Listar AEDEAN Conference = Congreso de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (31. 2007. Coruña) por título
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La cuestión crítica y la profesión filológica
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Al hilo del debate institucional suscitado por las reformas legislativas entrantes, en consideración también de la pretendida muerte de la Teoría Literaria, planteamos la hipótesis de que la posible amenaza de ... -
Legendary Survivors in Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] This paper studies how the Native Canadian author Tomson Highway depicts the terrible effects that residential schools had on many Indian children who were sent to institutions where the Catholic Church and the ... -
Logical Relations between Necessity and Possibility: Evidence from Old and Middle English
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] The definition and classification of modality has been paid much attention in the literature (Lyons 1977, Palmer 1986, Coates 1983, Sweetser 1990, Bybee et al. 1994, etc.) and, although scholars do not agree as ... -
Minority Diasporas and Migration: Fray Rosendo Salvado as a Pioneer of Spanish and Galician Settlement in Australia
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] We will consider some of the reasons for the little importance of Spanish and Galician migration to Australia, among them the long distance and the so called “White Australia” policies that discouraged them from ... -
Modalities of Verbal Mitigation in Literary Language: Artful vs. Explicit Sexual Euphemism
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] It is my purpose in this paper to provide an overview of two modalities of euphemism detected in the novels The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence and Yellow Dog by Martin Amis, referred to as ‘artful’ and ‘explicit ... -
Modernist (Hi)stories
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Chronologically speaking, the rise of the modern short story coincides with the very years of inception of the Modernist movement in England. Formally speaking, aesthetic innovation as carried out by certain ... -
Mythic Women in Victorian England: Cassandra and Florence Nightingale
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] This paper seeks to examine the transmission of Cassandra in Victorian England as a prelude to subsequent reworkings that consider the myth the epitome of the silenced discourse of women. Florence Nightingale’s ... -
N+N Structures in Present-Day English Word Formation
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] N+N structures are sequences of two nouns, such as drug addiction or heart attack; often, structures of this type appear to be formations to which speakers and writers resort on the spur of the moment in order ... -
Non-finality Effects in Middle English Stress: Regularisation or Emerging Grammar?
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] The present paper looks at stress-shifting processes which transformed penultimate stress (pilgrimá:Ze, ‘pilgrimage’) into word-initial stress (pílgrima(:)Z) in Middle English. The change also involved final-vowel ... -
Of Resistant Mothers and Women Turned Goddesses: Marlene Nourbese Philip’s Salmon Courage
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Salmon Courage (1983) is Marlene Nourbese Philip’s second collection of poems, published three years after Thorns, her first book, and six before the outstanding She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks. ... -
On the Property Reading of Middles
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] The English middle construction (This book reads well) is usually approached from the point of view of the derivational operations that account for the transitivity alternation. However, hardly any attention has ... -
Pasado y presente de los estudios teatrales beckettianos en España: Tradición y omisión
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Resumen] Desde los años 70, la comunidad académica internacional ha mostrado con exponencial crecimiento la proliferación de disertaciones, tratados y monografías de toda índole y perspectiva sobre la producción dramática, ... -
Performing Identities in Scotland: Liz Lochhead’s Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] It has been argued that Scottish culture has experienced a “Second Renaissance” in the last two decades, which has been identified with the works of Alasdair Gray, James Kelman, Jackie Kay, Janice Galloway or ... -
Poetas irlandesas y gallegas contemporáneas: encuentros y desencuentros
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Resumen] La presente mesa redonda tiene como objetivo comparar y contrastar el tratamiento que las poetas irlandesas y gallegas contemporáneas dan a temas como la nación, la lengua, la religión, la maternidad y el mito. ... -
(Post) Colonial Embroidery: un studio sobre la situación de los personajes en Of Customs and Excise and Rachna Mara
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Resumen] El sistema colonial, seguido por la descolonización y la diáspora,influyen a los personajes de Of Customs and Excise a través de estructuras políticas, sociales y económicas. Pretendo demostrar cómo el sistema ... -
‘Putting new wine in old bottles’: Angela Carter and the Renewal of Literary Canons.The Case of “Overture and Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] In “Overture and Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” included in Black Venus (1985), Angela Carter provides a brilliant free adaptation of William Shakespeare’s well-known comedy in order to censure ... -
Queer Identities in a Commodified World: Mark Ravenhill’s Mother Clap’s Molly House and the Rise of the (New)
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Ravenhill’s theatre insists on the contemporary commodification of not only sex, but the whole realm of human feelings and social interactions, a preoccupation that appeared in his frequentlydiscussed Shopping ... -
Recordando a mujeres relevantes de la historia y cultura escocesas
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Resumen] Esta Mesa Redonda aborda el estudio de algunas mujeres que jugaron un papel relevante en la sociedad escocesa de su tiempo y que han pasado a ocupar, por méritos propios, un lugar en destacado en su historia y ... -
Renewal of Grammatical Forms in the History of English
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] In the development of English, new relative pronouns (whwords) were introduced, while the relative pronouns used in Old English (se/seþe) underwent various restrictions of morphological nature (case, gender and ... -
Representing Trauma in American Women’s Literature
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] This round table aimed at exploring how different female traumatic experiences have found expression through literature. For that purpose, the session began with an introduction to the question of trauma in the ...