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The Role of Morphological Awareness in Children's Reading and Writing Skills
(2018-12-04)
Recently there has been a growing interest in the recognition of the role of Morphological Awareness (MA) for children’s literacy development. The present paper analyses a compilation of studies dealing with the idea of ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
Karl Marx, revolucionario decimonónico
(2020-05-22)
Karl Marx fue un filósofo, revolucionario, político, economista y teórico del siglo XIX. Nació en Tréveris en 1818 en una familia hebrea reconvertida al cristianismo evangélico. Desde su época estudiantil se interesó por ...
"Vida, muerte y colocación de san Isidro": presentación y muestra de una comedia del Siglo de Oro
(2020-05-25)
El presente Trabajo de Fin de Grado, que lleva como título «Vida, muerte y colocación de san Isidro»: presentación y muestra de una comedia inédita del Siglo de Oro, pretende ser un ejercicio de transcripción y edición de ...
La huelga de agosto de 1917 en España: ¿un intento de huelga revolucionaria?
(2020-05-22)
El objetivo de mi trabajo no es otro que analizar la huelga general de agosto de 1917 en España. Una huelga que se dio en un contexto internacional marcado por la Primera Guerra Mundial, que aceleró, como ya veremos, las ...