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Gone with the Wind and the Southern Way of Life: the Civil War as described in Margaret Mitchell’s Novel
(2013-07)This essay examines the American Civil War of 1861 – 1865, which is also known as the bloodiest war that the United States has ever experienced. The pretext for the war was the abolition of slavery in the South, and after ... -
The ambiguous disruption of gender-role expectations in the law and the lady name
(2013-07)The main purpose of this research project is to analyse the major female figures in Wilkie Collins' work of fiction The Law and the Lady, in relation to the times in which the novel was produced and the situation of women ... -
The importance of myth in contemporary art: myth, poetry and women
(2013-07)This project is intended to prove the prevalent importance of myth in contemporary art and, more specifically, to highlight how myth and poetry have shaped and reflected ideas of womanhood over time. A selection of ... -
Competing linguae france: the place of english and spanish for chinese students
(2013-09)This research project focuses on the role of English and Spanish as linguae francae. More specifically, the research attempts to answer the following questions: (i) What is the place of English and Spanish as linguae francae ... -
Writing for the contemporany naturalistic stage: a personal process of creation
(2013-09)El objetivo principal de este proyecto es desarrollar más a fondo y consolidar los objetivos formativos y competencias del grado en Estudios Ingleses a través de un trabajo de escritura creativa, en concreto, la creación ... -
Higher education as a marketable product. A critical discourse analysis of universities’ persuasive strategies to recruit students
(2014)The new capitalist market economy is invading most of the spheres in our society and education is no exception. This paper attempts to begin to explore the impact of this social change on higher education through the ... -
Re-imagining Sherlock Holmes as the hero in detective fiction
(2014)This paper is set to present and examine the character of the world’s most famous detective hero, Sherlock Holmes through its most recent adaptations: the BBC series Sherlock and the CBS series Elementary. For a better ... -
Sex and the City’s Daughters: The Representation of Women in Cashmere Mafia, Gossip Girl and Hart of Dixie.
(2014)My dissertation is an examination of the repercussions and afterlife of the series Sex and the City. This project situates Sex and the City in its context and analyses its significance as an example of Chick Lit and as an ... -
The female detective through popular culture: kate beckett in castle
(2014)Popular culture has been argued to construct and perpetrate most of society‟s current ideas and beliefs, especially when taking into account its representation of gender roles. The following dissertation will study how ... -
Linguistic discourses in the United States
(2014)El bilingüisme i el multilingüisme són temes controvertits que poden generar desigualtats socials en contexts com el dels Estats Units, on l’anglès és la llengua predominant. Aquesta dissertació té l’objectiu (1) d’explorar ... -
Class and the Domestic Service System through Downton Abbey
(2016)Durant el període eduardià el servei domèstic va viure una època d’esplendor què va finalitzar abruptament a l’acabament de la Primera Guerra Mundial. Després d’una breu introducció del sistema de classes britànic, ... -
Exploring power and identity in 2014 ebola outbreak through media and supranational institutions' discourse
(2016)Des que l’Ebola va ser identificat el 1976, dinou epidèmies han tingut lloc a l'Àfrica, però el brot de 2014 no té precedents ni en escala, ni en gravetat, ni en complexitat. Fins el 2012, la malaltia es presenta com un ... -
BELF in the Catalan International Business Context
(2016)Few people would question that English has become the de facto main international language of communication in virtually all fields of human activity in today’s increasingly connected world, and furthermore, that it ... -
Identity in Old Age. Reconceptualizing Ageing through Alice Munro’s Short Fiction
(2019-06)In our progressively older society, ageing studies are acquiring more importance as a research domain in the social sciences, and the study of literature is gaining ground in this interdisciplinary field. Short stories are ... -
The Angel in the House and the Fallen Angel: Female affiliation versus Heterosexuality in Wollstonecraft‘s The Wrongs of Woman and Sarah Waters‘ Fingersmith
(2019-06)The figures of the angel in the house and the fallen angel have been used in women‘s literature to portray the horrors that women had to suffer in patriarchal society. Their legal helplessness implied that their safety ... -
Literary Perspectives on Adolescence and Adulthood: Three Contemporary Young Adult Novels
(2019-06)Adolescence is both a life stage and a transition in its own right, as it presents the passage from childhood to young adulthood, and is closely connected to the formation of adult identity. A phase considered both conflictive ... -
The case of Rumañol, a rule-breaking or a rule-creating variety?
(2019-06)Over the past 20 years there has been a mass migration of Romanians to Spain. A relevant amount of them established in Catalonia (according to the Institut d’Estadística de Catalunya) settling with their families. The ... -
The Portrayal of Religion in Children’s Literature: A Comparative Theological Approach to Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights and C. S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
(2020-05)Children’s literature has been considered to be one of the finest tools to influence children, therefore it is not strange that institutions such as the church or its devotees decide to spread their thoughts through this ...