IJES 2025, v. 25, n. 1

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Ursula k. Le Guin’s Earthsea and its place in the American West’s literary landscape.
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Alkorta, Jon; University of the Basque Country (Spain)
As a writer that incessantly directed her efforts towards raising her readers’ awareness of social, racial, and gender issues, American writer Ursula K. Le Guin’s fantasy work has been rather overlooked by literary criticism. Thus, the present paper seeks to claim this writer’s prominent position as a writer of the American West, as well as proposing her Earthsea saga as a rightful contribution to the literature of the American West. With this in mind, the paper will argue that Le Guin achieves this by combining elements that belong to the more traditional literature of the West, as is the idea of mobility, with some of the more modern proposals made by the regional perspective of the second half of the past century.
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De la Cruz-Cabanillas, Isabel. (2023). A Collection of Sundrie Approved Receipts: Study and Edition of Glasgow University Library, Ferguson MS 43. Alcalá de Henares: Editorial Universidad de Alcalá. Pages:140. ISBN: 978-84-18979-42-2.
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Soriano-Jiménez, Carlos; Sin departamento asociado.
Es reseña de: A collection of sundrie approved receipts : study and edition of Glasgow University Library, Ferguson MS 43 / Isabel de la Cruz Cabanillas. -- Universidad de Alcalá, Editorial Universidad de Alcalá, 2023. Ediciones críticas, 9. -- ISBN 9788418979118.
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The shattered language of dreams in Lyn Hejinian’s The Book of a Thousand Eyes.
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) González Rodríguez, Luisa María; Universidad de Salamanca. Departamento de Filología Inglesa.
Lyn Hejinian, a prominent figure in Language poetry, is strongly committed to the task of dismantling poetic conventions by envisaging a new language that resists the constraints of linearity and referentiality. In The Book of a Thousand Eyes (2012), she explores the dream world in order to delve into the mechanics of the writing process, while playing with language and experience at various stages of consciousness and perception. This paper examines Hejinian’s philosophical and epistemological quest for meaning and knowledge, focusing on her scrutiny of language as a medium for expressing and shaping the poet’s experiences. A further aim is to analyze her poetics of indeterminacy and her use of the framing structure of dreams to distort reality, emphasize the role of art as a radical construct, and foster a dynamic space where the poetic language is shifty and elusive.
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Cortés Vieco, Francisco José. (2021). Bearing Liminality, Laboring White Ink: Pregnancy and Childbirth in Women’s Literature. Oxford: Peter Lang. Pages: 280. ISBN: 978-1-80079-013-1.
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Celdrán-Noguera, Lucía; Filología Inglesa
Es reseña de: Bearing liminality, laboring white ink: pregnancy and childbirth in women’s literature / Francisco José Cortés Vieco. -- Oxford : Peter Lang, 2021.
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Corporeal abjection and hopefulness in Oscar Wilde’s “Charmides” (1881).
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Hueso-Vasallo, Manuel; Universidad de Málaga. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras.
This paper addresses the potential relationship between corporality, abjection, and hope in Oscar Wilde’s “Charmides” (1881). The main aim of inspecting this connection is to establish how Wilde makes use of abjection in order to defend the idea that sexual dissidence can, indeed, offer the possibility of hope. In other words, the paper focuses on how Wilde describes abject bodies and abject bodily acts in the poem in a way that ultimately defies the social and moral conventions of his period. It argues that acts that may be considered abject –such as same-sex desire– can be hopeful when addressed from a different perspective. This paper hopes to establish a clear connection between the poem, the abject, and Wilde’s defiance of the sexual mores of his period.
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Rodríguez Salas, Gerardo.(2023). Vivir sola es morir: el modernismo comunitario de Katherine Mansfield. Granada: Editorial Comares. Pages: 104. ISBN: 978-84-1369-604-1.
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Pasquín Martínez, Jose María; Sin departamento asociado.
Es reseña de: Vivir sola es morir: el modernismo comunitario de Katherine Mansfield / Gerardo Rodríguez Salas. -- Editorial Comares, 2023. -- ISBN 978-84-1369-604-1.
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A hermeneutical reading of a secularized world: the second Vatican Council and its influence on Graham Greene’s Catholic imagination.
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Valverde, Beatriz; University of Jaén. Faculty of Humanities and Education.
The Second Vatican Council and its hermeneutical dynamics of a progressively secularized modern world had a profound impact on the lives of millions. Drawing upon Jüri Lotman’s theory of cultural semiotics, this article aims first to examine Vatican II as an attempt to incorporate frontier discourses into the centrality of the Catholic Church semiosphere, i.e., the Vatican, mainly regarding moral theology and social doctrine. Within this context, I will analyze the impact of the Council on Graham Greene’s Catholic imagination. Through the study of Greene’s correspondence to editors of different publications concerning such controversial topics as birth control, the right to die, and the role of the Church in the political upheavals in Central and Latin America, I will argue that Greene identified himself with Vatican II’s desire to articulate Catholicism in new ways. Additionally, the analysis of his correspondence to the press will offer further insights into how Greene weaves these topics into his literary work. In this sense, Greene embodies the theological issues of the Council in his own religious and literary imagination and illustrates its reception by Roman Catholics in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Miranda unchained: the evolution of feminine freedom in screen representations of The Tempest.
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Mora-Rioja, Arturo; Sin departamento asociado.
This paper examines the portrayal of female characters analogous to Miranda from William Shakespeare’s The Tempest in four audiovisual adaptations: the short black-and-white film The Tempest (Stow, 1908), the film Forbidden Planet (Wilcox, 1956), the episode “Requiem for Methuselah” from the TV series Star Trek (Bixby & Golden, 1969), and the Ikea TV commercial “Beds” (Cabral, 2014). Using gender theory alongside a semi-neo-historicist approach, my analysis contrasts the representation of these characters with the status of women’s rights in the corresponding historical periods. This study evaluates whether these portrayals reflect or challenge contemporaneous gender norms and societal roles and traces the broader evolution of gender equality and feminine freedom in the Western world from the 20th century to today. The findings suggest a generally positive trajectory, although often more progressive than that of the four productions’ historical realities.
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Across the shadowy landscape of memory: a relational reading of liminal traumas in Anita Rau Badami’s Can you hear the nightbird call?
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Llano Busta, Andrea; Universidad de Oviedo. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Departamento de Filología Inglesa, Francesa y Alemana.
Liminal trauma narratives provide access to the formal representation and the affective dimension of trauma. Anita Rau Badami’s multigenerational and transnational novel Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? (2006) is a case in point, in which in-betweenness is not merely a source of affliction but may develop into a stepping stone to a belated understanding of past tragedies in twentieth-century India and Canada. Through a relational and dialogical approach encompassing Indra’s net, postmemory, rhizomatic theory, and multidirectional memory, liminality is addressed in the family and historical spheres, tracing vertical and horizontal connections between characters and episodes, which, it is argued, challenge event-based models of trauma studies, stress the importance of emotional alliances, and promote the establishment of communities of memory. Ultimately, chronologies and hierarchies are discarded in favour of network arrangements as the most suitable way to deal with interconnected traumas.
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The American television hero as a novelist of himself: language as Tópos in Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men.
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Amezcua, David; Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Facultad de Filología. Departamento de Estudios Ingleses, Lingüística y Literatura.
This article tackles the manifestations of American literary themes in Matthew Weiner’s “Mad Men”. I contend that the transmedial alignment of TV series and literature heightens our understanding of fundamental myths of American exceptionalism. This paper studies the role of language at script level as a site or “tópos” where the protagonist’s constant reinvention occurs. Moreover, it provides an interdiscursive analysis of Frank O’Hara’s “Mayakovsky” and John Cheever’s “The Swimmer” to show their thematic connection, which is the transition from old to new life. This theme possesses an axiomatic role in the genesis of this show, suggesting a tight intermedial relationship between the show’s scripts and the two literary works I will analyze. On the basis of my analysis, I suggest that reading this TV series as literature is possible if we consider both the show’s thematic connection with American literary themes and its multiple literary references.
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It-clauses with adjectival predicates in English-medium articles: disciplinary and linguacultural considerations.
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Szczygłowska, Tatiana; University of Bielsko-Biala (Poland)
This article examines it-clauses with adjectival predicates in 240 English-medium articles by Polish and Anglophone authors representing medicine and psychology, aiming to investigate how disciplinary and linguacultural constraints affect the frequency, in-text distribution, and semantic, syntactic, and lexical variability of the structure. The study attempts to address a gap in previous research, which has not yet compared these two disciplines and linguacultural contexts to reveal how they differ in their use of the device to express the writer’s stance. The results show that it-clauses are significantly more frequent in psychology and that the disciplines differ in the degree to which they exploit various aspects of the evaluative potential of the structure, although both use it most heavily in discussions, and prioritize to-infinitive clauses and evaluative predicates. The latter preference, as the study reveals, is marked only in Polish articles, where prominence is given to those features of it-clauses that are frequent in popular and non-native English writing. The features preferred in Anglophone articles are more typical of proficient writing.
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Narrating the transmodern fracture in Teju Cole'S Every day is for the thief.
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Villamarin-Freire, Sara; University of Santiago de Compostela. Faculty of Philology.
This paper examines the novella Every Day Is for the Thief (Teju Cole, 2007/2014) as exemplary of the transmodern turn in literature and, specifically, of what Rosa María Rodríguez Magda has termed “narratives of fracture” (2019). It explores the theoretical shift ushered in by Transmodernity and the repercussions this may have for texts like Cole’s –literary works that address the shortcomings of the Eurocentric world-system and scrutinize the implications of globalization for paramodern cultures– using Enrique Dussel’s terminology (2012). By focusing on the text’s approach to genre and intermediality, conflicted narrative voice, and depiction of transnational fluxes, I seek to chart the ways in which the narrative exposes and undermines Western epistemic domination, while pushing new ways of seeing and thinking aligned with the transmodern paradigm.
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AWE for formative purposes in the efl context: a study of multiple revisions in academic abstract writing.
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Rodríguez-Peñarroja, Manuel; Universitat Jaume I
The use of automated writing evaluation (AWE) tools for writing practices has become a central issue in English as a second and foreign language teaching contexts. Researchers appear to agree that students’ positive outcomes hinge upon their integration with formative purposes. Nonetheless, few studies have addressed multiple revisions and automated feedback provision in students’ academic writing development. In this context, an instructional treatment for the integration of this technology has been designed. Explicit instruction on academic writing, AWE workshops, and practice activities remain at its core. Hence, this paper examines the effects of self- and AWE-mediated writing revisions on undergraduate learners’ academic writing performance over time and at different levels of proficiency. A series of repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) were computed to study participants’ syntactic complexity, readability and language issues, and lexical diversity outcomes. Results revealed improvement in some of the dependent variables, that is, language issues reduction and increased type-token ratio mean scores, which could represent an initial step towards reconsidering the provision of automated written feedback.
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Verbs of anger and intimately related emotions: a lexical constructional account.
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) van Arkel-Simón, Carlos; Universidad de La Laguna
This paper analyses the domain of verbs of anger and closely related emotions in order to implement a formalised lexical constructional account. Through a detailed analysis of psych-verbs, this research explores their syntactic and semantic specifications. By investigating the roles of experiencers and stimuli arguments either as syntactic subject or object when causing changes in psychological states, the study attempts to shed light on the syntactic and semantic properties of anger and related verbs and the constructions in which they occur. Drawing on constructional and lexical templates for argument structure, this study provides a detailed mapping of how language lexicalises verbal predicates of anger. Overall, this research offers an insight into their formalised representation, relying on the general principles of the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM) (Ruiz de Mendoza & Galera-Masegosa, 2014; Ruiz de Mendoza & Mairal-Usón, 2007, 2008, 2011), Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) (Bentley et al., 2023; Van Valin, 2005; Van Valin & La Polla, 1997), and Construction Grammar (CxG) (Fillmore & Kay, 1996; Goldberg, 1995, 2006; Hoffmann, 2022; Michaelis, 2013; Sag & Boas, 2012).
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Prime identification in historical languages: the Old English exponent for the semantic prime DIE.
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Mateo Mendaza, Raquel; Universidad de La Rioja
This research focuses on the identification of the Old English exponent for the semantic prime DIE following the approach of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage theory (Goddard, 2008, 2011; Wierzbicka, 1996). The aim of this paper is to complete the research begun on Old English exponents for the category Life and Death and to review the methodology applied in previous research on this field, which is based on morphological, textual, semantic and syntactic criteria and on the search for examples of the exponent word within the alternative syntactic configurations associated with the prime. The fact that DIE is the only predicate prime which does not allow for optional arguments entails the implementation of a new methodological approach to determine the suitability of the verb selected as prime exponent. All in all, the conclusion is drawn that the OE verb sweltan is selected as the exponent of DIE in Old English.

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