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Staging Alfonso Reyes’s Ifigenia cruel: The challenges of multi-layered narrative, poetry, and anti-theatricality
(Liverpool University Press, 2019)
Alfonso Reyes play, Ifigenia cruel (1924), has been the subject of critical analyses in the fields of Mexican Cultural Studies and Classical Receptions Studies. These have focused on the play s historical context, its ...
National identity and belonging among gay ‘new speakers’ of Irish
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2019-03)
New speakers refer to people who use a language regularly but are not traditional
native speakers of that language. Although this discussion has been
going on for some time in other sub-disciplines of linguistics, it ...
"Saving Venice": local, global and transnational perspectives on cultural heritage in children's fantasy
(MDPI, 2019-05-29)
Children s literature has always been heavily influenced by the local and national climate in which it is produced, the birth of this literature having coincided in many places with the formation of the nation-state. Over ...
Death and how to deal with it in the Harry Potter series
(Routledge, 2019-08-29)
It is obvious that death is one of the main issues in the Harry Potter world and the way it is underlined throughout the series opens up the ground for discussion of one of the most taboo topics in Western culture amongst ...
La resistenza dei tratti intonativi nell acquisizione dell italiano da parte di parlanti anglo celti
(Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (AItLA) and Officinaventuno, 2019)
Although research on intonational phonology plays a crucial role in second language acquisition, scientific contributions investigating prosodic features in a contrastive perspective are
scarce. This study aims at ...
Nicole Gilles and literate society
(Peter Lang, 2019-02-05)
Nicole Gilles was active in the literate society of Paris in the last quarter of the fifteenth century in a number of ways: as a reader and patron of books, as a publisher and as a writer whose work may have circulated ...
How do you say kélén-kélén in Italian? Migration, landscape and untranslatable food
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-09-19)
ABSTRACTThis article discusses translation and migrant (in)visibility in Italy in the context of the so-called migrant and refugee crisis, using food as a key element in the redefinition of the asylum seekersâ cultural ...
She’s can be “heroes”: Female status and the Daunian stelae
(Accordia Research Institute, University of London, 2019)
In Accordia Research Papers 11, Guilia Saltini Semerari published a thought-provoking article
on ‘high status’ female burials in 6th century BC Basilicata. In this paper, she contended
that ‘wealthy’ female burials should ...
Shortsighted translations: Censorship in the three Manolito Gafotas books translated into American English
(Peter Lang, 2019-09-26)
In this article, we explore the issue of the child narrator’s identity through the descriptive analysis of the translations from Spanish into American English of Manolito Gafotas. Particularly, this article illustrates how ...
John B. Wilkins: Accordia’s first Director (27.iv.1935 – 8.iii.2017)
(Accordia Research Institute, University of London, 2019)
Sine amicitia, vitam esse nullam (Cicero, de Amicitia, 86)
Neither the cursus honorum of an academic career nor a simple list of publications can
capture the rich texture of a scholar’s life. This is especially true of ...