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Eastern Europe as a Liminal Space in the Life and Fiction of Philip Roth
(2013-10-25)In the present paper, the concept of liminality is applied to study the portrayal and significance of the post-war Eastern Europe, and Czechoslovakia in particular, in the life and fiction of one of the best contemporary ... -
"A Journey into History: Eastern Europe as a Liminal Landscape in Joyce Carol Oates' Short Stories"
(2013-12-03)This paper approaches a selection of Joyce Carol Oates’ short stories about the post-war Eastern Europe from the perspective of liminality. In the stories, Oates takes her readers for a tour of a world that no longer exists, ... -
Sacred Sexuality: Spirituality and Wholeness in African American Women’s Texts
(AEDEAN EBook, 2014-02)Esta mesa redonda es una aproximación a la problemática del silencio de la sexualidad femenina en la literatura contemporánea feminista norteamericana -
Weed-ing the Roots: Constructing Immigrant Identity in A.M. Bakalar’s Madame Mephisto (2012)
(2014-07-21)Poles are one of the three largest non-UK born ethnic groups in all countries and most regions of the United Kingdom. Since Poland’s accession to the European Union in May 2004, thousands of Poles have come to the UK in ... -
Detective Fiction and the Neo-Victorian: Sexual Violence, Morality and Rescue Work in Lee Jackson’s The Last Pleasure Garden (2007)
(2014-09-30)In his third Inspector Decimus Webb novel, a detective from Scotland Yard, Jackson Lee re-appropriates the crime-fiction genre to portray several stories of gender abuse and violence. Several women become the victims of ... -
Prostitution, identity and the Neo-Victorian: Sarah Waters’ tipping the Velvet and the Ripper Street Series.
(2014-09-30)The analysis of sexual abuse and violence in two Neo-Victorian literary and visual productions, Sarah Waters’ Tipping the Velvet (1999) and the BBC’s drama series Ripper Street (2012) will be the object of discussion in ... -
On the licensing of finite T and finite v
(2014-10-01)El trabajo trata sobre la interacción entre T, v/V y el DP sujeto en una oración finita de una típica lengua SVO, y se centra por una parte en el movimiento de V-a-T y por otra en el fenómeno de la concordancia de sujeto. ... -
On the competing grammar approach to the derivation of sentences in OE
(2014-10-02)Este trabajo asume el análisis de la doble estructura de base sintáctica postulada para explicar la alternancia OV/VO en inglés antiguo, así como las diversas combinaciones de Aux, V, y O (o bien V1, V2, y O), y propone ... -
Finite Complementation in Early English Medical Writing: A case Study of Syntactic Constructions in Competition
(2014-10-03)The present paper discusses the distribution of complement clauses in a corpus of early English medical writing, considering whether the object is introduced by the complementizer that (I have already promised that […]) ... -
Assessing the Provenance of Constantinus Afrianus' Venerabilis Anatomia in London, MS Wellcome 290 (ff. 1r-41v)
(2014-10-03)MS Wellcome 290 is housed in the Wellcome Library in London. Referenced MS Wellcome 290, it is entitled Pseudo-Galen, Claudius, 131 – 201, and it comprises 56 folios of which, the last three, are blank (Moorat 1962: 186). ... -
‘Give hit him with great honour’: on the Double Object Construction in Late Middle English
(2014-10-23)The term ‘dative alternation’ is generally used to refer to the three different variants of encoding of the objects of a ditransitive verb, which are elsewhere regarded as equivalent in present-day English: a) the prepositional ... -
On the Use of make to vs. make ø in early English Medical Writing
(2014-10-23)OBJECT INFINITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS are the most frequent type of non-finite complement clauses, in which the object infinitive may occur either marked (+TO) e.g. to-infinitive or unmarked (-TO) e.g. bare infinitive (Fischer ... -
Los procesos de transformación social de las mujeres en las series de televisión: el caso de Girls
(2014-10-31)En mi comunicación, teniendo en cuenta el tema en el que se centra este Congreso, trataré de mostrar cómo los procesos de cambio social se reflejan en uno de los sectores de la cultura popular más influyentes, la televisión. ... -
Distinguishing neo-Edwardianism from neo-Victorianism
(2014-12-01)Ever since the 1930s, with Vita Sackville-West’s The Edwardians (1930), representations of the Edwardian period can be found in British fiction. However, those have evolved throughout the years, as neo-Edwardian novels ... -
Familial Traces: Photography and Trauma in Doris Lessing’s Auto/biographical Narratives
(2014-12-16)This paper deals with the use of photography in Doris Lessing’s auto/biographical writings, particularly, Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 (1994), and more recently, Alfred and Emily (2008). Both works ... -
Feminist Geography and the Cityscape in Neo-Victorian Literature
(2014-12-17)Feminist Geography is a relatively new discipline within Human Geography that undertakes the study of space, place and gender as scholars try to work out how these categories intersect in the production of social identities ... -
Natural elements and spaces in A.S. Byatt’s short stories
(2014-12-18)This paper examines the centrality of nature in Byatt’s short fiction, tracing the presence of natural elements and spaces in some of her short stories, and their association with female characters and experiences. In the ... -
Punctuation in late Middle English Medical Writing: Constantinus Africanus’ Venerabilis Anatomia in London, Wellcome Library, MS Wellcome 290 (ff. 1r-41v)
(2015-05-07)Within the field of Palaeography, punctuation could be defined as the most rudimentary aspect, as it took an extremely long time to evolve. By the 13th century, the punctus and the inverted semicolon were the most widespread ... -
The London Lock Charities in the middle to late Victorian Period: poor reform beyond venereal disease
(2015-05-11)The London Lock Hospital was founded in the middle of the seventeenth century to cure venereal disease both in men and women, following the trend of specialized hospitals that proliferated in the period. A few decades ... -
Memory frictions and reconciliation: Neo-victorian gothic and gender violence in Katy Darby’s The Whores’ Asylum (2012)
(2015-05-11)Katy Derby’s first novel, The Whores’ Asylum (2012), is an attempt to deal with the issue of prostitution and rescue work in Oxford in the 1880s. Jericho is an area where, away from the prestigious university colleges, ...