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Premchand’s The Chess Players: A Comparative Analysis of YouTube and MOOC Platforms Premchand的《棋手:YouTube和MOOC平台的比较分析》

New Literaria Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.48189/nl.2023.v04i1.006

Rahul Jain

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Can One Desire Too Much Of A Good Thing?’: Imagining Shakespearean ‘Un-Dead’ In A Transhumanist Hybrid 一个人会对一件好事欲求过高吗?:想象莎士比亚笔下的“不死人”在超人类主义的混合体中

New Literaria Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.48189/nl.2023.v04i2.010

Tarashree Ghosh

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The Image of the Other in Malayalam Travelogues: Readings of Kappirikalude Nattil and Sanchariyude Vazhiyambalangal 马拉雅拉姆游记中的他者形象:Kappirikalude Nattil和Sanchariyude Vazhiyambalangal的解读

New Literaria Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.48189/nl.2023.v04i2.008

Rafid C

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Emancipating the Bracketed Self: Articulating Transcultural and Transnational Identity in Sunetra Gupta’s Memories of Rain 解放被包围的自我:苏尼特拉·古普塔《雨的记忆》中跨文化和跨国身份的阐释

New Literaria Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.48189/nl.2022.v03i2.017

Mujaffar Hossain, Prasenjit Panda

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“Persistence of Horror”: An Overview of Texts on Post apocalyptic World Order “恐怖的持续”:后启示录世界秩序文本综述

New Literaria Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.48189/nl.2022.v03i2.014

Sayan Mukherjee

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Nomadic Art: Decolonising the Human and the Posthuman 游牧艺术:人类与后人类的非殖民化

New Literaria Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.48189/nl.2023.v04i2.020

Andrea Barcaro

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The Silencing and Ostracization of Rohingyas: A Study of Habiburahman’s Memoir First, They Erased Our Name: A Rohingya Speaks 罗兴亚人的沉默和排斥:哈比布拉曼的回忆录研究首先，他们抹去了我们的名字:一个罗兴亚人说话

New Literaria Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.48189/nl.2022.v03i2.002

Ipsita Chakrabarty, Agnideepto Datta

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The Cacophony of Songbirds: A Potpourri of Voices in the Birdsongs of Kazi Nazrul Islam’s Lyrics and English Romantic Poetry 鸣禽的杂音:卡兹·纳兹鲁尔·伊斯兰抒情诗和英语浪漫主义诗歌中鸟鸣的杂音

New Literaria Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.48189/nl.2022.v03i2.001

Adrita Mukhopadhyay

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The Bengali Widow’s Kitchen: Looking Back at an Obscure Legacy 《孟加拉寡妇的厨房:回顾一个不为人知的遗产

New Literaria Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.48189/nl.2023.v04i1.004

Ananya Chatterjee

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Spatial Literary Theory in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide 阿米塔夫·高希《饥饿的浪潮》中的空间文学理论

New Literaria Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.48189/nl.2023.v04i1.009

C. S. A. Lekshmy

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