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The lexicogrammatical profile of non-agentive deverbal -er nominals: a usage-based approach
(Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2023)
In this paper we analyse the lexicogrammatical profile of 30 non-agentive deverbal -er nominalisations, showing that the different semantic types that middle structures instantiate in Heyvaert’s (2003) usage-based ...
Moving in “a forest of hieroglyphs”: Enigmatic and mutable signs of identity in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light
(Taylor and Francis, 2019)
This article analyses Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light, focusing on protagonist Marion’s
process of coming to terms with her coloured identity as she puzzles over secrets and signs,
struggling to endow them with meaning, ...
Don Quixote, Benengeli and Coetzee’s Jesus Trilogy.
(Taylor and Francis, 2023)
This article focuses on the central role of Don Quixote (1605, 1615) in J.M. Coetzee’s
Jesus novels, arguing for the relevance of the fact that it is Benengeli, the fictional
Moorish historian – and not Cervantes – who ...
‘God knows whether there is a Dulcinea in this world or not’: Idealized Passion and Undecidable Desire in J.M. Coetzee
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
This chapter examines the male idealisation of the female figure that we find in many of J. M. Coetzee’s works, together with their depiction of male-female relationships as characterised by a constant conflict between the ...
Introduction: Secrecy and Community in Twenty-First-Centuy Fiction
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2021)
African Strangers, Spaces of Belonging and the ‘Democracy to Come’ in Helon Habila’s Travellers
(Sage, 2022)
This article analyses Helon Habila’s Travellers (2019), focusing on its depiction of African migrants in Europe as strangers, as defined by Sara Ahmed in Strange Encounters (2000): those who, in spite of ...
A paper-knife and an English novel: slitting wuthering heights. Afterword
(Peter Lang, 2021)
Twenty-first century scholarship on the Brontës and Wuthering Heights pays renewed attention to social, historical and cultural factors that had been overlooked by earlier critics, leading to a variety of perspectives and ...
"Being out, out". Ontological exposure in modernist fiction
(Routledge, 2018)
New Perspectives on Community and the Modernist Subject: Finite, Singular, Exposed offers new approaches to the modernist subject and its relation to community. With a non-exclusive focus on narrative, the essays included ...
Europe and the Middle Ages: a translatological overview
(Peter Lang, 2020)
It is no easy task to speak of an overview of translation during the long period
known as the Middle Ages. As earlier studies suggest (Ruiz Casanova 2000;
Lafarga & Pegenaute 2004; Santoyo 2009; and Alvar 2010), translation ...
El martirio de Santa Apolonia entre la literatura y la iconografía
(Universidad de Granada, 2012)
Este capítulo trata del martirio de Santa Apolonia en tiempos del Imperio Romano en base al análisis de su presencia en la literatura y en la iconografía.