This paper addresses the institutional context and academic practices related to the production and use of literary theory and criticism in the Spanish universities, with a special focus on the role of theory in Spanish Anglistics in recent years. The paper assesses interdisciplinary communication, the impact of new theoretical paradigms (feminism, postcolonial Studies, etc.) in a specifically ...

"Our Western civilization, it has been said, favours an overdevelopment of the intellect at the expense of the emotions. This is why people prefer nouns to verbs." (Potter 1975: 101) 1. Introduction In the present paper we do not aim at the type of language-based cultural criticism encapsulated in the motto, which is taken from Potter's Changing English – an interesting if somewhat impressionis...

critical care group expert practice development group, representing leading-edge practice.7 The project team was tasked to report and recommend methods that accurately and robustly capture and verify evidence of knowledge and application of skills of advanced practice capability. Additionally, the project was to evaluate systematically the evidence of knowledge and application of skills of adva...

Youths' attachment representations with their parents were tested as moderators of the relation between peer-reported anxious solitude and self-compassion and self-criticism trajectories from fifth to seventh grades. Participants were 213 youth, 57% girls, M = 10.65 years of age. Growth curves revealed that attachment representations with both parents moderated the relation between AS and self-...

This study addresses conceptual blending theory, originated by J. Fauconnier and M. Turner. The author raises some criticism of the theory’s underpinnings and methodology. Particularly, he points at the lack of cultural-historical analysis and the neglect of experimental data as the shortcomings of the theory as stated. It is shown in the paper that the view on blending as an important tool to ...

Feministic criticism concerns the function of specific feminine cultural and ideological constituents in literal works. In its approach to narrative this kind of criticism follows two methods. First, the attributes of women and their role and personality in course of the story, and second a critique of women presented which studies female authors. Sorkhi-e-to az man by Sepedeh Shamlu is one the...

China is still a predominantly agricultural country. Despite the growth of vast industrial cities like Shanghai, most of the population still lives and works on the land. The provision of medical care for agricultural workers is based on two concepts: a decentralized, pyramidal system of medical responsibilities, with at the bottom of the pyramid the barefoot doctor. This system has been fully ...

The teacher/student relationship is considered to be cultural, but it is also pedagogical, as it is established by means of the knowledge intentionally taught and learned. In this scene, the teaching activity must, necessarily, include moments of reflection and criticism, during which the meaning and the teaching methods must be brought about by presenting the student with one's own perspective...

Environmental education has increasingly become part of the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) curriculum worldwide. This article analyses 26 EFL textbooks used in Japan, to discover what kind of environmental education they offer, and what this says about intercultural communication in the teaching/learning process. The results show how textbooks, by concentrating mainly on technical solution...

Anatomical penises may exist, but as pre-operative transgendered women also have anatomical penises, the penis vis-à-vis maleness is an incoherent construct. We argue that the conceptual penis is better understood not as an anatomical organ but as a social construct isomorphic to performative toxic masculinity. Through detailed poststructuralist discursive criticism and the example of climate c...