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Their Surname Is Also Important: Anti-Archetypical Characters in Patrick Rothfuss’s The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear
(2021)
[Abstract] This paper intends to detach both The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss from what is traditionally expected of fantasy, the literary genre to which The Kingkiller Chronicletrilogy—incomplete ...
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 ...
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 ...
New Trends in Word-Formation Processes in English: an Analysis of the Latest OED Entries
(2021)
[Abstract] It is widely accepted that language changes; this change goes simultaneously with the evolution of the world. Phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics or pragmatics have evolved and then been examined by ...
Death, Nature and Society in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
(2021)
[Abstract] In this BA thesis I proceed to the revision of the imagery in The Waste Land (1922) through the intertextual analysis of the modernist imagery present in T.S Eliot's poem and the novel The Great Gatsby by F.S ...
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 ...
The sociolinguistics of language variation:the dialect of the city of Birmingham
(2021)
[Abstract] Language variation can be considered a representation of not only the linguistic reality of a community, but the development of socio-economic changes within a given society. These processes implement profound ...
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 ...
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 ...
Naming the Unnamable: A Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Swearing in TV Series
(2023)
[Abstracts] In this project, a comparative analysis of bad language in television series is carried
out. Two English and one Spanish series have been chosen to observe the differences in
translation that occur between ...