Atlantis, revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos articles from December 2002

Atlantis, revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos archives from December 2002

The aesthetics of serial killing: working against ethics in The Silence of the Lambs 1988) and American Psycho (1991) (1).(authors Thomas Harris, Bret Easton Ellis)
December 1, 2002... Classical serial killer fiction and films offer their readers or viewers many sources of pleasure: the control over disorder, the pleasure of pattern-discovering, the identification with a strong representative of the law, and of course the...

Arias, Martin y Martin Hadis, eds. 2000: Borges profesor. Curso de literatura inglesa en la Universidad de Buenos Aires.(Resena de libro)
December 1, 2002... Arias, Martin y Martin Hadis, eds. 2000: Borges profesor. Curso de literatura inglesa en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires: Emece Editores. 400 paginas. ISBN 950-04-2109-7. (1) El libro que comento es la transcripcion del curso...

Phrasal verbs and associated forms in Shakespeare.(author William Shakespeare)
December 1, 2002... This paper focuses on three aspects of phrasal verbs. Firstly, to what extent examples of phrasal verbs and associated forms in Shakespeare's works provide evidence for how phrasal verbs could have arisen and developed in English. (1) It is...

Galvan, Fernando 2001: Literatura inglesa medieval.(Resena de libro)
December 1, 2002... Galvan, Fernando 2001: Literatura inglesa medieval. Madrid: Alianza Editorial [coleccion Filologia y Linguistica, El libro universitario, manual 067], 219 pp. ISBN 84-206-8641-7. Uno de los comentarios quejumbrosos que mas se escuchan en el...

Edmund Spenser's bestiary in the Amoretti (1595).
December 1, 2002... Edmund Spenser's sonnet sequence, the Amoretti (1595), has long been considered a minor work, and has rarely been discussed in terms of its gender politics. This essay shows, through a careful reading of an interrelated group of sonnets, how...

"Forget your troubles and be happy": una aproximacion etnografica a la ideologia del entretenimiento en el cine estadounidense contemporaneo.
December 1, 2002... Traditional ideological approaches to mainstream cinema tend to see audiences as universally passive and acquiescent with the messages the films thrust at them, but recent reception studies find a much greater variety in spectators' responses...

Hoey, Michael 2001: Textual Interaction: An Introduction to Written Discourse Analysis.(Resena de libro)
December 1, 2002... Hoey, Michael 2001: Textual Interaction: An Introduction to Written Discourse Analysis. London: Routledge. Pp. vii, 203. Michael Hoey no puede ser tachado de excesiva prolijidad en sus publicaciones. Si entre la aparicion de On the Surface...

Naturalism and modes of literary production in George Gissing's New Grub Street.
December 1, 2002... The present paper attempts to read Gissing's New Grub Street as the product of a crisis in the British literary system towards the end of the nineteenth century. This crisis is traced in both the storyline and the formal choices made by Gissing...

Trespassing boundaries: Robert McLiam Wilson's satirical transgression in Eureka Street (1).
December 1, 2002... Together with Glenn Patterson and Colin Bateman, Robert McLiam Wilson can be considered one of the first Northern Irish authors who has convincingly approached the "Troubles" in a provocative and unconventional way. The dramatic vision of the...

The religious overtones of ethnic identity-building in Toni Morrison's Paradise (1).
December 1, 2002... This article approaches the study of Toni Morrison's latest novel, Paradise (1998), as an illustration of the process of (African) American identity-formation. The two communities that Morrison contraposes in the novel may be seen as...

Alice de Bath o el poder de la palabra.(William Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; social condition, influence of women through narrative of character Alice de Bath)
December 1, 2002... The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale reveal Chaucer both as an author deeply involved in the controversy about the nature of women and as a master in the art of strategy. Among poststructuralist attempts to discern the unreliable and...

A stranger's utterance: Hilda Morley's poetics of self-definition.
December 1, 2002... American poet Hilda Morley (1919) has been recognized lately as one of the most suggestive writers associated with Black Mountain poetics. Highly admired by Denise Levertov and Robert Creeley, her poetic production, which has appeared widely...

Horn, Laurence R. and Yasuhiko Kato 2000: Negation and Polarity. Syntactic and Semantic Perspectives.(Resena de libro)
December 1, 2002... Horn, Laurence R. and Yasuhiko Kato 2000: Negation and Polarity. Syntactic and Semantic Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (ix + 271 pp.) Polarity, and the system of negation in particular, is a recurrent topic in Grammar....

The production of requests by Catalan learners of English: situational and proficiency level effects.
December 1, 2002... The paper examines the interlanguage behaviour of Catalan learners of English (CAT) at three different levels of proficiency (IL-A, IL-B, IL-C), focusing on the way they make requests in the second language. The data comprise request...

Congreve, William 2002: Asi va el mundo.(Lastima que sea una puta, de John Ford)(Resena de libro)
December 1, 2002... Congreve, William 2002: Asi va el mundo. Ed. Antonio Ballesteros Gonzalez. Madrid: Publicaciones de la Asociacion de Directores de Escena. [Serie Literatura dramatica, 58]. 249 pags. ISBN 84-95576-16-3. Ford, John 2000: Lastima que sea una...

A contrastive study of tense-aspect in the Catalan/English oral production of a young bilingual (1).
December 1, 2002... This paper examines the Aspect Hypothesis based on spontaneous oral production data collected for a longitudinal case study of a child growing up bilingual in Catalan and English in a Catalan environment (see Perez Vidal 1995; Juan Garau 1996)....

Literary insights into contemporary Ireland: an interview with Catherine Dunne.(Entrevista)
December 1, 2002... Catherine Dunne was born in Dublin in 1954 and studied English and Spanish at Trinity College Dublin. She lived in England and Spain for a while but has spent most of her life in Ireland. She taught at Greendale Community School and left her...

Turell, Ma. Teresa, ed. 2001: Multilingualism in Spain: Sociolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Aspects of Linguistic Minority Groups.(Resena de libro)
December 1, 2002... Turell, Ma Teresa, ed. 2001: Multilingualism in Spain: Sociolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Aspects of Linguistic Minority Groups. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters Ltd. xv + 389 pp. ISBN 1-85359-491-1 (hbk). The celebration of the VIII...

The OBJECT image-schema and other dependent schemas (1).
December 1, 2002... Image-schemas (e.g. CONTAINER, PATH, FORCE) are pervasive skeletal patterns of a preconceptual nature which arise from everyday bodily and social experiences and which enable us to mentally structure perceptions and events (Johnson 1987; Lakoff...

"And looked our infant sight away": nostalgia for the innocent gaze in Elizabeth Bishop's poetry.
December 1, 2002... While most critics would not agree on the extent and nature of Elizabeth Bishop's surrealist affinities, the visual character of her poetry is generally held in the highest regard. Three specific passages in her poem "Over 2,000 Illustrations...

Recepcion de Fanny Hill en Espana: estudio preliminar.(John Cleland's novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure)
December 1, 2002... One important source of information in descriptive and historical translation studies is the analyisis of elements traditionally considered to be extra-textual and not part of the translation process, such as the publishing house and date,...

Davis, Rocio G. and Rosalia Baena, eds. 2001: Small Worlds: Transcultural Visions of Childhood.(Resena de libro)
December 1, 2002... Davis, Rocio G. and Rosalia Baena, eds. 2001: Small Worlds: Transcultural Visions of Childhood. Pamplona: EUNSA. Pp. 215. It is with the Romantics that the child is reappraised and considered not only as a person in progress, still...