Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos Vol. 31, núm. 2 Diciembre 2009 31.2 (December 2009) 31.2 (Diciembre 2009) EDITORS Editores General Editor: Angela Downing Universidad Complutense de Madrid Assistant Editor: Ludmila Urbanová Managing Editor: Carmen Méndez University of Brno Universidad Complutense de Madrid Book Reviews Editor: Clara Calvo Editor’s Assistant: Juan Rafael Zamorano Universidad de Murcia Universidad Complutense de Madrid Universität Bremen Copy Editor: Jorge Arús Hita Universidad Complutense de Madrid EDITORIAL BOARD Consejo de Redacción BOARD OF ADVISORS Consejo Asesor Andrew Blake Heinz Ickstadt University of Winchester Freie Universität Berlin Martin Bygate J. Hillis Miller Lancaster University University of California at Irvine Teresa Fanego Susheila M. Nasta Universidad de Santiago de Compostela Open University Fernando Galván Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Universidad de Alcalá de Henares Universidad de La Rioja BOARD OF REFEREES Consejo Científico y Evaluador Joan C. Beal Rachel Bowlby Graham D. Caie University of Sheffield University College London University of Glasgow Jesús Benito Sánchez Kris Van den Branden Gordon Campbell Universidad de Valladolid Katholieke Universiteit Leuven University of Leicester Marcella Bertuccelli Papi Mario Brdar Isabel Carrera Università di Pisa Josip Juraj Strossmayer University Universidad de Oviedo Nilufer E. Bharucha Laurel J. Brinton Shirley Chew University of Mumbai University of British Columbia University of Leeds Clare Birchall Manuel Broncano Robert Clark Middlesex University Universidad de León University of East Anglia Anita Biressi Jorge Luis Bueno Alonso Thomas Claviez Roehampton University University of Vigo University of Bern Maggie Ann Bowers Christopher S. Butler Tom Cohen University of Portsmouth Swansea University University of Albany Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre David Johnson Victor J. Ramraj Universidad de Murcia The Open University University of Calgary Francisco J. Cortés Rodríguez Stephan Kohl David Richards Universidad de La Laguna Julius-Maximilians-Universität University of Stirling Isabel de la Cruz Cabanillas Würzburg Caroline Rooney Universidad de Alcalá de Henares Zoltán Kövecses University of Kent Pilar Cuder Eötvös Loránd University Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Universidad de Huelva Manfred Krug Universidad de La Rioja Daniela Daniele Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg Dianne F. Sadoff Università di Udine Merja Kytö Rutgers University Rocío G. Davis Uppsala University Jürgen Schlaeger University of Navarra Alberto Lázaro Humboldt-Universität Berlin Denise deCaires Narain Universidad de Alcalá de Henares Elena Seoane University of Sussex Ursula Lenker Universidad de Santiago de Compostela Celestino Deleyto Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Universidad de Zaragoza München María Josep Solé Sabater Balz Engler María José López Couso Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona University of Basel Universidad de Santiago de Alasdair Spark Compostela Charles Forceville University of Winchester University of Amsterdam Dámaso López García M. S. Suárez Lafuente Universidad Complutense de Madrid Javier Franco Aixelá Universidad de Oviedo Universidad de Alicante María Losada Friend Juan Antonio Suárez Universidad de Huelva María del Pilar García Mayo Universidad de Murcia Universidad del País Vasco Ricardo Mairal Usón Henry Sussman UNED Cristina Garrigós University of Buffalo / Yale University Universidad de León Ana María Manzanas Calvo Justine Tally Universidad de Salamanca Dirk Geeraerts Universidad de La Laguna University of Leuven Javier Martín Arista Paloma Tejada Caller Universidad de La Rioja Lincoln Geraghty Universidad Complutense de Madrid University of Portsmouth John McLeod Geoff Thompson University of Leeds Vincent Gillespie University of Liverpool University of Oxford Lavinia Merlini I. M. Tieken-Boon van Ostade Università di Pisa Cristina Giorcelli University of Leiden Università di Roma Tre Rafael Monroy Harish Trivedi Universidad de Murcia University of Delhi Manuel José Gómez Lara Universidad de Sevilla Carmen Muñoz Carmen Valero Garcés Universitat de Barcelona José Luis González Escribano Universidad de Alcalá de Henares Universidad de Oviedo Jo Anne Neff Van Aertselaer Boris Vejdovsky Universidad Complutense de Madrid Francisco Gonzálvez García University of Lausanne Universidad de Almería Heather Nunn Ruth Wodak Roehampton University Agnieszka Graff Lancaster University Warsaw University James Ogude Pilar Zozaya University of the Witwatersrand Leighton Grist University of Barcelona University of Winchester Ana Ojea Universidad de Oviedo Adolphe Haberer Université Lumière-Lyon 2 Mohamed-Salah Omri University of Exeter Felicity Hand Cranham Universitat de Barcelona Klaus-Uwe Panther Universität Hamburg Pilar Hidalgo Universidad de Málaga Pedro Javier Pardo Universidad de Salamanca Juan Carlos Hidalgo Universidad de Sevilla Ruth Parkin-Gounelas Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Ton Hoenselaars Utrecht University Javier Pérez Guerra Universidad de Vigo Jacqueline Hurtley Universitat de Barcelona James Procter University of Newcastle upon Tyne Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos 31.2 (December 2009) 31.2 (Diciembre 2009) Table of Contents • Índice Articles • Artículos Shakespeare in Rushdie/Shakespearean Rushdie Geetha Ganapathy-Doré University of Paris 13 ....................................................................................................... 9 Bram Stoker’s Dracula. A Study on the Human Mind and Paranoid Behaviour Andrés Romero Jódar University of Zaragoza ..................................................................................................... 23 Tell-Tale Signs - Edgar Allan Poe and Bob Dylan: Towards a Model of Intertextuality Christopher Rollason Metz, France ................................................................................................................... 41 Pragmatic and Cognitive Constraints on Lexical-Constructional Subsumption Lorena Pérez Hernández University of La Rioja María Sandra Peña Cervel UNED ............................................................................................................................ 57 De-constructing Race and Identity in US Presidential Discourse: Barack Obama’s Speech on Race Michael S. Boyd Università Roma Tre/Libera Università “San Pio V” ......................................................... 75 Bridge Indians and Cultural Bastards: Narratives of Urban Exclusion in the World’s ‘Most Liveable’ City Alicia Menéndez Tarrazo Universidad de Oviedo .................................................................................................... 95 A Time to Love and a Time to Die: Desire and Narrative Structure in 21 Grams Mª del Mar Azcona Montoliú Universidad de Zaragoza ................................................................................................. 111 The Origin and Development of Self-help Literature in the United States: The Concept of Success and Happiness, an Overview Mercè Mur Effing Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ................................................................................. 125 Representing Third Spaces, Fluid Identities and Contested Spaces in Contemporary British Literature Irene Pérez Fernández Universitat de les Illes Balears .......................................................................................... 143 Reviews • Reseñas Celestino Deleyto 2009: The Secret Life of Romantic Comedy reviewed by Tamar Jeffers McDonald ................................................................... 163 Pier, John and José Ángel García Landa, eds. 2008: Theorizing Narrativity reviewed by Marta Dahlgren .................................................................................. 169 Samuel Johnson 1775: Viaje a las islas occidentales de Escocia reviewed by María Luisa Pascual Garrido ........................................................... 177 Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera and Ascensión Arribas-Baño 2008: Pedagogical Specialised Lexicography reviewed by Aquilino Sánchez ................................................................................. 183 Antonio García Gómez 2007: Habla Conflictiva como Acción Social. Discurso y Cognición reviewed by Carmen Gregori Signes ....................................................................... 191 Sandra Mollin 2006: Euro-English. Assessing Variety Status reviewed by Carmen Isabel Luján García .............................................................. 197 Acknowledgements ........................................................................................................ 203 Editorial policy and Instructions to contributors ........................................................... 205 ARTICLES ARTÍCULOS ATLANTIS. Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies. 31.2 (December 2009): 9–22 ISSN 0210-6124 Shakespeare in Rushdie/Shakespearean Rushdie Geetha Ganapathy-Doré University of Paris 13 [email protected] Postcolonial readers situate Shakespeare at the starting point and Salman Rushdie at the other end of the spectrum of multicultural authors who have laid claims to universality. While the fact that Rushdie’s epoch-making novel Midnight’s Children adapted for the theatre by Tim Supple, was produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2003 would have come as a surprise to many, the Bard himself, his birthplace, allusions to and quotations from his work, parodic rewriting of his plots and brilliant recasting of his characters have always punctuated