Journal of English Studies

Journal of English Studies is a periodical of the English Studies Division at the University of La Rioja. It accepts for their publication original scholarly contributions in all research areas related to the field of English studies (linguistics, literature and literary theory, cultural studies, film studies, etc.).


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Vol 18 (2020)

Editors

José Díaz-Cuesta (University of La Rioja, Spain)

Raquel Vea Escarza (University of La Rioja, Spain)


Secretary

Carmen Novo Urraca (University of La Rioja, Spain)

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Table of Contents

“Darkness is different for me now. I know all its depths and textures”: the panoptical gaze in Sarah Waters’s "Affinity"
Elsa Adán Hernández
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3-16
“The boundary we need”: Death and the challenge to postmodernity in Don DeLillo’s "White Noise"
Mark Brown
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17-36
Jaded selves and body distance: a case study of Cotard’s syndrome in “Infinite Jest”
Ana Chapman
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37-58
Gloria Velásquez’s Roosevelt High School series: towards quality multicultural literature through rainbow coalitions
Carolina Fernández Rodríguez
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59-81
Information-structure strategies in English/Spanish translation
Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández
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83-107
Language in motion in Marilynne Robinson’s "Housekeeping" and the Book of "Ruth"
James Krasner
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109-124
Semantic primes in historical languages. The identification of the Old English exponent for DO
Raquel Mateo Mendaza
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125-151
Mixing pleasure and beauty: positive aesthetic experience in Old English poetry
Francisco Javier Minaya Gómez
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153-179
Effect of the implementation of CLIL and KNOWMAD competences on students' motivation in higher education
Rocío Muñoz Benito, Maribel Rodríguez Zapatero, Leonor Pérez Naranjo, Cristina Morilla García
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181-204
New ways of looking into handwritten miscellanies of the seventeenth century: the case of “Spes Altera”
Purificación Ribes Traver
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205-225
On “shapelings” and “childlings”: a linguistics approach to the emergence of new cultural borders between the unborn and the new-born child in EME (1500-1700)
Paloma Tejada-Caller
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227-251
Hot Potatoes activities to improve grammatical accuracy across different proficiency courses
Izaskun Villarreal, Esther Gómez Lacabex, Francisco Gallardo del Puerto, María Martínez Adrián, M. Juncal Gutiérrez-Mangado
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253-277