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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 ... -
Of Resistant Mothers and Women Turned Goddesses: Marlene Nourbese Philip’s Salmon Courage
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Salmon Courage (1983) is Marlene Nourbese Philip’s second collection of poems, published three years after Thorns, her first book, and six before the outstanding She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks. ... -
On the Property Reading of Middles
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] The English middle construction (This book reads well) is usually approached from the point of view of the derivational operations that account for the transitivity alternation. However, hardly any attention has ... -
Pasado y presente de los estudios teatrales beckettianos en España: Tradición y omisión
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Resumen] Desde los años 70, la comunidad académica internacional ha mostrado con exponencial crecimiento la proliferación de disertaciones, tratados y monografías de toda índole y perspectiva sobre la producción dramática, ... -
Performing Identities in Scotland: Liz Lochhead’s Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] It has been argued that Scottish culture has experienced a “Second Renaissance” in the last two decades, which has been identified with the works of Alasdair Gray, James Kelman, Jackie Kay, Janice Galloway or ... -
Poetas irlandesas y gallegas contemporáneas: encuentros y desencuentros
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Resumen] La presente mesa redonda tiene como objetivo comparar y contrastar el tratamiento que las poetas irlandesas y gallegas contemporáneas dan a temas como la nación, la lengua, la religión, la maternidad y el mito. ... -
(Post) Colonial Embroidery: un studio sobre la situación de los personajes en Of Customs and Excise and Rachna Mara
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Resumen] El sistema colonial, seguido por la descolonización y la diáspora,influyen a los personajes de Of Customs and Excise a través de estructuras políticas, sociales y económicas. Pretendo demostrar cómo el sistema ... -
‘Putting new wine in old bottles’: Angela Carter and the Renewal of Literary Canons.The Case of “Overture and Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] In “Overture and Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” included in Black Venus (1985), Angela Carter provides a brilliant free adaptation of William Shakespeare’s well-known comedy in order to censure ... -
Queer Identities in a Commodified World: Mark Ravenhill’s Mother Clap’s Molly House and the Rise of the (New)
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Ravenhill’s theatre insists on the contemporary commodification of not only sex, but the whole realm of human feelings and social interactions, a preoccupation that appeared in his frequentlydiscussed Shopping ... -
Recordando a mujeres relevantes de la historia y cultura escocesas
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Resumen] Esta Mesa Redonda aborda el estudio de algunas mujeres que jugaron un papel relevante en la sociedad escocesa de su tiempo y que han pasado a ocupar, por méritos propios, un lugar en destacado en su historia y ... -
Renewal of Grammatical Forms in the History of English
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] In the development of English, new relative pronouns (whwords) were introduced, while the relative pronouns used in Old English (se/seþe) underwent various restrictions of morphological nature (case, gender and ... -
Representing Trauma in American Women’s Literature
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] This round table aimed at exploring how different female traumatic experiences have found expression through literature. For that purpose, the session began with an introduction to the question of trauma in the ... -
Science Fiction Magnifying Mirrors: Octavia Butler’s Dawn and the Ethics of Genetic Manipulation
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] In this paper I deal with Octavia Butler’s novel Dawn and the issue of Science Fiction as a mirror of real situations. I analyze Dawn from an ecocritical approach focusing on how human beings are treated by the ... -
Sentence Topic in Comment Articles
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Although it competes with subject and theme as a key concept within the field of discourse analysis, there is much to be gained by utilising the sophisticated treatment of sentence topic developed by theorists ... -
Short-Story Form and Diversity Management in ZZ Packer’s Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Historically, ethnic minority writers have only rarely shown much concern with the intra-group diversity that one frequently finds in sociological surveys and statistics which classify results according to ethnic ... -
Social Effects: a Relevance Theory Perspective
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Many linguists have claimed that interlocutors transmit social information about their identities or relationships when interacting (e.g. Lakoff, 1973; Laver, 1974, 1975; Brown and Levinson, 1978, 1987; Scollon ... -
Spades, Actors and Fags: Fiction and/as Queer Theory in Timothy Findley’s Spadework
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] This paper analyses Timothy Findley’s last novel, Spadework (2002 [2001] ), to engage the relevance of Gender/Queer Theory as a visible intertext. As we read, it seems apparent that that Spadework provides a ...
