Browsing Estudios Irlandeses by Title
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A New Rhetoric of Darkness: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, John Connolly and the Irish Gothic
(Sociedad Española de Estudios Literarios de Cultura Popular SELICUP, 2020)[Abstract] The relationship between Ireland and the Gothic goes back to the early days of the genre, when the Sublime, as identified by the Irish philosopher Edmund Burke, became central to the aesthetic concepts which ... -
Cultural Writings of the Fairy Tale: a Spatial Reading of Three Studio Ghibli Productions
(Brill, 2020)[Abstract] In this chapter I delve into the many postmodern manifestations of Studio Ghibli’s productions in order to uncover the ‘shades of magic’ that engulf the fairy- tale genre and are re- told as parodical discursive ... -
“Fearful ... and Fearless”: Edna O’Brien’s “The Little Red Chairs” and “Girl”
(Sociedad Española de Estudios Literarios de Cultura Popular SELICUP, 2020)[Abstract] Red Chairs has been acclaimed as her masterpiece by Philip Roth in the book jacket cover, and as her most ambitious novel by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne at the moment of its publication (2015), which is a lot to say about ... -
Gender Spaces in Action Films: The Mad Max Franchise
(Emerald, 2023)[Abstract] Action films have traditionally been included in a category of popular cinema that enhanced and celebrated male heroes as the epitome of masculinity. Classical representations of men in this genre included ... -
Introduction
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Introduction: Sociocultural and Literary Debates on Contemporary Migrant Typologies and Migratory Cartographies
(Sociedad Española de Estudios Literarios de Cultura Popular (SELICUP), 2019)[Abstract] Back in the 1980s, British-Asian writer Hanif Kureishi asserted that “the immigrant is a kind of modern Everyman, a representative of the movements and aspirations of millions of people” (1981: 4). This ... -
Meera Syal’s The Traveller: Its Feminist Allegory and Later Echoes
(Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies, 2020)[Abstract] Committed to the exploration of the female experience—specifically the South Asian female experience—Meera Syal has often woven a feminist subtext into the fabric of her works. This is probably nowhere more ... -
El octavo arte: la moda en la sociedad contemporánea
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Past Future Cityscapes: Narratives of the Post- Human in Post-Urban Environments
(Brill, 2018)[Abstract] Neon Genesis Evangelion (Hideaki Anno), a Japanese anime series, presents a postapocalyptic space that is exposed to continuous attacks by external mechanical devices. This space shows a bipolar identity defined ... -
La tercera revolución : comunicación, tecnología y su nomenclatura en inglés
(Netbiblo, 2007)[Resumen] La informacion es, hoy en dia, un elemento esencial en la toma de decisiones por parte de los grupos de poder. Las tecnologias que la hacen posible forman un conglomerado de conceptos y de terminos, la mayoria ... -
The Mental Construction of Reality in James Joyce
(Sociedad Española de Estudios Literarios de Cultura Popular SELICUP, 2020)[Abstract] The purpose of this study is to analyse how James Joyce builds a large part of his narrative through a verbal tissue that is born from the cognitive experience, from the deep interaction between mind and ... -
Transmedia Transpositions: Beyoncé and Rosalía
(Routledge, 2023)[Abstract] In 2016, Beyoncé released Lemonade, a multilayered production consisting of the American singer’s intermedia reinterpretation of Warsan Shire’ poetry. In 2018, Spanish urban singer Rosalía published her second ... -
Transpopular Spaces: Gypsy Imageries in the Work of Van Morrison
(Sociedad Española de Estudios Literarios de Cultura Popular SELICUP, 2020)[Abstract]The work of Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison has gone relatively unnoticed by critics despite the numerous social, literary and artistic elements included in his songs. Among them is the representation ... -
Yes, Indeed. Trap and politics
(Routledge, 2022)[Abstract] This chapter discusses Spanish trap music to analyse its political articulations. The lack of critical sources about this specific form of popular culture favours the application of a comparative approach. From ...