -
Reformist 19th-century Pedagogy in Translation: 'De la educación intelectual, moral y física' (1880) by Francisco de Asís Pacheco from Herbert Spencer's 'Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical' (1861)
(Universidad de Málaga, 2018-12)This case study analyses Francisco de Asís Pacheco’s Spanish edition of De la educación intelectual, moral y física (1880) from the original Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical (1861) by the English polemist and ... -
Remembering a Present-Oriented Future in Lois Lowry’s "The Giver" (1993)
(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 ... -
Representations of Human and Environmental Vulnerability in North American Literature.
(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 ... -
Rewriting the American Dream for the Trump Era and Beyond in Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success (2018)
(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 ... -
Searching for Roth, Kafka, and the Other Europe in Spain
(Purdue University Press, 2023)This essay explores the connections between Philip Roth, Franz Kafka, and the conceptual category of "the Other Europe" through the lens of personal experience and academic inquiry. By retracing Roth’s engagement with ... -
Spelling and punctuation practice in London, Wellcome Library, MS 3731 (ff. 3r–43r, f. 125v)
(Servizo de Publicacións de la Universidade de Vigo, 2023-11-24)A large and growing body of literature has investigated the standardization process of the English language in the Late Modern English period (Auer 939–948, Percy 55–79, Tieken-Boon van Ostade 37–51), ...