Anglo Saxonica Journal

24/06/2024

The most recently published article in Anglo Saxonica is "Swearing in the Movies: Intratextual and Extratextual Functions of Taboo" by Catarina Xavier.
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Anglo Saxonica is a multidisciplinary journal that publishes original and innovative research on a variety of issues relevant to the study of English(es), broadly understood both as language and as all the literatures and cultures of the English-speaking world. In so doing, Anglo Saxonica also promo...

23/06/2024

The article "A Memória Elusiva: Fabricação e Ilusão em Back de Henry Green" by Catarina Anjos has been published in Anglo Saxonica.
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19/06/2024

If you're interested in the reception of Shakespeare, you can't miss Gabriela Terenas's thorough research about the reception of this "Universal Genius" in Portuguese periodicals of the 19th century!
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03/06/2024

The closing article of our Special Issue: Teaching Literature in the EFL Classroom is "Teaching Twilight in the EFL Classroom: Avoiding Possible Pitfalls and How to Use It in a Positive Manner" by M. Carmen Gómez-Galisteo and Alexis Martel-Robaina!
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Anglo Saxonica is a multidisciplinary journal that publishes original and innovative research on a variety of issues relevant to the study of English(es), broadly understood both as language and as all the literatures and cultures of the English-speaking world. In so doing, Anglo Saxonica also promo...

29/05/2024

Have you read "Robinson Crusoe with a Cellphone: A Task-Based Proposal for Higher Secondary Education" by María Dolores Rueda Montero? It's been published as part of our Special Issue: Teaching Literature in the EFL Classroom!
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Anglo Saxonica is a multidisciplinary journal that publishes original and innovative research on a variety of issues relevant to the study of English(es), broadly understood both as language and as all the literatures and cultures of the English-speaking world. In so doing, Anglo Saxonica also promo...

27/05/2024

"Reviewing the Canon: Teaching Chicano Literature in the Bilingual Classroom" by Beatriz Jiménez Villanueva is one of several articles in our most recent Special Issue: Teaching Literature in the EFL Classroom!
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Anglo Saxonica is a multidisciplinary journal that publishes original and innovative research on a variety of issues relevant to the study of English(es), broadly understood both as language and as all the literatures and cultures of the English-speaking world. In so doing, Anglo Saxonica also promo...

24/05/2024

Olga Fernández-Vicente's article "Creating Life-long Readers Using YA Literature as a Bridge to the Classics" is available as part of our Special Issue: Teaching Literature in the EFL Classroom!
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Anglo Saxonica is a multidisciplinary journal that publishes original and innovative research on a variety of issues relevant to the study of English(es), broadly understood both as language and as all the literatures and cultures of the English-speaking world. In so doing, Anglo Saxonica also promo...

23/05/2024

The first article of our Special Issue: Teaching Literature in the EFL Classroom is "The Use of Gothic Fiction as a Second Language Teaching-Learning Motivational Input for Adolescents" by Almudena Nido and Rosa María Díez Cobo!
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Anglo Saxonica is a multidisciplinary journal that publishes original and innovative research on a variety of issues relevant to the study of English(es), broadly understood both as language and as all the literatures and cultures of the English-speaking world. In so doing, Anglo Saxonica also promo...

22/05/2024

Looking for something to read? We suggest our Special Issue: Teaching Literature in the EFL Classroom, starting with an Introduction by M. Carmen Gomez-Galisteo! Read and download for free:

Anglo Saxonica is a multidisciplinary journal that publishes original and innovative research on a variety of issues relevant to the study of English(es), broadly understood both as language and as all the literatures and cultures of the English-speaking world. In so doing, Anglo Saxonica also promo...

08/01/2024

Have you checked out "A Baseball (Anti-)Hero in the Waste Land: Exploring Mythical Uncertainties in Bernard Malamud’s The Natural" by Rebeca Gualberto?
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Most critics of Bernard Malamud’s The Natural (1952) have focused their analysis of the novel on probing the obvious mythical allusions in the text that combine Arthurian mythology and baseball folklore. More recent discussions, however, have raised the issue of the novel’s symbolic ambi...

14/08/2023

The article "Email Romance? Elif Batuman’s The Idiot as the Narrative of an “Unloving” Relationship" by Spandita Das has been published in Anglo Saxonica!
Available open access here:

Batuman’s debut novel The Idiot has garnered a great amount of critical attention for incorporating in its text emails that interweave the narrative of the first half of the novel. Taking into account both the on- and the offline intimacy depicted in the text, this article attempts to theorize...

09/08/2023

New publication! Check out "‘According to the Rhythms of the Arid Lands’: Mary Austin’s The Land of Journeys’ Ending" by Isabel Alves.
Available to read and download for free in Anglo Saxonica!

This article aims to contribute to the understanding of the relationship between nonfiction women’s writing and nature within the North American literary tradition. In the United States, the association between humans and the natural world has primarily been a male-narrated experience, as natu...

30/06/2023

“M. NourbeSe Philip’s She Tries her Tongue, her Silence Softly Breaks and the Possibilities of Language” by Beatriz Marques Gonçalves

has been published in Anglo Saxonica, and is now availble (open access!) at:

28/06/2023

Available open access in Anglo Saxonica:

“A Stingless Bee: the Glorious Revolution in John Dryden’s Translations of Virgil”

by Paweł Kaptur

The Glorious Revolution of 1688 was an unprecedented event in the history of England which led to the dethronement of King James II and the coronation of a Dutch Protestant, William of Orange, and his wife Mary, James’s daughter, as new monarchs. Because the deposition of a Catholic King was c...

26/06/2023

You can now read (for free!)

“Reframing Identity and Building a Nomadic Home through Mestiza Consciousness in Brincando el charco. Portrait of a Puerto Rican”

by Orianna Calderon-Sandoval

in Anglo Saxonica:

Reading through one another insights raised by feminist thinkers Gloria Anzaldúa, Chela Sandoval, Rosi Braidotti and Karen Barad, this work analyses the 1994 autofictional film Brincando el charco. Portrait of a Puerto Rican by New York-based filmmaker and scholar Frances Negrón-Muntan...

22/06/2023

“Baroque and Female Body: From Ecstasy to Madness in Henry James’s What Maisie Knew”

by Mohamad Mosavat

has been published in Anglo Saxonica – availble open access at: https://doi.org/10.5334/as.111

21/06/2023

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19/06/2023

The article by Eman Khalil Mukattash,

“Mothered/Othered Daughters: Mother Abjection and Diasporic Identity in Ethnic American Short Fiction”

is available, open access, in Anglo Saxonica,

Mother-daughter relationships are usually fraught with tension, which is intensified by the cultural and social conditions under which the mother and the daughter live in culturally diverse societies. Immigrant mothers affect their daughters’ identity formation as they simultaneously nourish a...

14/06/2023

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“There are Parts I Won’t Tell You”: Biography, Trauma and Violence in Moisés Kaufman’s The Laramie Project

by Leonardo Cascão

In Anglo Saxonica 21(1):1–11.

Available open access at:

The murder of Matthew Shepard, in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1998, was the traumatic event that inspired Moisés Kaufman to write The Laramie Project. The author travelled to Laramie and built the play based on interviews with the townspeople. This essay examines the connection between verbatim thea...

10/11/2022

Now out:

Trauma and the Fictional Self-Portrait in Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye and Ana Teresa Pereira’s As Rosas Mortas

Link: https://www.revista-anglo-saxonica.org/articles/10.5334/as.74/

Author: Ana Brígida Paiva

Article: Trauma and the Fictional Self-Portrait in Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye and Ana Teresa Pereira’s As Rosas Mortas

10/11/2022

New publication!

An Eligible Bachelor: Austen, Love, and Marriage in Pride and Prejudice and Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld

by Carmen Gomez-Galisteo

https://www.revista-anglo-saxonica.org/articles/10.5334/as.92/

05/08/2022

If you're looking for a summer read, how about this one:

"Of Cats and Crones: Hope and Ecofeminist Utopianism in Leonora Carrington’s The Hearing Trumpet" by Mariana Cruz

It is now out on Anglo Saxonica: https://doi.org/10.5334/as.87

30/06/2022

Read the latest Anglo Saxonica article:

"Uma abordagem a tendências socioculturais pela análise de conteúdo: a narrativa audiovisual em contexto de estudo de caso"

by Nelson Gomes

https://doi.org/10.5334/as.78

29/06/2022

We have a new paper out!

"A estética do medo no poema-workshop gótico “A shovel of his ashes took” (1816), de Percy Bysshe Shelley"

by Rogério Miguel Puga

Read it here: https://doi.org/10.5334/as.51

20/06/2022

You can now read a "comparative study of two stories produced by two nineteenth century American women writers tackling the situation of the women of the time, the difficult transition from male expectations to female self-assertion, and the importance of such texts as representations of the period when they were written" by Ilda Erkoçi in Anglo Saxonica, open access as always!

https://www.revista-anglo-saxonica.org/articles/10.5334/as.49/

11/05/2022

We have a new paper out!

"The Passive Antihero in Alameddine’s I, the Divine and an Unnecessary Woman"

by Salma Kaouthar Letaief and Yousef Abu Amrieh

Read it here: https://doi.org/10.5334/as.75

01/03/2022

Now available open access in Anglo Saxonica:

Trees as Safe Havens in Faqir’s Willow Trees Don’t Weep and Matar’s In the Country of Men

Read it here: http://doi.org/10.5334/as.73

22/02/2022

New paper out!

“The ‘Cats’ from Hell”: The Long Shadow of Poe’s Feline in the Short Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Stephen King

👉 http://doi.org/10.5334/as.70

07/01/2022

New year, new publication!

"O Circuito da Cultura como um protocolo metodológico para análise cultural de manifestações de tendências: o estudo de caso da SpaceX" by Suzana Amarante de Mendonça Cohen

now available, open access, on the Anglo Saxonica homepage: https://www.revista-anglo-saxonica.org/articles/10.5334/as.61/

Enjoy!

Article: O Circuito da Cultura como um protocolo metodológico para análise cultural de manifestações de tendências: o estudo de caso da SpaceX

09/11/2021

New publication! 📣

"Women in Cultural Insularity and Anxious Spaces in the Arab and Arab American Contexts in Laila Halaby’s West of the Jordan" (by Ishak Berrebbah)

Read it here 👇
https://doi.org/10.5334/as.58