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“I speak, therefore I am”: Repositioning Nonhuman Intelligence, Language, and Cognition within Assemblages in “The Great Silence” by Ted Chiang.
Torres-Romero, María
(2023)
Cognition has become one of the central analytical categories in the current debate of posthuman and animal studies, which has been proliferating in the last decade. N. Katherine Hayles (2017) proposes a reconsideration ... -
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 ... -
Chekhov in the Times of Lockdown: Gary Shteyngart’s Our Country Friends as a “Fable of Our Broken Time”.
Bryla, Martyna Marika (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. -
A Middle English Witness of Guy de Chauliac’s On Bloodletting.
Esteban-Segura, María Laura (2023)
The objectives of this paper are the following: first, to investigate the transmission of the text; second, to assess the main codicological and palaeographical features of the treatise; third, to explain the principles ... -
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Advocacy for Women’s Homeownership in 19th-century America through Her Writings.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1922) received the well-deserved acclaim and recognition as an exceptional author, with a remarkable body of work encompassing over fifty books, hundreds of articles, poems, and short stories ... -
Restaging Femininities on the Neo-Victorian Popular Stage.
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (2023)
The neo-Victorian fascination with nineteenth-century popular entertainment has been consistent since Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus (1984) and it has proved a fruitful ground for contemporary authors to explore ... -
Lorna Gibb’s A Ghost Story (2015): An Assemblage of Matter and Spirit.
Arias-Doblas, María Rosario (2023)
Much has been written on Victorian Spiritualism and the spiritualist medium, who was, in general terms, female with some notable exceptions like Daniel D Home, for example. Since the 1980s feminist historians like Alex ... -
The binary vs. privative status of verbal inflectional morphology: The case of Germanic.
This paper argues that the binary opposition [+/-past] entails that Tpast contrasts with Tpres in computing a more complex kind of t- or tense-feature in the morpho-syntax and in exhibiting one more Vocabulary Item or ... -
Sexism in political discourse: a case study
(2023)It can be argued that language not only reflects gender inequalities but that it is also a key tool to perpetuate, shape and create these inequalities (Graddol & Swann, 1989, p. 9). However, in recent decades, the use of ... -
Female Attachment in Contemporary Fiction in English.
(2023)The main objective of my doctoral dissertation is the analysis of complex female characters and their relationships in a selected corpus of novels, potential choices being Mona Awad’s Bunny (2019), Eliza Clark’s Boy Parts ... -
Tools for organisation and time management in your research.
(2023)At first glance, time management is an easy task, yet on many occasions we all fail to manage time effectively and make the most of it. As PhD candidates ourselves, we have tried -and failed- to control the amount of time ... -
A Specific Guide to the PhD Dissertation VIVA
Martín-González, Juan José (2023-06-22)
The day of your VIVA is probably one of the most important and stressful days in the life of a PhD student. Students are often assaulted by manifold questions: “how will it work?” “Who will be there?”, “how will I feel?”, ... -
Women’s Bodies and Emotions: Desertion, Illegitimacy and the Cambridge Union Workhouse in the late Victorian period.
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel (2023)
Cambridge Union Workhouse was built a mile away from the city, surrounded by fields to avoid any interference with members of the University or with commercial life. The site was located at 81A, Milton Road, quite close ... -
The emotional impact of videogames and poetry.
(2023)When we are moved by a story, what affected us so? My doctoral project explores this question to better understand how stories convey emotion and move its audience. Inspired by the renewed scholarly interest in emotions ... -
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 ... -
The Málaga Corpus of Late Modern English Scientific Prose
Calle-Martín, Javier (2023-05-11)
The Málaga Corpus of Early English Scientific Prose is a collection of English vernacular medical writing, consisting of three diachronically divided components, i.e. The Málaga Corpus of Late Middle English Scientific ... -
Towards an annotation schema of financial discourse based on functional discourse analysis
(2023-05-12)The aim of this presentation is to explore the structure of economic opinion news texts and its implications for sentiment analysis. The Lingmotif sentiment analysis tool has achieved great results in detecting polarity ... -
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 ... -
‘Remedies to cure the diseases or ill-affections of the Eares, Eies, Nose and Mouthe.’ Punctuation in London, Wellcome Library, MS. 676.
(2023)Punctuation is an essential component of the written text, due to their shared history these two elements are bound (Parkes 1992, 1). Both modern and medieval punctuation are essentially of a syntactic structure, marking ... -
“[I]t was a cost priced into living in America:” Exploring normalization of selective social privilege and economic inequality in Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success (2018)
Bryla, Martyna Marika (2023)
This paper argues that Gary Shteyngart uses his protagonist's privileged position as a departure point for exploring the ongoing corruption of the formative narrative of the US identity, the American Dream, in contemporary ...