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Guerra y paz: técnicas narrativas en los Hechos del condestable don Miguel Lucas de Iranzo
(2020-05-22)
La crónica castellana de los Hechos del condestable don Miguel Lucas de Iranzo, lejos de limitarse a enumerar los acontecimientos que rodearon a este advenedizo militar y político del siglo XV, transforma el día a día en ...
Odi et Amo: The Reception of Catullus' Love Poetry in 19th Century Britain
(2020-05-25)
Love, says Socrates, is a “bolt of lightning”, an unexpected, spontaneous miracle that is inherent to us humans. Love is so powerful that remains a mystery to us, despite the innumerable human attempts to understand it ...
Primary and secondary school learners' perceptions of CLIL: a study in the Basque Autonomous Community
(2022-03-08)
Recently, there has been an increasing number of implementations of pedagogical
approaches such as Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in order to
promote multilingualism. Apart from the analysis of learning ...
Task-Based Language Teaching: the effects of pre-task explicit instruction on a focused task in oral performances
(2023-04-17)
This study investigates the influence of pre-task explicit instruction on the performance of
a focused task. 14 EFL learners were assigned to two treatment conditions: Explicit Instruction
+ Task (EI) and Task-Only. Both ...
A psychoanalytical perspective of C.S. Lewis' The Horse and His Boy
(2024-05-03)
[EN] Children’s books may take readers into fantastical worlds of adventure, as well as teach them valuable psychological truths. The heroic figure is significant in fantasy literature, and the hero’s journey is a common ...
Loss of identity: slavery and land-stealing. An approach to african american and native american literature
(2024-05-06)
[EN] To build one self’s identity is not certainly an effortless process. It is greatly shaped by our interaction with both our every-day life, i.e. how we tackle the issues which arise from it, and the people who surround ...
“I Am an Old Woman”: Sophie’s Quest for Identity in Jones’s Howl’s Moving Castle and Miyazaki’s 2004 Adaptation
(2024-05-06)
[EN] This dissertation compares the representation of identity in the character of Sophie from
Diana Wynne Jones's novel Howl’s Moving Castle (1986) and from Hayao Miyazaki’s
anime adaptation by the same title (2004). I ...
The Curse of the House of Agamemnon: Revisiting the Characters of Orestes and Elektra in Colm Tóibín's House of Names (2018) and Jennifer Saint's Elektra (2022)
(2024-05-06)
[EN] Throughout the years, numerous pieces of literature have been written using as basis the ancient Greek myths of Electra and Orestes as transmitted by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. This paper will analyze two of ...
Subverting Hegemonic Discourse: The Focus on the Power of the Body, Sexuality and Nature in Allen Ginsberg and Diane di Prima's Poetry
(2024-05-06)
[EN] Allen Ginsberg and Diane di Prima are both notable poets of the 1950s North American literary movement, the Beat Generation. Being their works labeled as counterculture literature, both writers concentrate on their ...
Stephen King's horror in "Pet Sematary"
(2024-05-06)
[EN] Throughout history, horror literature has passed though many different stages; from early
Gothic novelists who often wrote to challenge contemporary society, to modern horror
writers with sophisticated and refined ...