Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos Vol. 39, núm. 1 Junio 2017 39.1 (June 2017) 39.1 (Junio 2017) EDITORS Dirección General Editor: Juan Camilo Conde Silvestre Universidad de Murcia Managing Editor: Laura Esteban Segura Universidad de Málaga Book Reviews Editor: Javier Calle Martín Universidad de Málaga Copy Editors Nila Vázquez Javier Ruano García Universidad de Murcia Universidad de Salamanca EDITORIAL BOARD Consejo de Redacción BOARD OF ADVISORS Consejo Asesor Catherine Belsey Juan M. Hernández-Campoy University of Swansea Universidad de Murcia Celestino Deleyto Pilar Hidalgo Universidad de Zaragoza Universidad de Málaga Angela Downing John McLeod Universidad Complutense de Madrid University of Leeds Dirk Geeraerts Carmen Muñoz Lahoz University of Leuven Universidad de Barcelona Lawrence Grossberg Susanne Opfermann University of North Carolina Goethe-Universität Frankfurt BOARD OF REFEREES Consejo Científico y Evaluador Carlos ACUÑA FARIÑA José Francisco FERNÁNDEZ Daniel KATZ Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Universidad de Almería University of Warwick Mauricio D. AGUILERA LINDE Vita FORTUNATI Jean-Jacques LECERCLE Universidad de Granada Università di Bologna Université Paris Nanterre Mireia ARAGAY Pedro A. 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The Year’s Work in English Studies (Oxford Journals) Ulrichsweb (Online) Atlantis holds the Quality Seal for Excellence in Academic Journals awarded by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (2014-2017) (Sello de Calidad de Revistas Científicas Españolas, fecyt) Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos 39.1 (June 2017) 39.1 (Junio 2017) Table of Contents • Índice Articles • Artículos “A Relaxing Cup of Lingua Franca Core”: Local Attitudes Towards Locally-Accented English Juan Antonio Cutillas Espinosa · Universidad de Murcia .................... 11 Verbal Agreement with Collective Nominal Constructions: Syntactic and Semantic Determinants Yolanda Fernández-Pena · Universidade de Vigo ........................... 33 Mrs. Fielding: The Single Woman as the Incarnation of the Ideal Domestic Women ... 55 Aída Díaz Bild · Universidad de La Laguna The Inoperative Community in The Bell Jar: The Sharing of Interrupted Myth María Luisa Pascual-Garrido · Universidad de Córdoba ...................... 71 Woody Guthrie’s Songs Against Franco Will Kaufman · University of Central Lancanshire ........................... 91 Toward an Affective Problematics: A Deleuze-Guattarian Reading of Morality and Friendship in Toni Morrison’s Sula Naeem Nedaee and Ali Salami · University of Tehran ........................ 113 Under the Radar: Jess Walter’s The Zero and the State of Irony and Satire after 9/11 Dolores Resano · Universitat de Barcelona ................................. 133 Unexpected Alliances: Friendship and Agency in US Breast Cancer Theater Marta Fernández-Morales · Universidad de Oviedo ........................ 153 Exorcising Personal Traumas / Silencing History: Jennifer Johnston’s The Invisible Worm Constanza del Río · Universidad de Zaragoza ............................... 173 “A Dangerous Love”: Ben Okri’s Persisting Commitment to Literary Experimentation Maurice Frank O’Connor · Universidad de Cádiz ........................... 189 —7— 8 TABLE OF CONTENTS • ÍNDICE Interview • Entrevista “I Have Always Been a Writer”: An Interview with Evelyn Conlon by Melania Terrazas Gallego ......................................... 207 Reviews • Reseñas Paula Martín Salván, Gerardo Rodríguez Salas and Julián Jiménez Heffernan, eds. 2013. Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction reviewed by Antonio J. Jiménez Muñoz ................................... 223 Cynthia Sugars and Eleanor Ty, eds. 2014. Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory reviewed by Miasol Eguíbar Holgado .................................... 229 Silvia Pellicer-Ortín. 2015. Eva Figes’ Writings: A Journey through Trauma reviewed by laura de la Parra Fernández ................................ 235 Brenda M. Boyle, ed. 2015. The Vietnam War. Topics in Contemporary North American Literature reviewed by Cristina Alsina Rísquez ..................................... 241 John Knox (1588) 2016. El primer toque de trompeta contra