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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 ... -
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 ...