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Life in Between Floors : British Society through Period Drama
(2017)
[Abstract] In this dissertation I will highlight some of the issues and events that occurred in Britain between 1903 and 1930 and link them to the portrayal of that specific time in the TV format that is known as period ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Muted Figures: Reading the Picture Bride Phenomenon in Julie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic and Yoshiko Uchida's Picture Bride
(2018)
[Abstract] My purpose in this undergraduate thesis is to explore the Japanese American phenomenon of picture brides focusing on the topic of silence. In order to do this, two narratives have been selected: Picture Bride ...
Hedging in Academic Texts: a Cross-Linguistic Comparison between English and Galician
(2018)
[Abstract] This final dissertation offers an approach to the concept of hedging and its socio-pragmatic implications with three different aims. First, it attempts to shed some light on this linguistic strategy, whose ...
Unspeakable Femininity: Love, Motherhood and Depression in Sylvia Plath’s and Anne Sexton’s Poetry
(2018)
[Abstract] This undergraduate project analyzes a selection of poems written by two United States authors: Sylvia Plath —“Love Letter” (1960), “Morning Song” (1961) and “Lady Lazarus” (1962) —and Anne Sexton— “For My Lover, ...
The enduring nature of the British monarchy from 1837 to 1952
(2014)
Se estudian los cambios sufridos en la monarquía inglesa durante los siglos XIX y XX, en que reinan los Hanover. La monarca más característica en el primero de estos siglos es la reina Victoria. El siglo XX en cambio, se ...
A feminist approach to the work of Virginia Woolf: Orlando and A Room of One's own
(2015)
[Abstract]The following paper focuses on the analysis of two works of great importance, regarging on the feminist vision of Virginia Woolf, applied on her texts. These texts were highly important for the development of the ...
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 ...