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Gender Issues in Comfort Woman by Nora Okja Keller 诺拉-奥卡-凯勒《舒适女人》中的性别问题

American & British Studies Annual Pub Date : 2023-12-05 DOI: 10.46585/absa.2023.16.2509

Barbora Frizelová

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Frustration, Boredom, and Fantasy: Augusta Webster’s “Circe” 挫折、无聊与幻想奥古斯塔-韦伯斯特的 "西尔塞"

American & British Studies Annual Pub Date : 2023-12-05 DOI: 10.46585/absa.2023.16.2508

Dorota Osinska

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Selling Austerity to the Public: Analysing the Rhetoric of the UK Government on its Welfare Cuts 向公众推销紧缩政策：分析英国政府削减福利的言论

American & British Studies Annual Pub Date : 2023-12-05 DOI: 10.46585/absa.2023.16.2501

Alice Tihelková

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Two (Postmodern) Czech Shakespearean Adaptations: Claudius and Gertrude and Emodrink of Elsinore 两部（后现代）捷克莎士比亚改编作品：克劳狄斯与格特鲁德》和《埃尔西诺尔的艾莫德林克

American & British Studies Annual Pub Date : 2023-12-05 DOI: 10.46585/absa.2023.16.2504

Ivona Mišterová

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Cats Can Be Dangerous to Your Relationships: Cats in the Fiction of Jim Grimsley 猫会危害你的人际关系：吉姆-格里姆斯利小说中的猫

American & British Studies Annual Pub Date : 2023-12-05 DOI: 10.46585/absa.2023.16.2506

Roman Trušník

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“Pain of Speaking”: Language and Environmental (In)justice in Ofelia Zepeda’s Where Clouds Are Formed "说话的痛苦"：奥费利亚-泽佩达的《云朵形成的地方》中的语言与环境（不）正义

American & British Studies Annual Pub Date : 2023-12-05 DOI: 10.46585/absa.2023.16.2495

Miroslav Černý

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Personal Apocalypse: Ecological Poetics in Flannery O’Connor’s short story “Greenleaf” 个人启示录：弗兰纳里-奥康纳短篇小说《绿叶》中的生态诗学

American & British Studies Annual Pub Date : 2023-12-05 DOI: 10.46585/absa.2023.16.2512

Simona Bajáková

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Mutual Grieving, Healing and Resilience in Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend 西格丽德-努涅斯的《朋友》中的相互哀伤、愈合和复原能力

American & British Studies Annual Pub Date : 2023-12-05 DOI: 10.46585/absa.2023.16.2498

Barbora Vinczeová

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Self-Education and Narrative Power in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights: (Re)Discovering Marginal Women Characters 艾米莉-勃朗特《呼啸山庄》中的自我教育与叙事能力：（重新）发现边缘女性角色

American & British Studies Annual Pub Date : 2023-12-05 DOI: 10.46585/absa.2023.16.2502

Mădălina Elena Mandici

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Let the Timid Speak: The Woman/Nature Metaphor in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat” 让胆小的人说话：佐拉-尼尔-赫斯顿《汗水》中的女性/自然隐喻

American & British Studies Annual Pub Date : 2023-12-05 DOI: 10.46585/absa.2023.16.2494

Karla Rohová

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