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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, ... -
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 ... -
Medieval medical recipes in London, Wellcome Library, MSS 404 and 5262
(2015-11-26)This paper seeks to explore the similarities between different unidentified texts, chiefly London, Wellcome Library MSS 404 and 5262, which are catalogued as a leechbook and a recipe collection, respectively. For the ... -
Memory frictions and reconciliation: Neo-victorian gothic and gender violence in Katy Darby’s The Whores’ Asylum (2012)
(2015-05-11)Katy Derby’s first novel, The Whores’ Asylum (2012), is an attempt to deal with the issue of prostitution and rescue work in Oxford in the 1880s. Jericho is an area where, away from the prestigious university colleges, ... -
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 ... -
Natural elements and spaces in A.S. Byatt’s short stories
(2014-12-18)This paper examines the centrality of nature in Byatt’s short fiction, tracing the presence of natural elements and spaces in some of her short stories, and their association with female characters and experiences. In the ... -
(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 ... -
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 ... -
On the competing grammar approach to the derivation of sentences in OE
(2014-10-02)Este trabajo asume el análisis de la doble estructura de base sintáctica postulada para explicar la alternancia OV/VO en inglés antiguo, así como las diversas combinaciones de Aux, V, y O (o bien V1, V2, y O), y propone ... -
On the Decline of Pleonastic that in Late Middle English and Early Modern English
(2016-04-21)The origin of pleonastic that can be traced back to Old English where it could appear in syntactic constructions consisting of a preposition + demonstrative pronoun (i.e. for þy þat, for þæm þe) or a subordinator (i.e. oþ ... -
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 ... -
On the licensing of finite T and finite v
(2014-10-01)El trabajo trata sobre la interacción entre T, v/V y el DP sujeto en una oración finita de una típica lengua SVO, y se centra por una parte en el movimiento de V-a-T y por otra en el fenómeno de la concordancia de sujeto. ... -
On the processing of agreement morphology
(2018-03-22)The paper deals with the role played by morphology in core syntax within a generative minimalist framework: more specifically it deals with the theory of valuation of agreement or phi-features (that is, person and number ... -
On the Use of make to vs. make ø in early English Medical Writing
(2014-10-23)OBJECT INFINITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS are the most frequent type of non-finite complement clauses, in which the object infinitive may occur either marked (+TO) e.g. to-infinitive or unmarked (-TO) e.g. bare infinitive (Fischer ... -
On the Use of the Oxford Comma in Early Modern English Scientific Writing
(2021-11)Punctuation has traditionally been disregarded in the literature due to its suggested arbitrariness and inconsistency in pre-modern English. Some of the factors that have contributed to this neglect are the lack of ... -
Perceptions en bouleversement. Le branding de Barcelone
(2018-04-16)Le « branding » est une identité attribuée à une destination touristique, une représentation conçue de toutes pièces, un assemblage délicat. C’est la « virtualité en puissance » d’un lieu, qui n’est ni immuable, ni ... -
Persuasión y género en comunidades de práctica en inglés y español
(2021)A medida que la sociedad cambia, también deberían variar los patrones de habla. Por ello, uno de los principales objetivos de este estudio es determinar si los discursos profesionales han cambiado desde una perspectiva de ... -
Los procesos de transformación social de las mujeres en las series de televisión: el caso de Girls
(2014-10-31)En mi comunicación, teniendo en cuenta el tema en el que se centra este Congreso, trataré de mostrar cómo los procesos de cambio social se reflejan en uno de los sectores de la cultura popular más influyentes, la televisión. ... -
Producing (In)hospitality: A Post-Brexit perspective
(2022)This paper is based on the premise that hospitality “does not just take place in space, but rather produces certain spaces as more or less welcoming, more or less hospitable” (Lynch et al. 25). In other words, hospitality’s ... -
Prostitution, identity and the Neo-Victorian: Sarah Waters’ tipping the Velvet and the Ripper Street Series.
(2014-09-30)The analysis of sexual abuse and violence in two Neo-Victorian literary and visual productions, Sarah Waters’ Tipping the Velvet (1999) and the BBC’s drama series Ripper Street (2012) will be the object of discussion in ...