Browsing by Acedemic Degree "Máster Universitario en Estudos Ingleses Avanzados e as súas Aplicacións"
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All else confusion: A Study of the Textual Violence on Alan Moore’s From Hell
(2021)[Abstract] Contrary to what is stated in the initial dedication in Alan Moore’s From Hell(1989), the book is actually far from being an account of the plight of the five women who fell to The Ripper’s knife in 1888. Instead, ... -
Audiovisual Translation: Translating Song Lyrics from English to Spanish
(2020)[Abstracts] In our globalised society audiovisual culture is gaining more and more importance. Nowadays, many studies carry out research on the translations of TV series, films, documentaries and all kind of digital content. ... -
Better Late: Belated Space in Travels with a Donkey in the Cévenne
(2023)[Abstract] This paper examines the portrayal of space within Robert Louis Stevenson’s Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, in particular its use of intertextuality. It firstly establishes a critical context for travel ... -
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah: (Re)opening a Conversation about Race and Beauty
(2014)[Abstract] The purpose of this dissertation is to comment upon Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013). The analysis of the novel will focus on “race” as a social construction, which will enable to explore how beauty, ... -
Content Marketing As Ideology: A Critical Discourse Analysis Approach
(2016)[Abstract] This master´s thesis provides an approach to content marketing and its application to the online context. To define principal beliefs of the content marketing strategy, it has been approached as an ideology, ... -
Creative Muse: the young female artist and the role of arts in women's Künstlerromans
(2017)[Abstract] This Master's thesis provides a comparative analysis of the portrayal of the woman artist in Willa Cather's The Song of The Lark, Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban and Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street ... -
Critical Discourse Analysis: The Rhetoric of Female Political Activism in the 21st Century. Yousafzai, Thunberg and Ocasio-Cortez
(2020)[Abstract] The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze three speeches by young female voices. In order to do so, theory on Critical Discourse Analysis will be presented, followed by a detailed study on Malala Yousafzai’s ... -
Culture, Humour, and Subtitles: The Translation into English of Ocho Apellidos Vascos
(2021)[Abstract] This work aims atanalysingthetranslation into English of theSpanish filmOcho Apellidos Vascos, focusing on its difficulties as a comedy and its challenges regarding culture-specific items (CSIs). ... -
Drowning Sorrows Away: An Analysis of Alcohol Consumption in Two Chick Lit Novels
(2023)[Abstract] The present Master’s degree final project analyses the alcohol consumption pattern of Bridget Jones and Eleanor Oliphant, two chick lit heroines set in two decades apart. As alcohol is often less stigmatized ... -
From Subaltern to Heroine: Sisterhood and Empowerment in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
(2018)[Abstract] This Master’s thesis looks at three secondary female characters from Alice Walker’s The Color Purple (1982) and their respective contribution to the development and growth of Celie’s identity, the protagonist. ... -
Geography and involvement: a linguistic analysis of women’s discourse
(2015)[Abstract] This research project aims at assessing the level of involvement in speeches by women representative of different countries and institutions, either governments or organisations. Different variables will be taken ... -
James Joyce in Translation: Colloquialisms, Vulgarisms and Idiomatic and Cultural Expressions in the Spanish and Galician versions of ‘Ulysses’
(2014)[Abstract] James Joyce’s Ulysses narrates the story about a day in the life of the two main characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom. Despite being a complex reading, this novel was translated into a lot of languages. ... -
Living in Rapture: Cultural perspectives and narrative techniques in the Bioshock Saga
(2015)[Abstract] This paper will study the videogames pertaining to the Bioshock Saga that take place in the city of Rapture. The first objective is to identify and analyze the cultural and philosophical concepts included in ... -
Of Trees and Women: Ecofeminist Memoirs by Wangari Maathai and Vandana Shiva
(2023)[Abstract] This master’s thesis analyses the memoirs of two prominent ecofeminist writers-activists, Wangari Maathai and Vandana Shiva, to demonstrate the connections between the form, content, and message of their ... -
Opening up frontiers through music: exploring narratives of identity, prophethood, father figure and trauma in Kendrick Lamar's Mr Morale and The Big Steppers
(2023)[Abstract] Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers is Kendrick Lamar's latest album, which, to date, has not been the subject of scholarly analysis. The aim is to investigate his narrative throughout his work in relation to ... -
Pragmatic competence in Spanish students of EFL: making requests and apologies
(2016)[Abstract] This dissertation examines the pragmatic competence of Spanish advanced learners of English through the performance of requests and apologies. Data has been drawn from production questionnaires by means of the ... -
Projecting Galician Culture in English: Ethics and Strategies in the Anglophone Translation of Os libros arden mal
(2022)[Abstracts] Translating literary texts imbued with cultural specificity into a language of unequal hegemonic status for new audiences is a complex task which calls for consciously selected approaches in order to succeed. ... -
“Property, and a Valuable Property”: A Study of Disposability, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Slaves in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Water Dancer
(2021)[Abstract] The social, political and racial tensions that have been questioning the actual social equity in the United States of America lately, epitomized by the Black Lives Matter movement, seem to require an interpretation ... -
Real or not real? : exploring gender in Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games Trilogy
(2017)[Abstract] My Masters final project deals with issues of gender in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games. I analyse the main three characters—Katniss Everdeen, Gale Hawthorne and Peeta Mellark—following Judith Butler’s theories ... -
Spaces of Memory: Performing Identity in Travels in the Scriptorium
(2019)[Abstract] As Michel Foucault said in his text Of Other Spaces, ―the great obsession of the nineteenth century was, as we know, history‖ (22). Although with the turn of the century this obsession has been gradually diluted, ...
