Listar Inglés: estudos lingüísticos e literarios, Grao en por título
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Exploring Gender, Sexuality and Identity Formation in Works about Peter Pan
(2015)[Abstract]This study focuses on works that revolve around Peter Pan, which include: James Barrie’s novel Peter and Wendy (1904), Walt Disney’s Peter Pan (1953) and Return to Neverland (2002), and Damion Dietz’s Neverland ... -
From Canvas to Paper; from Shutter to Pen: Exploring Ekphrasis through the Poetry of Natasha Trethewey
(2020)[Abstract] This paper analyzes a selection of Natasha Trethewey’s ekphrastic poems inspired by both photographs and paintings. The specific nature of each medium offers the possibility to approach ekphrasis from different ... -
Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Letters in “Children of the Sea”, by Edwidge Danticat
(2023)[Abstract] The main aim of this BA dissertation is to analyze the use of the epistolary genre in a short story of North American/Haitian Diasporic literature: “Children of the Sea”, by Edwidge Danticat. The author ... -
Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself: A Feminist and Gender Studies Approach
(2023)[Abstract] The object of study of this BA thesis is Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, published in 1861. My aim is to demonstrate that, apart from race, gender conforms a crucial ... -
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 ... -
Historical license in films narrating British history: inaccuracies and point of view
(2014)The objective of this essay is to prove that films based on historical events are not reliable sources for academic purpose, as they present historical inaccuracies and biased points of view. -
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 ... -
Hysteria, Witches, and Women: A Feminist Reading of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible
(2021)[Abstract] The object of study of this end-of-degree project is Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, written in 1952. My main goals are three: to analyze the depiction of women and female sexuality in the play through ... -
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 ... -
Language and Androcentrism: A Cross-Linguistic Study in English and Spanish
(2022)[Abstract] Patriarchy is a social order that has pervaded all aspects of our socialization, including language. Aiming at preserving the male-dominated status quo, languages have been constructed from an androcentric ... -
Language Attitudes and Motivations: towards learning English in A Coruña
(2017)[Abstract] The following pages of this paper will reflect upon the concepts of attitudes and motivations and on a study carried out in the city of A Coruña which focused on adults learning English in a small language ... -
Life in Between Floors : British Society through Period Drama
(2017)[Abstract] In this dissertation I will highlight some of the issues and events that occurred in Britain between 1903 and 1930 and link them to the portrayal of that specific time in the TV format that is known as period ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...