Listar AEDEAN Conference = Congreso de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (31. 2007. Coruña) por data de publicación
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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 ... -
Spades, Actors and Fags: Fiction and/as Queer Theory in Timothy Findley’s Spadework
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] This paper analyses Timothy Findley’s last novel, Spadework (2002 [2001] ), to engage the relevance of Gender/Queer Theory as a visible intertext. As we read, it seems apparent that that Spadework provides a ... -
Ut Musica Poesis: An Approach to the Dialogue between Literature and Music
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] The pervasive presence of music in contemporary fiction parallels the crucial role played by painting in novels and short stories since the late 1990s. Such a parallel, however, has not had a correspondence in ... -
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 ... -
Edgar y Chicho: La pasión por Poe en Historias para no dormir
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Resumen] En este trabajo se reivindica la idea de que el estudio de la antología, subgénero de la ficción en televisión, es imprescindible para entender el impacto del relato escrito en inglés en España. Como muestra se ... -
Truman Capote’s Early Short Stories or The Fight of a Writer to Find His Own Voice
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Truman Capote’s early stories have not been studied in depth so far and literary studies on Truman Capote’s short stories start with his first collection “A Tree of Night and Other Stories”, published in 1949. ... -
Social Effects: a Relevance Theory Perspective
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Many linguists have claimed that interlocutors transmit social information about their identities or relationships when interacting (e.g. Lakoff, 1973; Laver, 1974, 1975; Brown and Levinson, 1978, 1987; Scollon ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Tempted by The Tempest: Derek Jarman’s Gay Play with Shakespearean Romance
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] This paper reassesses Derek Jarman’s film The Tempest (UK 1979) against recent developments in film adaptation theory in order to reach conclusions about its controversial handling of the Shakespearean source ... -
‘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 ... -
Beware of the Sorceress: Perceptions of Otherness in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and Joanne Harris’ Chocolat
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Freud’s psychoanalytical theories of fear of castration and penisenvy transformed woman into not-man, and hence associated her with the concepts of “lacking” and “other”. Taking as a starting point the popularised ... -
The Origin of Dual-form Adverbs: Grammaticalization or Lexicalization?
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] The formation of dual-form adverbs, items derived from an elementary adjective which present a suffixless and a suffixed adverbial variant, e.g. short/shortly, is a complex process in which up to three different ... -
The (In)Sides Beyond Male Friendship-Desire: Alterity and Minorities in Michael Radford’s Merchant of Venice (2004)
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] One of Shakespeare’s most controversial play is undoubtedly The Merchant of Venice, brought to the screen by Michael Radford (1984, White Mischief, Addicted to the Stars) in 2004, becoming the first attempt to ... -
Who Requests Whom and How They Do It: Use of Request Markers in Late Modern English Letters
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] The nineteenth century witnesses the competition between courtesy markers in requests, with please gaining ground at the expense of older pray. In this paper I will account for the situation of these markers in ... -
‘The Feminist Note in the Essay’: Some Rhetorical Devices in the Essays of Virginia Woolf
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] The essays of Virginia Woolf have traditionally transcended for their emphasis on women’s position throughout History as regards their continual lack of intellectual and material opportunities in a men-ruled ... -
A History of the English Language Online Course
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] This paper is a general illustrated description of the contents and structure of the History of the English Language (HEL) Online Course designed by the author for the students enrolled in Historia de la Lengua ... -
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, ...