Universitat de Barcelona
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Cuando la naturalidad del territorio ha desaparecido, solo en el poema puede una lengua minoritaria luchar por subsistir. Esta tesis examina cómo los factores históricos pueden modificar la relación con ...
This work explores the use and abuse of authorship in Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001) and Sweet Tooth (2012). Through an exploration of a variety of different theoretical fields, the study focuses on the ...
The aim of this thesis is to assess David Malouf’s contribution to the field of gender and men studies in his fiction books. In order to do so, I have proceeded by offering a close reading of each of ...
[eng] In this dissertation I aim to rescue Herman Melville’s White-Jacket from academic oblivion, arguing that it demands to be read as a synecdoche for his literary project, one that becomes a ...
In my thesis I investigate the evolution of human sociality and its possible role for providing a scaffold to the evolution of language. My approach is multidisciplinary and includes studies ranging ...
[eng] The Book of the rational conclusions, written perhaps somewhen in the 10th c. by a physician from Ilbīrah (Andalus), is a multi-section medical pandect. The author brings together, from a diversity ...
This thesis assesses how languages are managed in families with at least one transnational anglophone parent (TAP) resident in the metropolitan region of Barcelona. The languages chosen by TAPS for use ...
[eng] In this thesis, we investigate molecular and cellular substrates of derived traits in our species, and do so under the hypothesis of a Homo sapiens species-specific brain ontogenetic trajectory ...
This thesis examines paranoid perception as a tool for the emancipation of women in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 and David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive. Both the novel and the film are set in a ...
[eng] This study aims to delve into the Ancient Egyptian mindset by examining hieroglyphs that function as classifiers (determinatives). These signs offer an invaluable window into the semantic categories ...
