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On the development of relativization in the English language
(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 ... -
Vulnerability as potential: the search for agency in Deborah Levy’s _Hot Milk_ (2016)
(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, ... -
Cambridge Female Refuge Rules (1838-1844): An Institution for "Females Who Have Been Leading a Sinful Course of Life"
(2019-06-25)The Cambridge Female Refuge was an institution established in Cambridge Church Street in 1838 as a House of Mercy for the moral rescue of fallen women. Prostitution was a serious preoccupation at the time for both town and ... -
Mapping transnational spaces of contemporary Europe: A look at the post-2004 fiction by Polish migrant authors
(2019-04-29)Poland’s accession to the European Union in 2004 is commonly regarded as a watershed in the history of Polish emigration. The massive inflow of Poles to the EU countries, most notably the United Kingdom, has been amply ... -
The Female Gaze in Cinematographic Adaptations of Little Women
(2019-04-26)La novela Little Women de Louisa May Alcott ha sido adaptada al cine en cinco ocasiones, aunque sólo han sobrevivido tres. Los guiones, la selección del reparto y la dirección artística de estas tres adaptaciones fueron ... -
(Neo)Victorian Globalisation and Sino-Indian Relations in Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke (2011)
(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 ... -
Sense of agency and the role of entertainment in Infinite Jest’s “Living Dead”
(2018-11-26)This paper attempts to betoken the relevance of emotions in the representation of the body and in the 'reviving' of the self in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. The novel discerns a world where the oversaturation of ... -
Uncanny secrets in _Burnt Island_
(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 ... -
Danger and Disability: The Female Body of Miniature in Neo-Victorian Fiction
(2018-11-21)Neo-Victorian reimaginations of the freak simultanously repeat and reject the binaries of normalcy and deviance to criticise the exploitative and objectifying conventions of nineteenth-century enfreakment practices. This ... -
An Approach to (Vulner)able Women in Paula Hawkins’s Novels
(2018-11-15)The notion of vulnerability has had a very prolific role in the last years, as the term has been applied to many and varied fields of research, being contemporary literature one of them. Taking Emmanuel Lévinas’s notion ... -
“Remembering the future”: shaping a collective future in Lois Lowry’s The Giver (1993) and its film adaptation by Phillip Noyce (2014)
(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 ... -
Genders, mobilities, and interdependencies: the aims and theoretical background of bodies in transit
(2018-11-12)The aim of this round table is to present an overview of the aims, research topics and theoretical framework of the new project “Bodies in Transit 2: Genders, Mobilities, and Interdependencies”. This project has connections ... -
An analysis of the hipster (sub)culture and Its reflection in HBO’s TV series girls
(2018-11-12)According to the casting call posted by Lena Dunham at Backstage.com, one feels tempted to classify the TV series Girls as a hipster show automatically. In fact, this is what its creators and producers have been trying to ... -
La enseñanza de la lengua inglesa a través de sketches humorísticos
(2018-11-09)Los medios audiovisuales son un recurso didáctico muy beneficioso en la enseñanza de una segunda lengua, ya que engloban no solo elementos lingüísticos sino también socioculturales, fundamentales en el aprendizaje de un ... -
Elevator pitch: an english-spanish sociolinguistic analysis
(2018-10-05)Análisis contrastivo en inglés y español del Elevator Pitch desde una perspectiva sociolingüística, basado en los programas televisivos Dragon's Den y Tu Oportunidad. -
Scribal punctuation of coordinate and subordinate clauses in Late Middle English and Early Modern English
(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). ... -
ELF Pedagogy in Spain and the UK
(2018-09-05)Our research project shows that exposing ELT practitioners to language change and to reflective attitudes towards language and towards new developments in ELT methodology can in return help them envisage an ELF aware ... -
From demonstratives to degree words: on the origin of the intensifying function of this/that in american english
(2018-09-03)The intensifying function of this/that can be traced back to the 14th century, when they acquired their adverbial status as a result of a grammaticalization process that turned them from deictic demonstratives into degree ... -
Semiosfera turística: crear el acontecimiento
(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 ... -
Sin novedad en el paraíso. Emociones, terrorismo y turismo
(2018-07-27)Los diferentes actores del sistema turístico responden a las agresiones terroristas de formas diversas. Analizo diversos medios de comunicación para caracterizar dichas reacciones y determinar cómo se regenera la imagen ...