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Analyzing Language Change in British Parliamentary Discourse: Power and Authority Markers, 1930-2000.
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2022)In recent literature, one of the processes of language change which has received much attention has been the concept of democratization of discourse (Fairclough 1992: 201, for example), which often falls under the study ... -
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 ... -
Aquatic Cartographies: Oceanic Imaginaries, Histories and Identities,
(2022)In her volume The Invisible Empire: White Discourse, Tolerance and Belonging (2009), Georgie Wemyss has discussed lascars as a case study of what she calls the ‘Invisible Empire’ (2009: 3). Unacknowledged and unremembered ... -
Aspectos lexicográficos de la correspondencia interlingüística de términos éticos y de evaluación subjetiva
(2015-07-21)Sólo han pasado unas décadas desde que Grace Kelly enamorara al mundo occidental luciendo un práctico y estético pañuelo que protegía su peinado mientras conducía su descapotable. Y todavía sigue vigente en parte de la ... -
Assessing the Provenance of Constantinus Afrianus' Venerabilis Anatomia in London, MS Wellcome 290 (ff. 1r-41v)
(2014-10-03)MS Wellcome 290 is housed in the Wellcome Library in London. Referenced MS Wellcome 290, it is entitled Pseudo-Galen, Claudius, 131 – 201, and it comprises 56 folios of which, the last three, are blank (Moorat 1962: 186). ... -
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 ... -
Building up uniqueness within institutional, tourism-related home pages
(2016-02-01)Institutional web sites put together and display a country image which represents a “decisive business card” as stated by Bonhomme & Stalder (2006, 1). Beerli & Martin (2004, 3) detail the dimensions and attributes of the ... -
By way of vs. by means of: on the Expression of Instrumentality in Middle English and Early Modern English
(2016-04-21)Grammaticalization is defined as “a process whereby a lexical item, with full referential meaning, develops grammatical meaning” (Fischer and Rosenbach 2000: 2; see also Hopper 1991; Diewald and Wischer 2002). According ... -
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 ... -
Cambridge Prostitution and the Rules Governing the University Spinning House in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
(2017-04-19)The aim of this paper is to analyse the situation of prostitution in Cambridge and its regulation by the middle of the nineteenth century based on archival research. Cambridge Universitiy was characterised at the time by ... -
Chekhov in the Times of Lockdown: Gary Shteyngart’s Our Country Friends as a “Fable of Our Broken Time”.
(2023)Inspired by the theme of the 2023 PAAS Conference, this paper approaches Our Country Friends (2021) by Russian-American author Gary Shteyngart as a novel which is at once atemporal and painfully contemporary. -
Claude Cahun, creadora y observadora inconformista
(2016-12-01)A Claude Cahun se la conoce todavía hoy más en los medios artísticos por sus fotografías y collages que en los literarios por sus textos innovadores, desde los ensayos-poema, autoficciones cercanas a la novela de aventuras ... -
“Constructing selfhood and otherness in the East-West context"
(2018-06-11)Since his debut in 2002, Gary Shteyngart, a Russian-American author of Jewish extraction has not only garnered popularity among readers, but also inspired critical interest from reviewers and scholars. While Shteyngart’s ... -
Crafting, Collecting, and Clubbing in the Victorian Drawing Room
(2022)In her volume Inside the Victorian Home (2003), Judith Flanders scrutinizes the space of home and domesticity as a microcosm of the ideal society of the nineteenth century. Considering Flanders’ ideas as a point of departure, ... -
Creation of a large news corpus for the discourse analysis of Violence Against Women (VAW)
(2022)The press is considered to play a fundamental social role, as it shapes public opinion. In this regard, CDA Critical discourse analysis (CDA) has as a primary aim to study “the way social power abuse, dominance, and ... -
Cultural Haunting and the Trace of the Colonial Other in Arthur Conan Doyle's Short Fiction
(2017-09-28)In Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain (2002), Susheila Nasta argues that “the arrival in Britain of several generations of black and Asian 'immigrants' in the period following decolonization and ... -
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 ... -
Death in the Spinning House: Cambridge Prostitution and University Regulations by the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
(2016-04-19)The aim of this paper is to analyse the situation of prostitution in Cambridge and its regulation by the middle of the nineteenth century based on archival research. Cambridge Universitiy was characterised at the time by ... -
“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 ... -
Detective Fiction and the Neo-Victorian: Sexual Violence, Morality and Rescue Work in Lee Jackson’s The Last Pleasure Garden (2007)
(2014-09-30)In his third Inspector Decimus Webb novel, a detective from Scotland Yard, Jackson Lee re-appropriates the crime-fiction genre to portray several stories of gender abuse and violence. Several women become the victims of ...