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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, ... -
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. ... -
Effects of Phonetic Training on the Perception and Production of /i:/-/I/ and /ӕ/-/ʌ/ by Catalan/Spanish Learners of English
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Cross-language differences in vowel perception and production have shown clear limitations in the accuracy with L2 phonetic segments are perceived and produced by native speakers of Romance languages. The present ... -
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 ... -
The Dramatisation of Pacific Diaspora in Albert Wendt’s The Songmaker’s Chair
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] My paper looks at Albert Wendt’s play The Songmaker’s Chair (2004) as an example of the collective dramatisation of the experience of diaspora carried out by Pacific playwrights in New Zealand. Wendt’s play ... -
The Pedagogy of the Sasquatch: Imagining the Aboriginal without Feathers in Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] This paper analyzes Canada’s foundational myths of Nature and Natives vis-à-vis recent negotiations of that same relationship by Aboriginal writers, and will offer a reading of Eden Robinson’s novel Monkey Beach ... -
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Can Late EFL Learners Attain Nativelike Pronunciation? Evidence from Catalan Speakers’ Production of English Low Vowels
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Catalan learners of English have many difficulties to produce the three English low vowels /ӕ ʌ ɑ/ accurately. This is because, like Spanish, Catalan has only one low vowel /а/ so learners tend to perceive the ... -
El principio de elección en la dramaturgia de Alan Ayckbourn y Yasmina Reza
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Resumen] El objeto de este estudio es reunir las dramaturgias de dos autores en apariencia distantes en sus formulaciones teatrales, Alan Ayckboun y Yasmina Reza, a partir de la similitud que presentan formal y conceptualmente ... -
The fellows mad, I neither understand his words, nor his Sence: On Dialect Lexis in Three Literary Renderings of Seventeenth-Century Lancashire Speech
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] This paper addresses the need to retrieve lexical information from a period which has been hitherto poorly assessed. Itconcentrates on a close examination of dialect words scattered inthree samples of Lancashire ... -
Alexander Oldys’s Comic Displacement of Romance in The Fair Extravagant
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] In Alexander Oldys’s The Fair Extravagant (1682), the male protagonist is anxious about his authority as a husband due to the heroine’s superior social rank and wealth, her strong personality, and her free agency. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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. ... -
‘The Stage, a Skull’: Scenic Poetry and the Role of Light in Martin Crimp’s Fewer Emergencies (2005)
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] This paper explores the role of light in James Macdonald’s production of Martin Crimp’s triptych Fewer Emergencies. For his 2005 staged production at the Royal Court Theatre, London, Macdonald turned light into ... -
Fact and Fable: Ethics and the Defamiliarisation of theFamiliar in Martin Amis’ Time’s Arrow
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] In the face of a thought-defying catastrophe, nothing is more cathartic than the transformation of fact into fable. In the case of the Holocaust, this would amount to the fable of seeing the Nazis as devilish ... -
Writing Science, Compiling Science: The Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] The Coruña Corpus: A Collection of Samples for the Historical Study of English Scientific Writing is a project on which the MUSTE Group has been working since 2003 in the University of A Coruña (Spain). It has ... -
‘(B)ut How Grow Flowers […] if One Kept Hens?’: The Transgressing Role of Bird Imagery in Virginia Woolf’s The Years
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] In the atmosphere of growing oppression in the 1930s Britain, where the rapid raise of Fascism threatens to impose its hegemony over the whole of socio-political structures, the imminence of a new outburst of ...
