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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah: (Re)opening a Conversation about Race and Beauty
(2014)[Abstract] The purpose of this dissertation is to comment upon Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013). The analysis of the novel will focus on “race” as a social construction, which will enable to explore how beauty, ... -
James Joyce in Translation: Colloquialisms, Vulgarisms and Idiomatic and Cultural Expressions in the Spanish and Galician versions of ‘Ulysses’
(2014)[Abstract] James Joyce’s Ulysses narrates the story about a day in the life of the two main characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom. Despite being a complex reading, this novel was translated into a lot of languages. ... -
Geography and involvement: a linguistic analysis of women’s discourse
(2015)[Abstract] This research project aims at assessing the level of involvement in speeches by women representative of different countries and institutions, either governments or organisations. Different variables will be taken ... -
Living in Rapture: Cultural perspectives and narrative techniques in the Bioshock Saga
(2015)[Abstract] This paper will study the videogames pertaining to the Bioshock Saga that take place in the city of Rapture. The first objective is to identify and analyze the cultural and philosophical concepts included in ... -
Content Marketing As Ideology: A Critical Discourse Analysis Approach
(2016)[Abstract] This master´s thesis provides an approach to content marketing and its application to the online context. To define principal beliefs of the content marketing strategy, it has been approached as an ideology, ... -
Pragmatic competence in Spanish students of EFL: making requests and apologies
(2016)[Abstract] This dissertation examines the pragmatic competence of Spanish advanced learners of English through the performance of requests and apologies. Data has been drawn from production questionnaires by means of the ... -
Real or not real? : exploring gender in Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games Trilogy
(2017)[Abstract] My Masters final project deals with issues of gender in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games. I analyse the main three characters—Katniss Everdeen, Gale Hawthorne and Peeta Mellark—following Judith Butler’s theories ... -
Creative Muse: the young female artist and the role of arts in women's Künstlerromans
(2017)[Abstract] This Master's thesis provides a comparative analysis of the portrayal of the woman artist in Willa Cather's The Song of The Lark, Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban and Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street ... -
“Under His Eye”: Power and Gender Performativity in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake
(2018)[Abstract] This Master‘s thesis engages in a comparative analysis of two characters from two different novels by Margaret Atwood: Offred, from The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and Oryx, from Oryx and Crake (2003). This comparative ... -
From Subaltern to Heroine: Sisterhood and Empowerment in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
(2018)[Abstract] This Master’s thesis looks at three secondary female characters from Alice Walker’s The Color Purple (1982) and their respective contribution to the development and growth of Celie’s identity, the protagonist. ... -
Spaces of Memory: Performing Identity in Travels in the Scriptorium
(2019)[Abstract] As Michel Foucault said in his text Of Other Spaces, ―the great obsession of the nineteenth century was, as we know, history‖ (22). Although with the turn of the century this obsession has been gradually diluted, ... -
“The Mouth Is Just a Body Filled With Imagination”: Experimentation, Hunger and Dreams in Lyn Hejinian’s and Bernadette Mayer’s Language Poetry
(2019)[Abstract] This Master’s thesis concentrates on the Language poetry of Lyn Hejinian (1941-) and Bernadette Mayer (1945-), specifically focusing on their long poems of the quotidian –My Life (1980) and Midwinter Day (1982)– ... -
“To Be a Yardstick”: Individual Rebellion and Social Conformity in Cathy Park Hong’s Engine Empire
(2019)[Abstract] This Master’s thesis engages in a multidisciplinary humanistic analysis of Cathy Park Hong’s triptych Engine Empire. Said analysis is divided into three parts, each one corresponding to one of the poem’s sections. ... -
Critical Discourse Analysis: The Rhetoric of Female Political Activism in the 21st Century. Yousafzai, Thunberg and Ocasio-Cortez
(2020)[Abstract] The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze three speeches by young female voices. In order to do so, theory on Critical Discourse Analysis will be presented, followed by a detailed study on Malala Yousafzai’s ... -
Unveiling the Mail-Order Bride: Mutated Arranged Marriages in Chitra Divakaruni's "Clothes" and Linh Dinh's Love, Like, Hate
(2020)[Abstract] This Master's thesis explores the impact of contemporary globalisation on the nature of the arranged marriages in the Asian diaspora. In order to highlight the differences between the old tradition and the mutated ... -
Audiovisual Translation: Translating Song Lyrics from English to Spanish
(2020)[Abstracts] In our globalised society audiovisual culture is gaining more and more importance. Nowadays, many studies carry out research on the translations of TV series, films, documentaries and all kind of digital content. ... -
Uzbek students learning English as a foreign language: Error analysis using corpora
(2021)[Abstract] he current study analyzes various types of errors that occur in IELTS academic writing essays by learners of English as a foreign language with the first language being Uzbek.A corpus of overall 40 written ... -
The Twentieth Century Irish Peasant Play: Modernisation and Bourgeois Respectability in the Country Cottage Kitchen
(2021)[Abstract] This master’s dissertation examines the rise and fall of socially conservative ideals of “respectability” and “purity” in rural Irish society by analysing three important Irish “peasant plays” from distinct eras ... -
“Property, and a Valuable Property”: A Study of Disposability, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Slaves in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Water Dancer
(2021)[Abstract] The social, political and racial tensions that have been questioning the actual social equity in the United States of America lately, epitomized by the Black Lives Matter movement, seem to require an interpretation ... -
All else confusion: A Study of the Textual Violence on Alan Moore’s From Hell
(2021)[Abstract] Contrary to what is stated in the initial dedication in Alan Moore’s From Hell(1989), the book is actually far from being an account of the plight of the five women who fell to The Ripper’s knife in 1888. Instead, ...
