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Gandhian Fasting and Cultural Indigestion in Jeffrey Eugenides’ “Air Mail” 杰弗里·尤金尼德斯《航空邮件》中的甘地斋戒与文化消化不良

East-West Cultural Passage Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/ewcp-2020-0004

Ana-Blanca Ciocoi-Pop

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On Telling the Truth: A Cognitive Stylistic Reading of Philip Larkin’s “Talking in Bed” 讲真话:菲利普·拉金《床上谈话》的认知文体解读

East-West Cultural Passage Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/ewcp-2020-0006

Sohaib Malkawi

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Speech Acts across Cultures: Teaching Compliment Exchanges 跨文化的言语行为:教授赞美的交流

East-West Cultural Passage Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/ewcp-2020-0008

C. Stoian

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Echoes of Sapphic Gods and Goddesses, Immortality, Eros and Thanatos in the Work of Modernist Women Poets 现代主义女诗人作品中萨菲神与女神、不朽、爱神与塔纳托斯的呼应

East-West Cultural Passage Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/ewcp-2020-0005

Iris Rusu

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A Comparative Analysis of Translations of Lucian Blaga’s Poetry into English 卢西恩·布拉加诗歌英译比较分析

East-West Cultural Passage Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/ewcp-2020-0007

Alexandra Mitrea

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Food Imagery in Lesley Saunders’ Poetry 莱斯利·桑德斯诗歌中的食物意象

East-West Cultural Passage Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/ewcp-2019-0011

C. Mihăilescu, Stela Pleša

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Not Just Eating, but Consuming: Food and Cooks in To the Lighthouse, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover and In the Mood for Love 不只是吃，而是消费:《到灯塔去》、《厨师、小偷、他的妻子和她的情人》和《花样恋爱》中的食物和厨师

East-West Cultural Passage Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/ewcp-2019-0013

E. Ciobanu

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Images of non-Arabs in West of the Jordan by Laila Halaby 莱拉·哈拉比拍摄的约旦西部非阿拉伯人的照片

East-West Cultural Passage Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/ewcp-2019-0016

Najoua Stambouli

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“The Recovery of the People Is Tied to the Recovery of Food”: Food Sovereignty and Winona LaDuke’s Last Standing Woman “人民的恢复与粮食的恢复息息相关”:粮食主权和薇诺娜·拉杜克的最后一位女性

East-West Cultural Passage Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/ewcp-2019-0015

Cristina E. Stanciu

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“Very much alive and very much under threat”: Chasing the Coffee-Flavored American Dream in Dave Eggers’s Monk of Mokha “活得很好，也很受威胁”:戴夫·埃格斯的《摩卡和尚》中追逐咖啡味的美国梦

East-West Cultural Passage Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/ewcp-2019-0012

Raluca Andreescu

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