Facultade de Filoloxía
Recent Submissions
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Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature: Gold Mountains, Weedflowers and Murky Globes
(Springer, 2020)[Abstract] Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature: Gold Mountains, Weedflowers, and Murky Globes offers an ecocritical reinterpretation of Asian American literature. The book considers more than a century of Asian ... -
Sin "cotillas" ni "tontinas": Jane Austen y la libertad en la vestimenta en el período romántico inglés
(Grupo Editorial Sial Pigmalión, 2024)[Resumen] Este trabajo se ha centrado en la moda en Jane Austen y para ello ha recorrido tanto sus propios retratos, los auténticos y los no autentificados, el interés por la moda en sus textos y la recepción de las novelas ... -
Language acquisition and bilingualism in the family: A case study
(Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, 2024)[Abstract] This article will examine some of the variables involved in simultaneous child bilingual-ism. Among variables considered are the native languages spoken by the parents (the same or dif-ferent languages), the ... -
The Repentant Devil’s Advocate: Narrating Slow Violence in Michael Clayton and Dark Waters
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-12-20)[Abstract] Gradual environmental violence, what Rob Nixon calls “slow violence,” poses obvious representational challenges for filmmakers due to its agential and temporal dispersion. In sharp contrast to the direct filmic ... -
“The waste of the empire”: Neocolonialism and environmental justice in Merlinda Bobis’s “The Long Siesta as a Language Primer”
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-05-02)[Abstract] This article interrogates the politics of “waste” in both the environmental and the socio-economic senses of the word, with a special attention to the outsourcing of toxicity and the “wastification” of disposable, ...