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Gender and Genre Issues in Short Stories Written by Women
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] In this round table we intend to review the remarkable contribution of women to the development of the short story in English as well as to discuss the possibility of detecting gender differences in their stories ... -
Gender-Based Discrimination as a Trigger for Cultural Hybridity in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that, in contexts affected by colonisation such as Africa, the desire to demand gender equality often highlights the cultural hybridity of those women, daughters of the ... -
Ghosts, Words, Memories and Stories in Katherine Anne Porter’s “Old Mortality” and Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Katherine Anne Porter was born in 1890 and she published “Old Mortality” in 1937; she was an acclaimed writer of short stories when Sandra Cisneros was born in 1954, and she had been dead for more than ten years ... -
Hands and Script in Glasgow University Library MS Hunter 5091
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] The history behind the composition of a manuscript can help to shed light on different aspects of it, such as date, location, or the purpose for which the book was produced. Thus, this paper takes into consideration ... -
Identity and Belonging in Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Because immigration and movement are woven into the histories of so many countries, and are such extended and present day phenomena, this paper aims at analysing, through the study of Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of ... -
Identity(ies) in Brian McCabe’s The Other McCoy
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] The Scottish writer Brian McCabe investigates the notion of identity through the topos of the Double in his novel The Other McCoy (1990). This interest in the Self/Other is closely related to the questions of ... -
If you Can’t Have a Friend, Make One: Lucky McKee’s May as a Revision on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] It is widely recognized that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has always been an important source of inspiration for films. Since the very beginning of the twentieth century, countless examples of cinematic adaptations ... -
Improving Language Skills through E-learning Training: An Experience from the Field of Interpreting
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract The demand for professional interlocutors is growing in our increasingly multicultural Western societies. As an answer to this demand, the university of Alcalá offers a training programs on intercultural communication ... -
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cultural Studies: Methods and Challenges
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] As stated by Tonny Bennett in an attempt to define the domain of cultural studies, “work in cultural studies is characterised by an interdisciplinary concern with the cultural practices and institutions in the ... -
Is there a Koiné in Narrating Diasporic Experiences of Indianness?
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] It is our aim in this roundtable to explore common themes, motifs, historical and cultural allusions, etc. that the different works by first generation and other subsequent generations of Indian émigré writers, ... -
L3 English Lexico-Grammatical Growth in At Home and Study Abroad Learning Contexts
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] In the present article two different L3 learning contexts are distinguished: formal instruction at the home university (AH) and study abroad (SA). We analyse the effect of both learning contexts on EFL students’ ... -
La cuestión crítica y la profesión filológica
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Al hilo del debate institucional suscitado por las reformas legislativas entrantes, en consideración también de la pretendida muerte de la Teoría Literaria, planteamos la hipótesis de que la posible amenaza de ... -
Legendary Survivors in Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] This paper studies how the Native Canadian author Tomson Highway depicts the terrible effects that residential schools had on many Indian children who were sent to institutions where the Catholic Church and the ... -
Logical Relations between Necessity and Possibility: Evidence from Old and Middle English
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] The definition and classification of modality has been paid much attention in the literature (Lyons 1977, Palmer 1986, Coates 1983, Sweetser 1990, Bybee et al. 1994, etc.) and, although scholars do not agree as ... -
Minority Diasporas and Migration: Fray Rosendo Salvado as a Pioneer of Spanish and Galician Settlement in Australia
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] We will consider some of the reasons for the little importance of Spanish and Galician migration to Australia, among them the long distance and the so called “White Australia” policies that discouraged them from ... -
Modalities of Verbal Mitigation in Literary Language: Artful vs. Explicit Sexual Euphemism
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] It is my purpose in this paper to provide an overview of two modalities of euphemism detected in the novels The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence and Yellow Dog by Martin Amis, referred to as ‘artful’ and ‘explicit ... -
Modernist (Hi)stories
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Chronologically speaking, the rise of the modern short story coincides with the very years of inception of the Modernist movement in England. Formally speaking, aesthetic innovation as carried out by certain ... -
Mythic Women in Victorian England: Cassandra and Florence Nightingale
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] This paper seeks to examine the transmission of Cassandra in Victorian England as a prelude to subsequent reworkings that consider the myth the epitome of the silenced discourse of women. Florence Nightingale’s ... -
N+N Structures in Present-Day English Word Formation
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] N+N structures are sequences of two nouns, such as drug addiction or heart attack; often, structures of this type appear to be formations to which speakers and writers resort on the spur of the moment in order ... -
Non-finality Effects in Middle English Stress: Regularisation or Emerging Grammar?
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] The present paper looks at stress-shifting processes which transformed penultimate stress (pilgrimá:Ze, ‘pilgrimage’) into word-initial stress (pílgrima(:)Z) in Middle English. The change also involved final-vowel ...
