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Naciones y nacionalismos. Aproximaciones teóricas desde las teorías modernistas
[ES] Este trabajo analiza las principales aportaciones de los más destacados autores de la escuela modernista de estudio de las naciones y el nacionalismo. Se analiza en él un conjunto de obras señeras de Ernest Gellner, ...
Pre-established Destiny through Patriarchal Forces in Elfriede Jelinek`s Die Liebhaberinnen
(2017-11-23)
The writer Elfriede Jelinek, winner of the Nobel Academy award in 2004, has demonstrated throughout her career how a piece of writing can go deep into people’s consciousness and make them reflect about class injustices and ...
The never-ending myth: revision of the western frontier in U.S. contemporary dystopias
(2020-11-24)
Even though dystopian literature transports the readers into futuristic fictional scenarios, its undertone mirrors the concerns and fears of the authors’ time of existence. Thus, the genre does not describe the incoming ...
Survival in an uninhabitable place: Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
(2020-11-24)
Literature and art have always been reflections of the reality of each era. By analysing
them we can become acquainted with the socio-political circumstances of the time, or
even explore the concerns and fears of the ...
Beyond stereotypes: the image of basque immigrants in Robert Laxalt's "The Basque Hotel" and Martin Etchart's" The Last Shepherd"
(2022-03-07)
Early attempts to bring the Basque-American experience to literature were not rewarded until the success of Robert Laxalt, whose recognition helped to organize the public display of the Basque identity and culture in the ...
Challenging traditional religious views of sexual identity: "Angels in America" by Tony Kushner
(2022-03-07)
Angels in America’s success represents recognition and visibility for LBTQ+
communities in mainstream American drama. The paper aims to explore the interaction
between religion and sexuality in Tony Kushner’s play, ...
A Self-discovery Voyage: Taylor's Search for Self-Identity in "The Bean Trees" by Barbara Kingsolver
(2018-12-04)
Western literature has conventionally been concerned with male characters and their lonely journeys, however, Barbara Kingsolver has escaped the constraints of the genre. Hence, the aim of this paper is to analyze the main ...
The Great Gatsby: An Analysis of the American Dream
(2020-05-25)
The American Dream and its relation to the American literary production is a subject that has been exposed to detailed study throughout time. In order to contribute to this field of studies, this paper will analyze the ...
Searching for social identities during adolescence in “I know why the caged bird sings” and “The House on Mango Street”
The novel of adolescence or the Bildungsroman follows the identity formation of
the main character from childhood to adulthood. This paper focuses on the development of
the identity of the main characters in The House ...
"Just a good Frenchwoman": How gender roles are reinforced and questioned in Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française (2004) in the context of WWII
(2020-05-22)
There is an ongoing debate among historians and Gender Studies’ scholars regarding the effect war has on gender roles. Some believe that war has in many occasions offered new opportunities to women, that they were liberated ...