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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Muted Figures: Reading the Picture Bride Phenomenon in Julie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic and Yoshiko Uchida's Picture Bride
(2018)[Abstract] My purpose in this undergraduate thesis is to explore the Japanese American phenomenon of picture brides focusing on the topic of silence. In order to do this, two narratives have been selected: Picture Bride ... -
Hedging in Academic Texts: a Cross-Linguistic Comparison between English and Galician
(2018)[Abstract] This final dissertation offers an approach to the concept of hedging and its socio-pragmatic implications with three different aims. First, it attempts to shed some light on this linguistic strategy, whose ... -
Unspeakable Femininity: Love, Motherhood and Depression in Sylvia Plath’s and Anne Sexton’s Poetry
(2018)[Abstract] This undergraduate project analyzes a selection of poems written by two United States authors: Sylvia Plath —“Love Letter” (1960), “Morning Song” (1961) and “Lady Lazarus” (1962) —and Anne Sexton— “For My Lover, ... -
The Riot-Grrrl Feminism of the Early ‘90s in North America: The Punk Scene
(2019)[Abstract] In this undergraduate essay, I have analysed and portrayed the ‘90s feminist punk movement Riot Grrrl in order to understand the relevant contributions they made by connecting punk and feminism at such an early ... -
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 process and modes of control in dystopian literature: an analysis of 1984 and Fahrenheit 451
(2020)[Abstract]Despite the extensive research on dystopian literature, little is concerned with specific frameworks to identify and classify dystopian novels. Most studies assemble a commentary on the topic rather than a ... -
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 ... -
Mo Chorp, Mo Rogha: Female Bodily Autonomy In Anglo-Irish Contemporary Literature
(2020)[Abstract] This project deals with the historical circumstances which have limited the access to abortion in the Republic of Ireland and their impact in literature. First, I study the role of hegemonic Irish national ... -
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, ... -
Interactive Narratives: The Future of Storytelling
(2020)[Abstract] The way we tell stories is in a constant flux of change and evolution, which results in the innovation of narrative and the roles of reader and author. Lately, this innovation has led towards the ascendance of ... -
Every Person Needs their Own Pronoun: An Approach to Singular They in English
(2020)[Abstract] Over the past few years, there has been an increasing tendency to make language more inclusive, which consists of avoiding the use of the masculine gender as a generic form to refer both to men and women. This ... -
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 ...