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Euthanasia and Reincarnation: A Reader - Response Reading of Poe’s “The Tell- Tale Heart” 安乐死与轮回：坡《泄密的心》的 "读者-回应 "阅读

Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.21608/tjhss.2024.281867.1244

F. Dahy

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Navigating the tensions between transnational feminism and diplomacy. A corpus-based analysis of the United Nations’ discourse on violence against women in English and French. 驾驭跨国女权主义与外交之间的紧张关系。以语料库为基础分析联合国关于暴力侵害妇女问题的英语和法语论述。

Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-03-17 DOI: 10.21608/tjhss.2024.255744.1227

Celia Atzeni

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The Odysseys of Margaret Atwood and Emily Wilson providing new literary and historical perspectives: a debate on feminist translation and adaptation 玛格丽特-阿特伍德和艾米莉-威尔逊的《奥德赛》提供了新的文学和历史视角：关于女权主义翻译和改编的辩论

Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-03-03 DOI: 10.21608/tjhss.2024.256407.1231

Andréa Costa

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A Tradução da Estrela: Exploring the Potential of Feminist Translation to Inform Research in Clarice Lispector’s Novel. A Tradução da Estrela: Exploring the Potential of Feminist Translation to Inform Research in Clarice Lispector's Novel.

Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-02-26 DOI: 10.21608/tjhss.2024.255717.1226

Misha Campello Gramelius

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林纾游记散文艺术成就浅探林纾游记散文艺术成就浅探

Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-02-22 DOI: 10.21608/tjhss.2024.249185.1216

璐泽杨

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Gender Issues in Machine Translation 机器翻译中的性别问题

Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-02-18 DOI: 10.21608/tjhss.2024.255087.1223

Anestis Karastergiou, Konstantinos Diamantopoulos

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Gender Problematics in the Translation of US Advertising: Exploring Hegemonic and Toxic Masculinity in Translated Commercials in German and Greek 美国广告翻译中的性别问题：探索德语和希腊语翻译广告中的霸权和有毒男性气质

Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-02-14 DOI: 10.21608/tjhss.2024.263673.1235

S. Vergopoulou

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Arab Egyptian Feminist Voices in Translation: The Case of Women and Memory Forum 翻译中的阿拉伯埃及女权主义者的声音：妇女与记忆论坛

Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-02-13 DOI: 10.21608/tjhss.2024.253811.1220

Laila El Feel, Said Shiyab, Nevine Sarwat, Riham. E. A. Debian

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简论艾青《我爱这个土地》与艾哈迈德.邵基《尼罗河》两首诗中的爱国主义简论艾青《我爱这个土地》与艾哈迈德.邵基《尼罗河》两首诗中的爱国主义

Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-02-13 DOI: 10.21608/tjhss.2024.269561.1236

Saeed Essa

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The Image of Orientalism in India's Most Beloved Epic Tales: A Semantic-Visual Study in Context of the Ramayana 印度最受喜爱的史诗故事中的东方主义形象：以《罗摩衍那》为背景的语义-视觉研究

Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-02-10 DOI: 10.21608/tjhss.2024.260338.1234

Fatma Elzaghal

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