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Scandinavian Transformations of Dracula 斯堪的纳维亚德古拉的变形

NJES Nordic Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-19 DOI: 10.35360/njes.626

Ingmar Söhrman

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‘Happeners…don’t merely dig the scene, they make it’: The Social Meaning of the Work of Art in Allan Kaprow’s Happenings “发生者……不只是挖掘场景，他们创造场景”:艾伦·卡普罗《发生》中艺术作品的社会意义

NJES Nordic Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-19 DOI: 10.35360/njes.617

Laura Routledge

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‘The new messiah of the battlefields’: The Body as Discursive Strategy in Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun “战场上的新弥赛亚”:道尔顿·特朗博的《约翰尼得到了他的枪》中的身体作为话语策略

NJES Nordic Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-19 DOI: 10.35360/njes.615

Wade A Bell

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An Excursion on Land 陆上游览

NJES Nordic Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-19 DOI: 10.35360/njes.623

Mats Mobärg

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‘Of course, it didn’t work—that kind of scheme never does’: Scotland, the Nordic Imaginary, and the Mid-Twentieth-Century Thriller “当然，这行不通——那种计划永远不会奏效”:苏格兰、北欧幻想和二十世纪中期的惊悚小说

NJES Nordic Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-19 DOI: 10.35360/njes.625

J. Kennedy

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Women Writers of The Troubles 麻烦时期的女作家

NJES Nordic Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-19 DOI: 10.35360/njes.621

Britta Olinder

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Sexual Politics Revised: A Feminist Re-Reading of D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and Women in Love 性政治修正:劳伦斯《彩虹》和《恋爱中的女人》的女权主义重读

NJES Nordic Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-19 DOI: 10.35360/njes.620

Fereshteh Zangenehpour

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‘Sligo made me and Sligo undid me’: Mental Health, Coercive Confinement and Repression in Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture “斯莱戈造就了我，斯莱戈毁灭了我”:塞巴斯蒂安·巴里《秘密经文》中的心理健康、强制监禁和压抑

NJES Nordic Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-19 DOI: 10.35360/njes.622

Åke Persson

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Technologies of Affect in D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover 劳伦斯《查泰莱夫人的情人》中的情感技术

NJES Nordic Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-19 DOI: 10.35360/njes.619

Margrét Gunnarsdóttir Champion

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Aiming for a Middle Ground: Mary Hays’s Appeal to the Men of Great Britain and the Challenge of Perspective 寻求中间立场:玛丽·海斯对英国男人的呼吁和观点的挑战

NJES Nordic Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-19 DOI: 10.35360/njes.554

Helena Bergmann

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