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A Critical Review of María Elena Jaime de Pablos, ed. 2019. Remaking the Literary Canon in English: Women Writers, 1880-1920. Granada: Comares. 128 pp. ISBN: 978-84-9045-748-1 《MaríA Elena Jaime de Pablos评论》，2019年版。《重塑英语文学经典：女性作家》，1880-1920年。格拉纳达：科马雷斯。128页，国际标准书号：978-84-9045-748-1

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Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses Pub Date : 2020-12-23 DOI: 10.14198/RAEI.2020.33.10

Marta Bernabeu

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Shakespeare for Revolution: From Canon to Activism in V for Vendetta and Sons of Anarchy 革命的莎士比亚:从经典到V字仇杀队和无政府之子的激进主义

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Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses Pub Date : 2020-12-23 DOI: 10.14198/raei.2020.33.07

Maria Consuelo Forés Rossell

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Introduction 介绍

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Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses Pub Date : 2020-12-23 DOI: 10.14198/raei.2020.33.09

Miguel Ramalhete Gomes, Remedios Perni

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The Role of the Critic. A Critical Review of Evelyn Gajowski, ed. 2020. The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism. London: Bloomsbury. 392 pp. ISBN: 978-1-3500-9322-5 评论家的角色。Evelyn Gajowski评论，2020年版。阿登当代莎士比亚批评研究手册。伦敦：布鲁姆斯伯里。392页，国际标准书号：978-1-3500-9322-5

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Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses Pub Date : 2020-12-23 DOI: 10.14198/raei.2020.33.08

Timo Uotinen

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“The point is to change it”: The Imperative for Activist Literary Studies “关键是要改变它”:激进主义文学研究的必要性

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Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses Pub Date : 2020-12-23 DOI: 10.14198/raei.2020.33.06

Christian A. Smith

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Chaos in the Ivory Tower: Postcolonial Representations of the Nigerian Academic Elite in Esiaba Irobi’s Cemetery Road and Ojo Rasaki Bakare’s Once Upon a Tower 象牙塔中的混乱:Esiaba Irobi的墓地路和Ojo Rasaki Bakare的《塔上往事》中尼日利亚学术精英的后殖民代表

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Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses Pub Date : 2020-12-23 DOI: 10.14198/raei.2020.33.05

N. Lawal

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Introduction 介绍

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Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses Pub Date : 2019-12-15 DOI: 10.14198/raei.2019.32.01

Isabel Balteiro, Gunnar Bergh

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Traumatic Re-enactments: Portraits of Veterans in Contemporary British and Canadian First World War Fiction 创伤重演:当代英国和加拿大第一次世界大战小说中的退伍军人肖像

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Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses Pub Date : 2018-12-15 DOI: 10.14198/RAEI.2018.31.09

A. Branach-Kallas

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Great War Games: Notes on Collective Memory, the Adynaton, and Posthumanism 伟大的战争游戏:关于集体记忆、Adynaton和后人类主义的笔记

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Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses Pub Date : 2018-12-15 DOI: 10.14198/RAEI.2018.31.11

Iro Filippaki

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“The road bare and white”: Hemingway, Europe and the Artifice of Ritualised Space “光秃秃的白色道路”：海明威、欧洲和仪式化空间的产物

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Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses Pub Date : 2018-12-15 DOI: 10.14198/RAEI.2018.31.02

F. Mann

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