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The Grove Working Papers on English Studies 21 2014 Research Group HUM. 271 (Andalusian Government) Grupo de Investigación HUM. 271 de la Junta de Andalucía THE GROVE. WORKING PAPERS ON ENGLISH STUDIES I.S.S.N.: 1137-005X EDITORS / DIRECCIÓN General Editor Carmelo Medina Casado (University of Jaén) Managing Editors Jesús López-Peláez Casellas (University of Jaén) Luciano García García (University of Jaén) Book Review Editor José Ruiz Mas (University of Granada) Assistant Editor Cinta Zunino Garrido (University of Jaén) Style Supervisor Ali S. Zaidi (State University of New York - Canton) Technical Secretaries Almudena Machado Jiménez Alejandro Parras Rodríguez Indexed by MLA, IEDCYT-CSIC, Latindex and DICE. Published yearly (1 vol. per year) by the Research Group Hum. 271 of the Andalusian Government, Department of English Studies, University of Jaén, Spain / Publicación anual (1 vol. al año) del Grupo de Investigación Hum. 271 de la Junta de Andalucía, en el Departamento de Filología Inglesa de la Universidad de Jaén. Please address subscriptions and submissions to / Las subscripciones y las propuestas deberán dirigirse a: Editors / Dirección The Grove. Working Papers on English Studies Departamento de Filología Inglesa, Facultad de Humanidades y CC.EE., Edifi cio D-2, Universidad de Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas s/n, 23071 Jaén, Spain / España. 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Vicerrectorado de Extensión Universitaria, Avda. de Jaén, s/n Deportes y Proyección Institucional 23650 TORREDONJIMENO (Jaén) Campus Las Lagunillas, Edifi cio Biblioteca Phone/Telephone: +34 953 571087 Vicerrectorado de Extensión Universitaria Fax. 953 521207 Campus Las Lagunillas, s/n, Edifi cio D-2, 23071 JAÉN - Spain Phone/Tlf. +34 953 212355 / +34 953 212609 Fax. 953 211824 / +34 953 212136 EDITORIAL BOARD / CONSEJO EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD John Drakakis (University of Stirling) Fred C. Robinson (Yale University) Juan Fernández Jiménez (Penn State University) James Simpson (University of Cambridge) Jüri Talvet (University of Tartu) Gerardo Piña Rosales (City University of New York) Rüdiger Ahrens (University of Würzburg) Joan Torres-Pou (Florida International University) Susana Cavallo (Loyola University Chicago) SCIENTIFIC BOARD Nieves Alberola Crespo (Universitat Jaume I, Castellón) Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes (Universidad de Jaén) Patricia Álvares Sánchez (Universidad de Cádiz) Bárbara Arizti Marín (Universidad de Zaragoza) Sonia Baelo Alué (Universidad de Zaragoza) Antonio Andrés Ballesteros González (UNED, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Antonio Bueno González (Universidad de Jaén) Yolanda Caballero Aceituno (Universidad de Jaén) Margarita Carretero González (Universidad de Granada) Antonio Vicente Casas Pedrosa (Universidad de Jaén) Susana Cavallo (Loyola University Chicago) Mónica Calvo Pacual (Universidad de Zaragoza) Francisco Collado Rodríguez (Universidad de Zaragoza) Pilar Cuder Domínguez (Universidad de Huelva) María Luisa Dañobeitia Fernández (Universidad de Granada) Eva Rosa Darías Beautell (Universidad de La Laguna) Eroulla Demetriou Demetriou (Universidad de Jaén) Francisco Javier Díaz Pérez (Universidad de Jaén) Belén Díez Bedmar (Universidad de Jaén) Carme Font Paz (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Paola García Ramírez (Universidad de Jaén) Felicity Hand (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) 6 Kurt Harris (Southern Utah University) Manuel Jiménez Raya (Universidad de Granada) Isabel Durán Giménez-Rico (Universidad de Complutense de Madrid) Milagros López-Peláez Casellas (Coventry University) Gloria Luque Agulló (Universidad de Jaén) Carme Manuel Cuenca (Universitat de València) María del Carmen Méndez García (Universidad de Jaén) José María Mesa Villar (UCAM, Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia) Francisca Molina Navarrete (Universidad de Jaén) Andrew Monnickendam (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Jesús Manuel Nieto García (Universidad de Jaén) Juan Ignacio Oliva Cruz (Universidad de La Laguna) Eugenio Manuel Olivares Merino (Universidad de Jaén) Julio Ángel Olivares Merino (Universidad de Jaén) Ana María Ortega Cebreros (Universidad de Jaén) Nieves Pascual Solere (Universidad de Jaén) María Luisa Pérez Cañado (Universidad de Jaén) Juan Antonio Prieto Pablos (Universidad de Sevilla) Juan Ráez Padilla (Universidad de Jaén) Genara Pulido Tirado (Universidad de Jaén) Alfonso Jesús Rizo Rodríguez (Universidad de Jaén) María Elena Ródríquez Martín (Universidad de Granada) Gerardo Rodríguez Salas (Universidad de Granada) Christopher Rollason (Independent Scholar, Luxembourg) José Ruiz Más (Universidad de Granada) Ana Sáez Hidalgo (Universidad de Valladolid) María del Pilar Sánchez Calle (Universidad de Jaén) Francisco Javier Sánchez Escribano (Universidad de Zaragoza) Adelina Sánchez Espinosa (Universidad de Granada) Sheri Spaine-Long (University of North Carolina, Charlotte) Jesús Varela Zapata (Unversidade de Santiago de Compostela) Rafael Vélez Nuñez (Universidad de Cádiz) Ali Zaidi (State University of New York at Canton) 7 THE GROVE WORKING PAPERS ON ENGLISH STUDIES 21 CONTENTS Foreword ............................................................................................................... 9 THE CONCEPT OF PERVERSION IN CHUCK PALAHNIUK’S NOVEL CHOKE Alexandra Bikkyova .................................................................................... 11 “THE SYNAPSES COLLAPSE; WELL, LET THEM…” EL FEMINISMO POSTMODERNO DE THE STONE DIARIES DE CAROL SHIELDS Macarena Garcia-Avello .............................................................................. 29 UN CASO NOTABLE DE TRADUCCIÓN INDIRECTA: THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS DE FENIMORE COOPER TRADUCIDO POR VICENTE PAGASARTUNDUA A TRAVÉS DEL FRANCÉS Ángeles García Calderón, Beatriz Martínez Ojeda......................................... 45 HOUSES WITH PICKET FENCES: TRYING TO RECOVER A PAST THAT NEVER WAS IN PLEASANTVILLE AND CELEBRATION, FLORIDA M. Carmen Gómez Galisteo ........................................................................ 69 CAN LITERARY WORKS HELP TO MEMORIALIZE NATURAL DISASTERS? ZORA NEAL HURSTON’S THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD Aitor Ibarrola-Armendáriz .......................................................................... 83 “THEIR TRAVELS WERE REAL TRAVELS”: HISTORY AND FICTION IN J.M. COETZEE’S “THE NARRATIVE OF JACOBUS COETZE” AND IN EUROPEAN EXPLORATION NARRATIVES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA María J. López .............................................................................................. 101 VENGEANCE DEFERRED: CHILDREN IN THE SELECTED SHORT STORIES OF SAKI Sean Moran .................................................................................................. 117 BOOK REVIEWS VIORICA PATEA, ED. (2012). SHORT STORY THEORIES: A TWENTY- FIRST CENTURY PERSPECTIVE José R. Ibáñez .............................................................................................. 137 8 TIMOTHY M. COSTELLOE, ED. (2012). THE SUBLIME: FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT Jonathan P. A. Sell ....................................................................................... 147 BIOGRAPHIC NOTES ON THE AUTHORS ................................................ 155 NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS...................................................................... 159 POEM (TWILIGHT) BY P. PREETHU ...........................................................Back Cover 9 FOREWORD Dear reader: Once more the The Grove. Working Papers on English Studies has fi nally come out at the end of the year. We give heartfelt thanks to our authors and blind referees without whom our endeavour would be fruitless. Referees are the most generous and important part of a scientifi c journal, as they mainly carry out valuable work gratis et amore. And they are not only benefi cial to our journal, but also to the contributors themselves. Indeed, their generally well meant and insightful judgement is an integral part to improving the contributions received, even those that are not fi nally accepted and which are given useful advice regarding their improvement for further submissions. And what can we say about contributors? The very word underlines the crucial role they play in our journal. Without their contribution our undertaking would not be possible and that is why we want to thank all the authors who have trusted us to assess and diffuse their works. This year The Grove will appear once again both online and in print. We are paving the way for the complete digitalization of the editing process, and next year, in accordance with the directions of the University of Jaén Publishing Service, it will appear wholly online, which will mean it will be fully digitalized. For the time being digitalization has consisted in offering the Grove in pdf format, including previous issues (see http://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/grove/). We follow the same method for this issue, since this is the easiest and surest way to avoid variance between the online and the printed versions. As for the articles and reviews constituting the present issue, it seems that the balance has