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All the Pretty Horses: a Transnational Reading
(2019)[Abstract] In this paper, we develop a close-reading of McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses from a transnational point of view. Prompted by the increasing fame of the author and the numerous studies about the text, which ... -
An Analysis of Trans-Inclusionary and Trans-Exclusionary Discourse
(2022)[Abstract] In the past century, with the boom of the advocacy for gender equality, transgender individuals have also pushed for their rights, although they have faced—and still do—some animosity. This dissertation ... -
An approach to the teaching grammar in the EFL classroom: history, textbooks and tasks proposals
(2021)[Abstract] It is a fact that grammar is constantly present in our daily lives and in the academic field. This is the reason why, from a historical point of view, it has undergone an important evolution ... -
An Immigrant Black Woman in America: An Intersectional Analysis of Adichie’s Americanah
(2021)[Abstract] Americanah is a novel written by the renowned author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It was first published in 2013 and it deals with Ifemelu, a young Nigerian woman who voluntarily emigrates to the United States in ... -
Analysis of Errors in Learners of Spanish as a Second Language
(2016)[Abstract] In this dissertation we present a description about certain linguistic aspects those Anglophone speakers who are learning Spanish as a second language might have. In order to accomplish this, we have used the ... -
Being a Woman and a Poet in the 19th Century: A comparative analysis of Emily Dickinson and Rosalía de Castro
(2018)[Abstract] This paper revolves around the comparative analysis of the writings of Emily Dickinson and Rosalía de Castro, regarding their thoughts on the role of women within society and their view on the process of literary ... -
Beyoncé's Lemonade: "A winner don't quit"
(2017)[Abstract] Beyoncé’s latest album has become an instant social phenomenon worldwide. Given its innovative poetic, visual, musical and socio-politic impact, the famous and controversial African American singer has taken ... -
Beyond Gender: Sex, Class, and Ethnicity in Kate Chopin’s Short Stories
(2022)[Abstract] The object of study of this dissertation are three short stories by one of the most representative writers of nineteenth-century American literature, Kate Chopin. The author is specially appreciated by ... -
Butterflies in the Bards' Beard: The Entanglement of Whitman's and Lorca's Poetics of Masculinity
(2023)[Abstract] The object of study of this end-of-degree project is to compare Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (1855-1892) and Federico García Lorca’s Poeta en Nueva York (1929) through the perspective of masculinity studies. ... -
Charles Robert Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer: a Gothic Labyrinth of Tales
(2021)[Abstract] In this dissertation I have conducted the analysis of the Gothic novel Melmoth the Wanderer by Irish author Charles Robert Maturin. I intended to demonstrate the competences and abilities acquired in the Grao ... -
Contact between Languages: the case of English and Spanish
(2017)[Abstract] The relationship of language contact is characterized by historical phenomena such as internal borrowing, loanblend, loanword, loan translation, loanshift and semantic borrowing, indicating the proximity and ... -
De-Americanizing Viet Nam: The Representation of the “Vietnam War” in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer
(2018)[Abstract] Since the end of the war in Viet Nam in 1975, we, as a society, have been exposed to an American narrative that has manipulated our view of the conflict. We have been led to believe that the Vietnamese conflict ... -
Death, Nature and Society in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
(2021)[Abstract] In this BA thesis I proceed to the revision of the imagery in The Waste Land (1922) through the intertextual analysis of the modernist imagery present in T.S Eliot's poem and the novel The Great Gatsby by F.S ... -
“Do You Hear the Aliens Sing?”: Analysing America’s Alienation in Starkid’s Musicals The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals and Black Friday
(2021)[Abstracts] This study will analyse how two of Starkid’s musicals, The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals and its sequel, Black Friday, engage in a critique of America through the figure of the alien. In order to ... -
Dorian Gray through the Reader's Glass
(2020)[Abstract] Oscar Wilde’s sole novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was first published in 1890 in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine and deemed by many of his peers as an immoral work; despite the censorship imposed by the ... -
Eat—or Get Eaten Up: A Study of Power in George Orwell’s Animal Farm and Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger
(2020)[Abstract] The core objective of this essay is the application of Louis Althusser’s theory of the state structures or apparatus to the case studies of George Orwell’s Animal Farm and Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger. I start ... -
Every Person Needs their Own Pronoun: An Approach to Singular They in English
(2020)[Abstract] Over the past few years, there has been an increasing tendency to make language more inclusive, which consists of avoiding the use of the masculine gender as a generic form to refer both to men and women. This ... -
Exploring Gender, Sexuality and Identity Formation in Works about Peter Pan
(2015)[Abstract]This study focuses on works that revolve around Peter Pan, which include: James Barrie’s novel Peter and Wendy (1904), Walt Disney’s Peter Pan (1953) and Return to Neverland (2002), and Damion Dietz’s Neverland ... -
From Canvas to Paper; from Shutter to Pen: Exploring Ekphrasis through the Poetry of Natasha Trethewey
(2020)[Abstract] This paper analyzes a selection of Natasha Trethewey’s ekphrastic poems inspired by both photographs and paintings. The specific nature of each medium offers the possibility to approach ekphrasis from different ... -
Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Letters in “Children of the Sea”, by Edwidge Danticat
(2023)[Abstract] The main aim of this BA dissertation is to analyze the use of the epistolary genre in a short story of North American/Haitian Diasporic literature: “Children of the Sea”, by Edwidge Danticat. The author ...