Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos Vol. 31, núm. 1 Junio 2009 31.1 (June 2009) 31.1 (Junio 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 Stavanger 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 31.1 (June 2009) 31.1 (Junio 2009) Table of Contents • Índice Articles • Artículos The Character of Phantasm: Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ and Jorge Luis Borges’ ‘Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius’ Christopher Rollason Metz (France) .................................................................................................................. 9 Temporality and Narrative Structure in Flannery O’Connor’s Tales Marita Nadal University of Zaragoza ..................................................................................................... 23 The Buddy as Anima? Revisiting Friendships between Men in Richard Ford’s The Sportswriter Josep M. Armengol-Carrera SUNY (State University of New York) at Stony Brook ....................................................... 41 Planting Civilization in the Wilderness: The Intersections of Manifest Destiny and the Cult of Domesticity in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ The Great Meadow Constante González Groba Universidad de Oviedo .................................................................................................... 57 Salas y Quiroga’s Anglo-Saxon England: a Psychological and Sociological Portrait of Power Paloma Tejada Caller Universidad Complutense Madrid ................................................................................... 73 On There-Passive Participle Constructions Concha Castillo Universidad de Málaga .................................................................................................... 91 Voice-overs in Standardized English and Spanish Television Commercials Barry Pennock-Speck and Mª Milagros del Saz Rubio Universitat de València / Universidad Politécnica de Valencia ........................................... 111 Examining the Relationship between Receptive Vocabulary Size and Written Skills of Primary School Learners Mª Pilar Agustín Llach and Melania Terrazas Gallego Universidad de La Rioja ................................................................................................... 129 Reviews • Reseñas Alexandra Gillespie 2006: Print Culture and the Medieval Author: Chaucer, Lydgate, and Their Books 1473–1557 reviewed by Jordi Sánchez-Martí ........................................................................... 151 Ursula Lenker and Anneli Meurman-Solin 2007: Connectives in the History of English reviewed by Cristina Suárez Gómez ....................................................................... 157 Judie Newman 2007: Fictions of America. Narratives of Global Empire reviewed by Paula Martín Salván .......................................................................... 165 Jonathan P. A. Sell 2006: Rhetoric and Wonder in English Travel Writing, 1560-1613 reviewed by Eduardo Valls ...................................................................................... 171 Francisco J. Borge 2007: A New World for a New Nation: The Promotion of America in Early Modern England reviewed by Jonathan Sell ........................................................................................ 177 Elizabeth Russell, ed. 2006: Loving against the Odds: Women’s Writing in English in a European Context reviewed by Carolina Sánchez-Palencia ............................................................... 183 Jean I. Marsden 2006: Fatal Desire. Women, Sexuality, and the English Stage, 1660-1720 reviewed by Paula de Pando Mena .......................................................................... 191 María José Mora, Manuel Gómez-Lara, Rafael Portillo and Juan A. Prieto-Pablos, eds. 2007: The Woman Turned Bully reviewed by Jorge Figueroa Dorrego ..................................................................... 197 Acknowledgements ........................................................................................................ 203 Editorial policy and Instructions to contributors ........................................................... 205 ARTICLES ARTÍCULOS ATLANTIS. Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies. 31.1 (June 2009): 9–22 ISSN 0210-6124 The Character of Phantasm: Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ and Jorge Luis Borges’ ‘Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius’ Christopher Rollason Metz (France) [email protected] The traces of Edgar Allan Poe in the work of Jorge Luis Borges have long been recognised, but both in the Argentinian writer’s own hands and