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Memory and nostalgia: pre-reform Russia in the minds of the Russian nobility of the second half of the 19th century 记忆与怀旧:19世纪下半叶俄国贵族心目中的改革前俄国

University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series Pub Date : 2021-10-05 DOI: 10.31178/ubr.10.1.5

N. Seliverstova

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Revising the Black decolonialization process: Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. and the poetics of violence 修正黑人去殖民化进程:肯德里克·拉马尔的《DAMN》。以及暴力的诗学

University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series Pub Date : 2021-10-05 DOI: 10.31178/ubr.10.1.3

D. Grosu

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From the Time of Troubles to the Unity Day: Memory, Forgetting and Re-imaging the Past in Russian History 从动乱时期到统一日:俄罗斯历史上对过去的记忆、遗忘和重新想象

University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series Pub Date : 2021-10-05 DOI: 10.31178/ubr.10.1.7

V. Tkachenko

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Continuity of Womanist Ethos: Intertextuality in Select Novels of Alice Walker 女性主义精神的延续:爱丽丝·沃克小说选集中的互文性

University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series Pub Date : 2021-10-05 DOI: 10.31178/ubr.10.1.4

Jesmin Ruhina

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Evelyn Waugh’s War Novels in Francoist Spain 弗朗哥统治时期的西班牙，伊夫林·沃的战争小说

University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series Pub Date : 2021-10-05 DOI: 10.31178/ubr.10.1.6

Cristina Zimbroianu

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A ‘Palimpestuous’ Reading of Lisa Strøme’s The Strawberry Girl 对丽莎·斯特梅的《草莓女孩》的“手舞脚舞”式解读

University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series Pub Date : 2021-10-05 DOI: 10.31178/ubr.10.1.8

D. Bădulescu

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John Pomfret’s “The Choice”, or (Re)Inventing Empire 约翰·庞弗雷特的《选择》，或《重塑帝国》

University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.31178/ubr.11.1.6

F. Năstase

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Re-writing Old Testament legends in La Queste del Saint Graal 在La Queste del Saint Graal重写旧约传说

University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.31178/ubr.10.2.8

Monica Ruset-Oancă

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Supernatural Characters in the Quasi-Historical Discourse of Modern Ukrainian Literature: Specificity and Functions 现代乌克兰文学准历史话语中的超自然人物:特殊性与功能

University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.31178/ubr.11.2.4

O. Nikolova, Kateryna Vasylyna

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Spectres of Memory in the Works of Ismail Kadare 伊斯梅尔·卡达雷作品中的记忆幽灵

University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.31178/ubr.11.1.3

S. Mukherjee, Roy Madhumita

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