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Notes on Facing The Biographical Illusion Without Getting Lost in the Process 面对传记幻觉而不迷失的笔记

IAFOR Journal of Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI: 10.22492/IJAH.5.1.01

Alexius A. Pereira

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W. B. Yeats’ “September 1913” as an Elegy: Generic Deviation 叶芝的《1913年9月》是一首挽歌:普遍偏差

IAFOR Journal of Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI: 10.22492/ijah.5.1.06

Lamia Jaoua Sahnoun

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The Past is Present and Future: Recurring Violence and Remaining Human in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series 过去就是现在和未来:j·k·罗琳的《哈利·波特》系列中反复出现的暴力和残存的人类

IAFOR Journal of Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI: 10.22492/IJAH.5.1.04

A. Alghamdi

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Locating and Relocating Cultural Engagements in a Transnational Age 定位和重新定位在一个跨国时代的文化活动

IAFOR Journal of Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI: 10.22492/IJAH.5.1.05

D. Bell

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New Naturalism of Herzog and Deleuze 赫尔佐格和德勒兹的新自然主义

IAFOR Journal of Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI: 10.22492/IJAH.5.1.09

Mehdi Parsakhanqah

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Verbally Constructed Reality and Alternative Realities through Communication – An Exploration 语言建构的现实与沟通中的另类现实——探索

IAFOR Journal of Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI: 10.22492/ijah.5.1.03

P. Rastall

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Wallace Stevens’s “Flawed Words and Stubborn Sounds”: Poeticizing the Imperfect? 华莱士·史蒂文斯的《有缺陷的言语和顽固的声音》:将不完美诗意化?

IAFOR Journal of Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI: 10.22492/ijah.5.1.08

Ikram Hili

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The Indivisibility of Change: The Challenge of Trauma to the Genre of Coming-of-Age Narratives 变化的不可分割性:创伤对成长叙事体裁的挑战

IAFOR Journal of Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2017-09-12 DOI: 10.22492/IJAH.5.1.02

Nicole Frey Buechel

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