Departament de Llengües i Literatures Modernes i d'Estudis Anglesos: Envíos recientes
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Neoliberalism, class, subjectivity: a sociological perspective on post-recession british theatre = Neoliberalisme, classe, subjectivitat: una mirada sociològica al teatre britànic post-crisi
[eng] This PhD dissertation, entitled “Neoliberalism, Class, Subjectivity: A Sociological Perspective on Post-Recession British Theatre / Neoliberalisme, classe, subjectivitat: una mirada sociològica al teatre britànic ...
Exploring lifelong learning motivational ecologies through the narratives of senior language users
[eng] In the context of an ageing and increasingly more independent learning population, a narrative inquiry into the life stories of highly motivated senior language users remains a promising yet relatively unexplored ...
The Performance of Racial and Gender Terror in debbie tucker green’s ear for eye (2018) and Travis Alabanza’s Burgerz (2018)
[eng] This PhD thesis, entitled “The Performance of Racial and Gender Terror in debbie tucker green’s ear for eye (2018) and Travis Alabanza’s Burgerz (2018)” contributes to the field of theatre studies by analysing how ...
Language Learning from Subtitled TV Series in the Primary EFL Classroom
[eng] Even if audiovisual materials have been shown to offer several advantages for L2 learning (Danan, 2004), in previous literature very little attention has been paid to L2 learning from multimodal input in young ...
Bearing Witness to Atrocity: Racial Violence and the Limits of Representation in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Works
[eng] Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me (2015) is nowadays considered one of the most detailed registers of the different forms that racial violence takes—from direct manifestations of physical assaults, including ...
New Leaves: Fashionable Reading and Literary Celebrity in British Vogue (1918-1939)
[eng] This thesis explores British Vogue’s self-appointed role as a guide to modern fashions and manners, that is, as a cultural intermediary, during the interwar period (1918-1939). Through a close reading of its essays, ...
South Africa: The Diseased Nation? An Analysis of HIV/AIDS Sufferers’ Critique of the Redemptive Discourse of Nation-Building and the (Dis)Closure of National Traumas in Post-Apartheid South African HIV/AIDS Life-Writing
This Ph.D. dissertation explores the transformative potential of the HIV/AIDS experience in post-apartheid South Africa during the age of denialism under Thabo Mbeki’s mandate (1999-2008). To that end, the selection of ...
Heroínas del feminismo popular: autoría de mujeres en Hollywood
En 1990, Marjorie Ferguson expone su argumento sobre la «falacia del feminismo», negando que exista una correlación entre la creciente consciencia social feminista, la autoridad de las profesionales en los medios de ...
Ese aire de mágico aislamiento: Herman Melville y la construcción de Latinoamérica en el siglo XIX
La tesis doctoral propone un recorrido por la prosa de ficción y de viaje de Herman Melville, en la que construye imaginarios regionales de identidad latinoamericana. La investigación inicia con el análisis de las ficciones ...
Writers On Screen: Embodying The "Life-Text" In The Literary Biopic
This thesis examines the sub-genre of the literary biopic and its intersections with literary texts and other film genres through the lens of the melodramatic mode. It explores the dramatization of the ‘life-text’, defined ...
Figuras impropias. La violencia como expresión de la disidencia en la narrativa de Marta Sanz y Sara Mesa
Esta tesis nace de la interrogación sobre las posibilidades críticas de la representación literaria de la violencia, más específicamente de la búsqueda de la representación de la violencia en los personajes femeninos ...
L1 / L2 subtitled TV series and EFL learning: A study on vocabulary acquisition and content comprehension at different proficiency levels
Whether and how video viewing is beneficial for language learning has been a matter of debate over the last decades (Vanderplank, 2015). Multimedia learning theories (Mayer, 2009; Paivio, 1986) suggest that exposure to ...
Più donne che cavalieri. Orlando furioso: il poema di Bradamante
Este trabajo aborda por primera vez de forma sistemática y monográfica el papel desempeñado por los personajes femeninos en el Orlando furioso (1532) de Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533), evidenciando su carácter profundamente ...
Recepción y análisis de las traducciones alemanas de dos obras principales de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz en el ámbito germanohablante: Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz y Primero sueño
En la presente tesis se indaga la recepción del Primero sueño y de la Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz en el ámbito germanohablante a lo largo del siglo XX por medio de las versiones alemanas de estas dos obras principales ...
A voz heroica nas margens. Potencial político e terapêutico dos relatos de "si-mesma"
A operação estrutural pela qual as mulheres, como diferenças do padrão masculino e heroico, foram representadas negativamente na cultura reside no cerne da fundação da democracia ocidental, com consequências éticas, políticas ...
"Ich bin Spaniolin". Veza Canetti im Fokus ihres jüdisch-sephardischen Erbes
Die drei schlichten Worte „Ich bin Spaniolin” im Titel der vorliegenden literaturwissenschaftlichen Forschungsarbeit beinhalten das fundamentale Bekenntnis der jüdisch-sephardischen Schriftstellerin Veza Canetti, dessen ...
The effect of auditory and articulatory phonetic training on the perception and production of L2 vowels by Catalan-Spanish learners of English
Adult second language learners often experience major difficulties in perceiving and producing non-native speech sounds. Several perception training studies (Iverson & Evans, 2007; Nishi, & Kewley-Port, 2007; Carlet & ...
Traducción y creación en la obra de Teodoro Llorente
Teodoro Llorente (1836-1911) fue un personaje prolífico donde los haya: traductor, poeta en valenciano y castellano, periodista, fundador y director de Las Provincias, político, crítico e historiador de Valencia. Su legado ...
Of heroes and victims: Jess Walter’s The Zero and the satirical post-9/11 novel
This dissertation analyzes a typically overlooked novel within the corpus of post-9/11 fiction studies, Jess Walter’s The Zero (2006), and puts forward some hypotheses for this under-examination. It suggests that the debates ...
Succes or failure? The effect of the language of test on students’ academic achievement in rural Senegal
In most Sub-Saharan countries, children grow up in a local environment attached to a culture and an identity which are embraced by a local language. However, when they start compulsory school at the age of six, they have ...
