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La influencia de los medios de comunicación en la percepción de la realidad del individuo : White noise de Don DeLillo y Saturday de Ian McEwan
(2015-09)
This work aims at analysing the role of mass media in contemporary families, the
influence that news have on our perception of reality and on the behaviour of the members
of a contemporary society. More specifically, it ...
Towards the building of a hybrid identity : an analysis of Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera and Jhumpa Lahiri's Mrs. Sen’s
(2014)
Cultures are characterized by diversity, and such diversity is manifested in those spaces of encounter and conflict where there is an overlap of identities which try to coexist. In the case of immigrants, once they are ...
Capitalism, Patriarchy and Women in John Irving’s The Cider House Rules
(2022)
This study intends to analyse the construction of the female body and women’s oppression
in the capitalist and patriarchal society from the gender perspective and socialist feminist
criticism. In John Irving’s The Cider ...
Non-human nature as a subject in A mercy (2008) by Toni Morrison and The year of the flood (2009) by Margaret Atwood
(2014)
(...) This paper, then, interrogates the notion of “subject” resorting to the perspective of
ecocriticism. In order to do so, Chapter II presents the main theoretical framework
discussing the notion of subject and ...