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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 ... -
On the Use of the Oxford Comma in Early Modern English Scientific Writing
Criado Peña, Miriam; Calle-Martín, Javier (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
Bugnot-Tripoz, Miren Aingeru (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
Taillefer-de-Haya, Lidia (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 ... -
Practical Writing in Late Middle English: A Treatise on Perilous Days in London, Wellcome Library, MS 411 (ff. 18v-19r).
Esteban-Segura, María Laura (2024)
The present article pursues the study and edition of an anonymous treatise on perilous days, held in folios 18v-19r of London, Wellcome Library, MS 411. The codex contains a collection of practical treatises in English and ... -
Los procesos de transformación social de las mujeres en las series de televisión: el caso de Girls
Narbona-Carrión, María Dolores (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
Bryla, Martyna Marika (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.
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel (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 ... -
Punctuation in late Middle English Medical Writing: Constantinus Africanus’ Venerabilis Anatomia in London, Wellcome Library, MS Wellcome 290 (ff. 1r-41v)
(2015-05-07)Within the field of Palaeography, punctuation could be defined as the most rudimentary aspect, as it took an extremely long time to evolve. By the 13th century, the punctus and the inverted semicolon were the most widespread ... -
Punctuation Practice and Rhetorical Moves in Early English Medical Recipes
Early English medical recipes constitute a text type characterized by a fixed text structure with a series of rhetorical moves: title, ingredients, application, efficacy and practitioner’s personal experience (Romero-Barranco ...