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Urban Places and the Narrative of the Supreme Power 城市场所与最高权力的叙事

Journal of Narrative and Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.59045/nalans.2023.28

Marisa Kerbizi

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Reminiscence about the Soviet City: Urban Space in the Ukrainian Fiction of the 21st century 苏联城市的回忆:21世纪乌克兰小说中的城市空间

Journal of Narrative and Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.59045/nalans.2023.25

Tetiana Grebeniuk

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The Narrative Identity of European Cities in Contemporary Literature 当代文学中欧洲城市的叙事身份

Journal of Narrative and Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.59045/nalans.2023.24

Sonja Novak, Mustafa Zeki Çıraklı, Asma Mehan, Sílvia Quinteiro

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Preface: The Narrative Identity of European Cities in Contemporary Literature 前言:当代文学中欧洲城市的叙事身份

Journal of Narrative and Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.59045/nalans.2023.23

Susana Oliveira

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From the city of heroes to the city of Ilhas: the Ilhíada by Alberto Pimenta 从英雄之城到伊尔哈斯之城:Ilhíada作者:Alberto Pimenta

Journal of Narrative and Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.59045/nalans.2023.30

Antía Monteagudo Alonso

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Experience and Exteriors: Cergy-Pontoise s Suburban Space in Annie Ernaux s Memoirs, Exteriors and Things Seen 体验与外景:安妮·埃诺回忆录《外景与所见》中的格吉-蓬图瓦兹的郊区空间

Journal of Narrative and Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.59045/nalans.2023.29

Aida Marrella

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The City is Not the City: Two Approaches of How City Writers Compose Images of Urbanity 城市不是城市:城市作家塑造城市形象的两种途径

Journal of Narrative and Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.59045/nalans.2023.26

Anna-Lena Roderfeld

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Semantic Function of Spatial Experiences and Memories in The Southern Elephant by Archil Kikodze and Zinka Adamiani by Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili Archil Kikodze和Zinka Adamiani的《南象》中空间经验和记忆的语义功能

Journal of Narrative and Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.59045/nalans.2023.27

Salome Pataridze

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Solastalgia and Poetic Resilience in the Environmental Imagination of Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner Kathy jen ' il-Kijiner环境想象中的太阳痛与诗意复原

Journal of Narrative and Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-15 DOI: 10.59045/nalans.2023.14

Debajyoti Biswas, Johnston Ryan

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The Anthropocene as Impasse: Optimism, cynicism, and the desire for justice in Indra Sinha s Animal s People 作为僵局的人类世:因陀罗·辛哈的《动物的人》中的乐观主义、愤世嫉俗和对正义的渴望

Journal of Narrative and Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-15 DOI: 10.59045/nalans.2023.22

A. Pai

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