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Mapping Fear and Potentiality in American Cold-War Narratives of Eastern Europe
Bryla, Martyna Marika
(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 of political events related to the COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter using topic modelling and keywords over time.
This research aims to study the relationship between actual, real-world events related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact these events produced on social media. To achieve this objective, we employ topic modelling and ... -
Mapping transnational spaces of contemporary Europe: A look at the post-2004 fiction by Polish migrant authors
Bryla, Martyna Marika (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 ... -
Marshall’s The Migration: The Aesthetics of Nonhuman Metamorphosis, Environmental entanglements and the Posthuman Wound.
Chapman, Ana María (2024)
Helen Marshall’s novel, The Migration portrays a near-future apocalyptic world afflicted with global climate change and biological transformations. Floods and an unnerving immunological disease threaten human kind as an ... -
Medieval medical recipes in London, Wellcome Library, MSS 404 and 5262
Marqués Aguado, Teresa; Esteban-Segura, María Laura (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)
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel (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, ... -
Misogyny at the onset of the ‘walking simulator’ videogame.
(2024)Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital explains how some disciplines, issues, or objects (in the broad sense of the word) are regarded as culturally valuable. Pertaining to these disciplines or having knowledge of ... -
Modals and Quasi-modals of Obligation and Necessity in Indian and Canadian English.
(2021)This study contributes to the existing research regarding the frequency and distribution of modals and quasi-modals in varieties of English. The majority of the authors agree that, during the second half of the 20th century, ... -
La motivación y el trabajo cooperativo a través del uso de la gamificación (Kahoot!) en Educación Superior
Yélamos-Guerra, María Salomé (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 ... -
Narratology in Early Modern Medical Manuscripts: The Case of London, Wellcome Library, MS 213.
Esteban-Segura, María Laura (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 ... -
Natural elements and spaces in A.S. Byatt’s short stories
Lara-Rallo, Carmen (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)
Martín-González, Juan José (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
Arias-Doblas, María Rosario (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 ... -
Neo-Victorian Wasted Lives and Detection in Lee Jackson’s A Metropolitan Murder (2004).
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel (2023)
In one of his seminal works, Wasted Lives: Modernity and its Oucasts (2004), Zygmunt Bauman defines the idea of “wasted lives” as a ripple of modernity creating the figure of “the outcast”. According to him, the production ... -
On the competing grammar approach to the derivation of sentences in OE
Castillo-Orihuela, Concepción (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
Calle-Martín, Javier (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
Castillo-Orihuela, Concepción (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
Castillo-Orihuela, Concepción (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
Castillo-Orihuela, Concepción (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
Calle-Martín, Javier; Romero-Barranco, Jesús (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 ...