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Art, Nature and Women in Sara Baume’s "A Line Made by Walking"
Santos Barral, María Olalla
Estévez Saá, Margarita
Baume, Sara
A Line Made By Walking
Ecocriticismo
Ecofeminismo
Ecocriticism
Ecofeminism
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
Sara Baume is probably one of the most promising contemporary irish writers. She is a recent instance of irish women's brilliant contribution to the history of Irish literature. Baume has already published two acclaimed novels as well as several short stories in the most prestigious literary magazines. Women, outcasts, nature andaanimals feature recurrently in her fiction. The present contribution intends to study her second novel "A Line Made By Walking" (2017) in which the author narrates the story of a young woman suffering form depression who retires to her grandmother's house in the middle of nature. In this context, the protagonist who is also an aspiring artist, pays particular attention to the natural world that surrounds her, and begins a most surprising project. Our study analyses the topics in Baume's novle as well as the experimental formal features of her work, we combine a gender approach with the teachings of ecocriticism, ecofemisnism and animal studies.
Sara Baume é probablemente unha das escritoras irlandesas contemporáneas máis prometedoras. É un exemplo recente da brillante contribución das mulleres irlandesas á historia da literatura irlandesa. Baume xa publicou dúas aclamadas novelas e varios relatos curtos nas revistas literarias máis prestixiosas. Mulleres, despedidas, natureza e animais figuran de xeito recorrente na súa ficción. A presente contribución pretende estudar a súa segunda novela "A Line Made By Walking" (2017) na que a autora narra a historia dunha muller nova que sufriu unha depresión de forma que se retira á casa da súa avoa en plena natureza. Neste contexto, o protagonista que tamén é un artista aspirante, presta especial atención ao mundo natural que a rodea e comeza un proxecto máis sorprendente. O noso estudo analiza os temas da novidade de Baume así como as características formais experimentais do seu traballo, combinamos un enfoque de xénero coas ensinanzas do ecocriticismo, o ecofemisnismo e os estudos con animais.
2019-10-31
2019-10-31
2018-11
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/20172
eng
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Feminist Rewriting of Folktales: Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and Carmen Blanco
Martínez de la Iglesia, Andrea
Palacios González, Manuela
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Carmen Blanco
Éllís Ní Dhuibhne
Vermella con lobos
The Inland Ice
Contos populares
Crítica feminista
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
The aim of this essay is to explore the feminist rewriting of traditional folktales through the comparison of Irish and Galician literature. This will be done by analyzing two contemporary authors: Carmen Blanco and Éllís Ní Dhuibhne; the books that are being considered for this dissertation are Vermella con lobos (2004) and The Inland Ice (1997), both of the compilations of rewritten popular tales from a feminist perspective.
Since traditional stories tend to be produced from a patriarchal point of view, the main objective of this dissertation is to analyse the mechanisms that these two authors use so as to make of the stories feminist tales and to identify the elements that change from the folk stories to rewritten ones. The aim is to observe each writer’s main features and to compare them in order to see if both use the same criteria or whether these criteria differ from one to another.
Structurally speaking, the body of this dissertation will be divided into three chapters, besides the introduction and the conclusions. The first chapter will be dedicated to the analysis of Carmen Blanco’s book. It will be followed by the study of Éllís Ní Dhuibhne’s work, which will constitute the second chapter. Finally, there will be a third chapter with a comparison of two authors
2020-11-24
2020-11-24
2018-11-06
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23761
eng
open access
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Women’s voices from Southern Africa : gender, class and ethnicity
López Giménez, Carmela
Palacios González, Manuela
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Nervous conditions
Literatura africana (inglesa)
Crítica feminista
Postcolonialismo
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura inglesa. Curso 2012-2013
The following dissertation has as its objective to provide an analysis of Nervous Conditions, a novel written by the Zimbabwean writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga. The literary analysis of this novel will be done from a postcolonial and feminist perspective which will pay attention to the interactions among the characters in the novel and those they maintain with the social and political structures at the time when Zimbabwe was still Rhodesia. My analysis will attempt to shown the way in which Dangarembga elaborates on the consequences of colonialism on women and the double oppression they suffer. I will also discuss the importance of giving a voice to the various types women through the novel. In addition, I will analyse the different methods of colonial oppression exemplified in the novel and their consequences at a social and psychological level. For my analysis, I am indebted to a number of studies which analyse Nervous Conditions from both a postcolonial and a feminist perspective
2015-04-20
2015-04-20
2013
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/13052
eng
open access
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A comparison between British English and American English, with special emphasis on collective nouns
Álvarez Alonso, Nohelia
Acuña Fariña, Juan Carlos
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Inglés británico
Inglés estadounidense
Nomes colectivos ingleses
Variación na lingua inglesa
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
This dissertation, entitled "A comparison between British English and American English, with
special emphasis on collective nouns" deals, as the title describes, with a comparison between British English and American English, the two most influential varieties of the English language, in the domain of grammar. To be more accurate, I will deal with the treatment of collective nouns in both varieties.
This dissertation will be organized in four different parts, being each one divided as well in
smaller section. In the first part, I will make an introduction to the topics of this paper. I will start, in the first section, establishing a brief presentation of both varieties and a characterization of them by making a small comparison between them. The second section will be focused on our domain of analysis, the grammar of English. I will pay attention to important terms that will help us later in this paper to understand the aim of our study, the grammar of collective nouns.
In the second part, I will focus on our domain of study by defining and explaining the noun
phrase (NP), revising the structure and the most important terms and points. After this, in the second section of this second part, I am going to deal with the agreement between the NP and the VP in the English grammar, what linguists say about the concordance between the subject and the verb form that must be used.
In the third part of this dissertation, the object of study is going to be a more specific concept in our domain of study: the noun. As an introduction to this point, I will revise the countability of nouns, the different types of nouns that we can find in the English grammar in terms of number.
Then, I will focus my attention on collective nouns and on the different views that we can find in some of the main English grammars, trying to explain why British English prefers the use of a plural verb while American English uses the singular in the same situation. Does it mean that British people see trees while Americans see a forest? Is it an issue of perception/conception of reality? In my attempt to explain this, I will need to revise as well what the Whorfian perspective says about the connection between language and conceptualization/ thought/ perception.
In the fourth part of this essay, I will run some interviews with native speakers of British
English and American English where I will ask them to complete a questionnaire containing some of the most problematic sentences with collective nouns, to see if the theoretical level aligns with the practical level.
I will finish this dissertation by establishing the most important conclusions I take from the
whole paper and I will revise and propose, if needed, any further topic for investigation.
2020-11-09
2020-11-09
2019-06
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23625
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/201852020-01-31T14:28:53Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
The influence of social media in language change: Changes in vocabulary
Vilariño Ferreiro, Andrea
Méndez Naya, Belén
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Social media
Computer mediated communication
English language
Redes sociais
Comunicación por medio de ordenadores
Lingua inglesa
Language change
Cambio lingüístico
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
Nowadays, social media such as Twitter, Instagram or YouTube and computer mediated communication have become quite relevant not only in people's lives, but also in the way language is used. Language change, and in particular changes in vocabulary, seems to be accelerated in the last decades connected with the Internet and social media. They have a great impact on the terms and expressions we use, on which ones become popular, sometimes even bringing back terms that have not been used for a long time, or changing their meaning to fit de needs of the new reality. The aim of this dissertation is to explore how these social platforms may influence language in particular, both lexical and semantic change.
The dissertation will consist of two different parts: in the first part, which will more theoretical, Iwill give an account of the appearance of the Internet and the social platforms I am going to study. I will also deal with the different types of lexical and semantic change. For the second part of the study I will compile a list of terms typically found in social media and computer-mediated communication, such as "spill the tea", " to roast somebody" and "shipping". These terms will be studied paying attention to the kind of word formation strategy they illustrate; their lexical story (when were they first used; are they neolegisms just found in computer mediated communication, or are theyalso part of general vocabulary?); their meaning whether they have been borrowed from English to other languages. For this purpose I will make use of various dictionaries, ranging from the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), dictionaries of usage of Present Day English (such as Cambridge Dictionary, WordReference, Collins) and the Urban Dictionary (www.urbandictionary.com).
Hoxe en día, as redes sociais como Twitter, Instagram ou YouTube e a comunicación mediada por ordenador volvéronse bastante relevantes non só na vida das persoas, senón tamén no uso do idioma. O cambio de lingua, e en particular os cambios de vocabulario, parece que se acelerou nas últimas décadas conectado a Internet e aos medios sociais. Eles teñen un gran impacto nos termos e expresións que usamos, sobre os que se popularizan, ás veces incluso traendo de volta termos que non se usaron hai tempo, ou cambian o seu significado para adaptarse ás necesidades da nova realidade. O obxectivo desta disertación é explorar como estas plataformas sociais poden influír sobre a linguaxe en particular, tanto o cambio léxico como o semántico.
A tese constará de dúas partes diferentes: na primeira parte, que será máis teórica, darei conta do aspecto de Internet e das plataformas sociais que vou estudar. Tamén tratarei os diferentes tipos de cambio léxico e semántico. Para a segunda parte do estudo recompilarei unha lista de termos que normalmente se atopan nos medios de comunicación social e na comunicación mediada por ordenador, como "derramar o té", "asar a alguén" e "enviar". Estes termos estudiaranse atendendo ao tipo de estratexia de formación de palabras que ilustran; a súa historia léxica (cando se usaron por primeira vez; ¿os neolegismos só se atopan na comunicación mediada por ordenador ou tamén forman parte do vocabulario xeral?); o seu significado se foron prestados do inglés a outros idiomas. Con este propósito, farei uso de varios dicionarios, que van dende o Oxford English Dictionary (OED), diccionarios de uso do Present Day English (como Cambridge Dictionary, WordReference, Collins) e o Urban Dictionary (www.urbandictionary.com).
2019-11-07
2019-11-07
2018-11
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/20185
eng
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open access
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The role of the attraction in agreement mistakes in English vs Spanish
Suárez Álvarez, María
Acuña Fariña, Juan Carlos
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Fenómenos lingüísticos
Acordo
Atracción
Erro
Linguistic phenomenon
Attraction
Agreement
Mistakes
Inglés
Español
English
Spanish
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
Attraction is a linguistic phenomenon that occurs when a competition between two or more NPs inside of a larger NP cause mistakes in the agreement of relationships, like subject-verb, of the kind: ' *the label on the bottles are broken'. In the English Language it is estimated that 13% of complex NPs esta blish incorrect agreement with the verb.
The main object of this study is to analyse agreement (or proximity concord) and mistakes related with it due to attraction from an experimental point of view. Theoretically, agreement can be conce ived from two different points of view in linguistics: the formalist and the functional/cognitivist, depending on whether they
take syntax as separated from cognition or as a reflection of semantics.
This work will be organised in the following way: a theoretical background about these two visions will be presented, as well as a discussion of agreement from both a linguistic and a psycholinguistic point of view; then my own research on attraction interference in agreement will follow. This research will be based on completive questionnaires answered by English and Spanish speakers in order to study the presence of attraction in agreement mistakes in both languages and to be able to make a comparison between the
mistakes in these languages. Finally, 1 will summarise my main findings and provide a general discussion of the topic in the light of these.
A atracción é un fenómeno lingüístico que se produce cando unha competencia entre dous ou máis NP dentro dun NP maior provoca erros no acordo de relacións, como verbo suxeito, do tipo: "* a etiqueta das botellas está rota". Na lingua inglesa estímase que o 13% dos complexos NP está incorrecto no verbo.
O principal obxectivo deste estudo é analizar o acordo (ou a concordia de proximidade) e os erros relacionados con el debido á atracción dende o punto de vista experimental. A teoría, o acordo pódese concebir dende dous puntos de vista diferentes na lingüística: a formalista e a funcional/cognitivista, segundo se toma a sintaxe como separado da cognición ou coma un reflexo da semántica. Este traballo estará organizado do seguinte xeito: presentarase un contexto teórico sobre estas dúas visións, así como unha discusión de acordo tanto desde o punto de vista lingüístico como psicolingüístico; a continuación, a miña propia investigación sobre a interferencia de atracción de acordo. Esta investigación basearase en cuestionarios completos respondidos por falantes de inglés e español para estudar a presenza de atraccións en erros de acordo nos dous idiomas e poder facer unha comparación entre os
erros nestes idiomas. Finalmente, resumirei os meus principais achados e proporcionarase unha discusión xeral sobre o tema á vista destes.
2019-11-06
2019-11-06
2018-11
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/20181
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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‘The smallest agents of transformation’: animal creatures in Grace Wells’ and Antía Otero’s poetry
González Doval, Helena
Palacios González, Manuela
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Grace Wells
Antía Otero
Poesía
Women and nature
Mulleres e natureza
Animals in literature
Animais na literatura
Mujeres y naturaleza
Animales en la literatura
Traballo Fin de Grao en en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2017-2018
The aim of this project is to examine animal creatures in Grace Wells' poetry. Her work will be compared with that of the Galician writer Antía Otero, as both deal with similar subjects and are framed in two historically and culturally related contexts: lreland and Galicia. Although this study will use the whole poetry production by both authors, particular attention will be paid to Grace Wells' book Fur and Antía Otero's O cuarto das abellas.
My aim is to analyse the conception of the environment and the exploration of human relationships with nature. Such relations lead to a dicothomy between the wild and the domestic that is present in these poets' writing. Moreover, as they are both women writers, I aim to emphasize the role of women facing that dualism. I will analyse how the use of animal creatures may in part symbo lize the 'othered' and 'oppresed' situation of both women and nature as a result of an anthropocentric and androcentric ideology dominating Western culture. Thus, special consideration will be paid to the transformation that those conceptions entail for current literary imaginaries
2019-01-24
2019-01-24
2018
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/18159
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
open access
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Address Terms in American Soap Operas. A Corpus-based Study
Rodríguez Díaz, Rubén
Palacios Martínez, Ignacio Miguel (dir.)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Vocativos
Inglés norteamericano
Telenovelas norteamericanas
Corpus of American Soap Operas
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
The purpose of this project is the study of vocatives, more particularly, familiarizers in the language used by speakers in American soap operas. By the term familiarized as is “Hey, man, what are you doing?”, “You are so kind, bro”, “I do not Know why we lost that match, boy”, it is to understood a form, separated from the rest of the sentence by commas [or not], to attract other people’s attention or to emphasize the person to whom the speaker of the sentence is taking to [Leach 1999]. Moreover, familiarizers ussualy adopt the form of a Noun Phrase [Huddleston 1984: 224] and their contrast with honorifics as is sir, madam, doctor, etc. For the objective of the work I will use of a corpus based methodology analyzing different terms extracted from the Corpus of American Soap Operas. By doing this, I will be able to contrast the different uses of these address forms. Apart from the before mentioned uses, I will also focus on their main syntactic features, position in the clause and pragmatic functions.
As regards the structure of the project, it will be divided into two parts. A first theoretical part, where I will be dealing with main characteristics of these forms according to the literature, and a practical part that will allow me to see if there is a correlation between grammar theory and the use of these terms in American Soap Operas
2020-11-25
2020-11-25
2019-03-11
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23787
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/236942020-12-10T09:41:50Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Circa regna tonat: Political Anxiety, Censorship and Textual Strategies in the Literature of Henry VIII’s Reign
García Pardavila, Paula Marina
Lojo Rodríguez, Laura María (dir.)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Literatura inglesa do século XVI
Reinado de Enrique VIII de Inglaterra
Censura
Thomas More
Thomas Wyatt
Literatura e política
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
In spite of the humanistic shift that England underwent in the Early Modern period, the production of literature throughout the reign of Henry VIII (1509-1547) was extremely dependent on the political and religious scenario, thus prompting the need for writers to restrain, control and re-fashion their own statements and public ‘persona’. Thus, the aim of this dissertation will be to explore the textual strategies which a number of writers ingeniously developed in order to conceal dissenting private views to avoid political censorship during the above mentioned period.
This work will be mainly focusing on three different aspects: on the one hand, the analysis of the atmosphere of political anxiety in Henry VIII’s Court, which substantially conditioned any literary production; on the other hand, the discussion of the existing tension between the author’s self-effacement and the performative act of self-fashioning in literary works; finally, the examination of the ambiguity inherent to some Renaissance texts as a strategy of physical survival to evade the threat which maintaining one’s personal stance entailed in the public sphere.
To serve the purpose of illustrating the textual strategies which were used to conflate subjectivity and compliance, I will be primarily concentrating on the work of Thomas More and Thomas Wyatt, among others. To do so, this dissertation will be informed by contemporary literary criticism which has reassessed the Renaissance period from a New Historicist approach, as understood by, among others, Stephen Greenblatt in his seminal work ‘Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare’ (1980)
2020-11-13
2020-11-13
2018-10-25
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23694
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/138762020-09-09T08:26:12Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Linguistic diversity in Scotland : language distribution, social attitudes and identity
Enríquez García, Ildara
Méndez Naya, Belén
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Sociolingüística
Lingua inglesa
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2014-2015
In order to understand Scotland’s current linguistic situation, it is important to comprehend the changes that the Scottish society has undergone in the past. With this purpose in mind, the following analysis has been divided into three different parts that address both historical and sociolinguistic matters, providing a complete overview of Scotland’s past and present linguistic ecologies: Chapter 2 approaches the historical development of the Scottish nation; Chapter 3 addresses the development of the main indigenous languages of the country; and Chapter 4 focuses on today’s distribution of languages and the policies pertaining the two minority languages of Scotland. A set of conclusions to this study (Chapter 5) and two additional appendixes containing press articles on the opinions and attitudes towards Gaelic are also provided at the end of this dissertation.
In this study, a special emphasis has been placed on the case of Scots, with the biased perception that this particular language shares some historical and sociolinguistic features with Galician. From a more personal point of view, this study arises from my desire to grant a language, and its people, with the recognition and prestige that they deserve. From a linguistic point of view, however, my study also tries to address the ongoing debate surrounding the linguistic nature of Scots, as well as to shed some light onto the hypothesis that prestige and power can outshine ethnicity and belonging. In an attempt to understand the concepts of language, dialect, identity and nation within the Scottish debate, a brief overview of the
speakers’ attitudes is also provided to illustrate the arbitrariness behind the labels of language and dialect legitimizing Max Weinrech’s famous statement that “a language is a dialect with
an army and a navy”
2016-02-23
2016-02-23
2015
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/13876
eng
open access
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Teachers’ and learners’ beliefs in the acquisition of English as a foreign language
González Calvo, Xaime
González Álvarez, Elsa
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
EFL
Ensino de linguas
Psicolingüística
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
In the context of the acquisition of English as a foreign language, the beliefs that teachers and students bring with them to the learning/teaching situation have been shown to be an important factor in the learning process. A number of studies have identified these beliefs and explored their potential impact on English language learning and teaching.
The aim of my dissertation is to study how the teachers and learners beliefs and attitudes
towards the teaching and learning of English as a foreign language can influence the process of acquisition of the English language and, therefore, the level of proficiency of the learners. In order to do so, I will first do a literature review on the matter to collect information, analyse what methods have been used in previous research to study this topic, and the conclusions of different authors, and hence have an external insight about the situation.
Secondly, I will carry out my own empirical investigation, where I will gather my own data by means of a questionnaire what will be sent to secondary English teachers and students. I also intend, if possible, to complete the data collection by interviewing a small number of teachers.
The interviews will help me look into some aspects that may not have been included in the
questionnaire. I intend to use a questionnaire that has been used in previous studies, but I will add some questions that will allow me to explore the relationship between teachers' and students' beliefs and some other variables, for example, home background, cultural
background, previous learning / teaching experiences among others
2020-11-16
2020-11-16
2018-11-07
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23719
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/237582021-01-09T03:01:13Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
An Ecocritical Analysis of Wide Sargasso Sea
Limeres Otero, Laura
Domínguez Prieto, César Pablo
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Ecofeminism
Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea
Post-colonialism
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
The main purpose of this study is to analyze, from an ecocritical point of view, how the different ecocultures of Antoinette and her husband, the main characters of Jean Rhys’ 1996 novel ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’, affect their relationship. An ecocritical approach, specifically an ecofeminist one, will help us dig deeper into the relationship of power presented in the story, not only between man and woman, but also between the colony and the metropolis. For this purpose, it is necessary to consider also the post-colonial factors relevant in the novel that will be presented in the introduction and analyzed later on.
This work will be organized in three parts. First, a brief approximation of the ecocritic theory, most importantly, the ecofeminism branch, in relation to the post-colonial aspect will be provided due to its relevance for understanding ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’. Second, the connection between body and land in the story, as well as the embodiment of the different ecocultures in the characters and how does this relate to the colonization of women’s bodies will be discussed. For this aim, issues of economical subjugation of both the colony and the women and the subversion of both in order to achieve freedom need to be taken into consideration. Third the idea of belonging in connection to “the Other” and otherness, both in terms of gender and nature, will be further analyzed in the descriptions of the environment from different points of view, including trauma and the use of nature to heal the psyche.
An ecocritical approach to this canonical novel, as the one offered here, will help the readers see the relevance of aspects that have gone unnoticed so far. Furthermore, the analysis will provide further and new information for future ecofeminist readings of this or other post-colonial novels in order to understand more about the context and the power relatioships
2020-11-24
2020-11-24
2019-07
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23758
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/153462020-09-10T07:50:29Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
The Walking Dead as a transmedia phenomenon
Vázquez Nóvoa, Christian
Vilariño Picos, María Teresa
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
The Walking Dead
Zombies
Transmedia
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2015-2016
The attempt to continue a zombie story beyond the known limits in its genre is unique. The outcome has been successfuly exploring themes that anyone can identify with: failure, loss and then overcoming while we try to contribute to create a better future. These factors have always pushed humanity to discover a larger world than the one previously known, usually marking the end of an era, followed by a new beginning. These principles are suitable for both individuals and societies as a whole. The existence of the undead serves the purpose of increasing the idea that everything that is born must die, thus accelerating the cycles of destruction and recreation that have existed since the beginning of the world and of humankind.
All these ideas are the engine of this story and most of them can be put in
relation with our “networked culture”. My purpose on this essay is creating a road map for this transmedial world that spans a variety of formats
2017-05-05
2017-05-05
2016
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/15346
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/es/
open access
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The use of the passive voice by Native and Non- Native English Speakers
Nerga García, Antía
Doval Suárez, Susana
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Pasiva
EFL
Inglés por xermanofalantes
Inglés por hispanofalantes
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
The aim of this dissertation is to investigate how non-native speakers of English use the English passive construction. The objective is to compare EFL speakers of two completely different languages (Spanish and German) with the English native speakers.
The first part will be devoted to exploring the basic uses of the passive and how is constructed. This part will be more theoretical and it will broadly describe the passive in the three languages mentioned above. Moreover, the topic will be extended by revising other studies on the use of the passive by EFL learners.
The second part will be practical and corpus-based in order to analyse different data in the three groups of speakers. It will analyse similarities and differences among the three groups, focusing especially on quantitative comparisons between native and non-native speakers (i.e. focusing not only on questions of misuse, but also on overuse and underuse).
These data will be used with the intention of answering the following questions:
1. Is the passive used by non-native speakers as frequently as it is by native ones?
2. If there any differences, does the learners’ L1 matter?
2020-11-24
2020-11-24
2018-11-05
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23764
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/183172020-09-09T11:33:36Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Flirting 101: an examination of courtship and romance in Jane Austen’s novels
González Bernárdez, Sara
Lojo Rodríguez, Laura María
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Austen, Jane
Amor
Cortexo
Romance
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Literatura en Lingua Inglesa. Curso 2016/2017
The objective is to examine how Jane Austen represents courtship and romance. If her novels remain so popular with readers even nowadays, it is because they resonate with us despite the seemingly insurmountable temporal and social distance. To find out where the uniqueness of her romance resides, it has employed eighteenth-century conduct manuals, particularly Dr. Gregory’s, and Jane Austen’s own novels and letters as primary sources, from which it was drawn an analysis helped by the theories discussed in critical essays, most especially essays discussing the forms of courtship, love, and sexuality. The aim is to shed some light upon Austen’s representation of romantic relationships and on the elements that make it transcend the boundaries of time.
O obxectivo é examinar como Jane Austen representa o cortexo e o romance. Se as súas novelas seguen tan populares ata hoxe en día, é porque resonan connosco a pesar da aparentemente insuperable distancia temporal e social. Para descubrir onde está a singularidade da súa novela empregáronse manuais de conduta do século XVIII, particularmente o do Dr Gregory e as novelas e as cartas de Jane Austen como fontes primarias, desde as que se elabora unha análise axudada polas teorías discutidas en ensaios críticos, a maioría dos cales discuten sobre todo as formas de cortexo, amor e sexualidade . O obxectivo é dar luz sobre a representación de Austen das relacións románticas e sobre os elementos que o fan transcender os límites do tempo.
2019-02-27
2019-02-27
2017
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/18317
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
open access
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The Puritan Heritage in the Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Díaz Méndez, María Judith
González Groba, Constante
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Puritanismo
The Minister’s Black Veil
Young Goodman Brown
The Scarlet Letter
The House of the Seven Gables
Relixión e literatura
Literatura norteamericana do século XIX
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2020-2021
This study is focused on the Heritage of Puritanism in the fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne, making emphasis on the impact of sin, also related to evil and guilt, in Hawthorne’s characters and plots. Nathaniel Hawthorne was very interested in expressing these Puritan principles and ideas in his works because he aimed to provide his public with a very critical evaluation of Puritanism. Even though in some aspects, Nathaniel Hawthorne rejected the Puritan beliefs, he was remarkably influenced by them. The corpus used for this project is based on novels and short stories related to the Puritan ideology in which Nathaniel Hawthorne was born and raised. Among the different works used to make a rigorous study on this topic are a few tales and narratives, all of them written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Some of these texts that constitute the basis of this project are “The Minister’s Black Veil”, “Young Goodman Brown”, “The Scarlet Letter” and “The House of the Seven Gables”, among others. The main aim of this study is to examine the close relationship that exists between Hawthorne’s fiction and the Puritan religion, as well as the reflections of the big impact of Puritan beliefs on every one of Hawthorne’s stories and novels. The method used to analyse the impact of Puritanism in Hawthorne’s work is based on the precise study of different literary works from Hawthorne, comparing how Puritan ideals are differently portrayed in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s fiction.
2022-02-04
2022-02-04
2021
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/27471
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/131292020-01-31T10:28:38Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
A study on semantic and lexical variation: examining the competition between near-synonyms
Pettersson Traba, Daniela
López Couso, María José
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Variación semántica
Variación léxica
Sinónimos
Inglés
Lingüística diacrónica
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2013-2014
The aim of this dissertation is to examine the competition between the following nearsynonyms from a diachronic perspective: fear/terror/trepidation, guard/ward, beck/stream and napkin/serviette. For this purpose a general overview of both lexical and semantic change will be provided in sections 2 and 3 so as to place the competition of these nearsynonyms in a broader context. When dealing with lexical change, special attention will be paid to the process of lexical expansion known as ‘borrowing’, since the near-synonyms
mentioned above have come to exist in the English vocabulary precisely through borrowing from different languages. Further, the notion of semantic change will be
described, since it is closely connected to lexical borrowing, often taking place as a
consequence of it. This process will be explained in order to give an understanding of why and how changes in meaning occur in view of the fact that some members of the pairs or trios of near-synonyms will inevitably have undergone some type of semantic change at some point in the history of English to differentiate them. In section 4 the aforementioned near-synonyms will be analyzed in detail, by taking into account their etymology and history on the basis of the information provided in the Oxford English Dictionary, among others. By doing so I will try to make clear how and when they entered English, but also try to trace their development in the language. In the
last section of the dissertation a practical part will be included where the selected nearsynonyms will be investigated in terms of usage by making use of the British English 2006 and American English 2006 corpora. This will be done to see how each member of the pairs or trios of near-synonyms are employed by English speakers today and whether they show differences ‘in meaning, connotation, nuance or register’, as Samuels (1972: 62) states, or if they can be employed interchangeably.
2015-04-22
2015-04-22
2014
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/13129
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/183142020-09-09T11:37:01Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Who’s There? Counter-Discursive Strategies in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
Muñoz Coego, Sara
Lojo Rodríguez, Laura María
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Discurso
Contra-discurso
Teoría literaria
Postcolonialismo
Rhys, Jean
Wide Sargasso sea
Feminismo
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2016-2017
In an attempt to achieve more encompassing analyses of certain literary and cultural phenomena, postcolonial criticism has allied with the methods of feminist studies. A combined framework such as this
provides an interesting perspective for the study of Jean Rhys’s most reputed novel Wide Sargasso Sea
(1966), a text whose subversive power springs from an anxiety to resist and change the dominant
discourse of patriarchy and imperialism. Starting from this assumption, this dissertation seeks to identify in
a first level, the counter-discursive elements present in Rhys’s novel paying especial attention to the
process, implication and purpose of the construction in the narrative of such ideas as identity and the
Other. Without forgetting to locate the textual forces of power, among which language reveals itself
indispensable, an examination of the contextual conditions is intended to clarify the extent to which they
determine the nature of the former concepts. Departing from such premises, this essay will also examine
Rhys’s novel within the aesthetics of the so-called Postmodern literature
2019-02-27
2019-02-27
2017-09
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/18314
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
open access
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Not for Old Fogies: A Look at the Flapper in Fitzgerald’s Literary Production
Castro Coego, Aitana
Fra López, Patricia
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Flappers
Flappers and Philosophers
All the Sad Young Men
The Great Gatsby
Personaxes femininos
Estados Unidos nos anos 20
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
In the aftermath of the First World War, a new chapter in the North American history was being written. Together with the economic prosperity came the social, artistic and cultural changes, which portray the characteristics of the upcoming era: The Roaring Twenties. The winds of change spread a new ideology among the American population, and so a new woman emerged: the Flapper.
The aim of this dissertation is to review F.S. Fitzgerald’s literary production concerning the appearance of the figure of the Flapper. The essay has been organized in three main sections. The first part gives a brief overview of the North American History during the 1920’s and the emergence of a new life style. It will then go on to describe the figure of the flapper: influences, behavior and appearance. Famous Flappers and their relationship with the fine arts also to be explained in this part. The second section examines three Fitzgerald’s literary works concerning Flappers, paying attention to female characters: two collections of short stories: “Flappers and Philosophers” and “All the Sad Young Men”; and the novel “The Great Gatsby”. Finally, the last part deals with the end of the Flapper Era as a symbol of woman’s freedom.
Therefore, returning to the hypothesis posed at the beginning, the object of this essay is to portray the representation of the Flapper as a new woman, not only in the American society, but also in Fitzgerald’s literary production
2020-11-11
2020-11-11
2018-11-06
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23649
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/201692020-11-04T12:18:23Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Greenspeaking English and endangered languages. An ecological perspective
Sánchez Pita, Iria
Moure Pereiro, María Teresa
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Ecolingüística
Lingua inglesa
Ecolinguistics
English language
Ecolinguistics is a discipline that was born in arder to wide the field of Sociolinguistics with the idea of understanding not only the use of language in social context, but also its effects on the ecological context. The study has its basis on the principles of Ecolinguistics which, as mentioned, is a discipline that studies how languages influence both our relationship with the environment and our fellow speakers. The perspective will be a research on the tradition of the ecology of languages by a comparison between the world view in English and everal languages around the world, with the particularity of being endangered or even extinct. The aim is to focus on indigenous languages, these not being technologized so that the different implications regarding social and environmental issues are evidenced. By taking English as the center of the study, the idea is to understand its grammar, with emphasis on both
morphology and syntax, and its effects on our relations with the human and natural ecosystem around us. Being English the internationallanguage of the XXI century, the conclusions taken from its analysis will help us to understand the perspective of the Western world, represented by the vehicular implications of the English language. The contrast with the information suggested by the study of different examples of endangered languages will allow the project to define itself as a research on comparative linguistics, with the intention of reaching a deeper understanding of the direct implications of the human language in
context. The project will be organized as follows: an introduction in which the theoretical framework of Ecolinguistics will be explained, a consideration of the relevance of English as the vehicular language of the modern Western world, an overview of the grammatical elements of the English language in contrast with examples from other languages around the world, and the conclusions taken from the study.
A ecolingüística é unha disciplina que naceu ao longo do campo da sociolingüística coa idea de comprender non só o uso da linguaxe no contexto social, senón tamén os seus efectos sobre o contexto ecolóxico. O estudo está baseado nos principios da ecolingüística que, como mencionamos, é unha disciplina que estuda como as linguas inflúen tanto na nosa relación co medio como cos nosos falantes. A perspectiva será unha investigación sobre a tradición da ecoloxía das linguas mediante unha comparación entre a visión do mundo en inglés e as linguas globais de todo o mundo, coa particularidade de estar en perigo de extinción ou incluso extinta. O obxectivo é centrarse nas linguas indíxenas, non tecnoloxizadas para evidenciar as distintas implicacións sobre cuestións sociais e ambientais. Ao tomar o inglés como centro do estudo, a idea é comprender a súa gramática, facendo fincapé nas morfoloxía e sintaxe, e os seus efectos sobre as nosas relacións co ecosistema humano e natural que nos rodea. Ao ser o inglés a lingua internacional do século XXI, as conclusións extraídas da súa análise axudarannos a comprender a perspectiva do mundo occidental, representada polas implicacións vehiculares da lingua inglesa. O contraste coa información suxerida polo estudo de diferentes exemplos de linguas en perigo de extinción permitirá que o proxecto se defina como unha investigación sobre lingüística comparativa, coa intención de chegar a unha comprensión máis profunda das implicacións directas da lingua humana en contexto. O proxecto estará organizado do seguinte xeito: unha introdución na que se explicará o marco teórico da ecolingüística, unha consideración da relevancia do inglés como lingua vehicular do mundo occidental moderno, unha visión xeral dos elementos gramaticais da lingua inglesa en contraste. con exemplos doutras linguas de todo o mundo e as conclusións do estudo.
2019-10-31
2019-10-31
2018-11
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/20169
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
open access
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Blending the fantastic and the realistic: an approach to Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Allegue Perales, Marta
Lojo Rodríguez, Laura María (dir.)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Toni Morrison
Beloved
Escravitude na literatura
Pantasmas na literatura
Relacións interxeracionais na literatura
Realista/fantástico
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2015-2016
After exploring the complex blending of supernatural and realistic narratives in Toni Morrison’s Beloved it could be argued that the conflict of Beloved’s identity is ultimately an irresolvable one and that her nature cannot be reduced to a single explanation. Even though readers —unable to reconcile the fact that the novel brings together two opposing worlds in the character of Beloved— have often interpreted Beloved unilaterally as a mere ghost story, Morrison’s work actually allows various different readings for the title character. Despite the fact that the most widespread view of Beloved is that of the miraculously reincarnated daughter of Sethe, the novel offers textual evidence that suggests otherwise. Elizabeth B. House (1998) rightly points out the possible identity of Beloved as an escaped sex slave, but fails to reconcile it with the first option given.
As has been argued, the novel offers enough evidence to support two main alternatives in the interpretation of Beloved, which therefore coexist simultaneously and, I would add, are mutually dependant thus complementing each other. As a consequence, and more significantly, by presenting a series of scenes that can be read either in a realistic or in a supernatural manner —or even both at the same time—, Beloved denies the possibility of privileging one interpretation over the other. Thus, and as has been argued through this work, a fully comprehensive reading of the book may incorporate at least these two basic readings of the novel if the textual evidence which the novel provides is taken into consideration
2017-05-03
2017-05-03
2016
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/15332
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/es/
open access
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Humour as Defence Mechanism: Coping with Grief and Guilt in Fleabag
Grobas Barciela, Nerea
Sacido-Romero, Jorge
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Psychoanalysis
Fleabag
melancholia
Mourning
Melancholia
Lost object
Guilt
Humour
Trickster
Persona
Social mask
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2022-2023
Fleabag is a monologue written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge and first performed in 2013. It was later adapted for television as a series on the life of Fleabag, a young London woman, who faces the deaths of two central female figures of her life. The first one is her mother, dead because of breast cancer three years before the beginning of the story and, more recently, her best friend Boo, who died accidentally flattened by a group of cyclists when trying to get herself hurt. Despite the tragic events mentioned before, the tone of the monologue is comic and irreverent, just like the protagonist, as she confronts the deaths and her life's troubles with humour. The aim of this study is to analyze the precess of grief from a psychoanalytic perspective based primarily on Sigmund Freud's Mourning and Melancholia (1917) and Humour (1928). Humour is a self-defense mechanism used by grief-strcken and guilt-ridden protagonist, Fleabag, to cope with a reality that is actually extremelly painful for her: Particular attention will be paid to the twomother figures, Mother and Boo, whose absence pushes Fleabag into a frenzy of sexual relations that never develop into fully satisfactory relationships with men. Fleabag's pain is aggravated by a profound feeling of guilt for her detachment from her family and for Boo's death
2023-11-06
2023-11-06
2023
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/31163
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
open access
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The Lost Tradition: Women Novel Writers in Einghteenth-century England
Arteaga Vilas, Lorena
Lojo Rodríguez, Laura Mª
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Escritoras inglesas
Novela inglesa
Século XVIII
Xénero e literatura
Frances Burney
Narración
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2021-2022
This dissertation aims to explore the work of women novel writers in eighteenth-century England. Despite the popularity which characterised women’s literary production at the time –especially among female readers- many of these authors often lack the critical recognition enjoyed by male eighteenth-century writers, such as Daniel Defoe or Samuel Richardson, thus constituting a “lost tradition” fallen into oblivion. However, these women’s contribution to the development and consolidation of the novel form –both in terms of discursive strategies, themes, motifs and ideas –is central to the genre and deserves to be validated by contemporary critical standards. To pursue this aim, this dissertation will examine novels by writers such as Frances Burney and will focus on central notions which prefigure the work of these writers in terms of narrative form and ideology.
This dissertation will thus be informed by the critical work of seminal authors who have delved into these women’s narrative strategies and explored major considerations which have contributed to give pre-eminence to their male counterparts, such as Jennie Batchelor and Cora Kaplan’s British Women’s Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century (2005) or María Jesús Lorenzo Modia’s Literatura femenina inglesa del siglo XVIII, among others.
2023-03-08
2023-03-08
2022
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/30280
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
open access
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“It came, over and over, down to this: What made someone a mother?”: Motherhood, Race and Class in Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere and its TV Adaptation
Toucedo Vila, Miriam
Jiménez Placer, Susana María
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Celeste Ng
Little Fires Everywhere
Liz Tigelaar
Maternidade
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2020-2021
As most mothers would agree, motherhood is unique, life-altering experience, which does not come with an instruction manual. Neither time, nor experience or pre-existing social conventions can determine what makes someone a person fit for the role of a mother. The aim of this dissertation is, precisely, to debunk the aforementioned factors that have been established to determine a woman’s fitness as a mother as depicted in Celeste Ng’s novel Little Fires Everywhere published in 2017 and its TV adaptation, the limited series of the same name developed by Liz Tigelaar, which premiered in the streaming service Hulu in 2018. This dissertation will study the different ways in which women experience motherhood in the novel and the TV series; some characters have become mothers in the traditional manner (such as the character of Helena Richardson) and others have resorted to more unconventional methods such as adoption (as illustrated in the McCullogh family) and surrogacy (depicted in Mia Warren). In addition, this analysis will bring into question what role do class circumstances as well as race considerations have in the development of the experience of motherhood in Ng’s novel and Tigerlaar’s TV series
2022-02-07
2022-02-07
2021
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/27478
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/183192020-01-31T13:15:43Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Spatial Liminality in Elizabeth Bowen’s Short Fiction
Miranda Acuña, Andrés
Sacido Romero, Jorge
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Bowen, Elizabeth
Demon Lover and Other Stories, The
Liminality
Dimensión temporal
Dimensión espacial
Crítica literaria
Liminalidade
Spatial dimension
Temporal dimension
Literary criticism
Traballo Fin de Grao en Filoloxía Inglesa. Curso 2016-2017
This essay is devoted to the analysis of liminal spaces in Elizabeth Bowen‟s wartime short fiction. It pays special attention to three pieces collected in "The Demon Lover and Other Stories" (1945)in which liminal spatiality clearly determines characters and their actions.The concept of “liminality” was first coined in the field of anthropology to refer to people going through a transition from one state to another within the social structure — which is systematically arranged according to laws, customs, conventions and ceremonials — and express their ambiguous and indefinite attributes through a wide range of symbols in any given society where social and cultural transactions are ritualised the concept soon transcended the realm of anthropology and started to be used in literary criticism, among other things, for the “exploration of both temporal and spatial dimensions”
Este ensaio está adicado á análise de espazos liminais na ficción curta de guerra de Elizabeth Bowen. Presta especial atención ás tres pezas recollidas en "The Demon Lover and Other Stories" (1945) nas que a espacialidade liminal determina claramente os personaxes e as súas accións. O concepto de "liminalidade" foi primeiro acuñado no campo da antropoloxía para referirse ás persoas que pasan por un a transición dun estado a outro dentro da estrutura social -que está organizada de forma sistemática segundo leis, costumes, convencións e cerimonias- e expresan os seus atributos ambiguos e indefinidos a través dunha ampla gama de símbolos en calquera sociedade en que as transaccións sociais e culturais sexan ritualizadas O concepto transcendeu pronto o ámbito da antropoloxía e comezou a utilizarse na crítica literaria, entre outras cousas, para a "exploración tanto das dimensións temporal como espacial".
2019-02-28
2019-02-28
2017
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/18319
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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“Sexuality is power”, or how the marquis became marchioness
Barrio Caxide, Antón
Barbeito Varela, José Manuel
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Angela Carter
Fairy tale
Sexism in literature
Cuentos de hadas
Sexismo en la literatura
The bloody chamber and other stories
La cámara sangrienta y otros cuentos
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2017-2018
The fairy tale genre is a discourse with a strong presence of male chauvinistic and almos! misogynist ideas. In the context of the Second Wave Feminism, Angela Carter reviews these conventions from a feminist perspectiva , reinventing the grounds of a monolithic and apparently unalterable structure. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories challenges the presumed patriarchal mechanisms and gender politics.
Carter's use of the fairy tale offers a feminist revision of the genre without altering its main features.
The purpose of this TFG is to show Carter's success in achieving a feminist interpretation of traditional fairy tales, a genre until recently regarded by the critics exclusively at the service of patriarchal ideology
2019-01-24
2019-01-24
2018
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/18138
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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“She would never marry; one could not take her painting very seriously": A Feminist approach to Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
Cereijo Lourido, Sara
Lojo Rodríguez, Laura Mª
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Mrs Ramsay
Lily Briscoe
Rol segundo o sexo
Feminidade
Crítica feminista
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2020-2021
The title’s opening quote from Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse (1927) illustrates not only the relationship between the two main women characters in the novel – Mrs Ramsay and Lily Briscoe – but also the existing tension between the patriarchal assumptions regarding the traditional roles of women in society and women’s artistic aspirations. In the novel these two characters are apparently presented as antagonists since they stand for contrasting models of femininity and have different outlooks on life. However, Woolf also undermines such opposition by emphasising how their relationship is based on mutual love and admiration for each other: “she [Briscoe] was and independent little creature and Mrs Ramsay liked her for it”. The aim of this work will be produce a critical analysis of Virginia Woolf’s modernist novel To the Lighthouse from a feminist perspective. Therefore, I will make a special emphasis on topics such as the role of the narrative’s female characters as well as the relationship between them, Woolf’s representation of both traditional roles of women and unconventional subjectivities in the novel, the relation between art and gender or the connection of this narrative with the author’s own experiences as a woman and as a writer. For this purpose, I will be using a range of critical works which comprise both primary sources, such as Virginia Woolf’s personal diaries, letters and essays, along with a selection of criticism which tackles nor only Woolf’s personal life but also To the Lighthouse in particular from a gender perspective.
2022-02-04
2022-02-04
2021-06
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/27470
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/311562023-11-04T01:02:45Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Mental Illness in the American Novel: A Study of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Otessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation.
Rama Cousillas, Yolanda
ESTÉVEZ-SAÁ, MARGARITA
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Madness
Entrapment
Patriarchy
Capitalism
Rebirth
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2022-2023
Our contemporary society is beginning to take seriously the mental problems and illnesses that affect too many people. Therefore, madness, depression, and anxiety, among others, are being considered openly by the public opinion, even by politicians. Literature has a long tradition in the representation of these topics although in the past, sometimes it dealt with mental disorders in an indirect way, as was the case, far instance, with women's anxieties, fears or postnatal depressions and the use of the trope of the ghost that was used by writers to refer to these states and conditions. The purpose of this research is to study two seminal fictions that have dealt with mental illnesses: Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar (1963) and Otessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018). The analysis will cover two main objectives. The first one is to identify how these novels feature mental disorder and illustrate the circumstances that led the protagonists to suffer from it. In this sense, we shall take into account the fact that they are young women so that a gender perspective will be applied. The second main objective is to assess the social and cultural projection of these two works, that have become classics in the representation in literature of the topic of mental illness.
2023-11-03
2023-11-03
2023
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/31156
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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Comparison between "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland", by Lewis Carroll, and the videogame "Alice: Madness Returns"
Freijanes Gil, Sara
Gil González, Antonio Jesús
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice: Madness Returns
Lewis Carroll
Adaptacións de Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland
Intermedialidade
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
The main topic of my final grade project will be a comparison between tha classic "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865) writting by the English writer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better know as Lewis Carroll, and the videogame "Alice: Madness Returns" (2011)released by Electronic Arts (EA Games).
Although videogames are usually considered mere entertainment mediums, some of them, such "Alice: Madness Returns" could be considered as artistics masterpieces when analyzing them deeply. It is through this analysis of the narrative and aesthetic aspects, and the comparison of the same ones, that I would like to show how a videogame can transmit the same feelings and emotions as a good universal classic such as "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". However Carroll's book does not only transcend the literary dimension to the one of the videogames, but also to the television and cinematographic dimension with more than 30 adaptations such as, perhaps the most known ones, the animated version by Walt Disney "Alice in Wonderland" (1951) and Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" (2010) this last one also with its own videogame. Undoubtedly, there is an enourmous quantity of adpatations of Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" in all the different mediums we have at our disposal nowadays, from films to theatre or even music. However, although i am going to mention a few ones throughout this project, the main aim is profoundly analyzed the works first mentioned, since I find quite interesting the aesthetic power of both works.
In order to achieve this, the project will problaby follow the next structure:
First of all, I would like to briefly analyze both works, the book and the videogame, separately. In both analysis I will focus on their main features according to the narrative's and aesthetics' aspects using the respective methodology in consonance with literary and game studies. After a short analysis of these aspects of both works, my aim is to compare them from the perspective of intermediality, paying special attention, as mentioned before, to aesthetics
2020-11-06
2020-11-06
2019
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23600
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/131212020-09-09T09:07:54Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Allen Ginsberg’s "Howl" : a literary and cultural analysis
Iglesias Rivas, Sara
González Groba, Constante
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Allen Ginsberg
Howl
Literatura americana
Xeración beat
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2013-2014
The idea for this Bachelor thesis was born out of interest towards the literary movement of The Beat Generation in the United States of America, with special focus on the figure of Allen Ginsberg and his famous poem Howl. We would like to explore
their position in the literary establishment of the 1950s’ America, taking into consideration their evolution as a countercultural literary movement, and to look more specifically at the case of Howl. Described as “the voice of a generation” and “the poem that changed America”, Howl actually became the image and insignia of a generation which, shaped and influenced by the direct effects of the Lost Generation a couple of decades earlier on culture and consumerism, rebelled against the establishment and motivated the great social change that the world, and particularly the United States of America, experienced from the decade of the sixties onwards. Its effect and significance on American and even global history is undeniable, still when some question its literary value. For once, a literary product trespassed the boundaries of the literary world, becoming an extraordinary social and cultural weapon on whose base many laid the foundations of their personal revolution.
2015-04-21
2015-04-21
2014
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/13121
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/311612023-11-07T01:02:52Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
“Tuath meaning people, meaning place”. An Ecocritical Analysis of Grace Wells’s The Church of the Love of the World.
Fernández Ortega, María Rebeca
Palacios González, Manuela
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Grace Wells
The Church of the Love of the World
Ecocrítica
Ecofeminismo
Poesía irlandesa
Irlanda
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2022-2023
The aim of this dissertation is to analyse Grace Wells’ third poetry collection The Church of the Love of the World. The relevant aspects that will be tackled are the individual and their relationship with the environment as well as the history of Ireland. In her ecopoetry , Grace Wells vindicates the importance of nature, spirit-of-place, memory, story, myth, the land, and ecological concern in local ethnic communities, which serve as global examples. These approaches are mainly developed throughout the whole collection with the purpose of enhancing biodiversity and ecological awareness of multiple environmental crises in contemporary society. Moreover, the portrayal of environmental issues that go beyond the landscape will be explored, that is, the treatment of the individual and the suffering in the context of a relationship with the nature. Significantly, globalization and the current iteration of Western culture have brought about the uniformity of the world and caused the loss of diversity by distancing human beings from nature and suppressing their love for the world. As for methodology, this study will employ the theoretical framework of ecocriticism in its different forms: ecofeminism, postcolonial ecocriticism, and eco-spirituality. Furthermore, this analysis will be accompanied by literary criticism such as Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Pastoral Tradition (2011) by Donna L. Potts in order to inquire the differences between ecopoetry and pastoralism. An additional and fundamental reference will be Eóin Flannery’s Ireland and Ecocriticism (2016), which provides a through ecocritical apparatus in the context of Irish literature. Finally, the article “The Ethics and Aesthetics of Eco-caring: Contemporary Debates on Ecofeminism(s) (2018) by Margarita Estévez Saá and María Jesús Lorenzo Modia, will orient this analysis thanks to its survey of the main debates within ecofeminism
2023-11-06
2023-11-06
2023
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/31161
eng
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Structure dependence, English Grammar and Universal Grammar
Gómez Vidal, Beatriz
Longa Martínez, Víctor Manuel
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Gramática inglesa
Innato na lingüística, Teoría do
Gramática universal
Dependencia da estrutura
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2016-2017
The aim of this work is twofold: (i) to present a thorough revision of structure dependence in relation to English Grammar from the point of view of linguistic innateness hypothesis, and (ii) to offer relevant criticism of such a theory, with the intention of providing a constructive and critical evaluation of the methodology and claims of linguistic innateness hypothesis. For this purpose, they were consulted numerous works from a wide array of authors, each of them notorious in their corresponding field of inquiry. Out of the many scholars whose works I have referred to, Noam Chomsky is to be highlighted, as he is the main theoretical defender of linguistic innateness theory
O obxectivo deste traballo é dobre: (i) presentar unha revisión exhaustiva da dependencia da estrutura en relación coa gramática inglesa desde o punto de vista da hipótese do innato na lingüística, e (ii) ofrecer unha crítica relevante sobre tal teoría, coa intención de proporcionar unha avaliación constructiva e crítica da metodoloxía e as reivindicacións da hipótese do innato na lingüística. Para este propósito, foron consultados numerosos traballos procedentes dunha ampla gama de autores, cada un deles notorio no seu campo de investigación correspondente. Dende os moitos estudiosos cuxos traballos mencionei, Noam Chomsky é destacado, xa que é o principal defensor teórico da teoría do innato na lingüística
2019-02-27
2019-02-27
2017
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/18315
eng
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Richard III’s Double Dimension in “A Game of Thrones”: a comparative study
García Extremadouro, Raquel
Mourón Figueroa, Cristina (dir.)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Richard III
Ricardo III, rei de Inglaterra
George R.R. Martin
A Song of a Ice and Fire
A Game of Thrones
Eddard Stark
Tyrion Lannister
William Shakespeare
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
There can be no doubt that King Richard III is, perhaps, one of the most controversial kings of England, due to the shortage of contemporary records and chronicles and to his biased reputation as a result of physical and moral portrayal in both the Tudor propaganda and the Shakespearean play which, basically, pictured him as a physically deformed villain and murderer.
This dissertation deals with a comparative analysis of the historical figure of King Richard III and Eddard Stark and Tyrion Lannister, two of the most prominent characters in “A Game of Thrones” (1996), the first book of George R.R. Martin’s Saga “A Song of Ice and Fire”. Whereas Eddard Stark may resemble the ‘historical’ Richard, Tyrion Lannister may be considered a fictionalised version of the mythological character created by Shakespeare. The methodology to be followed will entail a through and detailed comparison of the double dimension of Richard III’s historical figure (i.e. his physical and moral descriptions in Shakespeare´s play and in the Tudor chronicles) with that of the characters could be considered as a reinterpretation of the controversial reputation of the English king.
The study will be supported by a careful reading and reviewing of the most relevant bibliography on the subject
2020-11-12
2020-11-12
2018-10-22
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23679
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/237532021-01-09T03:01:14Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Changes in the morphological system from Old to Middle English, with special reference to the noun phrase
Kaakejian, Jack
López Couso, María José
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Inglés antigo
Inglés medio
Morfoloxía histórica
Historia do inglés
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
The aim of this dissertation is to show how English language has changed over time in one particular grammatical domain: the noun phrase, focusing on the morphological changes that affected nouns, adjectives and demonstratives from Old English to Middle English and on the transformation from synthetic to analytic language. Old English was a highly inflected language, i.e. grammatical meaning was indicated mainly through the use of inflections. Most of these inflections disappeared in the course of Middle English, when English became a more analytic language.
The first part of the dissertation is devoted to the characterization of the three relevant word classes, which were highly inflected in Old English. Nouns showed inflections according to gender, case and number and belonged to various declensions. Old English had grammatical gender and each noun was classified as masculine, feminine or neuter. As regards case, Old English nouns showed four different cases: nominative, genitive, dative and accusative, and two numbers: singular and plural. Adjectives also had inflections for gender, case and number and they were inflected according to two declensions, the strong declension and the weak declension. Moreover, Old English had a very complicated system of demonstratives, which were inflected for number, case and gender in agreement with the noun that they accompanied.
In the second part of the dissertation, I focus on Middle English, when we see the radical simplification of the Old English inflectional system due to two major factors. The first one has to do with phonology and it is related to the reduction of vowels in non-accented syllables which caused the levelling of inflections; the reduction consisted of the centralization of the vowels to schwa. The second cause for the simplification of the inflectional system has to do with analogy, which implies the regularization of irregular forms from the language as a result of “a process by which one form becomes like another one with which it is somehow associated (such as having the same function)” (Brinton and Arnovick 2006:70).
In the final part of the dissertation I compare parallel texts from Old English and Middle English to illustrate some of the changes discussed in the theoretical part of the study
2020-11-24
2020-11-24
2019-07
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23753
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/201682020-09-09T11:34:45Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Robert Burns: The Ploughman Poet in No Man´s Land
López López, María Isabel
Lojo Rodríguez, Laura María
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Burns, Robert
Romanticismo
Gran Bretaña
Romanticism
Great Britain
Considered by some critics and scholars as one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement in Britain, others, however, have failed to acknowledge this writer's contribution as a romantic poet leaving him in no man's land. A quarter of a millennium after his birth, Scottish poet Robert Burns, 'the man of independent mind', is still struggling to find his space in the literary canon. Was Robert Burns born in the wrong place at the wrong time asto be eligible for the label of romantic poet within the British tradition? lf that was the case, did his work be long to a Scottish tradition whose distinctive aesthetic features would have discarded his poetry from fully fitting in the Romantic movement in Britain despite sorne conspicuous similarities? This dissertation will aim to find a plausible answer to these questions by looking into relevant socio-political aspects, personal experiences and literary influences that might have helped shape Burns's style, and which would ultimately allow to determine to what extent his poetic production complies with the Romantic canon. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Romantic manifesto Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800) as a major exponent of formal, aesthetic and ideological aspects pertaining to Romantic poetry will be the framework of my analysis in order to assess the romantic quality of Burns's selected poetic work, while The Bard (2009), professor Robert Crawford's comprehensive biography on Robert Burns, will serve as the starting point to comprehend the complexity of the ploughman poet and his time.
Algúns críticos e estudosos considerados como un dos pioneiros do movemento romántico en Gran Bretaña, pero outros non lograron recoñecer a contribución deste escritor como poeta romántico deixándoo en terra de ninguén. Un cuarto de milenio despois do seu nacemento, o poeta escocés Robert Burns, "o home da mente independente", segue loitando por atopar o seu espazo no canon literario. ¿É que Robert Burns naceu no lugar incorrecto no momento incorrecto podía ser elixido para a etiqueta de poeta romántico dentro da tradición británica? Se fose así, o seu traballo foi longo cunha tradición escocesa cuxos trazos estéticos distintivos terían descartado que a súa poesía se encaixase plenamente no movemento romántico en Gran Bretaña a pesar das semellanzas? Esta disertación terá como finalidade atopar unha resposta plausible a estas preguntas mirando aspectos sociopolíticos relevantes, experiencias persoais e influencias literarias que puideron axudar a dar forma ao estilo de Burns e que finalmente permitiría determinar en que medida a súa produción poética cumpre co Canon romántico. O marco da miña análise será o marco romántico do manifesto romántico de William Wordsworth e Samuel Taylor Coleridge Prefacio ás Lyrical Ballads(1800) como expoñente principal dos aspectos formais, estéticos e ideolóxicos relacionados coa poesía romántica para valorar a calidade romántica da obra poética seleccionada de Burns, e The Bard (2009), a ampla biografía do profesor Robert Crawford sobre Robert Burns, servirá como punto de partida para comprender a complexidade do poeta arado e da súa época.
2019-10-31
2019-10-31
2018-10
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/20168
eng
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“Killing the Angel in the House”: feminism and gender politics in Virginia Woolf
Campo Ferreiro, Jorge
Lojo Rodríguez, Laura María (dir.)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Virginia Woolf
Mulleres e literatura
Crítica feminista
Feminismo e literatura
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
The aim of this dissertation is to carry out a feminist approach to the work of Virginia Woolf, exploring the relevance of themes such as gender and feminism in the literary production of this writer. I will focus on the manner in which Woolf conveys her ideas concerning women and literature, and particular attention will be given to those formal and ideological aspects of Woolf’s feminist agenda.
In order to serve this purpose, I will depart from a close study of the writer’s work, paying special attention to Woolf’s essayist production, a genre which she conceives (both from a formal and an ideological standpoint) as the expression of personal opinion and subjectivity, thus radically departing from hegemonic views on the essay as scientific prose, as held by most of her male contemporaries, such as TS Elliot or Desmond MacCarthy. Such a deviation from male tradition standards, along with Woolf’s advocation of women’s visibility in the public sphere, may account for the ostracism she experienced in her lifetime, especially after the publication of her seminal essay “A Room of One’s Own” (1929). However, and as this dissertation aims to show, Woolf’s work continues to provide an inspiration for twentieth-first-century writers, who write in her wake
2020-11-11
2020-11-11
2019-07
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23648
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/240912021-01-13T07:23:39Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
“We are the daughters of the witches you weren’t able to burn”: A Gender-based Approach to the Figure of the Witch in Contemporary Reassessments of the Fairy Tale
Macías Alonso, Lara
Lojo Rodríguez, Laura María (dir.)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Bruxas
W.I.T.C.H.
Feminismo
Crítica feminista
Contos de fadas
Emma Donoghue
Kissing The Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2019-2020
The figure of the witch has traditionally stood for the negative moral type in the fairy tales, whose purpose was to teach readers (children in particular) what they should not to do, what they should avoid or fear. However, feminist women have long identified with witches, as did the radical feminists from the late 1960s who first grouped in the streets of New York in order to “hex” Wall Street bankers, organized under the name W.I.T.C.H. It is undeniable that the image of the witch is a central one in present-day feminisms, and that is because to identify with the witch is not to identify with the dangerous and socially feared, as presented in traditional fairy tales, but rather to identify with a long history of gendered repression, with the silenced women who were persecuted for resisting to conform to patriarchal standards in one way or the other. Thus, the connotations of the witch have changed from being a (gendered) symbol of evil to an icon of female empowerment and resilience –as claimed by Maitland, “Witches are neither good nor bad. They are powerful” (On Becoming a Fairy Godmother, 2003). It is on the basis of this symbolic identification so evident in our contemporary world that this project aims to explore the significance of the image of the witch by offering an analysis of such a figure in contemporary re-writings of the fairy-tale genre; particularly, in Emma Donoghue’s collection of short stories entitled Kissing The Witch: Old Tales in New Skins (1997)
2020-12-23
2020-12-23
2019-11-05
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/24091
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/240902021-01-09T03:10:28Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
The girl who despised being called a “girl”: Scout Finch and the issue of gender in To Kill a Mockingbird
García Ramallal, Uxía
Barbeito Varela, José Manuel
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Scout Finch
Mayella Ewell
Calpurnia
Personaxes femininos
Robert Mulligan
Diferenzas raciais
Xénero
Sur dos Estados Unidos
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2019-2020
Told through the eyes of the rebellious and witty Jean Louis Finch (nicknames Scout), To Kill a Mockingbird develops the coming-of-age journey of this six-year-old girl who lives in the fictional town of Maycomb (Alabama) with her elder brother Jem and their father Atticus, an honorable attorney who struggles to prove the innocence of a black man unfairly accused of raping of a young white woman (Mayella Ewell), while at the same time confronting racial prejudices and taking care of his children with the help of Calpurnia, the black housekeeper.
Most scholars have centered their attention on the novel’s racial, legal and ethical themes. However, Scout’s defiance of the conventional gender stereotypes within the prejudicial Maycomb’s society deserves further in-depth examination. Robert Mulligan’s 1962 film adaptation can help in this. This project will consist of a comparative analysis between the main female characters of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) and Robert Mulligan’s film adaptation (1962), focusing on Scout Finch, Calpurnia, and Mayella Ewell and on the social and racial aspects that separate the three of them.
The aims of this research will be, firstly, to shed light on the potential difficulties that arise when adapting literary works to film, and secondly, to understand what being a woman in a man’s world entailed, according to Lee, in the context of Southern patriarchal society in the USA during the years of the Great Depression (1930s).
Gender inequality should not be studied as exclusively dependent on sex. My work will include a critical overview of those factors such as race and social status that may interact with gender as a ground for discrimination
2020-12-23
2020-12-23
2019-11-05
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/24090
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/237942021-01-09T03:01:44Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
A study of F.S. Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise in the context of the Lost Generation and the Jazz Age
Vilariño Piñón, Sara
González Groba, Constante
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise
Literatura nortamericana
Lost Genaration
Anos 20
Era do jazz
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
My final degree project will study Scott Fitzgerald novel This Side of Paradise, which was published in 1920. This book is especially important in the author’s career because it made him popular in the American literary scene. This project will analyse this novel’s crucial impact on the American society and literature at that time and subsequent periods.
In the project, I will analyse the figure of F.S. Fitzgerald as a writer in the history of American literature and the importance of the mood of disillusion that took hold of America after the Great War and that profoundly shaped the outlook of the members of the so-called Lost Generation of writers, which included Fitzgerald.
Attention will also be paid to how Fitzgerald portrayed one of the most important eras in American history, the Roaring Twenties, which also called “The Jazz Age”. I will analyse the figure of the main character, a young man named Amory Blaine and the way Fitzgerald reflects through his life the main events and preoccupations of this era. Another important point in this project will be how this book portrayed the figure of the new woman, who was demanding social, sexual, and intellectual freedom
2020-11-25
2020-11-25
2019-07
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23794
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/131042020-09-09T11:09:13Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Concession relations in argumentative discourse : the case of written reviews
Huertas López, Paula
Gómez González, María de los Angeles
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Análise do discurso
Argumentación
Concesión
Marcadores do discurso
Inglés
Traballo fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2013-2014
This paper has considered the role of concession in the argumentative genre, specifically the role of the concessive markers but and although in written reviews of books and films. Therefore, it was necessary to examine the theoretical ackground of such concession and written reviews. Firstly, the argumentative genre, and in particular written reviews were analysed in relation to concession. Secondly, a review of previous literature on concession was discussed. In this, concession was analysed with reference to its semantic features, its connection to other coherence relations (causal, conditional and opposite relations), its markers, its structure according to the RST, its discourse function and its pragmatic characteristics in consonance with Appraisal Theory. To this end, different examples(several taken from my corpus and others from the literature reviewed) were discussed
2015-04-21
2015-04-21
2014
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/13104
eng
open access
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The ghost of Tom Joad : the development of the character’s mythical aura through literature, cinema and music
Gómez Garrido, Sandra
Fra López, Patricia (dir.)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Tom Joad
Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
John Ford
Viaxe
Crise de 1929
Cine e literatura
Literatura americana
Música e literatura
Woody Guthrie
Bruce Springsteen
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2015-2016
In the research area of literature and other artistic expressions, I have not found many instances of analysis of the exchange between literature and music. Being aware of the relevance of this connection in contemporary cultural studies, I will endeavor to focus my attention in these fields and with that purpose in mind I will regard literature, cinema and music as equally fundamental cultural productions throughout the elaboration of this paper.
In order to convey the potential of this interrelation for the construction of works that eventually assimilate into culture, I intend to analyze an artistic creation that has undergone a transposition through these three different manifestations and which, in the process, would have acquired the potentiality each of them can provide. John Steinbeck’s masterpiece novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939) seemed a very accurate example. Until the present date, the story has been transposed to the silver screen by John Ford – The Grapes of Wrath (1940) –, to popular music by Woody Guthrie and Bruce Springsteen, and even to the theatre by Frank Galati in 1988. In this dissertation, I will not deal with the latter transposition of the story; instead I have chosen to go deeper into the web of internal influences that has developed among the novel, the film and the songs written out of the story of the Joad family as well as among their different authors.
2017-05-04
2017-05-04
2016
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/15343
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/es/
open access
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Aspects of Jamaican patois through the lyrics of dancehall music
Campanella Alonso, Florencia
Núñez Pertejo, Paloma
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Patois
Inglés xamaicano
Dancehall
Linguas crioulas inglesas
Letras de cancións xamaicanas
Xamaica
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
The aim of this study is to provide an introductory approach to Jamaican patois and its main characteristics. According to the “Cambridge Dictionary”, ‘patois’ refers to “the form of a language spoken by people in a particular area that is different from the standard language of the country”. While Jamaican patois is spoken by the majority of the population in Jamaica, Jamaican English (JamE) is mostly used by institutions (cf. Michaelis, Maurer, Haspelmath & Huber 2013). As a point of departure, my project will consist of a theoretical part in which I will offer general information about the social and historical features that characterise Jamaican patois as well as Jamaican English. To this end, I will use a number of bibliographical references (cf. Bertens 2003; Deuber 2014, among others). The second part of the study will be of a more practical nature, and will pay special attention to the analysis of different songs from what is known as ‘Dancehall music’. This particular music genre includes in its lyrics many different examples of Jamaican patois, which can be very helpful if one wants to really understand certain aspects of the culture and the society of Jamaica. Moreover, the lyrics of the songs selected for the analysis will be compared and contrasted with their standard (British or American) versions
2020-11-10
2020-11-10
2018-10-26
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23646
eng
open access
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A Study on Manx Folklore
Ferreiro Regal, Juan
Mourón Figueroa, Cristina (dir.)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Illa de Man
Folklore
Cultura e tradición
Identidade colectiva
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the revival, preservation and study of the culture and tradition of the lsle of Man, which are claimed to be of Celtic and, to a lesser extent, Viking origins. The island was a popular tourist destination for the British already in Victorian times and, still today, keeps a peculiar political relationship with Great Britain, that of a self-governing dependency.
The main objective of this dissertation is a thorough analysis of the origin and development of Manx folklore. The study will also include a brief introduction to the historical context of the island and its linguistic and political peculiarities.
The analysis will extensively focus on a diachronic approach to the folklore of the lsle of Man, highlighting and explaining the most significant elements related to traditions, superstitions, legends, tales, myths, ghost stories, proverbs, folk music and dances, traditional food and traditional feasts and festivals, which have played a significant role on Manx society and culture through time. The dissertation will be supported by a close reading and examination of the most important reliable bibliographical sources on the matter
2020-11-12
2020-11-12
2018-11-05
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23677
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/302842023-03-09T03:02:52Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
A preliminary approach to the situation of CLIL in Galicia: A case study at the secondary school level
Varela Louzán, María
Núñez Pertejo, Paloma
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
CLIL
IB
PAI
Secondary Education
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2021-2022
This project aims at describing the methodology known as Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and its current situation in Galicia. Broadly speaking, CLIL revolves around the teaching and learning of content subjects comprised in the national curriculum of Secondary Education (e.g. Biology, History, Maths) through a second or foreign language, English in this case. The study will consist of two parts: a theoretical section, in which some of the main contributions to this topic will be referred to, and a practical section, in which a case study will be described. Firstly, I will provide a definition of what CLIL is, what aspects it involves and how it is implemented in our Autonomous Community. Secondly, I will analyse how this methodology is applied in a private school located in the area of Pontevedra, where teachers make use of CLIL in their classes so as to develop their syllabuses within the International Baccalaureate (IB) framework that follows the so-called Programa de los Años Intermedios (PAI). I will also refer to PAI in the theoretical section of this dissertation. To this end, I will provide students and teachers with different questionnaires in order to verify their degree of satisfaction with this specific methodology, paying special attention to whether the implementation of CLIL has led to a more frequent use of the L2 and/or to an improvement in the students’ level. Finally, after having examined all the data retrieved from the questionnaires, I will draw some tentative conclusions.
2023-03-08
2023-03-08
2022-06-30
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/30284
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
open access
Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional
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The myth of Sylvia Plath and its influence on contemporary indie-pop music
Iglesias Aguete, Raquel
Jiménez Placer, Susana María
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Sylvia Plath
Indie-pop
Lana del Rey
Taylor Swift
24/7 Sylvia Plath
Lady Lazarus
Influencia
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2020-2021
The work will address Sylvia Plath as one of the major representatives of American confessional poetry. In the past, may articles have been published regarding the controversial mediatic process through which the figure of Plath has become a myth and a tragic symbol of girlhood, adolescence, and emotional pain. For this reason, pop culture and market have taken advantage of this tendency, and Sylvia Plath is, nowadays, more present in the arts and media that she was when she was alive. I will focus my work on this process of mythification of her figure and how it has influenced the musical landscape of the 21st century. Contemporary indie-pop singers and composers such as Lana del Rey, Lorde, Taylor Swift, or Mitski have mentioned, more than once, the influence confessional poetry has had on their music and lyrics. In fact, it is easy to grasp some similarities between these artists’ songs and Plath’s poetry, especially in the tone they use and the topics they deal with. My work will aim to explore, then, the relationship between these intimist artists and Sylvia Plath’s myth and legend, which is still influencing, almost 60 years after her death, the youngest generations
2022-02-07
2022-02-07
2021-06
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/27474
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/312082023-11-08T01:03:43Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Projection strategies in narrative and journalistic texts
Iglesias Tato, Iria
Gómez González, María de los Ángeles
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Projection
SFL
RST
Journalistic texts
Narrative texts
Taxis
Proyección
Textos narrativos
Textos periodísticos
Proxección
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2022-2023
[EN]Projection is a type of relationship between clauses whereby, at a primary level in which there are only two clauses forming the complex, the secondary clause is projected through the primary clause as a locution or an idea (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2004: 377). It is easier to illustrate the way in which projection works by exemplifying it through a clause: “Martha said that you would be here”; in this instance, the primary clause “Martha said” is projecting a locution “that you would be here”, which was produced by someone (i. e., Martha) in the past, and it is now being recreated by the speaker. Humans use this type of construction frequently, people project ideas, thoughts or even dialogue on a daily basis. Due to its high rate of usage, the study of projection has diverse manifestations in both written and oral discourse. In this thesis, we will focus on the former by comparing the use of projection in journalistic and narrative discourse. We have chosen these two genres because, according to previous studies (Caldas-Coulthard, 2008; Saragih, Murni & Meisuri, 2021; Couto-Vale, 2015), projection relations are frequently used in both, which will allow us to establish any emerging divergences and similarities. The descriptive framework will be founded on thoroughly tested models, namely Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), which have provided the foundation for the analysis of projection and other logico-semantic rhetorical relations in clause complexing. Additionally, the study will follow a corpus linguistics methodology based on the analysis of real empirical data that will enable us to determine the factors involved in projection variation across the genres scrutinised.
[ES]La proyección es un tipo de relación entre cláusulas en la que, considerando un caso en el que solo hay dos cláusulas formando el conjunto, la cláusula secundaria se proyecta a través de la cláusula primaria bien como una locución o como una idea (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2004: 377). Es más fácil ilustrar el funcionamiento de la proyección con un ejemplo: "Marta dijo que estarías aquí"; en este caso, la cláusula primaria "Marta dijo" está proyectando una locución "que estarías aquí", que fue producida por alguien (en este caso, Marta) en el pasado, y ahora es proyectada por el emisor. Utilizamos este tipo de construcción con frecuencia, la gente proyecta ideas, pensamientos o incluso diálogos a diario. Debido a su elevado índice de uso, el estudio de la proyección tiene diversas manifestaciones tanto en el discurso escrito como en el oral. En este trabajo nos centraremos en el primero, comparando el uso de la proyección en el discurso periodístico y en el narrativo. Hemos elegido estos dos géneros porque, según estudios previos (Caldas-Coulthard, 2008; Saragih, Murni & Meisuri, 2021; Couto-Vale, 2015), las relaciones de proyección se utilizan con frecuencia en ambos, lo que nos permitirá establecer las diferencias y similitudes que surjan. El marco descriptivo se basará en modelos generalmente aceptados, la Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) y la Lingüística Funcional Sistémica (SFL), que han proporcionado la base para el análisis de la proyección y otras relaciones retóricas lógico-semánticas en la complejización de cláusulas. Además, el estudio seguirá una metodología de lingüística de corpus basada en el análisis de datos empíricos reales que nos permitirán determinar los factores implicados en la variación de la proyección a través de los géneros estudiados.
[GL]A proxección é un tipo de relación entre cláusulas na que, considerando un caso no que só hai dúas cláusulas formando o conxunto, a cláusula secundaria proxéctase a través da cláusula primaria ben como locución ou como idea (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2004: 377). É máis fácil ilustrar o funcionamento da proxección cun exemplo: “Marta dixo que estarías aquí”; neste caso, a frase primaria “Marta dixo” está proxectando unha locución “que estarías aquí”, que fora producida por alguén (neste caso, Marta) no pasado, e agora é proxectada polo emisor. Utilizamos este tipo de construción con frecuencia, a xente proxecta ideas, pensamentos ou incluso diálogos a diario. Debido ao seu elevado índice de uso, o estudo da proxección ten diversas manifestacións tanto no discurso escrito como no oral. Neste traballo, centrarémonos no primeiro, comparando o uso da proxección no discurso periodístico e no narrativo. Escollemos estes dous xéneros porque, segundo estudos previos (Caldas-Coulthard, 2008; Saragih, Murni & Meisuri, 2021; Couto-Vale, 2015), as relacións de proxección utilízanse con frecuencia en ambos, o que nos permitirá establecer as diferencias e similitudes que xurdan. O marco descritivo basearase en modelos xeralmente aceptados, a Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) e a Lingüística Funcional Sistémica (SFL), que proporcionaron a base para a análise da proxección e outras relacións retóricas lóxico-semánticas na formación de complexos de cláusulas. Ademais, o estudo seguirá unha metodoloxía de lingüística de corpus baseada na análise de datos empíricos reais que nos permitirán determinar os factores implicados na variación da proxección a través dos xéneros estudados.
2023-11-07
2023-11-07
2023
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/31208
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
open access
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Portrayal of women in present-day northamerican literature : female empowerment in the A song of ice and fire saga
Tello Suárez, Iria Andrea
Jiménez Placer, Susana María
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
American novel
Novela americana
Feminism
Feminismo
A song of ice and fire
Canción de hielo y fuego
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Galegas. Curso 2017-2018
We live in a time in which feminism is acquiring a crucial role in our every day lives. The present-day society is moving within a new feminist wave that , little by little, is destroying old and false patriarchal, values that oppress women all around the world. In this context, our society demands a new approach, a feminist approach, in every sphere of our lives which will help this feminist wave to reach every single corner of our world, and every corner of our lives. In order to do so, feminism avails itself of different tools, being literature one of the most important. Reaching millions of people through the books and so many others through the TV show, A Song of Ice and Fire is, presumably, the most famous and most popular saga in present-day North American Literature. This novel has become a great source of inspiration and, more importantly, a strong influence for all its followers, thus being its portrayal of women a vital matter. G. R. R. Martín, the author, has created remarkably complex female characters that evolve towards a state of independence and power, advocating for feminism and serving as a model for a society at a standstill in patriarchy. Therefore, both for its feminist value and its literary value, the complex and greatly interesting development of the female characters in this saga will be the main point to analyze in my thesis.
2019-02-06
2019-02-06
2018
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/18240
eng
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open access
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Wayfarers in the Shadow: A Rambling Exploration of Migration Literature
Solís Villaverde, Valeria Andrea
Lojo Rodríguez, Laura Mª
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Refugees
Migrants
Short stories
The Refugee Tales
Shatila Stories
Oulamide Popoola
Breach
Assimilation
Multiculturalism
Acculturation
Adaptations
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2022-2023
This dissertation aims to focus on the sociopsychological progression of numerous refugees and migrants through the analysis of several short stories written in English language and that are collected in projects that asses these experiences, such as The Refugee Tales series edited by David Herd and Anna Pincus, Shatila Stories translated by Nashba Gowanlock (2018) and Breach (2016) by Olumide Popoola and Annie Holmes, amongst others, thus providing a space for deep rumination on questionable migratory policies. The short stories of the wayfarers will allow to contrast real-life testimonies with the stages of migratory grief, the so-called “Ulysses syndrome”, and to address concepts such as “assimilation versus multiculturalism”, “acculturation versus adaptations” or “xenophobia and discrimination”. Thus, this dissertation is also meant to foster a space to explore innovative content associated to topics of migratory nature that represent highly controverted discussions in today’s world and society. The research methodology will be mainly of theoretical nature, using the interdisciplinary field of “border studies” – such as Mireille Rosello and Johan Schimanski’s Border Aesthetics: Concepts and Intersections (2017) or Doris Wastl-Walter’s The Routledge Research Companion to Border Studies (2011), among others – with the aim of relativizing and conceptually framing the stories to be analyzed, allowing the exploration of their cultural and geopolitical dynamism, having as a major objective to establish bridges between theory and reality as testified to by the “walkers”
2023-11-03
2023-11-03
2023
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/31158
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
open access
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If-clauses in English and their Spanish and French equivalents : a contrastive corpus-based study
Lastres López, Cristina
Gómez González, María de los Ángeles
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Lingüística contrastiva
Sintaxe
Lingua inglesa
Lingua española
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2014-2015
This investigation aims to fill in this gap by providing a quantitative corpus-based
analysis of if-clauses in spoken English, Spanish and French. Part I provides a review of
the literature on if-clauses and their Spanish and French equivalents, in which English
serves as point of departure and a number of features are isolated as tertium
comparationis in order to be able to compare and contrast these constructions across the
three languages under analysis. The approach followed is an eclectic one, based on
reference grammars and more specific studies on the topic, which broadly can be said to
share a discourse-functional perspective on language description.
After eliciting our research questions, as well as the methodology used, Part II
discusses the contrastive results obtained from a corpus-based analysis taking into account syntactic, semantic and functional considerations. The data have been extracted
from the spoken academic components of the International Corpus of English-Great
Britain (ICE-GB) (Nelson, Wallis, & Aarts, 2002), for English; and for Spanish and
French, on the other hand, from the corresponding sub-corpora of the Integrated
Reference Corpora for Spoken Romance Languages (C-ORAL-ROM) (Cresti &
Moneglia, 2005). The academic register has been chosen as object of analysis because,
according to such previous studies as Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad and Finegan
(1999 [2000]: 824) and Carter-Thomas and Rowley-Jolivet (2008: 191) if-clauses are
frequent in this particular genre in order to introduce or develop arguments, or to
“present information that is generally or habitually the case” (Yule, 1998: 127). The
findings resulting from this corpus-based investigation enable us to determine whether
such claims hold true across the three languages under inspection.
The study closes with some concluding remarks and presents new venues for research hoping to have raised awareness about the relevance of if-clauses – their implications and applications in language teaching and learning, in particular
2016-02-23
2016-02-23
2015
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/13878
eng
open access
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'Outlander' A Study on the Impact and Relevance of Popular Fiction
García Maquieira, Ana
Estévez Saá, Margarita
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Outlander
Diana Gabaldón
Cross Stitch, Outlander
Novela popular inglesa
Escocia na literatura
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
Originally published in the UK under the title “Cross Stitch, Outlander” (1990), the novel by Diana Gabaldón is a most interesting combination of historical fiction, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, romance, and gay and lesbian fiction.
It tells the story of a young English nurse who, after WWII, decides to go with her husband to the Scottish Highlands. Once there, she suffers a strange experience and finds herself transported in time to Eighteenth-Century patriarchal and violent Scotland.
“Outlander” is the first book of a very popular saga that was also versioned as a TV series. It is our intention to study how the first book of the saga deploys a series of topics and characters that set the tone for the rest of the volumes.
Furthermore, we intend to demonstrate how this instance of popular literature covers topics particularly relevant from a gendered perspective, such as the condition and rights of women, marriage and sexuality, politics and violence.
Finally, we reflect on the particular features of the Saga in general and on the first book in particular which have made them so appealing for twenty-and twenty-first century young adult readers
2020-11-12
2020-11-12
2018-11-07
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23681
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/138822020-09-09T08:03:01Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
The adquisition of English phrasal verbs by Spanish advanced learners of English
Correa Arca, Vanessa
Doval Suárez, Susana
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Adquisición de linguas
Lingua inglesa
Lingua española
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2014-2015
the aim of this paper is to compare the use of PVs by Spanish nonnative speakers (NNS) and native speakers (NS). The first section will provide a review of the literature on the acquisition of English PVs by NNS paying special attention to the difficulties this area presents for them (such as mistakes). The next section consists of an overview of the different corpus-based studies on questions like avoidance, overuse and underuse of PVs. In the third section, the dissertation will include a brief
corpus-based study comparing the frequency of use of ten PVs (selected from the list of the 100 most frequent PVs in the BNC provided by Gardner and Davies (2007)) by L1-Spanish learners of English and NS in written and oral media. This empirical study tries to answer 3 research questions focusing on the frequency of use and avoidance of PVs by Spanish students, their semantic component and the differences found between written and oral media. It includes a methodology section in which the corpora used and the process followed to complete it are presented and finally discusses not only quantitative results, but also qualitative ones, by analysing the multiple meanings of the PVs and highlighting differences of usage by both NNS and NS. The last section includes the conclusions and suggestions for further research
2016-02-23
2016-02-23
2015
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/13882
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/237932021-01-13T07:31:04Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
A Reassessment of King Richard III’s Reputation in Virginia Cross’s Benediction: The Love, Honour and Betrayal of Richard III (2017)
Vila Uruburu, Paula
Mourón Figueroa, Cristina (dir.)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Richard III
Benediction: the Love, Honour and Betrayal of Richard III
Virginia Cross
William Shakespeare
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
Since the discovery and positive DNA identification of King Richard III's remains in 2012 around thirty historical novels have been published in the UK in which this controversial English king figures as the main protagonist. Most of them offer a historically revised portrayal of the monarch, far removed from the mythical monster of the Shakespearian play and the Tudor propaganda, by incorporating, adapting and reinterpreting not only the reassessment of his historical reputation undertaken by academic research but also the recent scientific findings about his physical build. Following Rozett's• theory of 'filling in the gaps' (2003: 28), which is considered a most reliable analytical too for research within the field of historical fiction, and taking into account the shortage of chronicles and sources contemporary to Richard III and the bias of the Shakespearian play and the Tudor sources, it is the aim of this dissertation to analyse his portrayal in one of the most recent British historical novels on the monarch: Benediction: the Love, Honour and Betrayal of Richard III (2017) in order to account for the way in which the author has 'filled the gaps' of the monarch's two dimensions: the physical and the moral ones. Another objective will be to explore the author's purpose: is there a possible reassessment and demystification of the king's reputation in this historical novel? As support, this study will also include a thorough reading of and reflection on bibliographical sources and recent scholarship on the matter.
1 Rozett, Martha T. 2003. Constructing a World: Shakespeare 's England and the New Historical Ficton. Albany,
US: State University of New York Press
2020-11-25
2020-11-25
2018-11-05
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23793
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/236502020-11-12T03:00:39Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Female Characters in Galician and Irish Contemporary Crime Fiction
Costas Vázquez, Anxo
Palacios González, Manuela
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Novela negra irlandesa
Novela negra galega
Personaxes femininos
Crítica feminista
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
This essay will draw a comparison between two contemporary Irish and Galician crime novels. It will demand a gender perspective since the chosen novels are peculiar cases within the crime genre because of the female characters that develop roles which are usually interpreted by male characters.
It will aim to explore to which extent the conventions of this genre are modified by the introduction of female characters developing these roles.
In the middle of this process, it will also attempt to find, if possible, any traits of Galician and Irish identities, an how they relate to the conventions of crime novel fiction.
This purpose will demand a study of setting, characters, themes, structure of the novel and any other aspect that turns out to be relevant
2020-11-11
2020-11-11
2019
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23650
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/201672020-02-17T09:00:29Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Metaphors We Politicize By: The Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Political Discourse and Though
Alvariño Gabeiras, Luz Andrea
Longa Martínez, Víctor Manuel
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Metáfora
Discurso político
Metaphor
Political discourse
The Metaphor has been traditionally understood in the Western philosophical tradition as a
rhetorical device used in ornamental language, mainly in literary contexts. In 1980 a new
and revolutionary theory was put forward by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. In their work
Metaphors We Live By, the authors lay out an account of the metaphor as a conceptual and cognitive device which permeates the way we think, act and interact with the world. For Lakoff and Johnson, metaphors are not a language phenomenon but rather a phenomenon of thought, which allow us to conceptualize domains that we could not be able to develop without them; metaphors are not a mere literary device but rather they pervade our everyday thoughts and affect our internal representations and vision of the world. In works like Don’t Think of an Elephant (2004)and Moral Politics (2002) Lakoff applies his theory of the cognitive metaphor to political language
and explores the intersection of cognitive and political science. The metaphors used in
political discourse, argues Lakoff, are not neutral but rather signs of a deeply ingrained conceptual
system that has direct repercussions on our social and political thought. The aim of this
dissertation will be twofold. Firstly I will analyze the theoretical framework of the metaphor for which I will offer a review of the available written literature, from Lakoff and Johnson to authors like Zoltan K¨ovecses, Murray Knowles and Rosamund Moon among others. Secondly, I will employ a corpus-based methodology to elaborate a practical study of the Conceptual Metaphor Theory applied to the analysis of the socio-political speech of one or more conservative politicians. My goal will ultimately be to evidence the cognitive significance of the metaphor through the examination of the language used by modern-day conservative politicians.
A metáfora foi entendida tradicionalmente na tradición filosófica occidental como a
dispositivo retórico empregado na linguaxe ornamental, principalmente en contextos literarios. En 1980 George Lakoff e Mark Johnson propuxeron unha teoría revolucionaria. No seu traballo Metaphors We Live By, os autores expón unha explicación da metáfora como un dispositivo conceptual e cognitivo que penetra na forma en que pensamos, actuamos e interactuamos co mundo. Para Lakoff e Johnson, as metáforas non son un fenómeno da linguaxe senón un fenómeno do pensamento, que nos permiten conceptualizar dominios que non poderiamos desenvolver sen eles; as metáforas non son un mero dispositivo literario, senón que penetran nos nosos pensamentos cotiáns e afectan ás nosas representacións internas e á visión do mundo. En obras como Don’t Think of an Elephant (2004) e Moral Politics (2002) Lakoff aplica a súa teoría da metáfora cognitiva á linguaxe política
e explora a intersección da ciencia cognitiva e política. As metáforas utilizadas en
O discurso político, argumenta Lakoff, non é neutral senón que son signos dun concepto profundamente arraigado
sistema que ten repercusións directas no noso pensamento social e político. O meu obxectivo nesta disertación será dobre. En primeiro lugar, analizarei o marco teórico da metáfora para o que vou ofrecer unha revisión da literatura escrita dispoñible, desde Lakoff e Johnson ata autores como Zoltan Kovecses, Murray Knowles e Rosamund Moon entre outros. En segundo lugar, empregaré unha metodoloxía baseada no corpus para elaborar un estudo práctico da Teoría da Metáfora Conceptual aplicada á análise do discurso sociopolítico dun ou máis políticos conservadores. O meu obxectivo será finalmente demostrar a importancia cognitiva da metáfora a través do exame da linguaxe empregada polos políticos conservadores actuais.
2019-10-31
2019-10-31
2018-11
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/20167
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
open access
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Age differences: a study on teenager English
Muradás Vidal, Silvia
Méndez Naya, Belén
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Linguaxe dos adolescentes
Inglés
Varación
Cambio lingüístico
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2013-2014
This study is concerned with the use of the English language by a particular group: British teenagers. One of the aims of this study is to present how the age factor plays a crucial role in the linguistic change and how, more specifically, the period of adolescence is a transitional stage for
the individual, not only at the psychological and physical levels but also linguistically. The main focus of this research is to explain and to analyse the main phonological, lexical, and grammatical
features that characterize the language of the British teenagers as a distinctive and unique language
2015-04-22
2015-04-22
2014
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/13126
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/237902021-01-09T03:01:34Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Champion of tolerance or inveterate bigot?: a Study of Atticus Finch in Harper Lee´s To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman
Sanmartín Cao, Bárbara
González Groba, Constante
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Atticus Finch
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
Go Set a Watchman
Racismo
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman are the only novels written by the acclaimed American writer Harper Lee. Mockingbird, one of the most important novels in modern American literature, was published in 1960. On the other hand, although Watchman was published in 2015 and it seems a sequel of the story, it is actually a draft written before To Kill a Mockingbird. This novel became controversial because of suspicions that somebody was taking advantage of a senile Harper Lee to make a quick buck, and also because it portrays a totally different Atticus Finch.
In this project I am going to focus on the protagonist’s father Atticus Finch, a lawyer who in Mockingbird tries to bring up his children with solid values and an unfailing morality based on understanding others’ points of view and situation. Moral values run around the battle between good and evil which is represented by the trial against the black Tom Robinson who is accused of raping a white girl and is defended by Atticus. This lawyer is the moral root of his family and the moral hero of the novel’s setting, Maycomb, a fictional town in Alabama. The turning point of this character comes in the second novel, where his stand on the racial problem is not the same as in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Many points could be chosen for analysis in these two novels. In my project, in addition to the necessary attention to the socio-political background of To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman (the Great Depression, the 1930s, and the 1950s respectively), I will discuss a cultural point of view, taking into account social classes and education; how social classes and the issue of race in the south was used to fix the identity of the characters, as individuals and as community. These issues will be illustrated by the character of Atticus Finch in the two novels, the study of how he changes from American hero to supremacist as well as the controversy that it creates from a personal point of view
2020-11-25
2020-11-25
2018-10-30
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23790
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/237632021-01-09T03:00:58Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
The Role of London in the Emergence of Standard and Non-standard Varieties
Neira Tronceda, Ivana
Méndez Naya, Belén
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Variedades do inglés
Londres
Cockney
MLE
Linguas en contacto
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
The present study discusses the role of the city of London, its history and its society, in the emergence of standard and non-standard varieties of English. The importance of London derives from the fact that this city is and has been, an important centre of migration. Migration brings about interdialectal and interlinguistic contact, as well as phenomena such as dialect levelling, or the introduction of linguistic features from other dialects/languages, which may eventually lead to the emergence of new varieties.
The dissertation will present an overview of the emerging varieties in London at different stages in history. Firstly I will examine the formation of the standard variety, which originates in the late Middle English period; and secondly I will analyse the main features of two non standard form of British English (spoken mainly in the city of London): Cockney (emerging in the Modern English period) and the current developing Multicultural London English (MLE).
The methodology followed in this paper combines a more theoretical approach based on the literature on the subject; and a more practical approach by which I will illustrate the different features of the three varieties under study in various materials (e.g. historical texts, for the emerging written standard; TV shows, movies or corpora material, in the case of Cockney and MLE)
2020-11-24
2020-11-24
2018-11-05
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23763
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/201822020-09-09T12:01:19Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Latin influence on English vocabulary, with special reference to the Modern English period
Vázquez Castaño, María
Méndez Naya, Belén
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Lingua inglesa
Lingua latina
Influencia
Vocabulario
Inglés moderno
English language
Latin language
Influence
Modern English
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
The aim of this dissertation is to offer an account of Latin influence upon the vocabulary of the English language. Latin is the most prolific source of borrowings in English and, according to the OED, there are over 40.000 words in English of Latin origin that have entered the language throughout the different periods of its history. In fact, this influence of latin language on English did start even before English came to be an independent language, as there were already Latin loanwords in the Proto-Germanic vocabulary and it can still be felt in the present day. In a theoretical part of the dissertation, an overview of the influence of Latin in the different historical periods of English will be presented, but special attention will be paid to the Modern English period (1500-1900), This period is scpecially relevant due to the significance of Latin borrowings in a period of massive lexical expansion taking place in the Renaissance, which is closely linked with the elaboration of functions of English as part of its standarization process, but also because of the big controversy arising around the introduction of these obscure words (the "inkhorn" controversy). In the Late Modern English period Latin also pays a central role in teh creation of precise vocabulary to deal with the increasing knowledge on the different scientific fields (both by borrowing and by creation of so-called neoclassical compounds). To complete the view, I will conduct a practical study with the OED as the main source of information, where Iwill select a group of words and classify them according to the semantic filds, degree of integration and lexical history.
O obxectivo desta disertación é ofrecer un relato sobre a influencia latina sobre o vocabulario da lingua inglesa. O latín é a fonte máis importante de préstamos en inglés e, segundo a OED, hai máis de 40.000 palabras en inglés de orixe latina que entraron na lingua ao longo dos distintos períodos da súa historia. De feito, esta influencia do idioma latino no inglés comezou incluso antes de que o inglés chegase a ser unha lingua independente, xa que xa existían palabras de préstamo latinas no vocabulario proto-xermánico e aínda se pode sentir na actualidade. Nunha parte teórica da disertación, presentarase unha visión xeral da influencia do latín nos distintos períodos históricos do inglés, pero prestarase especial atención ao período de inglés moderno (1500-1900), este período é especialmente relevante debido a a importancia dos endebedamentos latinos nun período de enorme expansión léxica que ten lugar no Renacemento, que está estreitamente ligado á elaboración de funcións do inglés como parte do seu proceso de estandarización, pero tamén pola gran polémica xurdida arredor da introdución destes escuros. palabras (a polémica "inkhorn"). No período inglés tardío moderno, o latín tamén desempeña un papel central na creación de vocabulario preciso para afrontar o coñecemento crecente sobre os diferentes campos científicos (tanto por préstamo como pola creación dos chamados compostos neoclásicos). Para completar o punto de vista, realizarei un estudo práctico coa OED como principal fonte de información, onde seleccionarei un grupo de palabras e clasifícaas segundo as fichas semánticas, o grao de integración e a historia léxica.
2019-11-06
2019-11-06
2018-11
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/20182
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
open access
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Black Women in Alice Walker´s "The Color Purple"
Barros López, Sara
González Groba, Constante
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Alice Walker
The Color Purple
Mulleres afroamericanas
Mulleres na literatura
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
Alice Walker is an American novelist, poet, and activist whose literary production is popular because of her treatment of African-American culture. Her novels are mainly focused on women and the most popular of all them is “The Color Purple” (1982). It tells the story of a black young woman: how she grows up and lives in a town in Georgia. When “The Color Purple” was published in 1982, it was the subject of a great controversy due to the themes that are treated in this novel. It was published in a time when themes like sex, violence or homosexuality were banned or challenged. Apart from topics like the family, marriage, love, or religion, we can find in this literary work a very important issue, which is the basis of the novel, that is the oppression that African-American women suffered from African-American men.
After establishing a contextualization of Alice’s Walker’s figure and her work in North American literature, we will be studying from the perspective of gender studies, how the female characters of Alice’s Walker’s story, and more specifically the protagonist, Celie, fight against all the adversities of life and gain the total freedom to be who they want to be. We will see the process by which women in this novel discover their sexual identity, how they find their feminity and their true selves, and also, the process that will take them out of their position of oppression, which will be achieved thanks to the mutual support among the women protagonists of the story
2020-11-10
2020-11-10
2018-11-07
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23645
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/236162020-11-10T03:00:23Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
English spelling reforms and proposals in Early Modern English (1550-1650) with special reference to Richard Mulcaster’s "Elementary"
Rodríguez González, Isabel
Iglesias Rábade, Luis
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Inglés Moderno Temprano
Ortografía inglesa
Historia da lingua inglesa
Richard Mulcaster
Elementary
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
I intend to study the attemps to reform English spelling in Early Modern English (1550-1650) along with the debates and proposals of the main spelling reformers in this period with special reference to Richard Mulcaster's "Elementary" (1582) which is considered to be "the major study of English ortography" (Lass 1999:32) "the first cosistent attempt to codify and promulgate datailed rules for normalising and regulazing traditional English spelling" (Lass 1999:20).
I also intend to provide a historical background of English spelling in Middle English period especially in the late Middle English and enphazise the impact of the printig and the William Catxton's role in a time in which "there was no generally recognised standard form of English scpeech, and only the beginnings of a standard ortography" (Lass 1999:15) to understand the situation of English ortography in Early Middle English Period. In so doing, some key notes will be shown to desing the status of English in a daily linguistic contact environment in which Latin and French continued to be the dominat languages in the fields of knowledge having an important imprint on English spelling.
The method of anlysis will focus on the contrast of the main debates and proposals for the reform the spelling in the period covered by this research with special reference to "Elementary" so as to appraise its impact on the subsequent development of the English ortographic system
2020-11-09
2020-11-09
2019-02
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23616
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/237222021-01-13T07:31:19Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
A Study on 'The Crown': History and Fiction about the Historical Figure of Queen Elizabeth II
Grande Izquierdo, Miriam Ariadna
Mourón Figueroa, Cristina (dir.)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Elizabeth II
The Crown
Monarquía inglesa
Netflix
Series de televisión
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
This dissertation intends to be a study on the relevance of the figure of the present Queen of the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II, by focusing on the historical and social circumstances which marked the first period of her long reign as is portrayed in the Netflix original TV series The Crown (created by Peter Morgan in 2016 and still running). An exhaustive and contrastive analysis will be undertaken between the most relevant historical, bibliographical and biographical sources on this subject and their adaptation in the TV show in order to find out the reasons why the directors and the screenwriters reinterpreted Queen Elizabeth’s early life in the manner they did and how much is historical truth and how much is fiction. A historical and social introduction to the period will be also included and the analysis will be illustrated with the most relevant extracts taken from the TV series
2020-11-16
2020-11-16
2018-11-07
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23722
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/236952020-11-14T03:01:17Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
The Teaching of English Pronunciation: General Principles, Techniques and Activities
García Suárez, Adrián
Palacios Martínez, Ignacio Miguel
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Pronunciation
English
Teaching
EFL
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
It is a fact that over the last few years many changes have taken place in the teaching of foreign languages, such as the introduction of the new technologies. However, the importance given to the teaching of the oral skills and, more particularly, to the teaching of English pronunciation, especially in Spain, is still not so high in comparison with the relevance that grammar, vocabulary or the writing skills have in our education system. Therefore, this study is mainly concerned with the teaching of English pronunciation.
The present Final Degree Project is divided into two parts; firstly, a literature review of some theoretical issues such as what is meant by ‘the teaching of English pronunciation’, an approach to how important pronunciation is in the teaching of English, main problems Spanish students have with the learning of English pronunciation, principles and techniques for the teaching of English pronunciation, etc. The second part of this study will adopt a more practical analysis, paying attention to some activities or techniques that can be used for the improvement of students’ pronunciation in English together with the introduction of new technologies, i.e., apps, computer tools and programs, websites, etc
2020-11-13
2020-11-13
2018-11-16
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23695
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/181582020-01-31T12:36:26Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Gatsby, Loman, Draper: the american dream in prose, drama and television
Carballo de Santiago, Ramón Jesús
Fra López, Patricia (dir.)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
American dream
The great Gatsby
Willy Loman
Don Draper
Fictional characters
Cinema and literature
Soño americano
Personaxes de ficción
Cine e literatura
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2017-2018
The American Dream is undeniably an essential part of American identity. However, it is not an easy concept to define. Although the name, "The American Dream", was popularized by James Truslow Adams in 1931, numerous artist and scholars have explored this concept in their work. In this dissertation, my goal is to analyze the topic of the American Dream in three different fictional texts: a novel, a play and a televisions series. These three texts are set in the twentieth century and portray white American men in the leading roles. I intend to draw comparisons between the Dreams of these characters in each story and contextualize them in their particular historical period as well as in the larger scope of American history. Among other critical and historical text, Jim Cullen's The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation has proved to be a very useful resource, as it thoroughly examines Upward Mobility, Equality and Home Ownership as different manifestations of the American Dream
2019-01-24
2019-01-24
2018
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/18158
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
open access
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Fictionalising Psychoanalysis: Roger Kennedy´s Couch Tales: Short Stories (2009)
Carballude López, Sofía
Sacido Romero, Jorge
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Psicanálise e literatura
Roger Kennedy
Couch Tales: Short Tales
Emocións na literatura
Literatura inglesa
Sigmund Freud
Jacques Lacan
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
This essay will approach "Couch Tales: Short Stories" by Roger Kennedy from a psychoanalytical point of view and how psychoanysis as a therapy is presented in a fictional work. The author, himself a practicing psychoanalyst, presents a series of cases of some patients and their private, emotional life as they attend therapy. These tales are based on his own experience as a therapist althogh both the stories and the psychoanalyst are fictional, a fact that is remarked in the work's "Prologue". In each case, both the therapist and the secondary characters' behavior, speech and thought alow us to witness the mental processes of some of the characters and the therapist's interpretation of those as part of the fiction itself to which we, readers, contribute our interpretation in each case. What is said and how it is, or can be, said/understood is essential for this study.
Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytical theory will work as my fundamental theoretical tool for a detailed reading of these short stories. I will also have recourse to the contributions of later theorists such Jacques Lacan to complet the set of Freudian concepts.
The interest of how emotional life is expressed in literary forms is the general frame and my inspiration to embark on this research projet
2020-11-06
2020-11-06
2019
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23598
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/311552023-11-04T01:02:45Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
The New Mestiza of the 21st Century: From Gloria Anzaldúa to Vianney Harelly
Hermida Rubio, Giselle
Alonso Alonso, María
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Border
Chicana literature
Gloria Anzaldúa
Hybridity
The new mestiza
Vianney Harelly
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2022-2023
One of the most culturally relevant phenomena of our time is globalisation. A state of permanent connection that increasingly fades away the barriers that separate us from each other. However, there are still certain unbreakable limits that profoundly affect people’s identities, these being the borders. The present dissertation will focus on the case of the border that separates the countries of Mexico and the United States through two female authors: Gloria Anzaldúa and Vianney Harelly. A comparison will be established between Harelly’s poetry, which is contemporary writing, and Anzaldúa’s autobiographical, essayistic and poetic work titled Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987). Both are included within Chicana literature, as due to their experience and ancestry they portray the struggles of those Mexican-Americans who remain in a cultural limbo. Accordingly, the initial hypothesis is that Harelly’s poetry depicts the ‘new mestiza’ of the 21st century as a reinterpretation of the concept coined by Anzaldúa in the 20th century. The differences and similarities in the figure of the ‘new mestiza’ will be observed through their thinking on issues such as identity, race, gender and language.
2023-11-03
2023-11-03
2023
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/31155
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
open access
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The Great Gatsby and Breakfast at Tiffany’s: a study of literary confluence
Román Sotelo, Antía
González Groba, Constante
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
The Great Gatsby
Breakfast at Tiffany's
American dream
Sueño americano
Soño americano
Corruption
Corrupción
Ideals
Ideales
Ideais
American novel
Novela americana
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2017-2018
The Great Gatsby is an icon of the American Dream related to the disillusionment that remained after World War I, this novel being set in New York in 1922 . Breakfast at Tiffany's represents once again the failure of those American ideals during the Second World War, that is to say, two decades later, and in that same city which stands for the whole country. Both literary works can be considered a faithful reflection of their times within their cultural and sociological contexts. Furthermore, they play with the tensions between idealism and i opportunity, which are inherent in the American literary thought. The aim of this project is to analyze the optional intertextuality that Breakfast at Tiffany's shows with respect to The Great Gatsby, after placing each of these works in its respective context. There is not only a repetition of such themes as disappointment and incertitude, but also of materialism and corruption. In addition, a reiteration of characters' roles can be acknowledged; the narrators of the two novels function as observers and the protagonists develop throughout the stories in a very similar way, from humble origins to a new identity that allows them to pursue their own aspirations.
2019-01-25
2019-01-25
2018
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/18163
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
open access
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Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848): an analysis of the novel and of its changing relevance over time
Leal López, Iria
Barbeito Varela, José Manuel
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Anne Brontë
The Tenent of Wildfell Hall
Victorian Gothic fiction
Feminist novels
Literary reception
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2022-2023
Anne Brontë is a relevant representative of female Victorian Gothic fiction. Her novels, often
overshadowed by her sisters’ success and neglected by critics, convey a strong sense of
morality and a serious approach to real life issues, such as marriage and motherhood. Anne
Brontë’s characterisation of her female protagonists, the strength of their will and their abilityto face the situations they are confronted with, grant Anne’s fiction the title of one of the pioneer’s feminist novels. In The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), her most controversial novel, Anne presents themes and topics that were not only relevant for 19th century life, but also resonate in contemporary times. The aim of this project is to identify the main themes of Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell
Hall and situate them in their Victorian context, analyse her treatment of these themes,
compare the reception of the novel at the time of publication and in the 21st century, and
show its current relevance.
The introduction will provide a historical background focusing on the sociocultural
conventions that most affected Anne as a female author. The main body of the project will
contain the analysis of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Chapter 1 will deal with the principal
themes addressed by Anne; Chapter 2 will study the critical reception of the novel, and
Chapter 3 will include a contrastive approach of the novel’s impact in the 19th century and
how its relevance has shifted over time. Chapter 4 will examine the current relevance of the
novel. The conclusion will focus on the attainments and resulting ideas of this project.
2023-11-06
2023-11-06
2023
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/31179
eng
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Selkies, Mermaids, and Other Human-Animal Merfolk in Contemporary Irish Poetry
Alonso Blanco, Silvia
Palacios González, Manuela
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Poesía irlandesa contemporánea
Mitoloxía mariña irlandesa
Poetas irlandesas
Nuale Ní Dhomhnaill
The fifty minute mermaid
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
From its very beggining, Irish Literature has been very connected to the ocean. Mythological creatures such as selkies, mermaids and what is known as merfolk in general, have constitued a crucial part of Irish folk tradition. Interestingly enough, this trope is also recurrent in contemporary Irish poetry, especially in that crafted by female writers.
This dissertation will analyse Nuale Ní Dhomhnaill's poetry collection "The Fifty Minute Mermaid", as well as a selection of various poems authored by some of the most relevant female figures of current Irish poetry, so as to scrutinize the bounds between the allegory of the sea creature and modern configurations of womanhood. My hypothesis is that the current use of this allegorial merfolk by contemporary Irish women poets throws new light on those binary oppositions that have traditionally framed women's lives: private e public spheres, entrapment and mobility, fixity and change, body and mind, human and animal, etc.
Therefore, with the help of recent debates in Ecocriticism, Ecofeminism and Animal Studies, I aspire to show how the mentioned mythological sea creatures which have been mainly associated with Irish folk tradition and sometimes considered as symbols of cultural and national identity, are reshaped by contemparary female authors to construct new, alternative female subjectivities
2020-11-09
2020-11-09
2018-11-06
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23618
eng
open access
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Language Transfer and its Impact on TEFL: Some Theoretical and Practical Considerations
Carbia Vázquez, Andrea
Núñez Pertejo, Paloma
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Language transfer
L1
English as a Foreign Language (EFL)
ICLE SP
SULEC
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2021-2022
This paper focuses on the analysis of the notion ‘Language Transfer’. It aims at investigating the impact that existing linguistic knowledge may have on the acquisition of another language; more precisely, the main purpose is to analyse the cross-linguistic influence that Spanish as an L1 may have on the learning of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). The project is divided into two main parts: (i) a theoretical part, in which the main points concerning the study of this linguistic phenomenon are discussed (its main types and some of its pedagogical implications, among others), and (ii) a practical part, in which written production by Spanish learners of English is examined by paying special attention to Language Transfer from a grammatical and lexical perspectiveTo this end, academic essays retrieved from two learner corpora, ICLE SP and SULEC, were selected for the analysis. The data gathered from the two corpora show that Language Transfer is present in the learners’ written production, either interfering (Negative Transfer) or facilitating (Positive Transfer) their use of English syntax, morphology and lexis.
2023-03-08
2023-03-08
2022
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/30282
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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Dyslexia: the challenges and accomplishments in teaching English as a second language
García Sierra, Sofía María
CODESIDO GARCÍA, ANA ISABEL
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
English as a Foreign Language (EFL)
Dyslexia
L2
Spanish Educational System
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2022-2023
In the Spanish Educational System, the study of a second language is compulsory since Pre-School. Most schools in the country have English as the second language instructed among centres. Nevertheless, given the differences with their mother tongue, such as spelling and pronunciation, English can seem complex for students. Still, nothing compared to the difficulties faced by studies with dyslexia. According to the DSM-5-TR (2022), dyslexia is a learning disability characterised “by problems with accurate or fluent word recognition, poor decoding, and poor spelling abilities”. Consequently, teaching an L2 to those with difficulties with their L1 can become difficult for educators. The characteristics of the disability will help find better methods for students with dyslexia; in other words, studying the differences between people with dyslexia in Spanish and people with dyslexia in English will give us some insight into how the difficulties reflect so that we can assess them properly. Parallel to that, by looking at Spanish and British teaching approaches for children with dyslexia, we can see the student’s needs and the significant problems they face. Understanding the above is crucial to the paper’s central theme: teaching dyslexic children a second language. By studying the current methods used in Spain to teach English as a second language to children with dyslexia, we intend to show the advantages and disadvantages of each technique used nowadays and the challenges and accomplishments the students and educators could encounter in the process. Therefore, the main objective of this paper is to show how dyslexia can affect the learning process not only in their mother tongue but also in a second language. In addition, we intend to illustrate how the structure of the Spanish Educational System and the currently available methods and strategies could imply challenges for children with dyslexia
2023-11-07
2023-11-07
2023
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/31205
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
open access
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A Study of the Main Grammar Features of Multicultural London English (MLE)
Graña Oujo, Raquel
Palacios Martínez, Ignacio Miguel (dir.)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Multicultural London English
Xamaicano
Sociodialectos
Xerga
Variedades do Inglés
London English Corpus
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
In the last few years a new variety of English has emerged in the city of London which is known as Multicultural London English (MLE) or ‘Jamaican’, that is, a pseudo or fake Jamaican, due to a large numbers of its speakers coming from the Caribbean or Africa. One can say that MLE has developed as the result of language contact and second language acquisition with a large proportion of young speakers. This sociodialect is particularly interesting because it shows a number of innovative grammar features that are worthy of attention.
This paper will be then particularly concerned with the analysis of this variety by looking in detail at some of its main grammar features, such as the following: quotatives or verbs that serve to reproduce the words pronounced by other speakers with special attention to the new quotative “this is” + pronoun (e.g. this is him: ‘blah’), “man” as a new pronoun (e.g. before I got arrested “man” paid for my own ticket to go to Jamaica), negative concord or double negatives (e.g. but “never” heard “no” more about it), “never” as a temporal negator rather than as a universal one (e.g. I “never” done nothing), invariant tags such as “innit” and “you get me” (e.g. we got two separate rooms “innit”?), “proper” and “bare” as adjective intensifiers (e.g. “proper” strict, “bare” addictive), general extenders (e.g. “and stuff”) and placcholders or general reference nouns (e.g. “thingy”).
For the description of all these features I will be mainly using the studies by Cheshire, Kerswill and their research team together with the London English Corpus, which includes the Linguistics Innovators Corpus (LIC) and the Multicultural London English (MLE).
The paper will be roughly divided into the following parts: Introduction, definition and origin of MLE, attitudes of speakers to MLE, description of its main grammar features together with the discussion of examples extracted from the previous corpora and general conclusions
2020-11-16
2020-11-16
2019-06
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23723
eng
open access
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Tracing Tolkien’s Sources of Inspiration: Adventure, History and British Culture in His Major Works
Martínez Velasco, Ana
Palacios González, Manuela
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
R.R. Talkien
Cultura británica
Mitoloxía
Terra Media
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
The objective of this project will be to identify the main sources that inspired John R. R. Tolkien to write his work the way he did. This dissertation will be divided into two main parts: one dealing with the author's life and the socio-historical context he lived in, with a focus on his views on war, religion and ecology and how these aspects are represented in his work, as he participated in the First World War and was a religious man and an ecologist. Another part will deal with the literary influences he received, such as Arthuric legends, Norse culture, European mythology and other related contents he used. The objective is to trace the way British culture impregnates Tolkien's fantasy world. The works by Tolkien used for this dissertation will be those belonging to the legendarium- the compilation that contains all the works that are part of the mythology of the Middle Earth, but especially The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion
2020-11-24
2020-11-24
2018-11-05
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23762
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/236262020-11-10T03:01:06Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
The American Dream in the 1950s and 1960s: The lmportance of the Suburban Lifestyle
Álvarez Cillero, Daniel
Jiménez Placer, Susana María
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Soño Americano
Clase media branca americana
Anos 50 e 60
Tópicos americanos
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
This work will deal with the topic of the American suburban mentality and its values after the Second World War, more concretely in the fifties and sixties. The suburban lifestyle, which changed the conception of the American Dream into a life goal based on outward appearance and material success, will be studied in an attempt to show its darkest side. The prototypical white middle class family of the suburbia of that time, leading a superficial life of purely materialistic comfort and conformity, will be analyzed with the purpose of showing the failure of this suburban version of the American Dream to guarantee fulfillment and happiness to the human being. This idea will be supported by studies on the topic, as well as by some sociological data of the time that show the impact that the suburban lifestyle had on the middle-class society. Finally, references from literature and cinema will be provided in order to show how this conception of the American Dream has been depicted in American fiction and how the suburban mentality originates an atmosphere that is used to
cover the misfortunes of life
2020-11-09
2020-11-09
2018-11-07
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23626
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/302862023-03-09T03:02:57Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
On the origin, development and sociolinguistic status of Scots
Lamas Fernández, Claudia
Méndez Naya, Belén
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Lingua escocesa
Inglés de Escocia
Sociolingüística
Lingüística histórica
Dialectos do inglés
Dialectos de escocés
Variación lingüística
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2021-2022
Scots is a Germanic language whose origin is to be found in the variety of Old English spoken by the Angles in the Lowlands of Scotland about 1400 years ago.
For a long time, Scots has been the subject of a great controversy among linguists. Many scholars have tried to provide an answer for a key question, whether the Scots is an independent language or a variety of English. The existence of a dialect continuum between broad Scots and Scottish Standard English (Maguire 2012: 53), which makes many Scots and English dialects mutually intelligible, is one of the main reasons why this issue is so difficult to solve.
The study of Scots is very rewarding, due to this complex origin, its high degree of linguistic variation, the changes in prestige it has undergone over time (Millar 2016:49, 59) and its long history of contact with other languages.
The aim of this dissertation is to offer an account of the history and evolution of Scots across centuries, as well as its most relevant linguistics features.
The dissertation is divided into two parts. In the theoretical part, I will carry out a study of Scots, focusing on those aspects of the external history of Scotland which play an important role in its evolution and sociolinguistic status [among others, Union of the Crowns in 1603 and the vernacular revival of the 18th century]. Other important issues such as absence of standardization and predominance of oral transmission will also be addressed. Moreover, this part will include a description of the variety, paying attention to its main phonological, grammatical and lexical features, comparing them with English.
The empirical part of the dissertation will be devoted to the analysis of a selection of texts belonging to different periods of Scots; early Scots (1350-1450), Middle Scots (1450-1700) and Modern Scots (1700-present day), where the relevant linguistic features will be identified
2023-03-08
2023-03-08
2022-06-29
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/30286
eng
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Agrammatic aphasia in English-speaking patients : a study on verb inflection and verb related forms
Masa Formoso, Marta
Fernández Pérez, Milagros (dir.)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Broca's region
Aphasia
Agrammatism
Verb inflection
Feature-checking procedure
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2013-2014
Agrammatism has been the object of study of different fields for centuries now. As an
abnormal manifestation of language, its study can provide interesting information about language itself, its organisation and production. Far more than what its name indicates, agrammatism is a complex phenomenon that does not discard grammar but rather manifests it in ways that differ from
the norm. This study focuses on verb inflection in English agrammatism, more specifically -ing inflection, extracting conclusions that point towards a feature-checking impairment in certain verb related aspects, partly coinciding with previous studies carried out by Arabatzi and Edwards and Faroqi-Shah and Thompson, also summarised here.
2015-04-21
2015-04-21
2014
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/13080
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/182392020-07-30T11:49:26Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Convergence culture : an approach to Peter Pan, by J. M. Barrie through "the fandom"
Mayo Maneiro, Sheila María
Abuín González, Anxo
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Peter Pan
Fanfiction
Convergence Culture
Fandom
Narrativa inglesa
English narrative
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Galegas. Curso 2017-2018
The aim of this research paper is the comparison between the original book of Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie with the narrative of fan phenomenon through online web pages such as Archive of Our Own, and FanFiction, among others. The reason why I decided to select Peter Pan is because it has an influence not only in English narrative but also in youth literature and culture. Moreover, these web pages are chosen because of the amount of different fanfictions that are published regarding this particular English novel.
The main idea of this TFG is to constitute how the notions for instance of appropiation and remediation, that was coined by Jay David Bolter, work in these new narratives. Furthermore, how the fandom uses the original book not only in Order to create a new story but also to rewrite the relevant aspects (i.e. setting, characters behavior and appearance, crossovers and so on) for the community. Therefore, there would be not only a close reading of Barrie's novel, but also throughout my research paper several notions that I consider meaningful to my analysis will appear, such as participatory culture or fandom.
I would also like to cover the core concept of my TFG, that is, convergence culture which was introduced by Henry Jenkins. lf I succeed, the result of this convergence culture would also be connected to the impact of I prosumers in the contemporary world.
2019-02-06
2019-02-06
2018
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/18239
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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Translation of puns and humour in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s adventures in wonderland into Galician
Rey Mazas, Leticia
Cal Varela, Mario
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Enfermaría
Alicia en el país de las maravillas
Alice’s adventures in Wonderland
As aventuras de Alicia no país das Maravillas
Traducción
Transaltion
Tradución
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2017-2018
Humorous elements having to do with language, for instance puns or witty components, entail an interesting challenge when translating a text,since the humoristic effect needs to be reproduced in the target text for it not to lose its sense. My aim, with this proposal, is to observe how different translators were able to solve the difficulties that the mentioned elements present in a classical work like "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, which contains a great number of idioms,cultural references, jokes and witty puns with humorous purposes that enrich the text, but that require from the translator a deep knowledge of the source and target languages,anda huge creative capacity.
For this purpose, I am going to conducta comparative analysis of two different Galician versions of the original work in English,both of them being complete texts and addressed to a comparable audience. The first of the versions is translated by Teresa Barro and Fernando Pérez Barreiro, published in 1984, and the other one by Xabier Queipo, published thirty-one years later, in 2015. I am going to identify specific instances of puns and other forms of wordplay used by the author to create humorous effects, and analyse the different proposals of the translators toereate a similar effect In the target language.
2019-02-07
2019-02-07
2018
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/18243
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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Origin and development of Irish English dialectal varieties
Salvado Míguez, Yassmina
Iglesias Rábade, Luis
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Inglés de Irlanda
Dialectos de Irlanda
Oeste e Suroeste de Irlanda
Dublín
Sean O'Casey
Juno and the Paycock
John Millington Synge
The Playboy of the Western World
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
I intend to study the characteristics of two regional dialects and examine their differences and similitudes from a morphosyntactic point of view. For that purpose, I will analyse the works of two playwrights who attempt to represent the speech of early twenty-century inhabitants. One of them is Sean O’Casey Juno and the Paycock, which is set in Dublin and the other is John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World, set on the west coast of County Mayo. The reason of this selection is that drama texts usually contain more evidences of colloquial features than other literary works.
It was not until the 17th century that the influence of British English (BE) reached a crucial moment in Ireland. At that time, the Cromwelliam Settlement gave solid impulse to the dispersion of BE. Dublin had always been the area where the influence of BE never ceased, whereas in the rural Ireland BE had no presence until the modern period. The late 18th and early 19th centuries, were more decisive from the point of view of the formation of the Irish English grammar. After the Great Famine, English became the language of social advancement, whereas Irish was increasingly associated with poverty. Irish speakers shifted to English, and this fact caused the emergence of different dialectal varieties. The grammar of the western rural dialects was the most influenced by Irish, and the eastern dialects, especially the urban, were the closest to standard British English. In the present day four varieties of Irish English can be distinguished: Ulster English, West and South-West Irish English, Dublin English and the Supraregional Southern Irish English.
My aim is to cover the dialectal varieties of Ireland, focusing my work on two of them: West and South West Irish English and Dublin English. Thus, I will provide a socio-historical background of the linguistic situation in Ireland and the causes that led Irish English to its current state. Furthermore, I will analyse the two fictional works previously mentioned by establishing a comparison based on the information gathered beforehand
2020-11-25
2020-11-25
2018-11-05
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23788
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/311532023-11-04T01:02:44Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Climate Change “Comes Knocking”. An Ecocritical Analysis of the Anthology Empty House
Budiño Carril, Lucía
Palacios González, Manuela
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Climate change
Environmental literature
Ecocriticism
Ecofeminism
Ireland
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2022-2023
Empty House (Doire Press 2021) is a poetry and prose anthology, edited by Alice Kinsella and Nessa O’Mahony, in which writers from the English-speaking world, although mainly Ireland, elaborate on climate crisis topics such as natural disasters, biodiversity and eco-anxiety. This dissertation aims to the study the connections between the human and the nonhuman, now affected by climate change, that these texts establish. Empty House presents a local endangered environment that triggers feelings of fear, hopelessness and indignation, but also admiration for nature and an explicit demand for its global conservation and the implementation of urgent socioeconomic changes. The various perspectives and literary genres the authors have adopted to introduce ecocritical topics will also be analysed according to current environmental literary criticism. Fundamental books such Hubert Zapf’s Literature as Cultural Ecology (2016), Matthew Griffiths’ The New Poetics of Climate Change (2017) and Andrew J. Auge and Eugene O’Brien’s Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis (2022) will be used for this purpose. Contemporary contributions to ecocriticism, notably Rob Nixon’s Slow Violence (2011), Astrida Neimanis’ Bodies of Water (2017) and Kyle Bladow and Jennifer Ladino’s Affective Ecocriticism (2018) will further the theoretical discussion of the topics introduced in Empty House
2023-11-03
2023-11-03
2023
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/31153
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
open access
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New Approaches to the Teaching of Spoken English
Taboada Felpeto, Cristina
Palacios Martínez, Ignacio Miguel (dir.)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
EFL
Inglés falado
Ensino do inglés
Tecnoloxía no ensino de linguas
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
Although extensive research has been conducted in the last few years on the teaching of foreign languages and, more particularly, on the teaching of English, speaking skills have to a large extent I been highly disregarded, partly because it is not easy to teach them with large groups of students.
Moreover, new technologies are getting more and more important in the teaching of modern languages to the extent that they are having a great impact on their teaching. Thus, this work seeks to analyse the use of new technologies in the teaching of English speaking skills in the 21th century.
The study will be divided into two different sections. The first part will be more theoretical and will consist of a brief introduction to what we mean by technology in the classroom context as well as highlighting the importance of teaching spoken English and the significant advantages of using and introducing technology as a didactic tool. I will also refer to the benefits in the use of new technologies for the teaching of spoken skills. Comparisons will be made with more traditional approaches.
The second part will be more practical in nature. A study will be conducted at a high school level so as to find out which are the new technologies that are being used nowadays in the classroom and to investigate the views of teachers and learners on their use. This project will conclude with a number of reflections on the pros and cons of technologies applied to the teaching of speaking in the light of the findings obtained
2020-11-25
2020-11-25
2019-07
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23791
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/130962020-01-31T16:36:29Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Ophelia : representations of death and madness
Trashorras López, Alba
Palacios González, Manuela
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
William Shakespeare
Ophelia
Morte na arte
Loucura na arte
Locura en el arte
Muerte en el arte
Traballo de Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2013-2014
[GL]Estudo sobre as representacións na arte da loucura e morte de Ofelia, personaxe feminino de "Hamlet", de William Shakespeare
2015-04-21
2015-04-21
2014
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/13096
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/236242020-11-25T09:50:04Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Metaphor in idiom acquisition. An empirical analysis across L1 and L2 varieties of English
Alonso Salinas, Ámbar Valeria
Gómez González, María de los Angeles
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Metaphor
Idioms
Cognitive Linguistics
Cognitive Semantics
Conceptual metaphor
Conceptual Metaphor Theory
Metaphoric competence
Source domain
Target domain
Conceptual fluency
Figurative language
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
The teaching and learning of idioms have recently received attention in Cognitive Linguistics literature, most notably in Cognitive Semantics (cf. Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Gibbs, 1993, 1994; Kövecses & Szabó, 1999, 2001; Boers, 2011; Ruiz de Mendoza & Pérez-Hernández, 2011). Broadly, cognitive accounts argue that the meaning of most idioms is systematically motivated by underlying conceptual mechanisms such as metaphor and metonymy. The goal of this BA thesis is to explore idioms from a metaphoric perspective and to show how they are acquired and used across L1 and L2 varieties of English, highlighting the importance of metaphoric competence (MC) in the processes of teaching and learning. Particular attention will be paid to metaphorical idioms, comparing traditional and cognitive semantic approaches and tackling such issues as the development of metaphor interpretation and production skills in L1, the relationship between metaphor interpretation and production skills in L1 and L2, as well as the MC contribution to the understanding and interpretation of idioms and the problems involved in L1-L2 transfer. In addition, an empirical analysis will be provided examining parallelisms and divergences in the use of metaphorical idioms across L1 and L2 varieties of English. Ultimately, this study is intended to shed light into the active metaphorical thinking process that takes place in L1 to facilitate both the learning and use of metaphor-based idioms in L2
2020-11-09
2020-11-09
2019
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23624
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/183202020-01-31T13:15:42Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Intermedial Joker: the evolution of the character from comic to film and TV
Reboiro Martínez, Antonio
Abuín González, Anxo
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Joker
Cómic
Personaxes transmedia
Transmedial characters
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Litaratura inglesas. Curso 2106-2017
This essay tries to analyze the fictional super villain the Joker as a transmedial character, this one probably strays from the traditional idea of literary character, as it was not originated in a novel or a play but in a comic book. A comic book character will not die and its adventures will continue for a long time if people want spent their money on it. The Joker himself first debuted in 1940. It's important talk about the character's mental illness in relation with his ability to change his own personality. Transmedia storytelling is based on the idea of different medium participating together in creating one story. Comic books are always adapting their stories to every possible medium that can be succesfuland taking what they can from them in order to keep on going the character evolution.
Este ensaio intenta analizar o súper villano ficticio o Joker como un personaxe "transmedia", este probablemente se afasta da idea tradicional do personaxe literario, xa que non se orixinou nunha novela nin nunha obra de teatro senón nun cómic. Un personaxe de cómic non morrerá e as súas aventuras continuarán durante moito tempo se a xente quere gastar nel o seu diñeiro: o propio Joker debutou por primeira vez en 1940. É importante falar sobre a enfermidade mental do personaxe en relación coa súa capacidade de cambiar a súa propia personalidade. A narración de "transmedia" baséase na idea de diferentes medios que participan xuntos na creación dunha historia. Os libros de cómic sempre están a adaptar as súas historias a todos os medios posibles de xeito exitoso, tomando o que poden a partir deles para continuar a evolución do personaxe.
2019-02-28
2019-02-28
2017
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/18320
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
open access
Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/130972020-07-30T11:52:17Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Stephen King from Žižek’s perspective: an analysis of the problem of identity in ‘The Shining’
González Ferrín, Marta
Barbeito Varela, José Manuel
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Stephen King
The Shining
Slavoj Žižek
Identidade
Psicanálise
Novela de terror
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2013-2014
This paper will study the problem of identity in the novel of the American horror
writer Stephen King’s The Shining. I am going to analyse this novel paying special
attention to that topic, and in order to do so I will use an important tool which is the
conceptual apparatus of psychoanalysis. I will use Žižek’s How to Read Lacan and The
Plague of Fantasies because these two works will be useful to understand certain concepts of psychoanalysis and to apply them to the analysis of the novel.
2015-04-21
2015-04-21
2014
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/13097
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/302872023-03-09T03:02:53Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
The Influence of Feminism and LGBTQ+ Movements on Language Change in English: The Expansion of Gender-neutral Language
Quintana Teixeira, María del Pilar
Méndez Naya, Belén
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Linguaxe neutral
Linguaxe inclusiva
Lingua inglesa
Xénero e linguaxe
Feminismo
Movementos LGBTQ+
Cambio lingüístico
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2021-2022
In the last few decades, the debate on the use of gender-neutral or gender-inclusive language has gained more and more prevalence in many fields. The origins of the endorsement of the use of this type of language are very much intertwined with the feminist movement and the emergence of queer studies in the 1990s. However, gender-neutral language has always faced opposition from certain sectors of society who deem it unnecessary and/or a corruption of language. In spite of such resistance, in the last two decades, there has been a shift in society’s opinion on gender-neutral language. The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the relationship between the feminist and LGBTQ+ movements and the expansion of gender neutral-language in the English language. The interest on this topic rises from a personal interest on how society’s gender construct is transmitted through language and how it can affect gender minorities and oppressed genders. Additionally, the exponential growth in the last few years, mainly in social media and amongst young people, of the promotion and use of gender-neutral has also arouse a personal interest on its history and possible benefits. For the purpose of investigating the aforesaid matters, this dissertation will first provide a theoretical background based on relevant investigations and theories on the topics. All the information will be gathered from pertinent books and webpages. Then, a small corpus search will be realised with a view to investigate if there has been an increase in the use of gender-neutral terms.
2023-03-08
2023-03-08
2022
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/30287
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
open access
Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/274802022-02-08T03:02:44Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Institutional translation for international organizations: a close look at terminological challenges
Varela Salido, Julia
Cal Varela, Mario
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Tradución institucional
Organizacións internacionais
Mediación e solución de conflitos
Comunicación intercultural
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2020-2021
In the present circumstances, in which international relations are fundamental in the mediation and solution of global conflicts, multilingualism has become essential both for internal and external communication. This has increased dramatically the demand for fight-quality translations. This dissertation will mainly focus on the translation for different international organizations, or the so-called institutional translation. The translation of documents of a legal nature has become one of the most recurrent fields of institutions and this works aims to explore the translation policies and practices adopted in different international organizations. The first part of this dissertation will consist in a description of the institutional context, translation procedures, protocols and methodologies. The main goal is to analyse how translation operates within different organizations taking into account the fact that non-governmental organizations’ lack of infrastructure usually leads to volunteer practices. The second part will deal with phraseology and terminology management in institutional translations from English into Spanish (and viceversa). An identification of the characteristic expressions employed in these institutions will be carried out to analyse how they are treated to ensure reliability and quality to the translations. To do so, a Spanish-English parallel corpus with source texts and translations taken from different international intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations will be collected. A concordance program such AntConc or similar, will be used in search for frequent terms and frequent combinations of words to see how they are being delt with in the translated versions. The main purpose is to explore the adopted approaches and to compare and compile a list of equivalences of the most common correspondences that can be useful for translators in the institutional context.
2022-02-07
2022-02-07
2021-07-07
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/27480
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/236742020-11-13T03:00:38Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Harriet Ann Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl' and Frederick Douglass’ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave', in the History of American Slave Narratives
Fernández Fuentes, Ángela
Fra López, Patricia
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
Relatos de escravos norteamericanos
Autobiografías de escravos norteamericanos
Autores afroamericanos do século XIX
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
Harriet Ann Jacobs is considered as one of the most influential African American women writers. The publication of her slave narrative “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” (1861) caused an unprecedented scandal in the traditional American literature due to the hard and detailed descriptions of the African American slave routines and punishments. Likewise, sixteen years before, Frederick Douglass and his narrative “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave” (1845) used literature not only to provide a description of the slave abuses but also to fight for freedom and rights of African American people.
The present study intends to analyse these two texts that had a huge impact during the abolitionist period. The two narratives try to make the reading public aware of the situation of African American slaves and claim that they should be equal citizens to white people. To assess their contribution to the vindication of black people’s rights in the Southern States I will analyse the main topics in slave narratives (sex, abuse, religion, family relationships, social rights, etc.) and some repeated motifs (the loss of innocence, dehumanization of individuals, the ongoing abuses, the quest of freedom, etc) that allow a detailed gender comparison between the two experiences.
The analysis of Jacobs and Douglass autobiographies is methodologically informed by the authors’ experiences and their fight for social rights that developed much later for black people in the Southern States. During the course of this essay many authors whose opinions upon this subject are valued will be considered and featured in order to study the impact, reflection and controversy of gender, race and justice between readers
2020-11-12
2020-11-12
2018-11-22
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23674
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/312252024-02-24T01:02:46Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
People Like Us Postmodernism and Otherness in Grant Morrison’s Doom Patrol
Pastoriza González, Marta
Pereira-Ares, Noemí
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Grant Morrison
Doom Patrol
Comics
Postmodernism
Otherness
Liminal identities
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2022-2023
Since its inception, sequential art has been struggling to be recognized asan independent art form and not a mere product derived from the amalgamation of text and images. Under postmodernity, and particularly after the publication of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon's seminal work Watchmen (1986), several comic-book authors have sought to inject the medium with new ideas, incorporating philosophical and intertextual elements to their works, while simultaneously widening the scope of representation and giving voice to peripheral, marginal and liminal identities previously underrepresented in literature and the arts. Departing from these premises, the present thesis intends to examine Grant Morrison's run on Doom Patrol (1989-1993) both as a work that partakes in the postmodern valorization of intertextuality and as a text that puts "otherness" at the centre by presenting a panoply of characters that embody a wide range of liminal and peripheral identities. To this end, the study will be structured into two main parts that are nonetheless closely related. In the first part, I shall lay bare the main theorical concepts informing the study, engaging, inter alia, with postmodernism and the notion of otherness. This will be followed by a close reading of Morrison's work in which I shall examine its postmodern elements and, most importantly, its attempt to blur the lines between the margins and the putative centre.
2023-11-08
2023-11-08
2023
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/31225
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
open access
Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/311572023-11-04T01:02:46Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Re-Visiting AIDS and Queerness in Contemporary Young Adult Literature
Rey González, Icíar
Pereira-Ares, Noemí
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
LGBTQ+ community
AIDS crisis
Discrimination
David Levithan
Two Boys Kissing
Abdí Nazemian
Like a Love Story
Young adult fiction
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2022-2023
In the late 1970s and 1980s, the AIDS crisis began one of the darkest chapters in the history of the LGBTQ+ community, as the already stigmatized community suffered the epidemic's effects and encountered further layers of discrimination. The AIDS crisis had a tremendous social impact: many were lost and mourned. But despite being an age marked by despair, the period also witnessed the birth of a loving and dedicated community. Since then, different authors have recreated this crisis in their works, but the representation of
the AIDS crisis in Young Adult (YA) fiction has been more limited and often endowed with a didactic purpose aimed at reinforcing forms of normative heterosexuality by highlighting the dangers posed by queer identities. Departing from these considerations, the aim of this dissertation is to examine how the AIDS crisis has been revisited in recent works of YA fiction which celebrate, rather than condemn, gender and sexual diversity. To this end, the study will provide an overview of how this crisis has been represented in YA literature with queer themes and it will then move on to provide a clase reading of two contemporary novels: David Levithan's Two Boys Kissing (2013) and Abdi Nazemian's Like a Love Story (2019). Accordingly, the study will be divided into two main parts. In the first one, I shall lay bare the critical apparatus that will inform the subsequent analysis of the novels, reviewing critica! works on queer studies and showing how these theories have influenced the representation of queer identities in YA. A retrospective of the HIV crisis, plus its depiction in literature, will also be included in this section. The second part of the study will be centered on a clase reading of Like a Love Story and Two Boys Kissing, focusing on the different strategieseach of them uses to revisit the past and create a collective memory while simultaneously celebrating the existence of different gender and sexual identities.
2023-11-03
2023-11-03
2023
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/31157
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
open access
Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/274752022-02-08T03:02:31Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Haven’t We Been Defeated Yet?: A Historical and Literary Analysis of the 1920’s Traumatic Experiences Through A Farewell To Arms (1929) and The Sun Also Rises (1926)
Suárez Otero, Lucía
Fra López, Patricia
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Anos 20
Trauma na literatura
Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
The Sun Also Rises
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2020-2021
The decade of the 1920’s commenced as a promising one in Western societies. Due to the economic growth after the war and general rebellion against the previous order, it seemed that a new and better world was to be created. As it progressed, however, it degenerated, ending up in an economic crash that culminated in multiple dictatorships around the world and in a second world war. The reasons for this result may probably be traced back to a listless number of mistakes made by society as a whole, including not taking care of its traumatised citizens’ mental health necessities. Writers, however, depicted different social problems in their works so as to raise awareness and leave a trace of what was really happening in these romanticised Twenties. One of these authors was Ernest Hemingway, member of the so-called Lost Generation, whose literary production is characterised by violence, disinterest for life and resilient attitude. He not only wrote about it, but experienced the Trauma himself and the impossibility of facing it because of the taboos of his society. The aim of this dissertation is to analyse the widespread shell shock present in the 1920’s and its consequences, as well as its representation in novels by Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms (1929) and The Sun Also Rises (1926). Regardless of their publication dates, it is my intention to trace a historical timeline, being the former portrait of the origins of the Trauma and the latter a representation of its outcomes. In order to achieve this, socio-historical and literary perspectives will be employed. In the end, an analysis of the 20’s in America will also be referred to, so as to demonstrate that history moves in a spiral and that certain echoes from the past can be found in our present day society.
2022-02-07
2022-02-07
2021
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/27475
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/153342020-01-31T10:11:48Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
African American Vernacular English: a study of the representation of black speech in popular TV series
Costas Domínguez, Joana
Cal Varela, Mario
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
AAVE
Media
Variability and identity
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2015-2016
African American Vernacular English or AAVE is a variety of American English often spoken by African Americans in urban or Southern regions. The fact that a large number of people speak this variety has led African American Vernacular English to before almost a half-century an important topic of discussion among both; linguists and the public. Linguists maintain that there is nothing “wrong” or “incorrect” about African American Vernacular English since, like other dialects, it only deviates from the standard and shows a consistent internal logic. However, it is known that this variety is highly stigmatized, and as a consequence, speakers of American Vernacular English are often regarded as ignorant or uneducated people as well as members of a lower social class. In this study I will give an overview of the main characteristics of African American Vernacular English through an analysis of relevant descriptive sources, and see how this language variety is represented in the media, especially in the popular TV series entitled “The Wire” which is settled in Baltimore. The wide range of characters that this series presents will allow me to figure out if there is some sort of variability in the use of this variety depending on the social context or the recipient. Moreover, I will also try to conclude how this variety is established as symbol of black identity.
2017-05-03
2017-05-03
2016
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/15334
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/es/
open access
Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 3.0 España
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/274732022-02-08T03:02:30Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
The Underground Railroad in History and Fiction
Fernández Morgade, Manuela
González Groba, Constante
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Colson Whitehead
The Underground Railroad
Escravitude
Racismo
Afroamericanos
Dereito civís
Metáfora
Movemento Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2020-2021
The ongoing peaceful movement for social and racial justice in the United States has woken the urge to examine, educate and take action against the 400 years of systematic racism in the country to guarantee a visible change in the near future. The root of this contemporary activism goes back to the pre-Civil War abolitionist movement and the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Central to the abolition of slavery was the Underground Railroad movement, led by Harriet Tubman. Railroad trains became from African Americans a symbol of freedom and progress. Colson Whitehead used this metaphor into an actual system of trains. In the first part of this study the focus will be on the historical analysis of the trans-Atlantic slave trade era, considering the evolution of slavery in the United States together with its close ties with capitalism and how it shaped the world we live in right now. In the second part of the study, the center of attention will move to the history of the Underground Railroad and its portrayal in fiction, more precisely, in Colson Whitehead’s novel. The study will draw on a range of sources and materials including articles and other studies about the historical matter, and as previously mentioned, in Colson Whitehead’s novel “The Underground Railroad” (2017). Historically and currently relevant, this study will contribute to the discussion of how to understand the beginning of a battle that our society is still fighting.
2022-02-07
2022-02-07
2021
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/27473
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/138772020-09-09T11:25:44Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Gone girl : from paper to screem
Jiménez Rey, Ana
Villanueva Prieto, Francisco Darío
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Cine e Literatura
Adaptacións cinematográficas
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2014-2015
The aim of this dissertation is to determine to what extent the adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl into film is successful. Because of the fact that the success of an adaptation cannot be measured according to the degree of fidelity toward the original text, as it has just been explained, it will be determined by means of a thorough analysis of both the novel and the film
2016-02-23
2016-02-23
2015
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/13877
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/302852023-03-09T03:02:56Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
“Victor Forde, I can never resist your smile”: A Study of Trauma in Roddy Doyle’s Smile
Cernadas Lema, Carmen Gloria
Lojo Rodríguez, Laura Mª
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Smile
Roddy Doyle
Abuso sexual en nenos
Trauma
Violencia
Manipulación
Escola católica
Irlanda
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2021-2022
“Victor Forde, I can never resist your smile” is quoted from Roddy Doyle’s novel Smile (2017), and is pronounced by a Catholic school teacher who feels an inappropriate interest in Victor, his student. Significantly, this quote signals the inception of the first-person narrator’s trauma as a victim of child sexual abuse and its life-long consequences. Both the novel’s content and its particular narrative structure and literary devices are affected by trauma, which the first-person narrator –a writer himself- aims at verbalizing experience and the healing quality of literature and story-telling in Doyle’s novel. As one of the major constituents of traumatic experience, pain is the central element in Smile: the progressive discovery of details about the shock that caused the trauma and its consequences in the life of the protagonist, Victor, is also a process of revealing a painful truth. Violence of all kinds –physical, sexual and psychological- is also omnipresent in the novel, whose social and historical background also enhances the inherent violence that Ireland suffered, especially in the twenty and early first twenty-first centuries.
In this sense, one of the most evident effects that trauma has had on the protagonist’s fictionalization of his own life in the novel, in which memory and imagination also play an important role, since Victor creates a character to stop his delusion. In this sense, the notion of storytelling and lying are at the heart of the novel and pose forward postmodern narrative issues which relate to metafictional assumptions by addressing the character as the novel’s unreliable creator. Thus, the novel functions in terms of a double manipulation: Victor’s own conviction of the existence of the world he has created and the reader’s belief in the plot that the author presents.To pursue this aim, this dissertation will be informed by, among others, trauma studies, such as Cathy Caruth’s seminal works Trauma: Explorations in Memory (1995) and Listening to Trauma: Conversations with Leaders in the Theory and Treatment of Catastrophic Experience (2014)
2023-03-08
2023-03-08
2022
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/30285
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
open access
Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/131142020-07-30T11:49:52Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
The road in American literature and film Jack Kerouac's Legacy
Estévez Benítez, Natalia
Abuín González, Anxo
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Literatura americana
Literatura e cine
Jack Kerouac
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2013-2014
The road has been an enduring icon of American history and culture from the accounts of the first settlers to present-day literature, including frontier narratives. The nation was built upon social and spatial mobility: the American dream about prosperity and improvement was accompanied by the long quests for a home of natives, pilgrims, settlers, pioneers, slaves or immigrants. This mixture gave birth to a particular sense of stability and independence that has stuck to American society. In that way, the conceptions of “identity” and “self-discovery” are almost inseparable from that of “journey”, as if the ultimate internal and social voyage could only be achieved through a physical one, in Ronald Primeau‟s words: “[w]hereas most travelers of old in pilgrimages or quest romances moved with deliberation toward goals, Americans were nomadic in their trust that the power of movement itself would bring happiness, success, and fulfillment” (18). Thus, we are able to realize how the road acquires a particular sensibility in the American context, separating their idea of mobility from –especially- the Europeans‟ one, becoming a sort of foundational myth
2015-04-21
2015-04-21
2014
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/13114
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/240922021-01-09T03:10:30Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
A Glance at a Twisted Mind: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
Pérez López, Nuria
Sacido Romero, Jorge
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Oscar Wilde
The picture of Dorian Gray
Psicanálise e literatura
Narcisismo
Freud
The Ego and the Id
On Narcissism
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2019-2020
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde, 1890) is a novel that has aroused the interest of many scholars because of this darkness and the complexity of the character in the title. Dorian Gray is presented as a handsome young man who is easily corrupted by his friend Lord Henry into a life of pleasure which stands in contrast with the Victorian morality of the time and which Wilde himself pursued, connected in his case to the Aesthetic Movement of which he was part. This character is particularly interesting to analyse because of his peculiar philosophy of life and his notorious behaviour. His later attempt at redemption at the end of Wilde’s novel is also remarkable.
The aim of this dissertation is to analyse from a psychoanalytic perspective the psyche of the main character and how it stands in conflict with the Victorian morality of late-19th-century London. For this, I will have recourse to central concepts of psychoanalytical theory such as paranoia, neurosis, and narcissism that in Dorian may be said to achieve pathological proportions and that, in a way, explain his tragic ending. Freudian notions of the double and the triad Ego-Id-Superego will further serve to offer a wider picture of Dorian Gray, particularly in relation to the influence that Lord Henry and Basil exert over him. Major works by the father of psychoanalysis such as The Ego and the Id (1923) or On Narcissism (Freud, 1914) will be explicitly referred to and commented upon
2020-12-23
2020-12-23
2019-10-31
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/24092
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/138802020-09-09T11:53:11Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Sherlock Holmes as a barometer of Late Victorian England
Martínez Ponciano, Regina
Sacido Romero, Jorge
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Literatura inglesa
Literatura e sociedade
Cultura popular
Sherlock Holmes
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2014-2015
As social and literary critic Max Nordau (1849–1923), who was on the lookout of traces of the artist’s degeneration in literary texts, we will assume that “that individual character expresses (and thus reveals) itself most coherently through the medium of literary writing” and “that literary works exert a profound influence over the shape and ‘health’ of a culture” (Arata, Loss 55). This means that I will take into account Conan Doyle’s personal concerns while looking for signs that enable Sherlock Holmes to function as the middleclass’ barricade against degeneration. This position assumes that Sherlock Holmes was an important factor in the protection of the ‘health’ of the English identity, which does not, however, necessarily mean he was unambiguous. To this end, a preliminary exploration of the development of evolution and degeneration theory will be given in sections 1.1 and 1.2, respectively, which will serve illustrate how these initially scientific concepts were translated to the popular spheres. Aware of the fact that these introductory sections are necessarily reductive, I wish to stress that there I concentrate more on how these concepts spread into and were assimilated by the popular spheres. This will focus on the effects of these two revolutionary scientific developments and on the late Victorian interpretation of both more than on the notions themselves. In section 1.3 I sketch some concluding remarks which will serve as a general overview of how these scientific discourses resulted in the multiplication of identities. Chapter 2 will serve two purposes. First, section 2.1 will examine one of the most important identity issues of the time, namely, the fear that Britain’s degenerate colonial ‘others’ would infect the metropolis. Though I will take into account A Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles, my main focus of interest will be The Sign of the Four. Section 2.2 will take a look at Sherlock Holmes celebrated ‘science of deduction’ and argue how the scientifically inclined method of detection of Study and Sign, as it is mostly remembered today, shifted into the ‘scientific use of the imagination’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles. In this chapter I will consider fragments from Study, Sign and selected short stories, whose considerations of the former concept will serve as contrast with the analysis of the latter in Hound. I evidently take into account that the latter was published a decade after the detective had been killed off. These angles will permit to examine the Late Victorian period through a domestic and imperial lens
2016-02-23
2016-02-23
2015-07
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/13880
eng
open access
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/182422020-01-31T13:39:34Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
A study of the treatment of the Korean conflict in english-language newspapers through critical discourse analysis
Verea Pérez, Alba
Acuña Fariña, Juan Carlos
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
English newspapers
Prensa inglesa
South korea
Corea del sur
North Korea
Corea del norte
Korean conflict
Conflicto coreano
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2017-2018
Critical discourse analysis gives us the tools to study the use of language from a social perspective. I aim to give an overview of the main currents and ideas of critical discourse analysis, and afterwards use its methodology to analyse written texts dealing with the Korean conflict in the English-language press.
The Korean conflict has been an ongoing political and military struggle sapnning from the end of Wold War II (1945) to our days. The development of nuclear weapons by the PDRK (Democratic's People Republic of North Korea) and the role of the United States of America in the conflict make it one of the most talked about international topics these days, especially after the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States. Before my analysis of the press, Iwill contextualise the situation with historical facts, so that any possible bias or manipulation may be counterbalanced. I will look at the treatment thar news and articles give to North Korea and the Korean conflict in English language media through an orientalist gaza by western media. Ultimately, this study is about the way thar language may condition the way we cognise the world.
2019-02-07
2019-02-07
2018
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/18242
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
open access
Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/312032023-11-08T01:03:43Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Arthurian Propaganda: The Politicization of King Arthur
Fernández Estrada, Claudia
Mourón Figueroa, Cristina
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
King Arthur
History
Politics
Legend
Myth
Propaganda
Rey Arturo
Historia
Política
Leyenda
Mito
Rei Artur
Lenda
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2022-2023
[EN]Arthur Pendragon, the legendary Celtic-Briton warrior that was later turned into King Arthur by medieval chroniclers, is a renowned figure in the British Isles. From the Welsh Mabinogion (11th-12th centuries) to Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur (1485), through Geoffrey of Monmouth and Chrétien de Troyes, the legendary world of Camelot, Merlin, the Knights of the Round Table, and the mighty Excalibur took shape. Through the tantalizing words of bards and writers, we envision an Arthur that became king and ruled justly up to his death. Arthur’s ideals of honor and chivalry have shaped a whole nation and made him immortal in the minds of people. Arthur is rex quondam rexque futurus, the once and future king. It is for this reason that his legend has always been, from its very beginnings, not only a source of inspiration, but a source for politicization as well. The aim of this dissertation is to conduct a diachronic study on the use of the legend of King Arthur as a tool of political propaganda, attending primarily to the appropriation of the Welsh legend by English sources. I will also be paying special attention to the idea of Arthur’s messianic return, its role in the Middle Ages, in the Tudor myth, in the Victorian Era and in our time. To accomplish this, I will carry out close readings of the main bibliographical sources, such as those of Geoffrey of Monmouth and Thomas Malory, besides carefully analyzing and taking note of the historical context in which they were written. Additionally, I will select relevant historical information that will help in the illustration of the use of the legend as a political weapon throughout British history
[ES]
Arturo Pendragon, el legendario guerrero celta-britón que posteriormente se convirtió en rey Arturo gracias a los cronistas medievales, es una reconocida figura de las Islas Británicas. Desde el Mabinogion galés (siglos XI-XII) hasta Le Morte d’Artur (1485) de Malory, pasando por Godofredo de Monmouth y Chrétien de Troyes, se formó el mítico mundo de Camelot, Merlín, los caballeros de la Mesa Redonda, y la poderosa Excalibur. A través de las cautivadoras palabras de bardos y escritores, visualizamos a un Arturo que se convirtió en rey y reinó justamente hasta su muerte. Sus ideales de honor y caballería han dado forma a toda una nación y lo han inmortalizado en las mentes de la gente. Arturo es rex quondam rexque futurus, el rey que fue y será. Es por esta razón que su leyenda ha sido siempre, desde sus inicios, no sólo una fuente de inspiración, sino también una fuente de politización. El objetivo de esta disertación es realizar un estudio diacrónico sobre el uso de la leyenda artúrica como herramienta de propaganda política, atendiendo primamente a la apropiación de la leyenda galesa por parte de fuentes inglesas. También prestaré especial atención al concepto del retorno mesiánico de Arturo, su papel en la Edad Media, en el mito Tudor, en la Era Victoriana y en nuestra época. Para lograr esto, llevaré a cabo lecturas detalladas de las principales fuentes bibliográficas como las de Godofredo de Monmouth y Thomas Malory, además de analizar cuidadosamente y tomar nota del contexto histórico en el cual estas fueron escritas. Asimismo, seleccionaré información histórica relevante que ayudará en la ilustración del uso de la leyenda como arma política a lo largo de la historia británica.
[GL]Artur Pendragon, o lendario guerreiro celta-britón que posteriormente se converteu no rei Artur polos cronistas medievais, é unha recoñecida figura nas Illas Británicas. Dende o Mabinogion galés (séculos XI-XII) ata Le Morte d’Artur (1485) de Malory, pasando por Godofredo de Monmouth e Chrétien de Troyes, o mítico mundo de Camelot, Merlín, os cabaleiros da Táboa Redonda e a poderosa Excalibur colleu forma. A través das marabillosas e excitantes palabras de bardos e escritores, visualizamos un Artur que se converteu en rei e que reinou xustamente ata a súa morte. Os seus ideais de honra e cabalería deron forma a toda unha nación e inmortalizárono nas mentes do pobo. Artur é rex quondam rexque futurus, o rei que foi e será. É precisamente por esta razón que a súa lenda foi, dende os seus comezos, non só unha fonte de inspiración, senon tamén unha fonte para a politización. O obxectivo desta disertación é realizar un estudo diacrónico sobre o uso da lenda artúrica como ferramenta de propaganda política, atendendo primeiramente á apropiación da lenda galesa por parte de fontes inglesas. Tamén prestarei atención ao concepto do retorno mesiánico de Artur, o seu papel na Idade Media, no mito Tudor, na era Victoriana e no noso tempo. Para conseguir isto, levarei a cabo lecturas detalladas das princiapais fontes bibliográficas, tales como as de Godofredo de Monmouth e Thomas Malory, ademáis de seleccionar coidadosamente e tomar nota dos contextos históricos nos cales foron escritas. Así mesmo, seleccionarei información histórica relevante que axudará na ilustración do uso da lenda como arma política ao longo da historia británica.
2023-11-07
2023-11-07
2023
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/31203
eng
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
open access
Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional
oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/236512021-01-13T07:29:11Zcom_10347_9593com_10347_6395com_10347_6394col_10347_11481
Modern American English Grammar: A Preliminary Corpus-based Study
David Souto, María
Palacios Martínez, Ignacio Miguel (dir.)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía
Inglés americano
Gramática do inglés
Gramática comparada
Corpus of Contemporary American English
Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
Most of the existing literature has drawn our attention on the differences between British and American English by referring to contrasts in their pronunciation, spelling and vocabulary. However, the grammar of these two varieties has been very little considered from a contrastive and usage-based perspective.
This study is thus intended to discuss some main features of the grammar of modern American English, namely the use of the present perfect versus the simple past, some of the auxiliary and semi-auxiliary verbs, the frequency of question tags, the question of agreement with collective nouns, the use of same prepositions, etc.
To this end, I will firstly review the main works in the field and I will next refer to the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) to investigate the actual use of these features and eventually compare them with their British English counterparts with the aid of the British National Corpus (BNC) since they can be regarded as comparable corpora.
The selection of the American English variety can be justified by the fact that the American culture has to a large extent been imposed through cinema and television in such a way can be considered as the most influential variety in the world today.
The results obtained will hopefully allow me to arrive at some interesting conclusions and to see up to what extent the description of grammar of American English corresponds with its actual use
2020-11-11
2020-11-11
2018-11-02
bachelor thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23651
eng
open access
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