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Virgil’s Dido and Jupiter, the models for the allegorical representations of queen Elizabeth I in Marlowe’s "Dido, Queen of Carthage"
(2020-12-21)
Dido, Queen of Carthage has been hitherto ignored by the academia and in fact, it has not been until the last century that the play has started to acquire the recognition it deserves. More specifically, this dissertation’s ...
Representation of the villain in C. S. Lewis’s "The Magician’s Nephew"
(2020-11-24)
The present paper aims to observe the relevance of the role of the villain in the first book of C. S. Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia, entitled The Magician’s Nephew (1955). To this end, I will first introduce Schäfer’s ...
The queen of Carthage and her trojan lover: a comparative study of the relationship between Dido and Aeneas from antiquity to modernity
(2020-12-21)
The relevance of Virgil´s The Aeined has prevailed over time and specifically Dido´s story has awaken the interest of several authors that have rewritten their version in different periods. From Virgil´s passive characterization ...
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 ...
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 ...