Vol. 8 (2010)

Journal of English Studies, 8 (2010)

Editor: Melania Terrazas Gallego (University of La Rioja, Spain)

Secretary: Pilar Agustín Llach (University of La Rioja, Spain)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.vol8
Published: 29-05-2010

Full Issue

  • She lures, she guides, she quits : Femile characters in Tim Winton's "The Riders"

    Mª Pilar Baines Alarcos
    7-22
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.146

  • The language of wounds and scars in Edwige Danticat's "The Dew Breaker" : a case in trauma symptoms and the recovery process

    Aitor Ibarrola Armendáriz
    23-56
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.147

  • Soothsaying song thrushes and life-giving snails : motifs in A.S. Byatt's "Babel Tower" and "A whistling woman"

    Jennifer Anne Johnson
    57-71
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.148

  • Rulers agains writers, writers against rules : the failed promise of the public sphere in postcolonial Nigerian fiction

    Ayo Kehinde
    73-102
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.149

  • A Spanish portrait : Spain and its connections with the thematic and structural dimensions of "For whom the bell tolls"

    Ricardo Marín Ruiz
    103-118
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.152

  • Mary Reilly as Jekyll or Hyde : Neo-Victorian (re)creations of Feminity and Feminism

    Marta Miquel Baldellou
    119-140
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.154

  • Fallen women and the London Lock Hospital Laws and By-Laws of 1840 (revised 1848)

    María Isabel Romero Ruiz
    141-158
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.151

  • Peeking behind the veil: Migratory women in Africa in Nuruddin Farah's "From a crooked Rib" (1970), "A naked needle" (1976) and "Knots" (2007), and Nadine Gordimer's "The pickup" (2001)

    Brian Worsfold
    159-173
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.155

  • Contesting identities : Representing British South Asians in Damien O'Donnell's "East is East"

    Sarah Zapata
    175-186
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.150