AEDEAN Conference = Congreso de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos: Recent submissions
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Science Fiction Magnifying Mirrors: Octavia Butler’s Dawn and the Ethics of Genetic Manipulation
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] In this paper I deal with Octavia Butler’s novel Dawn and the issue of Science Fiction as a mirror of real situations. I analyze Dawn from an ecocritical approach focusing on how human beings are treated by the ... -
Ghosts, Words, Memories and Stories in Katherine Anne Porter’s “Old Mortality” and Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Katherine Anne Porter was born in 1890 and she published “Old Mortality” in 1937; she was an acclaimed writer of short stories when Sandra Cisneros was born in 1954, and she had been dead for more than ten years ... -
English Progressives Translated into Spanish: Corpusbased Functional Equivalents
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] English Be+ V-ing and Spanish Estar + G periphrastic constructions share a relatively high degree of similarity, formally and functionally. Their formal resemblance might be useful at early stages of foreign ... -
What does Left Dislocation Syntactically Comprise? Evidence from Late Modern English
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] As part of a major project on left dislocation in the recent history of the English language, this paper aims at defining the Left Dislocation phenomenon taking data from a late Modern English corpus as a point ... -
El modo no indicativo en inglés
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Resumen] Este trabajo plantea la posibilidad de que la estructura oracional del inglés incluya una categoría funcional Sintagma Modo (SModo), con los rasgos [±indicativo] ; el rasgo [+indicativo] sería comprobado (y ...