Gustavo A. Rodríguez Martín

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Assistant) at University of Extremadura

Phraseological Units (PUs) in a language often include quotations and the so-called authorial “winged words” (“geflügelte Worte” in Gläser 1986), which have a single known author. These units, by gaining popularity among the members of a community of speakers, take on a life of their own as PUs. This study illustrates how these quotations acquire m...

This chapter has eight sections: 1. General; 2 Fiction Pre-1945; 3. Fiction Post-1945; 4. Drama Pre-1950; 5. Drama Post-1950; 6. British Poetry Pre-1950; 7. British Poetry Post-1950; 8. Modern Irish Poetry. Section 1 is by Jennifer Sorensen; section 2(a) is by Robbie Moore; section 2(b) is by Marta Donati; section 2(c) is by Rebecca Roach; section...

Man and Superman, Bernard Shaw’s ‘Don Juan play’, is one of the most widely studied works in Shaw’s canon.¹ Throughout its long history of critical reception, the connections between this play and the myth of Don Juan in European literature—particularly Spanish—have been well established. Shaw himself placed Tirso de Molina’s El Burlador de Sevilla...

This chapter has eight sections 1. General. 2. Fiction Pre-1945; 3. Fiction Post-1945; 4. Drama Pre-1950; 5. Drama Post-1950; 6. British Poetry Pre-1950; 7. British Poetry Post-1950; 8. Modern Irish Poetry. Section 1 is by Jennifer Sorensen; section 2(a) is by Chris Mourant; section 2(b) will resume in 2023; section 2(c) is delayed by parental leav...

This chapter has eight sections 1. General. 2. Fiction Pre-1945; 3. Fiction Post-1945; 4. Drama Pre-1950; 5. Drama Post-1950; 6. British Poetry Pre-1950; 7. British Poetry Post-1950; 8. Modern Irish Poetry. Section 1 is by Shawna Ross; section 2(a) is by Chris Mourant; section 2(b) will resume in 2023; section 2(c) is by Tiana M. Fischer; section 2...

Bernard Shaw delivered a lecture on “Art and Public Money” in March 1907 at the annual prize-giving of the Brighton School of Art. This lecture remains one of the most popular sources for Shaw’s views on these subjects, especially because of his brilliant rhetoric and unmistakably Shavian style. The purpose of this article is to provide a critical...

Cervantes—and especially his iconic novel, Don Quixote—has been considered one of the summits of world literature in England and Ireland practically since the publication of the first translations of the novel into English in the early seventeenth century. The impact of Don Quixote on the English-speaking world has been second only to the Bible. Ev...

This volume aims to fill a niche in Shaw studies that—notable exceptions aside—has been neglected for the better part of the last 100 years: Bernard Shaw’s influence and reception in the Spanish-speaking world. In all honesty, it should come as no surprise that Spanish-speaking countries have never been a focal point in Shaw studies. If one peruses...

This book explores, through a multidisciplinary approach, the immense influence exerted by Bernard Shaw on the Spanish-speaking world on both sides of the Atlantic. This collection of essays encompasses the reception and dissemination of his ideas; the translation of his works into Spanish; the performance history of his plays in Spain and Latin Am...

Michael Holroyd, in his monumental four-volume biography of Bernard Shaw, quotes one of T. S. Eliot’s editorials in The Criterion, where he criticizes Shaw for having created ‘perhaps the greatest sacrilege of all Joans: for instead of the saint or the strumpet of the legends to which he objects, he has turned her into a great middle-class reformer...

This chapter has eight sections 1. General; 2. Fiction Pre-1945; 3. Fiction Post-1945; 4. Drama Pre-1950; 5. Drama Post-1950; 6. British Poetry Pre-1950; 7. British Poetry Post-1950; 8. Modern Irish Poetry. Section 1 is by Shawna Ross; section 2(a) is by Francesca Bratton; Section 2(b) will resume in 2022; section 2(c) is by Georgina Binnie; sectio...

This chapter has eight sections 1. General. 2. Fiction Pre-1945; 3. Fiction Post-1945; 4. Drama Pre-1950; 5. Drama Post-1950; 6. British Poetry 1900–1950; 7 British Poetry Post-1950; 8. Modern Irish Poetry. Section 1 is by Shawna Ross; section 2(a) is by Francesca Bratton; section 2(b) is by Caroline Krzakowski; section 2(c) is by Sophie Corser; se...

Bernard Shaw was one of the most authoritative voices to comment on the years of political and social turmoil leading up to and following the Irish Civil War. Shaw’s political opinions created enormous interest, to the extent that practically every article and open letter he published on the subject was echoed abroad, especially in the rest of the...

This chapter has eight sections 1. General. 2 British Fiction Pre-1945; 3. British Fiction 1945 to the Present; 4. Pre-1950 Drama; 5. Post-1950 Drama; 6. British Poetry 1900–1950; 7. British Poetry Post-1950; 8. Irish Poetry. Section 1 is by Matthew Levay; section 2(a) is by Francesca Bratton; section 2(b) is by Caroline Krzakowski; section 2(c) is...

This chapter has 8 sections: 1. General; 2 Pre-1945 Fiction; 3. Post-1945 Fiction; 4. Pre-1950 Drama; 5. Post-1950 Drama; 6. British Poetry 1900–1950; 7 British Poetry Post-1950; 8. Irish Poetry. Section 1 is by Matthew Levay; section 2(a) is by Andrew Radford; section 2(b) is by Caroline Krzakowski; section 2(c) is by Maria-Daniella Dick; section...

This article describes and analyzes the production of Santa Juana (the Spanish version of Saint Joan, translated by Julio Broutá) staged by Margarita Xirgu and her company during the 1925–26 season. The outlook of this article is informed by a number of elements that contribute to provide a holistic account of this historic production. First is the...

Bernard Shaw was one of the most prominent writers of his age on the world stage. His political commitment and his sharp, witty tongue made him an authoritative figure on practically every burning question of his time. However, he modulated his outspoken activism when it came to the ‘Irish Question’. In fact, despite being born in Dublin and having...

The importance of money in Shaw’s plays needs no introduction, as many of his plays pivot around economic elements. The concrete expression of such elements, however, poses difficulties for many modern audiences/readers who, for example, do not know how the pound sterling was divided before decimalization. Another difficulty arising from the phrase...

The importance of money in Shaw's plays needs no introduction, as many of his plays pivot around economic elements. The concrete expression of such elements, however, poses difficulties for many modern audiences/readers who, for example, do not know how the pound sterling was divided before decimalization. Another difficulty arising from the phrase...

When Shaw died in 1950, the world lost one of its most well-known authors, a revolutionary who was as renowned for his personality as he was for his humour, humanity, and rebellious thinking. He remains a compelling figure who deserves attention not only for how influential he was in his time, but for how relevant he is to ours. This collection set...

Phraseological Units rank high among the most complex linguistic segments for translators, whether because of their figurative nature, their culturally specific meaning or their pragmatic peculiarities. Such difficulties increase exponentially when PUs are expressed in a multimodal fictional environment, especially if the situated meaning of the un...

Modification is a common linguistic phenomenon, particularly in genres like literature, journalism, and advertising, often going beyond the monolexical and being applied to phraseological units. Most often, phraseological modification is a creative process that does not survive the occasion it was created for, since it is strongly context-bound. Ho...

Every question may be conceived as capable of being reduced to a pure question of numbers. Numbers captivate our imagination because of their dual nature. They are the representation of the abstract concepts upon which a vast share of human knowledge rests. In addition, they are one of the most useful tools for the daily tasks of life ever since ma...

Bernard Shaw is widely regarded as one of the most important playwrights in the English language, ranking often second only to Shakespeare. This literary prominence, however, is not matched by a significant number of stylistic analyses, much more so in the case of linguistically-oriented ones. One of the few studies in Shaviana with a clear stylist...

Bernard Shaw was no doubt aware of the currency that certain phrases may gain over time. This is perhaps why he is the origin of so many pithy sayings that we now find in quotation dictionaries.1 At the same time, Shaw was also aware of his fame and popularity. In fact, one gets the impression that many of the things he said or wrote were created f...