Costa Palacios, Luis (Dr.)

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Luis Costa Palacios (Córdoba, 1953)

Associate Professsor at the Deprtament English and German Studies of the University of Córdoba. In 1983 he obtained a British Council Scholarship to follow a M.A. Course on Linguistics and Stylistics at the University of East Anglia (Norwich) under the supervision of Prof. Roger Fowler. Back in Córdoba, where he was Assistant Professor at the Department of English Studies, he completed his PhD thesis on Tom Stoppard's Travesties. His research interests include English Literature, Modernist and Postmodernist literature, narratology and semiotics and communication.

He has been visiting scholar at Oberlin College, Ohio, Wooster College, Ohio, Wellesley College, Boston, Ma, and the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Mo.

Research Interests

English Literature, Modernist and Postmodernist Literature, narratology.

Current Projects

Professional activity

Teaches English and American Literature at the University of Córdoba, Spain.

Publications

Estudio textual y Traducción de “The Parlement of Fowles. 1982, 132 pp.
“Discourse Analysis and the Stylistic Analysis of Drama”, Alfinge, 1986, pp. 229-247.
“It's in the news: Linguistic Analysis of ordinary language texts”, Estudios de Lingüística Aplicada, Vol. 2, 1985, pp. 183-208.
Linguistics and Translation, Alfinge, 1992, pp. 129-142.
Translation and Semiotic Dimension, en Estudios de Semiótica, 1993.
Philip Larkin: el conocimiento y la desolación, Alfinge, 1997, pp. 31-42.
Literatura de Evocación, contexto y signos; la poesía de Ezra Pound, en Perspectives on Culture, John Gabrielle (ed), Oberlin, 1997, pp. 75-88.
Una poética de la vehemencia: Romanticismo Norteamericano,en Poetas Románticos Universales, 1998, pp. 419-429.
Stylistics, Lexical Units and Word-Play: Carr's erratic memory in Stoppard's Travesties, en Selected Papers on Literature and Language, Vigo, 1999, pp.235-241.
Dante and the Lobster de Samuel Beckett y los límites de la alegoría, 2014, pp. 59-71.