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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 ...
Mary Hays’s The Victim of Prejudice: A Vindication of Social Equality and Female Liberation
(2019)
[Abstract] The aim of this paper is to expose the role of the writer Mary Hays in the feminist literary movement through the analysis of her novel The Victim of Prejudice with the support of the theoretical framework of ...
The Sitcom: Brooklyn Nine-Nine as an Evolution of The Office
(2020)
[Abstract]The situation comedy or sitcom (a term formed by clipping the words ‘situation’ and ‘comedy’) is one of the best known and more enjoyable genres of current TV shows, and it is globally acclaimed by its originality ...
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 ...
History in Songs and Songs in History
(2020)
[Abstract] Through music Ireland expresses its culture like no other nation in the world. Important events and the people involved in them are recorded in music to preserve them in people´s memory. Ireland has a long history ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Los santos inocentes, de la novela al cine: Miguel Delibes Mario Camus
(2020)
[Resumen] Los santos inocentes de Miguel Delibes es una de las obras maestras de la literatura realista de nuestro país. El escritor vallisoletano retrata de una manera cruda y al mismo tiempo, desde una perspectiva con ...
Linguistic and Cultural Changes in the Spanish and English Revised Editions of The Famous Five. The Case of Five on Kirrin Island Again
(2020)
[Abstracts] This undergraduate paper provides a comparative analysis of Enid Blyton’s Five on Kirrin Island Again throughout four versions of this book, two of them in English and the other two in Spanish. The main purpose ...