Languages, Cultures and Visual Studies
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Beyond motivation: Modeling the predictive role of L2 pride in informal digital learning of English
(Wiley, 12 April 2025)This study investigates the role of second language (L2) pride—an understudied affective factor—in shaping learners’ language learning motivation and involvement with informal digital learning of English (IDLE). Drawing ... -
(Love)Sick, Disabled, and Dying: Investigating the Crip Clock, Gender, and Resistance in Pessoa’s A Carta da corcunda para o serralheiro (circa 1930) [Letter from a hunchback girl to a metalworker (2001)]
(Liverpool University Press, 2025)This article discusses the portrayal of illness and disability in Fernando Pessoa’s A Carta da corcunda para o serralheiro (circa 1930) [Letter from a hunchback girl to a metal worker (2001)] through a critical disability ... -
Reading Neurasthenia: Nervous Exhaustion and its Afterlives in Pío Baroja’s El árbol de la ciencia [The Tree of Knowledge] (1911)
(Liverpool University Press, 2025)Foregrounding the assimilation of discourses about neurasthenia in Spain, this article analyses the literary representation of nervous exhaustion in Pío Baroja’s El árbol de la ciencia (1911) [The Tree of Knowledge] ... -
Introduction: Early Modern Actors of Translation
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Brunetto Latini’s rhetorical translations of Ovid
(Routledge, 20 January 2025)This article examines medieval translations of Ovid's Heroides by thirteenth-century Italian diplomat and notary Brunetto Latini. It explores how in two different works composed in the years 1260-1266, his French Tresor ...