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Contrastive Study of Lexical Profiles of International and U.S. Lectures Delivered in English 国际和美国英语演讲词汇对比研究

Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-28 DOI: 10.28914/atlantis-2023-45.2.05

Milica Vuković-Stamatović

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Glossing with Runes: The Old Northumbrian Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels 用符文写文字：林迪斯法恩福音书的古诺桑比亚语词汇

Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-28 DOI: 10.28914/atlantis-2023-45.2.01

Inmaculada Senra-Silva

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Stretching the Temporal Boundaries of Postmemorial Fiction: Shades of Albert Camus’ Absurd in Biyi Bandele Thomas’ Burma Boy 拓展纪念后小说的时空界限：Biyi Bandele Thomas 的《缅甸男孩》中阿尔贝-加缪《荒诞派》的影子

Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-28 DOI: 10.28914/atlantis-2023-45.2.11

Christina Howes

{"title":"Stretching the Temporal Boundaries of Postmemorial Fiction: Shades of Albert Camus’ Absurd in Biyi Bandele Thomas’ Burma Boy","authors":"Christina Howes","doi":"10.28914/atlantis-2023-45.2.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2023-45.2.11","url":null,"abstract":"Nigerian-British writer and playwright Biyi Bandele Thomas’ novel Burma Boy (2007) is inspired by his father’s combat experience in the Burma Campaign of World War Two. This postmemorial re-enactment not only commemorates his father but also the marginalised black African soldiers who participated in that campaign. Critical attention paid to Bandele’s work has noted his surrealistic and satirical style, usually in alignment with a post-colonial epistemology. This paper aims to show how the novel evokes the origins of a trauma and the futility of war within an African consciousness, alongside broader ontologies concerning the modern condition. I contend that through an aesthetics of the Absurd, as outlined by Albert Camus, Burma Boy not only evokes the absurdity of war but transcends its temporal wartime boundaries by offering a broad reflection on the fundamental cause of the author’s father’s wartime trauma: the divorce of humankind from the reality of existence. Thus, I conclude that this post-generational novel leverages an aesthetics of the Absurd to address contemporary political and environmental concerns.","PeriodicalId":172515,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies","volume":"15 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139150624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Philip K. Dick’s Decohering and Recohering Worlds: The Cases of Ubik and The Man in the High Castle 菲利普·k·迪克的《世界的分离与重组:乌比克和高堡奇人》

Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-29 DOI: 10.28914/atlantis-2023-45.1.06

M. Jakovljević, M. Ćirković

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A Multidimensional Analysis of Linguistic Realizations and Rhetorical Move Structure in Geography Research Article Abstracts: A CorpusBased Study 地理研究中语言实现与修辞动作结构的多维分析

Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-29 DOI: 10.28914/atlantis-2023-45.1.11

H. Alyousef

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Reorienting the Gaze: Monstrous Bodies in Remediations of Frankenstein 重新定位凝视:弗兰肯斯坦补救中的怪物身体

Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-29 DOI: 10.28914/atlantis-2023-45.1.02

Miriam Borham-puyal

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Attitudes of Turkish EFL Teachers and Native English Tutors towards Posters: The UK and Turkey Contexts 土耳其英语教师和英语母语教师对海报的态度:英国和土耳其语境

Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-29 DOI: 10.28914/atlantis-2023-45.1.12

Zulal Ayar

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Science Fiction Re-Visioned: Posthuman Gothic in Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams 科幻小说的再视觉化:菲利普·k·迪克《电梦》中的后人类哥特式

Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-29 DOI: 10.28914/atlantis-2023-45.1.07

P. Mitchell

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Coetzee and Borges: the Southern Connections 库切和博尔赫斯:南方联系

Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-29 DOI: 10.28914/atlantis-2023-45.1.05

Enrique Galván-Álvarez, Fernando Galván

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The Origins of the Fantastic in Horace Walpole’s Prefaces to The Castle of Otranto 霍勒斯·沃波尔《奥特朗托城堡前言》中奇幻的起源

Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-29 DOI: 10.28914/atlantis-2023-45.1.01

Laia Olivé

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