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Contemporary American queer drama : pushing the limits to remain at the borders
(2015)
Over the past 20 years, after the American LGBT liberationist movement has managed to make new voices heard and acquired certain social conquests, partly overturning decades of exclusion and segregation, gay American drama ...
Brave new creatures : a comparative study of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the creatures of the new millenium
(2015)
This thesis intends to analyse Mary Shelley‘s creature in her novel Frankenstein, and how the creation of this creature may have adumbrated the birth of present creatures—clones, genomes,1 Artificial Intelligence (AI) ...
The discursive construction of responsibility : strategies used by political and military witnesses in public hearings
(2013-05-03)
From the perspective of current situated discourse analysis and the associated
disciplinary strands of conversational analysis, narrative studies and critical discourse
analysis, this study examines how political and ...
Los artículos de revisión en inglés en el ámbito de las ciencias de la salud : un esquema retórico ejemplar
(2016)
Since the appearance of Swales’ (1981, 1990) CARS model of analysis, there has been a great interest in untangling the way in which information is organized in research-process papers. In the latest years, a great number ...
Parodic metafiction : an approach to self-reflexive fiction in two works by John Barth
(2015)
The present study aims at elaborating on the connection between two concepts in
the field of literary studies, namely metafiction and parody, alongside other related
notions, such as the function of irony as a rhetorical ...
Representaciones patriarcales presentes en los siglos XIX y XXI : la perpetuidad del sistema patriarcal
(2014)
The cinema is an important part of people’s everyday lives, and it contributes to influence our perception of the world and of ourselves as subjects. A vast amount of research has been made on gender representations in the ...
Rites of passage from a gender perspective in Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
(2015)
As readers, every time we take a book in our hands, we sink into an act of reading that invites us to think about what the text suggests but remains uncovered. Sometimes, those hidden messages make us reflect upon the links ...
The process of identity construction througt the discourse of art within the Canadian postcolonial context in Cat' eye and The blind assassin by Margaret Atwood
(2014)
Since I started to study this Masters Degree the postmodern problematic has captivated me. Delving deeper into the postmodern literary field I found myself attracted by the fact that much of postmodern literature has been ...
Text production in undergraduate education : functional and cognitive complexities
(2015)
This work explores the functional and cognitive complexities involved in written text production
in undergraduate education. The objects of analysis are texts produced in the Grammar II course
by students in the teaching, ...
Interweaving letters and sounds : the impact of phonics instruction in English on the oral production and symbolic representation of sounds among university-level L2 English learners
(2016)
The study described in this thesis was conducted with a number of L1 Spanish learners of L2 English who were students of English Pronunciation Practice (EPP), an undergraduate pronunciation course taught in English Teaching, ...