• Hands and Script in Glasgow University Library MS Hunter 5091 

      Esteban Segura, María Laura (Universidade da Coruña, 2008)
      [Abstract] The history behind the composition of a manuscript can help to shed light on different aspects of it, such as date, location, or the purpose for which the book was produced. Thus, this paper takes into consideration ...
    • Identity and Belonging in Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms 

      Béjar, Alba de (Universidade da Coruña, 2008)
      [Abstract] Because immigration and movement are woven into the histories of so many countries, and are such extended and present day phenomena, this paper aims at analysing, through the study of Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of ...
    • Identity(ies) in Brian McCabe’s The Other McCoy 

      Aliaga Lavrijsen, Jessica (Universidade da Coruña, 2008)
      [Abstract] The Scottish writer Brian McCabe investigates the notion of identity through the topos of the Double in his novel The Other McCoy (1990). This interest in the Self/Other is closely related to the questions of ...
    • “If you Can’t Have a Friend, Make One”: Lucky McKee’s May as a Revision on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 

      Martín Ayuso, María Isabel (Universidade da Coruña, 2008)
      [Abstract] It is widely recognized that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has always been an important source of inspiration for films. Since the very beginning of the twentieth century, countless examples of cinematic adaptations ...
    • Improving Language Skills through E-learning Training: An Experience from the Field of Interpreting 

      Valero Garcés, Carmen (Universidade da Coruña, 2008)
      [Abstract The demand for professional interlocutors is growing in our increasingly multicultural Western societies. As an answer to this demand, the university of Alcalá offers a training programs on intercultural communication ...
    • Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cultural Studies: Methods and Challenges 

      Cornut-Gentille D’Arcy, Chantal; Gregorio Godeo, Eduardo de; Estévez-Saá, José Manuel (Universidade da Coruña, 2008)
      [Abstract] As stated by Tonny Bennett in an attempt to define the domain of cultural studies, “work in cultural studies is characterised by an interdisciplinary concern with the cultural practices and institutions in the ...
    • Is there a Koiné in Narrating Diasporic Experiences of Indianness? 

      Hand,Felicity; Navarro Tejero, Antonia; O’Connor, Maurice; Oliva, Juan Ignacio (Universidade da Coruña, 2008)
      [Abstract] It is our aim in this roundtable to explore common themes, motifs, historical and cultural allusions, etc. that the different works by first generation and other subsequent generations of Indian émigré writers, ...
    • L3 English Lexico-Grammatical Growth in At Home and Study Abroad Learning Contexts 

      Juan Garau, María; Salazar Noguera, Joana; Prieto Arranz, José Igor (Universidade da Coruña, 2008)
      [Abstract] In the present article two different L3 learning contexts are distinguished: formal instruction at the home university (AH) and study abroad (SA). We analyse the effect of both learning contexts on EFL students’ ...
    • La cuestión crítica y la profesión filológica 

      Carrera de la Red, Anunciación (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 

      Collellmir Morales, Dolors (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 

      Loureiro-Porto, Lucía (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 

      Varela Zapata, Jesús; Ballyn, Susan (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 

      Crespo Fernández, Eliecer (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 

      Sánchez-Pardo, Esther; Sacido Romero, Jorge; Sánchez Calle, María Pilar; Lojo Rodríguez, Laura María (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 

      Monrós Gaspar, Laura (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 

      Pastor Gómez, Iria (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? 

      Vázquez González, Nila; Cutillas Espinosa, Juan Antonio; Hernández Campoy, Juan Manuel (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 

      Alonso Breto, María Isabel (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 

      García de la Maza, Casilda (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 

      Fernández Quesada, Nuria (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, ...