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Of Trees and Women: Ecofeminist Memoirs by Wangari Maathai and Vandana Shiva
(2023)[Abstract] This master’s thesis analyses the memoirs of two prominent ecofeminist writers-activists, Wangari Maathai and Vandana Shiva, to demonstrate the connections between the form, content, and message of their ... -
Opening up frontiers through music: exploring narratives of identity, prophethood, father figure and trauma in Kendrick Lamar's Mr Morale and The Big Steppers
(2023)[Abstract] Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers is Kendrick Lamar's latest album, which, to date, has not been the subject of scholarly analysis. The aim is to investigate his narrative throughout his work in relation to ... -
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 ... -
Projecting Galician Culture in English: Ethics and Strategies in the Anglophone Translation of Os libros arden mal
(2022)[Abstracts] Translating literary texts imbued with cultural specificity into a language of unequal hegemonic status for new audiences is a complex task which calls for consciously selected approaches in order to succeed. ... -
“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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Spiritual Ecofeminism: ‘‘Healing the Earth’’ with Starhawk’s Work
(2023)[Abstract] Starhawk (Miriam Simos) is the author of The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess (1979) and The Earth Path: Grounding your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature (2004). This MA ... -
Sue the Patriarchy: Analysing the “Mary Sue” Trope and Its Many Problems
(2023)[Abstract] As women have slowly but surely inserted themselves within traditionally male fields, problems regarding their contributions have repeatedly arisen in patriarchal attempts to boycott their efforts. The ... -
“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)– ... -
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 ... -
“This World Is Rotten”: An Analysis of Eco-Fascist Discourse
(2023)[Abstract] The 20th century saw the birth and replication of a new, dangerous ideology: fascism. Over the past century, it has led to a variety of subtypes, one of which interests us specially: ecofascism. This ... -
“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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...