Listar AEDEAN Conference = Congreso de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (31. 2007. Coruña) por data de publicación
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Is there a Koiné in Narrating Diasporic Experiences of Indianness?
(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, ... -
If you Can’t Have a Friend, Make One: Lucky McKee’s May as a Revision on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
(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 ... -
Gender and Genre Issues in Short Stories Written by Women
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] In this round table we intend to review the remarkable contribution of women to the development of the short story in English as well as to discuss the possibility of detecting gender differences in their stories ... -
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cultural Studies: Methods and Challenges
(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 ... -
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 ... -
The Sex or the Death of the Author? Rethinking the Relevance of “Maleness” to (Feminist) Literature and Literary Criticism
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] The relevance/irrelevance of the sex of the author to textual analysis remains one of the most controversial debates within contemporary literary theory, in general, and feminist literary criticism, in particular. ... -
El té literario de Dorio de Gádex: plagio para un homenaje a Oscar Wilde
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Resumen] El escritor modernista Dorio de Gádex se ocupó, como tantos otros autores españoles en los primeros años del siglo XX, de la figura y de la obra de Oscar Wilde. Lo hizo en sus libros Lolita Acuña (1909) y De los ... -
Dark/Masculine—Light/Feminine: How Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret MacDonald Changed Glasgow School of Art
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Glasgow was by tradition a classical city like its rival Edinburgh. In Glasgow Classicism remained in Italianate buildings with monumental Greek, Egyptian and abstract forms. In the 1880s and the 1890s, when ... -
A Mad Knight in her Attic: the Reformulation of Quixotism and its Use in Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Women writers in eighteenth century England had to deal with accusations of immorality and perversion of young female minds, due to the alleged subversion of their role as “domestic” and “invisible” women. ... -
Identity and Belonging in Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms
(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 ... -
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. ... -
Assessing WebCT and Moodle for Collaborative Learning of ESP
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Two versions of Moodle and WebCT have been analyzed considering their collaborative language learning tools and the instructional design of two ESP subjects. The instructional design is based on constructivist ... -
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 ... -
‘(B)ut How Grow Flowers […] if One Kept Hens?’: The Transgressing Role of Bird Imagery in Virginia Woolf’s The Years
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] In the atmosphere of growing oppression in the 1930s Britain, where the rapid raise of Fascism threatens to impose its hegemony over the whole of socio-political structures, the imminence of a new outburst of ... -
A Lexical Analysis of Modal Expressions of Certainty in Scientific Discourse
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Scientific discourse has been traditionally described as a register deprived of subjectivity, where the presence of the author is rarely felt. However, recent studies (Swales, 1990; Hyland, 1998) have shown that ... -
Transgressive Codes in Contemporary English: An Analysis of Lexical Creativity in the Field of Music
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] This paper reports the results of the morphological analysis of a corpus of names of singers and bands ascribed to alternative musical trends. The analysis evinces that language is a suitable instrument to convey ... -
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 ... -
Gender-Based Discrimination as a Trigger for Cultural Hybridity in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that, in contexts affected by colonisation such as Africa, the desire to demand gender equality often highlights the cultural hybridity of those women, daughters of the ... -
From Transparency to Opacity: Surely, Intersubjectivity and English Cultural Norms
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] The aim of this paper is to trace the development of surely from its status as an objective adverb of manner to an (inter)subjective pragmatic marker of stance. A discourse -pragmatic approach is adopted, based ... -
(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 ...