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Women's studies in Belgium: through the gate of English literature Universiteit Gent
This article explains how women's studies was launched and expanded at Ghent University, Belgium. It focuses on the role of the English literature departure and the network of women at the institution. The articles lists a number of achievements that women academics obtained at this insitution as well of the frustrations they had to cope with often, unfortunately, as a result of a lack of solidarity and appreciation from the younger generation ...
Review of research on knowledge domains in university governance: Mapping literature in English and Chinese Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In the context of globalisation, public organisations are undergoing rapid transformation, and how to govern them scientifically has become an important research topic. University governance is an important research area in the field of higher education; it has been addressed by many scholars across the world. In order to fully understand the current status of research in this field, this article reviews and analyses data on university ...
Mapping the Reception of English Novels in Italy During the Long 18th Century: A Digital Approach Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Essay on the reception of English novels in Italy during the 18th century.
The Lives and Strange Surprising Adventures of Classic and Contemporary Travellers in Fiction in English Vrije Universiteit Brussel
"I thought we were already overstocked with books of travels," Gulliver replies when asked to write down his extraordinary experiences as a traveller in Jonathan Swift's 1726 fictional travel journal. From the birth of the novel three centuries ago, with the publication of The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe, travellers and migrants have been leaving their footprints in novels written in English. ...
Robinson Crusoe and the others. On the early conceptualization of the English novel in the Italian press Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The publication of Robinson Crusoe in 1719 represents a milestone in the history of western literature, marking the beginning of a new literary genre, the realistic fiction. From then, the new genre had a huge impact on the audiences and the cultural milieus of the time, in and outside Britain. To play a pivotal role in the international dissemination of information about this new “literary object” was the periodical press: the many journals of ...
The Legacy of Robinson Crusoe: The First Novel in English as Catalyst for 300 Years of Literary Transformation Vrije Universiteit Brussel
An analysis of managerialism and performance in English and Welsh male prisons KU Leuven Universiteit Gent
This paper fills a noticeable gap in the current economic and penology literature by proposing new performance-enhancing policies based on an efficiency analysis of a sample of male prisons in England and Wales over the period 2009/10. In addition, we advance the empirical literature by integrating the managerialism of four strategic functions of prisons, employment and accommodation, capacity utilization, quality of life in prison and the ...
The grammar of complex particle phrases in English Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This paper aims at describing the fine internal structure of the particle phrase (PrtP) in English. Most research into particles (back, down, in, off, out, up, etc.) has concentrated on their relation with verbs, with which they form what is often called 'phrasal verbs' or 'verb-particle constructions'. However, in addition to functioning as the non-head or complement in such structures, particles may themselves be the head of more local ...
Guimarães rosa in English translation: History, reception, and criticism Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The translation of Guimarães Rosa's works is discussed from various angles, highlighting in particular the difficulty of transposing the originality of his work from Portuguese into other languages. In this article, we seek to present a history of the author's translation into English, considering the importance of the historical and political context in which these translations took place. To this end, we present a brief overview of the ...