Melania Terrazas Gallego

University of La Rioja | UNIRIOJA · Modern Philologies

Pat Boran attended the conference "Irish Itinerary 2018 (EFACIS): Trauma and Identity in Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture" at the University of La Rioja, Spain. This interview took place there on 15 February 2018, and covered Ireland, gender, trauma, identity, poetry, human and family relations, the state, broadcasting, formal innovation,...

La incursión de las nuevas tecnologías en nuestras vidas, la sobreestimulación sensorial, las prisas y la comodidad hacen que sea difícil conectar con la Naturaleza. Este trabajo analiza si el contacto con la misma favorece la aparición de cambios en las personas a nivel emocional, social y naturalista, si puede transformar sus prácticas diarias po...

As Julie Bates claims, “the most exciting new writing in Ireland is happening in the field of nonfiction” (2020: 228-229) and, more particularly, in the form of the essay. Sinéad Gleeson uses the confessional mode in her essay collection Constellations: Reflections from Life (2019) to recount her experiences of two deadly illnesses and to challenge...

Spanish Translation of Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats

La traducción 2. Junto a la Ciénaga de los Gatos … nos transporta hasta un inquietante mundo rural en el que la hostilidad hacia lo diferente se convierte en el perfecto escenario para la reinvención de la Medea de Eurípides. De esta manera, el mito es usado para mostrar el conflicto al que debe enfrentarse la transgresora Esther, quien no encuentr...

In recent times, the Irish literary arena has witnessed an extraordinary flourishing of women’s life writing, with a special interest in the examination of the female body. These works explore the relations between identity, memoir, and narration through the confessional, and reconceptualise the female body in the Irish context. This article sets o...

The purpose of this chapter is to explore the process of translating Marina Carr’s Irish play By the Bog of Cats…(1998) into Spanish. Except for Latin-American critic Patricia Novillo-Corvalán’s El Pantano de los Gatos (2009), which is a partial translation of the play into a variety of Spanish known as Rioplatense (spoken generally in Argentina an...

Research has shown that neoliberalism alters the balance of power in favour of market forces and produces mental distress in young people. Given that media narratives and narrative texts reflect public discourse and mutually constitute one another, this analysis focuses on Alan McMonagle’s second novel, Laura Cassidy’s Walk of Fame, which stands fo...

Emer Martin is an Irish author, artist and teacher who lives in California. She has produced a strikingly diverse range of work: novels, poems, literary journalism, paintings, and short films. She is also an active writer for newspapers and on social media. Her first novel, Breakfast in Babylon(1995), won Book of the Year 1996 at the prestigious Li...

This article examines Irish writer Alan McMonagle’s use of dark satire in his debut novel Ithaca (2017), which presents the story of Jason, a vulnerable child who meets another of society’s scapegoats, an unnamed “girl at the swamp”, and whose friendship offers an escape from the misery of life in the bog hole they call home. McMonagle’s invective...

The last two centuries of Irish history have seen great traumas that continue to affect Irish society. Through constructing cultural trauma, Irish society can recognize human pain and its source/s and become receptive to the idea of taking significant and responsible measures to remedy it. The intention of this volume is to show the mediating role...

Marina Carr participated in the Conference “Irish Itinerary 2018 (EFACIS): Trauma and Identity in Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture” at the University of La Rioja. The following interview took place there on 13 February 2018, covering issues of gender, trauma, identity and travellers in an Irish context. Greek tragedy and myth, and Spanish...

This chapter focuses on the way in which the rhetoric of satire can illuminate the broad semantic nature of the poem ‘The Looking Glass’ (1967) by the Indian writer Kamala Das, the novel The Bluest Eye (1970) by the African-American Nobel prize-winning author Toni Morrison and the short-story ‘Birth-Certificates’ (1993) by the Irish writer Evelyn C...

On 1 March 2017, former Taoiseach Enda Kenny announced formal recognition of IrishTravellers’ unique heritage, culture and identity by the state. This fact triggered my interestin exploring the important cultural questions surrounding Irish travellers and investigatingtheir (mis)representation in the fields of literature and film documentary, and i...

ISBN 978-1-78997-557-4 (print) • eISBN 978-1-78997-558-1 (ePDF) eISBN 978-1-78997-559-8 (ePub) • eISBN 978-1-78997-560-4 (Mobi) Cover image: 'Crossing Borders' by Emer Martin. Cover design by Peter Lang Ltd.

The legacy of the Troubles is a difficult subject for the contemporary Irish scholar, if for no other reason than the scale of the literary, artistic, and critical output inspired by the political conflict in and about Northern Ireland. Within this work there has been a key focus on the iconic site of the prisons where paramilitary prisoners reside...

Irish modernism is a demanding subject for the contemporary Irish scholar, if for no other reason than the enormous amount of literary, artistic, and critical output of high modernism in Irish literature and culture. If we add to this the large number of themes, forms, and practices of high modernism, and artists’ interests in a wide range of cultu...

Gender Issues in Contemporary Irish Literature aims to complement an array of rigorously multidisciplinary investigations of Irish studies from gender and other theoretical perspectives. The articles approach the representation of gender issues by various fe/male authors from the Republic of Ireland from a wide variety of perspectives, namely, ecof...

The Butcher Boy (1992) is the third novel by Northern Irish author Patrick McCabe. It tells the story of 12-year-old Francie Brady and is set in the small town of Clones, in western County Monaghan, Ireland in the early 1960s. The town was badly hit economically by the partition of Ireland in 1921 because of its location on the border with County F...

This article focuses on Irish writer Evelyn Conlon’s most recent novel, Not the Same Sky (2013), which fictionalises the story of 4,414 Irish girls orphaned by famine who were shipped to Sydney, Australia between 1849 and 1850 to satisfy the demand for domestic servants in the colony. Since Australia also needed marriageable young women, many orpha...

The Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis offers fresh insight into the fascinating and controversial works, both literary and visual, of Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957). Accessible to students and scholars alike, this Companion illuminates key areas of Lewis's life and career. Written by a team of leading experts, this book examines Lewis's work in light...

This essay focuses on Claire Keegan's markedly satirical understanding of the inadequacy of quotidian reality in rural Ireland and its tragic effects on people, especially on women, as well as in Keegan's use of the short story genre to concentrate on the quality of seeing rather than on moralizing issues - a technique which has led her way of writ...

La obra de Evelyn Conlon ha sido analizada frecuentemente bajo una perspectiva feminista. Sin embargo, su estilo polifacético e ingenio irónico distan mucho de haber sido analizados en profundidad. Este artículo examina dos relatos de Conlon titulados «The Park» y «Birth Certificates». Estas historias fueron publicadas en Taking Scarlet as a Real C...

Vocabulary knowledge is central in FL learning. A large number of studies have shown a positive link between learners' achievement in FL learning and motivation. However not many have paid attention to the specific effect of motivation in FL vocabulary learning. This paper explores the relevance of motivation and age in receptive vocabulary size ac...

Previous research on vocabulary choice and acquisition from varied perspectives has shown that gender differences in EFL are relevant. However, studies in the area of L2 vocabulary size development concerning sex at different ages and educational stages have either revealed indefinite results or have been scarce, especially in the context of primar...

According to Ingman (2009:253), throughout the history of the Irish short story the dialogue between male and female writers has been constant. Stories by women do not necessarily reveal a different approach to the form, but a strong determination to put women’s lives at the centre of their work. The purpose of this paper is to study whether there...

This paper attempts to fill a void in literary criticism on Lewis’s conception of satire by providing a systematic account of his satiric theory and practice, because his discursive and creative satirical writings are as miscellaneous as the nature of the satirical mode. Here I apply Griffin’s (1994) conception of satiric discourse (1994) based on...

Receptive vocabulary size is an important component of lexical competence and has been observed to be instrumental for both reading and writing. The central purpose of this paper is two-fold: first, to assess the receptive vocabulary of 274 primary school Spanish learners of EFL after a total of 629 hours of instruction; second, to determine the ex...

This paper tracks the increase in the overall word reception knowledge of 224 young pupils in their 4th, 5th and 6th grades of primary education and in their 1st year of secondary education (7th grade), who learn EFL in a formal context. The 2,000 word frequency band of The Vocabulary Levels Test (Schmitt, Schmitt and Clapham, 2001, version 2) is u...

This paper responds to the need for research on vocabulary knowledge in foreign language education. First, we investigate the receptive vocabulary knowledge of students learning English in Spanish primary education by using the 1,000 word test and the 2,000 frequency band of The Vocabulary Levels Test (VLT). Second, we study differences between the...

This paper responds to the need for research on vocabularyknowledge in foreign language education. First, we investigate the receptivevocabulary knowledge of students learning English in Spanish primary educationby using the 1,000 word test and the 2,000 frequency band of The VocabularyLevels Test (VLT). Second, we study differences between the sex...

This paper focuses on the one-sided interpersonal behaviour of VincentPenhale, the main fictional character in Lewis’s didactic thriller TheVulgar Streak (1941), in an attempt to unearth some of its peculiarsociological implications. To carry out this task we concentrate on theidiosyncrasy of his social interactions following American sociologicalR...

Este estudio intenta aclarar las ideas sociales modernas contenidas en cuatro obras de ficción de Percy Wyndham Lewis, es decir, su obra narrativa abstracta Tarr (1918), su novela humorística Snooty Baronet (1932), su sátira social The Vulgar Streak (1941) y su obra de creación de naturaleza autobiográfica Self-Condemned (1954) La Teoría Americana...