ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies - 2017 - Num. 38ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies - 2017 - Num. 38https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/284482026-04-15T10:33:09Z2026-04-15T10:33:09Z‘I hate Women. They get on my Nerves’ : Dorothy Parker’s Poetry of Female SympathyCortés Vieco, Francisco Joséhttps://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/278552025-03-26T19:10:10Z2017-01-01T00:00:00ZIn her poetry, Dorothy Parker uses parody as a literary device to detect and denounce gender inequalities and sexist prejudices in New York during the early twentieth century. Despite the pressures of popular magazine culture on women, and her amusing jabs at her own sex in presumed complicity with the prevailing patriarchal ideology, Parker laughs last because her parodic verses, intertwining humor and faultfinding, are not only intended to entertain her male readers, but also to build a virtual village of female sympathy within a hostile male New York. She encourages sisterly bonding and welcomes real women, who are misrepresented by compulsory feminine images of happy domesticity or deviant sexual availability. Her poems offer her secret female addressees weapons of survival to live beyond their submission to male authority and repressive stereotypes of femininity.
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZSusan Valladares. Staging the Peninsular War. English Theatres 1807‒1815.Muñoz Sempere, Danielhttps://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/278542025-03-26T19:10:10Z2017-01-01T00:00:00Z2017-01-01T00:00:00ZLost Children: Hearing the Past in the Silence of an Empty HouseMuñoz González, Estherhttps://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/278522025-03-26T19:10:10Z2017-01-01T00:00:00ZThis article analyses Maggie Gee’s novel Lost Children (1994) from the combined perspectives of feminist and trauma theories. It contends that the sudden disappearance of the protagonist’s teenage daughter triggers a psychological quest for the recovery of her voice and self, shattered by a traumatic experience she had in her childhood. My analysis, which pays especial attention to narratological issues —since this barely perceptible, insidious trauma is expressed both formally and thematically— shows that Alma’s behaviour is representative of the worries, expectations and impositions that contemporary children and women are subject to in western society, still imbued by patriarchal models and rules of behaviour.
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZWilliam Webbe. A Discourse of English Poetry (1586). Ed. Sonia Hernández-SantanoSell, Jonathan P. A.https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/278512025-03-26T19:10:10Z2017-01-01T00:00:00Z2017-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Line and the Limit of Britishness: The Construction of Gibraltarian Identity in M. G. Sanchez’s WritingManzanas Calvo, Anahttps://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/277612025-03-26T19:45:12Z2017-01-01T00:00:00ZFrom Anthony Burgess’s musings during the Second World War to recent scholarly assessments, Gibraltar has been considered a no man’s literary land. However, the Rock has produced a steady body of literature written in English throughout the second half of the twentieth century and into the present. Apparently situated in the midst of two identitary deficits, Gibraltarian literature occupies a narrative space that is neither British nor Spanish but something else. M. G. Sanchez’s novels and memoir situate themselves in this liminal space of multiple cultural traditions and linguistic contami-nation. The writer anatomizes this space crossed and partitioned by multiple and fluid borders and boundaries. What appears as deficient or lacking from the British and the Spanish points of view, the curse of the periphery, the curse of inhabiting a no man’s land, is repossessed in Sanchez’s writing in order to flesh out a border culture with very specific linguistic and cultural traits.
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZAbraham Fraunce. The Shepherds’ Logic and Other Dialectical Writings. Ed. Zenón Luis-MartínezWilson, Emma Annettehttps://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/277572025-03-26T19:10:10Z2017-01-01T00:00:00ZBook review
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZDeveloping Business English Students’ Metaphorical Competence in Foreign Language Learning Higher Education ContextsCortés de los Ríos, María EnriquetaSánchez Pérez, María del Marhttps://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/277552025-03-26T19:10:10Z2017-01-01T00:00:00ZThis article is aimed at showing the ways in which Business English teachers may be able to facilitate the use of metaphor for their students since it is a part of the lexicon which causes them the most difficulties. The inclusion of the study of metaphors in a specific English language programme can provide students with a useful tool to interpret vocabulary, improve reading skills and understand different cultural backgrounds. Our aim is to put forward a didactic proposal to be used in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) programmes at a Master’s course currently taught at the University of Almería, Spain, in order to develop students’ metaphorical competence within the foreign language learning process.
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZMary Hays’s Biography of María de Estrada, a Spanish Woman in the American ConquestLorenzo Modia, María Jesúshttps://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/277562025-03-26T19:45:12Z2017-01-01T00:00:00ZThis article focuses on Mary Hays’s entry of María de Estrada in her Female Biography (1803), and how this English writer dealt with issues of gender, race, religion and nation by means of the mere inclusion of Estrada in this collection of women’s biographies. It studies the life of María de Estrada as inscribed in the fruitful transatlantic dialogue between the Iberian metropolis and the American continent at the beginning of the sixteenth century. In the analysis of her ordeal, issues of colonization are intermingled with those of ethnic persecution. De Estrada is believed to have been a Jew suffering difficulties in the Spanish city of Toledo; she had later an additional plight as a foundling girl living with the Gypsies in order to blur her origin, and thus escape ethnic cleansing. Subsequently, her role as an expatriate woman, who would leave her country of origin on board of a ship in the Hernán Cortés Expedition, is also analyzed.
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZBefriending the Other: Community and Male Camaraderie in Irvine Welsh’s TrainspottingRivera Izquierdo, Ángelahttps://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/277542025-03-26T19:10:10Z2017-01-01T00:00:00ZSituada en la Escocia posthatcheriana, los críticos suelen coincidir en que Trainspotting (1993) de Irvine Welsh representa el surgimiento de un individualismo creciente y la desintegración de las comunidades obreras en el Reino Unido. Esta teoría se basa en la falta de sentimiento fraternal en el grupo y en el miedo de los personajes a intimar, rasgos que se consideran propiamente individualistas. Sin embargo, este estudio considera a los ‘trainspotters’ de Welsh no como individuos aislados, sino como miembros de un tipo alternativo de comunidad, tal y como propone la filosofía posfenomenológica continental. Adoptando el punto de vista de los Estudios de Masculinidades, este trabajo demuestra que el distanciamiento emocional de los personajes es característico de la interacción homosocial entre los hombres que tratan de seguir patrones idealizados de masculinidad y que, por tanto, dicho distanciamiento no puede atribuirse únicamente a su supuesto carácter individualista. Por el contrario, el tipo de amistad masculina que Welsh describe puede considerarse un ejemplo paradigmático de la idea de comunidad inoperante propuesta por Jean-Luc Nancy, caracterizada por la trascendencia y la exposición a la alteridad.
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZÁngel Chaparro Sainz and Amaia Ibarraran Bigalondo, eds. Transcontinental Reflections on the American West: Words, Images, Sounds beyond BordersSnyder, Phillip A.https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/277532025-03-26T19:10:10Z2017-01-01T00:00:00Z2017-01-01T00:00:00Z