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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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Sex or the Death of the Author? Rethinking the Relevance of “Maleness” to (Feminist) Literature and Literary Criticism
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)
[Abstract] The relevance/irrelevance of the sex of the author to textual analysis remains one of the most controversial debates within contemporary literary theory, in general, and feminist literary criticism, in particular. ...
El té literario de Dorio de Gádex: plagio para un homenaje a Oscar Wilde
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)
[Resumen] El escritor modernista Dorio de Gádex se ocupó, como tantos otros autores españoles en los primeros años del siglo XX, de la figura y de la obra de Oscar Wilde. Lo hizo en sus libros Lolita Acuña (1909) y De los ...
Dark/Masculine—Light/Feminine: How Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret MacDonald Changed Glasgow School of Art
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)
[Abstract] Glasgow was by tradition a classical city like its rival Edinburgh. In Glasgow Classicism remained in Italianate buildings with monumental Greek, Egyptian and abstract forms. In the 1880s and the 1890s, when ...
A Mad Knight in her Attic: the Reformulation of Quixotism and its Use in Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)
[Abstract] Women writers in eighteenth century England had to deal with accusations of immorality and perversion of young female minds, due to the alleged subversion of their role as “domestic” and “invisible” women. ...
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 ...