Browsing by Acedemic Degree "Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios"
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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 ... -
A muller e o seu corpo: un estudo comparativo entre Rupi Kaur e Lupe Gómez: Dúas voces representativas das súas xeracións
(2021)[Resumo] Este traballo focaliza na visión do corpo femenino a través de dúas autoras de contextos e xeracións moi dispares: Rupi Kaur, poeta indocanadiana, e Lupe Gómez, escritora galega. Escollemos en concreto as súas ... -
A Postcolonial Study of Aboriginal Identity in Tara June Winch’s The Yield
(2021)[Abstract] This study aspires to explore the issue of Aboriginal identity in Tara June Winch’s novel The Yield (2019) from a postcolonial point of view. In order to fulfill this main goal, I will focus on four major aspects ... -
A Slow process of Dulling: slavery and science fiction in Octavia Butler's Kindred
(2014)Science fiction has historically been associated with white male Anglo writers. However in this essay I focus on an African American writer, Octavia Butler, and her pioneer science fiction novel Kindred (1979) because she ... -
African-Americans in the United States: Their history and their present through Joey Bada$$’s ALL AMERIKKKAN BADA$$
(2020)[Abstract] This work aims to provide an account of racism in the history of the United States from slavery to the present, illustrated by ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$, a musical album created by the rapper Joey Bada$$. Therefore, ... -
Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho: a Gender Studies Perspective
(2017)[Abstract] This undergraduate thesis pursues a gender study of the renowned Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho (1960), the masterpiece of his filmography. The personality of the director will also be analyzed due to his turbulent ... -
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 ... -
An Analysis of Trans-Inclusionary and Trans-Exclusionary Discourse
(2022)[Abstract] In the past century, with the boom of the advocacy for gender equality, transgender individuals have also pushed for their rights, although they have faced—and still do—some animosity. This dissertation ... -
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 ... -
An Immigrant Black Woman in America: An Intersectional Analysis of Adichie’s Americanah
(2021)[Abstract] Americanah is a novel written by the renowned author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It was first published in 2013 and it deals with Ifemelu, a young Nigerian woman who voluntarily emigrates to the United States in ... -
Analysis of Errors in Learners of Spanish as a Second Language
(2016)[Abstract] In this dissertation we present a description about certain linguistic aspects those Anglophone speakers who are learning Spanish as a second language might have. In order to accomplish this, we have used the ... -
Analysis of Spanish Corpus Written by Deaf People
(2024)[Abstract] Spanish Sign Language (hereafter referred to as SSL) is a visual-gestural language officially recognised in Spain by Law 27/2007, which regulates the means of support for the communication of deaf, hearing ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Beyond Gender: Sex, Class, and Ethnicity in Kate Chopin’s Short Stories
(2022)[Abstract] The object of study of this dissertation are three short stories by one of the most representative writers of nineteenth-century American literature, Kate Chopin. The author is specially appreciated by ... -
Butterflies in the Bards' Beard: The Entanglement of Whitman's and Lorca's Poetics of Masculinity
(2023)[Abstract] The object of study of this end-of-degree project is to compare Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (1855-1892) and Federico García Lorca’s Poeta en Nueva York (1929) through the perspective of masculinity studies. ... -
Charles Robert Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer: a Gothic Labyrinth of Tales
(2021)[Abstract] In this dissertation I have conducted the analysis of the Gothic novel Melmoth the Wanderer by Irish author Charles Robert Maturin. I intended to demonstrate the competences and abilities acquired in the Grao ... -
Contact between Languages: the case of English and Spanish
(2017)[Abstract] The relationship of language contact is characterized by historical phenomena such as internal borrowing, loanblend, loanword, loan translation, loanshift and semantic borrowing, indicating the proximity and ... -
(De)/(Post)human(ization) in Harlan Ellison’s “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”
(2024)[Abstract] The purpose of this BA thesis is to examine the stratified notion of humanity, as well as its antithesis and eventual transgression, as depicted in Harlan Ellison’s science-fiction short story “I Have No ... -
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 ...
