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Dream Collaborations: From the History of Eugene O’Neill’s Failed Projects 梦想合作:从尤金·奥尼尔的失败项目的历史

Literatura dvukh Amerik Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.22455/2541-7894-2021-10-25-45

Amina A. Zhamanova

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Pinocchio of the Red Decade: On Stage and on Screen 红色十年的匹诺曹:在舞台上和银幕上

Literatura dvukh Amerik Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.22455/2541-7894-2021-10-310-330

Yulia A. Kleiman

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Dostoevsky Society of Argentina 阿根廷陀思妥耶夫斯基协会

Literatura dvukh Amerik Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.22455/2541-7894-2021-11-239-247

A. González

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Russian Hero in Argentina: Reception, Influence and Translations of F. M. Dostoevsky’s Work 俄国英雄在阿根廷:陀思妥耶夫斯基作品的接受、影响与翻译

Literatura dvukh Amerik Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.22455/2541-7894-2021-11-198-224

J. Morillas

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VII Zverev International Conference at RSUH: Colonial and Postcolonial Discourses in American Literature, Culture, and Politics: Pro et Contra 美国文学、文化与政治中的殖民与后殖民话语:赞成与反对

Literatura dvukh Amerik Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.22455/2541-7894-2021-11-437-449

I. Morozova, V. Zhuravleva

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English and American Travel Writing of the 1930s on Soviet Russia 20世纪30年代关于苏俄的英美旅行写作

Literatura dvukh Amerik Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.22455/2541-7894-2021-10-228-265

I. Kabanova

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Cinematic Mirages of Theodor Dreiser 西奥多·德莱塞的电影幻景

Literatura dvukh Amerik Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.22455/2541-7894-2021-11-248-270

O. Antsyferova

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Shamelessness and New Sincerity: Dostoevsky, David Foster Wallace, and Trump’s America 无耻与新的真诚:陀思妥耶夫斯基、大卫·福斯特·华莱士和特朗普的美国

Literatura dvukh Amerik Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.22455/2541-7894-2021-11-155-182

Michael Bowden

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The Occasions of Theodore Dreiser’s Literary Criticism – a View from the Theodore Dreiser Edition 西奥多·德莱塞文学批评的时代——从西奥多·德莱塞版看

Literatura dvukh Amerik Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.22455/2541-7894-2021-11-271-288

Jude Davies

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Ellison and Dostoevsky: A Critical Reassessment of the Aesthetics and Politics 埃里森与陀思妥耶夫斯基:美学与政治的批判性再评价

Literatura dvukh Amerik Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.22455/2541-7894-2021-11-34-81

S. Rachman

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