http://hdl.handle.net/11320/10659 2026-06-01T17:25:07Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/10665 Tytuł: Oppliger, P. A., & Shouse, E. (Eds.) The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 320 pp, eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37214-9, Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37213-2, Hardback 96,29 € Autorzy: Wawrzyniuk, Justyna 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/10664 Tytuł: A window into short-story construction: Richard Yates’ “Builders” and questions of the autobiographical content of his work Autorzy: Wood, Karl Abstrakt: Richard Yates, most remembered for his Revolutionary Road (1961), was also the author of two fine and exceptionally well-crafted collections of short stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (1963) and Liars in Love (1981). Yates was a writer of exceptional perception and unflinching clarity, yet some have criticized his work as drawing too heavily on autobiographical content. This article seeks to examine Yates’ 1963 story “Builders” to gain insight into this extraordinary author’s understanding of the writing process, his use of autobiographical or semi-autobiographical content, and to suggest new approaches for work on this still under-appreciated twentieth century author. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/10663 Tytuł: Subversion of gender stereotypes in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White and Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret Autorzy: Öztekin, Sercan Abstrakt: Victorian sensation fiction strives to go beyond its time through issues and characters that do not conform to nineteenth century social norms. The novels of this genre depict the sensational lives with deceits and crimes which shocked the readers of their time, and they increase the reader’s tension with sensational narratives including untraditional matters and portrayals. Along with scandalous and criminal subjects, these works sometimes offer unconventional depictions of femininity and masculinity in the Victorian Age. Accordingly, this paper discusses Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White (1860) and Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) focusing on male and female characters challenging traditional gender stereotypes. It examines how these novels describe characters rather dissimilar to the ones in the traditional fiction of the era through their cunnings, intrigues, and unconventional attitudes with regard to marriage, power, and gender roles. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/10662 Tytuł: Stereotyping Scotland: Groundskeeper Willie’s illocutionary acts in The Simpsons Autorzy: Virdis, Daniela Francesca Abstrakt: This article explores the Scottish character of Groundskeeper Willie in the American animated sitcom The Simpsons with a pragmatic and social-psychological approach. It firstly introduces Willie’s linguistic and visual features, the sample of three episodes the analysis is based on, Scottish stereotypes in Lindsay’s (1997) sociological research, and Searle’s (1976) taxonomy of illocutionary acts (representatives or assertives, directives, commissives, expressives and declarations). Secondly, the turns uttered by the groundskeeper in the sample are classified by applying Searle’s taxonomy, and his illocutionary acts are examined in their contexts and compared with the list of national-ethnic Scottish stereotypes compiled by Lindsay. This study demonstrates that Willie’s illocutionary acts and the stereotypes they convey depict him as a figure characterised by positive traits; nevertheless, the responses his illocutionary acts are met with not only counter his pleasant aspects, but also ultimately represent the Scottish groundskeeper as a ludicrous victim of his American fellow townspeople. Opis: An earlier version of this article was published as: Virdis, D. F. 2012. Friendliness, aggressiveness and coarseness: Scottish Groundskeeper Willie’s linguistic features in The Simpsons. NAWA: Journal of Language and Communication 6.1: 127-150. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z