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Some Aspects of Terry Eagleton's Use of Freudian Psychoanalysis
(Universidad de Granada, 2022-07-29)This paper looks at Terry Eagleton’s engagement with Freudian psychoanalysis. We start by looking at Eagleton’s increasing interest in psychoanalysis in the late 1970s, particularly in “Marx, Freud and Morality” (1977). ... -
Where does lexical diversity come from? Horizontal interaction in the network of the Late Modern English Reaction Object Construction
(Routledge, 2022-11-15)This paper provides further insight into the Reaction Object Construction (she nodded intelligence) as a case of constructional contamination, a phenomenon that describes the relation between two or more constructions such ... -
Bequeathing "new sincerity" in the age of the homo digitalis: Confessionalism and authorial self‐consciousness in David Foster Wallace and Bo Burnham
(Wiley, 2023)The notion of “New Sincerity” has become central to the study of David Foster Wallace's prose over the years. The present article explores how the tonal arrangement that characterises the movement has lived on to influence ... -
The English Reaction Object Construction: A Case of Syntactic constructional Contamination
(Universidad de Zaragoza, 2022-06-13)This paper discusses a case of constructional contamination (Pijpops and Van de Velde 2016; Pijpops et al. 2018), a phenomenon which describes the relation between two or more constructions such that usage frequencies of ... -
Towards a usage-based characterisation of the English Superlative Object Construction
(John Benjamins, 2024-02-06)Little attention has been paid to the English Superlative Object Construction (SOC), as in "She worked her hardest". The historical grammarians Jespersen (1909–1949) and Poutsma (1904–1929) are the only ones who do touch ...