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.).


Vol 13 (2015)

Table of Contents

Articles

I am nobody: fantasy and identity in Neil Gaiman’s "The Graveyard Book"
Tsung Chi Chang
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7-18
The black female slave takes literary revenge: Female gothic motifs against slavery in Hannah Crafts’s "The Bondwoman’s Narrative"
Vicent Cucarella-Ramon
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19-46
At the crossroads between literature, culture, linguistics, and cognition: local character-based metaphors in fairy tales
Javier Herrero Ruiz
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47-70
Of death and dukes: "King Henry VI Part 2" and the "danse macabre"
Clayton MacKenzie
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71-82
-ING suplementive clauses and discourse prominence in literary journalism
María-Ángeles Martínez
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83-108
George Ridpath’s use of evaluative adjectives as manipulative and persuasive strategies during the War of the Spanish Succession (1710-1713)
Raquel Sánchez Ruiz
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109-134
The lemmatization of Old English Verbs from the second weak class on a lexical database
Marta Tío Sáenz
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135-156
The recursive formation of Old English non-verbal categories. Productivity and constraints
Raquel Vea Escarza
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157-174
An analysis of the textbooks for teaching English for medical purposes in the former Degree in Medicine at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
María Jesús Vera-Cazorla
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175-186

Reviews

Miller, Christopher R. 2015. "Surprise. The poetics of the unexpected from Milton to Austen". Ithaca and London: Cornell University. VIII, 269 pp.
Pedro Santana Martínez
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187-192