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Nostalgia for the Belief in a Female-Friendly Academic World to Come 怀念对女性友好的学术世界即将到来的信念

East-West Cultural Passage Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/ewcp-2022-0009

Elżbieta Perkowska-Gawlik

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New York City on Stage: (De)Constructing Urban Space in John Guare’s Plays: 1 舞台上的纽约市:(德)约翰·瓜雷戏剧中的城市空间建构

East-West Cultural Passage Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/ewcp-2021-0011

Ludmila Martanovschi

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Cricket Playing in America: Real and Imagined Places of New York in Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland 美国的板球运动:约瑟夫·奥尼尔笔下的荷兰纽约的真实与想象

East-West Cultural Passage Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/ewcp-2021-0014

Oksana Starshova

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Precarious Geography: Landscape, Memory, Identity and Ethno-regional Nationalism in Niger Delta Poetry 岌岌可危的地理:尼日尔三角洲诗歌中的景观、记忆、身份和民族-区域民族主义

East-West Cultural Passage Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/ewcp-2021-0017

Ogaga Okuyade

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A Gay New York City in Mart Crowley’s “The Boys in the Band” 马丁·克劳利《乐队里的男孩》中的同性恋纽约城

East-West Cultural Passage Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/ewcp-2021-0012

R. Pereira

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The Great Gatsby Avant la Lettre: New York City as a Place of Damnation in Willa Sibert Cather’s “Paul’s Case” 《了不起的盖茨比》的先声:威拉·西伯特·凯瑟《保罗的案子》中纽约城的诅咒

East-West Cultural Passage Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/ewcp-2021-0013

Ana-Blanca Ciocoi-Pop

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Representations of Pre- and Post-9/11 New York City in Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin 在专栏麦卡恩的《让伟大的世界旋转》一书中对9/11之前和之后的纽约市的表现

East-West Cultural Passage Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/ewcp-2021-0015

Alexandra Mitrea

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“Always Symmetrize!: Forging Bonds in Heart of Darkness” “总是使相称!《在黑暗之心锻造纽带》

East-West Cultural Passage Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/ewcp-2021-0018

T. Cousineau

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Bridging the Gap between Cultures: The Translation of Cockney and Slang in G. B. Shaw’s “Pygmalion” 跨越文化的鸿沟:萧伯纳《皮格马利翁》中伦敦方言和俚语的翻译

East-West Cultural Passage Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/ewcp-2021-0016

Iris Rusu

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Cooking and Eating as Linguistic Experiences: Metamorphoses in the Japanese Familial Culinary Universe Reflected in the Movie パパのお弁当は世界一 Papa no Obentō wa Sekai Ichi 一 Dad's Lunch Box 作为语言体验的烹饪和饮食:电影《爸爸的饭盒》中反映的日本家庭烹饪宇宙的变形

East-West Cultural Passage Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/ewcp-2021-0006

Beatrice-Maria Alexandrescu

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