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“África, India y el Océano Índico: Relaciones afroasiáticas en la literatura africana”
(2021-09)En su obra Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India and the Afrasian Imagination (2013), Gaurav Desai usa el término “imaginación afroasiática” como forma de protesta en contra del etnocentrismo que ha caracterizado al ... -
“Del mito matriarcal a la matrifocalidad a través de la literatura anglo-nigeriana”
(2021-09)Algunos autores definen el matriarcado africano en función a reglas de sucesión y herencia, mientras que otros definen dicho concepto basándose en la unidad matricentrada en la madre. A la hora de tratar el matriarcado ... -
Mapping Fear and Potentiality in American Cold-War Narratives of Eastern Europe
(2021)"Mapping Fear and Potentiality in American Cold-War Narratives of Eastern Europe" analyses literary representations of Eastern European capitals under communism in the fiction of prominent American authors, John Updike, ... -
La motivación y el trabajo cooperativo a través del uso de la gamificación (Kahoot!) en Educación Superior
(2020-11-09)En el siglo XXI, la motivación es un elemento esencial en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje. En una era en la que los alumnos aprenden de manera distinta y diversificada es imprescindible para los docentes buscar diferentes ... -
La competencia comunicativa y el cine desde una perspectiva de género
(2020-10-29)En la actualidad, las adaptaciones cinematográficas pueden ser un recurso didáctico idóneo para la enseñanza universitaria de una lengua extranjera, ya que aportan no solo elementos lingüísticos sino también socioculturales, ... -
El empleo de las actividades de mentoría entre iguales
(2020-10-19)Este capítulo trata sobre el rol de los mentores en la enseñanza superior universitaria en la enseñanza del inglés como medio de instrucción. Esta investigación se desarrolla dentro del marco de un Proyecto de Innovación ... -
Transcultural (dis-)orientations: Spain and England in Miguel y William (Inés París, 2007)
(2019-11-21)The film Miguel y William (Inés París, 2007) depicts a fictitious encounter between Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare in 1590 and fantasizes about the possibility of both writers competing for the love of the ... -
Bodies in Transit: Re-thinking vulnerability and resistance in post-colonial neo-Victorian literature and culture
(2019-11-18)The aim of my participation in this round table is to make an approach to an analysis of contemporary historical fiction through the lens of theories of vulnerability and resistance. In particular, I would like to address ... -
Neo-Victorian Orientations towards the Fictional Writer: Jane Harris’s - The Observations
(2019-11-04)Jane Harris’s The Observations (2007) narrates the story of Bessy Buckley, an Irish girl who searches for work and finds it in Castle Haivers, employed by Arabella. While learning how to become a maid-of-all work, she is ... -
La promesse de l’objet dans la publicité touristique
(2019-09-20)Nous donnant comme objectif général de cerner le discours promissif à l’œuvre dans la publicité touristique de presse écrite, la matérialité discursive révèle, sur le plan illocutif, la désubjectivation de l’acte promissif ... -
Je veux me traquer. Images et paroles pour des anti-mémoires
(2019-09-20)Le but de cette étude est d’analyser les rapports structurels et fonctionnels existant entre le discours visuel et le discours verbal dans Aveux non avenus, un ouvrage né de la collaboration artistique de Claude Cahun et ... -
La saison des eaux sous Napoléon III: facteur de modernité
(2019-09-20)L'histoire culturelle nous amène à trouver des représentations collectives propres à une société donnée à travers l’analyse de ses socio-langages et des imaginaires sociaux. Le Second Empire est une période clé qui lance ... -
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 ...