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Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz and Jon Ortiz de Urbina Arruabarrena (Eds.) On the move: Glancing Backwards To Build a Future in English Studies University of Deusto Deusto Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas Gizarte eta Giza Zientzien Fakultatea Faculty of Social and Human Sciences Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos On the Move: Glancing Backwards To Build a Future in English Studies Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz and Jon Ortiz de Urbina Arruabarrena, Editors On the Move: Glancing Backwards To Build a Future in English Studies 2016 Universidad de Deusto Bilbao © Editors: Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz and Jon Ortiz de Urbina Arruabarrena © Texts of the chapters: the authors © Images: as stated in each case. If not explicitly stated, the responsibility lies with the author of the chapter. © This edition: Universidad de Deusto, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2016 Apartado 1 – 48080 Bilbao Cover image: Ángel Sánchez and Victoria Rudi Total or partial reproduction of this book is not permitted, nor its digital treatment, or its transmission in any form or by any means, either electronic, mechanic, photocopy or other method, without the prior written permission of the holders of the copyright. I.S.B.N.: 978-84-15759-87-4 Printed in Spain Contents in Brief Preface ………………………………………….……………………………………….. 11 Part I. Keynote Essays…...………………………...………………………………… 13 BARTHOLOMAE,DAVID. University of Pittsburgh, US. Ordinary language and the Teaching of Writing …………………………..….…... 15 PULLUM,GEOFFREY K. University of Edinburgh, UK. English Grammar and English Literature ………………………………….……… 25 RÍO RAIGADAS,DAVID. Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea Reinterpreting the American West from an Urban Literary Perspective: Contemporary Reno Writing ……………………….……….39 Part II. Literature and Cultural Studies………………………………………… 51 ALONSO JEREZ,MARTA. Universidad de Málaga Reinventing Female Fashion: From Victorian Apparel to Steampunk Expression of the Self …………………………….…..…... 53 AVANZAS ÁLVAREZ,ELENA. Universidad de Oviedo The Industrialization of the Female Body in Twenty-First Century Crime Fiction …………………………………….…….….. 65 BERMELLO ISUSI,MIKEL. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela The Will to Belong in Carson McCullers’ The Member of the Wedding …...…….. 71 CANTUESO URBANO,ELENA. Universidad de Málaga Erased Identities: Marita Conlon-McKenna’s The Magdalen (1999) ……….….… 77 COBO PIÑERO,ROCÍO. Universidad de Cádiz Americanah: Translating Three Countries into English and the Afropolitan Consciousness ……………………………...…... 83 CRUZ-RUS,CELIA. Universidad de Málaga Tracing the Edwardian Artist in Contemporary Fiction ………………..….……… 89 CUCARELLA RAMON,VICENT. Universitat de Valencia Sacred Feminity and Spiritual Self-Definition in African American Women Writers: From Zora Neale Hurston to Ayana Mathis ……………..……... 95 ~ 7 ~ 8TABLE OF CONTENTS GÓMEZ LÓPEZ,ESTHER. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Family Loss in Joyce Carol Oates’s We Are the Mulvaneys ……………..…... 101 GUERRERO,ISABEL. Universidad de Murcia Garrick’s Jubilee: Between Theatre and Ritual …………………………………… 107 IBARROLA-ARMENDARIZ,AITOR. Universidad de Deusto Perhaps Not “Absolutely True,” But Definitely Closely Observed and Deeply Rooted in Reality …………………………………. 113 LOJO RODRÍGUEZ,LAURA Mª. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Make It New: Gender and Tradition in Michèle Roberts’s Mud: Stories of Sex and Love ..………………………………... 121 MARTÍNEZ GARCÍA,ANA BELÉN. Universidad de Navarra Narrative Emotions and Human Rights Life Writing ……………………………... 127 MARTÍNEZ-GARCÍA,LAURA. Universidad de Oviedo Nell Gwyn as the Epitome of Englishness: The Case of Anna Neagle, the True English Rose ………………………………… 133 MENA GONZÁLEZ,ANGELA. Universidad de Oviedo Humanity, Nature and History. Destiny Bounded to Natural Phenomena: Fokir in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide …………………………. 141 PARRONDO CARRETERO,CONCEPCIÓN. Universidad de Málaga New Ways to Remember: Memory in Tayari Jones’s Leaving Atlanta …………... 147 RIOBÓ PÉREZ,NEREA. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Gothic Fairy Tales: Angela Carter’s Torture Chamber and the Evil Marquis …………………………………………… 153 RODRÍGUEZ LORO,NORA. Universidad de Sevilla Sedley’s The Mulberry Garden (1668) and the Genre of the Dramatic Dedication ………………………………………... 159 STEFANOVA RADOULSKA,SVETLANA. Universidad Internacional de la Rioja Writing Woman: Identity, Self and Otherness in Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria by Noo Saro-Wiwa ……………………. 165 Part III. Language and Linguistics ………………………………………………. 171 ALVES CASTRO,MARIAN. Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea Gapping and Pseudogapping Constructions with Multiple Remnants ……………. 173 BEMPOSTA RIVAS,SOFÍA. Universidade de Vigo A Corpus Study on Durst and the Construction Dared and Bare Infinitive Clause in Middle English and Early Modern English …………………... 183 On the Move in English Studies 9 BOUZADA JABOIS,CARLA (Universidade de Vigo / KU Leuven) and JAVIER PÉREZ- GUERRA (Universidade de Vigo) Fusing Nonfinite Peripheral Constructions Constructively: on Absolutes and Free Adjuncts in the Recent History of English ………………... 191 CARRETERO,MARTA. Universidad Complutense de Madrid A Contrastive Analysis of English Possible and Spanish Posible ………………… 201 CONTRERAS GARCÍA,LUCÍA and DANIEL GARCÍA VELASCO. Universidad de Oviedo Ah! Interjections …………………………………………………………………... 209 DE DIOS FLORES,IRIA. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela More People Have presented in Conferences than I Have. Comparative Illusions: When Ungrammaticality Goes Unnoticed ……………….. 219 FERNÁNDEZ FERNÁNDEZ,RAQUEL. Centro Universitario Cardenal Cisneros Students’ perceptions and concerns on the use of CLIL in Teacher Education Degrees ……………………………………….. 229 FERNÁNDEZ PENA,YOLANDA. Universidade de Vigo Revisiting the Role of Plural of-Dependents on Verbal Agreement with Collective Nouns: A Syntactic Pilot Study on New Englishes ………………. 237 FERNÁNDEZ PENA,YOLANDA. Universidade de Vigo Tracing the History of of-Collectives: On the Idiomatisation of a number of, a/the majority of and a group of ………………………………….. 247 FERNÁNDEZ SANCHEZ,JAVIER. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona The clause-mate condition on multiple remnants …………………………………. 257 GONZÁLEZ CRUZ,Mª ISABEL. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Discourse Types and Functions in Popular Romance Fiction Novels (‘Work in Progress’) …………………………………… 265 LLINÀS GRAU,MIREIA (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and CÉLINE DELATOUCHE (Université Rennes 2 de Haute Bretagne) Structural Overlap and V-Raising in L2 English ………………………………….. 273 LLINÀS GRAU,MIREIA and ELOI PUIG MAYENCO. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Regressive Transfer from L4 German to L3 English: the Case of that-deletion ….. 281 MARÍN ARRESE,JUANA I., MARTA CARRETERO,KARLOS CID ABASOLO, ELENA DOMÍNGUEZ ROMERO and Mª VICTORIA MARTÍN DE LA ROSA. Universidad Complutense de Madrid The Expression of Evidentiality in English, Basque and Spanish: Cross-linguistic Perspectives and Criteria for a Database of Evidential Markers … 289 MÁRQUEZ CAAMAÑO,PAULA. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela The Morphological Constraint in Agreement Computations: the case of production errors in English and Spanish ……………………………... 299 OLTRA-MASSUET,ISABEL. Universitat Rovira i Virgili Propositional ish as a Syntactic Speech Act Phrase ……………………………….. 307 10 TABLE OF CONTENTS RUIZ VILLAÉCIJA,JOSÉ MIGUEL. Universidad de Sevilla Topic/Focus Fronting and Factive Clauses ………………………………………... 315 SIGONA,CONCETTA M. and MARÍA AMOR BARROS-DEL RÍO. Universidad de Burgos Motivation and Mistakes in the Oral Competence of Future Teachers of English ……………………………………….. 321 Part IV. Round Tables ………………………………………………………………. 327 CHAPARRO SAINZ, ÁNGEL (UPV / EHU); IBARRARAN BIGALONDO,AMAIA (UPV / EHU); MADINABEITIA MEDRANO,MONIKA (HUHEZI – U. de Mondragón) Major Scales for Minority Groups: Music, Identity and Voices in the American West ………………………………………... 329 LÁZARO,ALBERTO;GALVÁN,FERNANDO;SELL,JONATHAN P.A.; CAMACHO,JUAN MANUEL (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares) Views of the Spanish Civil War from Some Forgotten Texts …………………….. 335 PHILLIPS,WILLIAM C. (U. de Barcelona); RENES,CORNELIS M. (U. de Barcelona); RIBAS SEGURA,CATALINA (CESAG, Mallorca); SANTAULARIA,ISABEL (U. de Lérida) Reading Postcolonial Crime Fiction: A Non-Canonical Approach to Detecting Social Change …………………………………………….. 341 SACIDO ROMERO,JORGE (U. de Santiago de Compostela); TORRES ZÚÑIGA,LAURA (U. Cátolica San Antonio de Murcia); LARA RALLO,CARMEN (U. de Málaga); ANDRÉS CUEVAS,ISABEL Mª (U. de Granada) Women’s Tales of Dissent: Exploring Female Experience in the Short Fiction of Helen Simpson, Janice Galloway, A.S. Byatt and Jeanette Winterson ……………………………... 345 Preface These lines, therefore, will probably blend the weft of first purposes and speculations, with the warp of that experience afterwards, always bringing strange developments. Walt Whitman, “A Backward Glance o’er Travel’d Roads” Glancing backwards is probably one of the most common gestures in scholarly work. Some glance into the past for inspiration, relishing those voices that were able to capture thoughts almost beyond the reach of human language. Others try to grasp the truths that evaded their forebears and might have led earlier generations to reach wiser assumptions. As philosopher George Santayana famously put it, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Still others deem it necessary to enter into lively conversations with the precursors in the discipline in order to establish their particular
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    MOMENTUM, MOMENT, EPIPHANY: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERSECTION OF MOTION PICTURE, THE STILL FRAME, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL FORM by MARK GERSTEIN B.A. The University of Chicago, 1986 A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in the School of Visual Arts and Design in the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida Spring Term 2018 ABSTRACT My journey from Hollywood Film production to a Fine Arts practice has been shaped by theory from Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Psychology, Film, and Art, leading me to a new visual vocabulary at the intersection of motion picture, the still image, and three-dimensional form. I create large mixed media collages by projecting video onto photographs and sculptural forms, breaking the boundaries of the conventional film frame and exceeding the dynamic range of typical visual experience. My work explores emotional connections and fissures within family, and hidden meanings of haunting memories and familiar places. I am searching for an elusive type of perceptual experience characterized by an instantaneous shift in perspective—an “aha” moment of epiphany when suddenly I have the overpowering feeling that I am both seeing and aware that I am seeing. ii To Lori, Joshua and Maya, for your infinite patience and unconditional love. iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge all my Studio Art colleagues who have so graciously tolerated my presence in their sandbox over these last few years. In particular, I want to thank my Thesis Committee: Carla Poindexter, my chair, for her nuanced critique, encouragement and unwavering belief in the potential of my work, and ability to embrace the seemingly contradictory roles of mentor and colleague; Jo Anne Adams, for her attention to detail and narrative sensibility that comes from our shared background in the film industry; and Ryan Buyssens, for showing me the possibilities of technology and interactivity, and reminding me to never lose sight of the meaning in my art.