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• ‘He comes back badder and bigger than ever!’: Adapting the masculine and negotiating the feminine in treasure-hunting adventure narratives 

  Santaularia Capdevila, Isabel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2001)

  Over the last decades, genre fiction has witnessed the invasion of a host of female authors writing from a self-consciously feminist perspective who have shaken the structural and ideological foundations of genres such as ...

• Dexter: Villain, hero or simply a man? The perpetuation of traditional masculinity in Dexter 

  Santaularia Capdevila, Isabel (The Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN), 2010)

  The paper analyses how television series Dexter generates complicity with its serial killer protagonist, Dexter Morgan, not only by giving him a heroic edge that overrides the monstrosity of his crimes, but also by focusing ...

• The Frontier as Masculine Territory: Sam Hawken’s The Dead Women of Juárez in Context 

  Santaularia Capdevila, Isabel (The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), 2016)

  Contemporary adventure narratives—from westerns and war stories to thrillers and hard-boiled detective fictions—still insistently activate the myth of the frontier, which is offered as a space where men can achieve ...