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    Other Irelands: Revisited, Reinvented, Rewritten
    No. 68 (2014)

    This issue of RCEI is devoted to the construction of alternative images and non-standard representations of  Ireland in literary, historical and cultural studies. It consists of a bunch of fourteen essays that portray an ample scope of the diversity of revisions, reinventions and rewritings that the Emerald Isle has produced and that offer an-“Other” gaze to the seemingly overwhelming monolithic idea of the island as a traditional, catholic, somewhat monotonous and provincial society.

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    Contemporary Masculinities in the First Person
    No. 66 (2013)

    This issue analyzes the representation of masculinity from diverse points of view, not only the literary, but also the sociologic and philosophic ones. It starts from the reflection of masculinity in the pervasive use of the first person, in different narratives, to then move towards a discussion of old and new theories such as those involving the dismantling of the gender binary. Following this line, it considers the construction of both masculinity and femininity  togethet with a new process of gendered social change.

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    Small Press Publishing : Circulating New Forms, New Ideas
    No. 62 (2011)

    This issue of RCEI focuses on the importance of small presses in the late 20th century and, particularly, their publication of poetry usually disregarded by Academia or corporate markets. An analysis of their efforts in publishing innovative American literature reveals how they face diverse forms of exclusion that go from material poverty to cultural deprivation. Articles show the concern of these editors with the political implications in literature which are further extended to philosophical schools and literary theoreticians. Thus, it is evidenced the participation of poetry in the discursive representation of social reality.

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    Learner Autonomy and Teacher Autonomy: Pedagogy for Classrooms
    No. 61 (2010)

    This monography is devoted to a major concern of pedagogy: teacher and learner autonomy. RCEI’s volume 38 was a first attempt to deal with this subject which in the current volume focuses on the development of a learner-centered type of education. Articles concentrate mainly in the methods used by teachers to implement this in their classrooms with special interest in language learning.

  • (Re)Defining Contemporary British Poetry
    No. 60 (2010)

    This issue is devoted to “(Re)Defining Contemporary British Poetry.”  The fact that it is published during the first decade of the 21st century seems to lend itself nicely to a reflection about the status quo of poetry in Britain today. In accomplishing the edition of this issue, room is provided for as many different voices and positions in the field as possible.

  • Communicating Science: ESP Studies at the Outset of the 21st Century
    No. 59 (2009)

    This issue brings together a collection of papers by major researchers from various international institutions, who were invited to contribute papers on the latest ESP trends, particularly research into writing in academic settings. Most of the authors in this volume argue that there is a general lack of specific guidance to writers as to how to tackle the rhetorical conventions which allow them to meet the expectations of the members of the international scientific community; and all the authors without exception have in common as their prime concern offering assistance to novice writers, and especially non-native speakers of English, with the acquisition of the necessary rhetorical skills to produce successful academic writing in English.

  • Life Writing and Gender: Practices & Theories
    No. 58 (2009)

    This special issue devoted to "Life Writing and Gender: Practices & Theories" offers some examples of the different concepts and perspectives which can be applied to texts dealing with written lives.

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    Grammar, Constructions and Interfaces
    No. 57 (2008)

    Different linguistic approaches are present in this monographic issue that interrelates semantics and syntax. Theories like Systemic Functional Grammar, Frame Semantics or the Lexical-Constructional Model enable researchers to analyze the mechanisms that may explain the ‘transition’ from lexical semantics to grammatical structures within the framework of a functionally and/or cognitively-based conception.

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    Contemporary Canadian Literature
    No. 56 (2008)

    Eva Darias Beautell is the guest-editor of the monography where six more  authors elaborate on Canadian literature of the end of 20th and beginning of the 21st century from different perspectives: multiculturalism, new historicism, diaspora studies, environmentalism and gender studies.

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    Old English studies in the 21st century: A new understanding of the past
    No. 55 (2007)

    Number devoted to the study of Old English literature, language and philology from the perspective of innovative methodological approaches.  More recent data provided by historical, archaeological or linguistic disciplines such as cognitive linguistics, functional linguistics, metatheoretical renewals in the philological study, among others, have produced compelling results and new facets in our perception of the medieval and Anglo-Saxon worlds.

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