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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Regency Romances over Time: A Comparison between Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton: The Duke and I and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and Sense and Sensibility.
(2023)
[Abstract] This present study intends to demonstrate the evolution of novels set in the
Regency period but written in the twenty-first century through the comparison of the
novel Bridgerton: The Duke and I by the American ...
“Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?” The Motif of the Wolf in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber
(2023)
[Abstract] The object of study of this end-of-degree project is the wolf trilogy of Angela Carter’s
The Bloody Chamber, written in 1979. The aims that I will pursue are two: to analyse the figure
of the wolf in this work, ...