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“L’enfer, c’est les autres”: En-gendering Sin in Middle English Religious Drama. The Case of Chester “L 'enfer, c 'est les autres”:中世纪英国宗教戏剧中的罪恶性别化。切斯特案

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2021-0006

E. Ciobanu

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Proust in Transylvania: Smell and Memory in Romania 普鲁斯特在特兰西瓦尼亚:罗马尼亚的嗅觉与记忆

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2021-0009

Sebastian Groes, Tom Mercer

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Charitable London: F(o)unding the First Philanthropic Societies in the Metropolis 慈善伦敦:在大都会的第一个慈善协会下的F(o)

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2021-0007

Elena Butoescu

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Elena Butoescu. Literary Imposture and Eighteenth-Century Knowledge: The Tradition of the Literary Faker in England from Marana to Goldsmith. Bucharest: Zeta Books, 2019. Pp 475. ISBN 978-606-697-092-1 (paperback); ISBN 978-606-697-093-8 (ebook) 艾琳娜Butoescu。文学造假与18世纪的知识:从马拉纳到戈德史密斯的英国文学造假传统。布加勒斯特:泽塔图书，2019。页475。ISBN 978-606-697-092-1(平装本);ISBN 978-606-697-093-8(电子书)

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2021-0012

Dragoş Ivana

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Naming and Taming the Truth: Dana Gioia’s Transformative Poetry 命名和驯服真相:Dana Gioia的变革诗歌

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2021-0003

R. Doncu

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Literature, Social Isolation and the Quest for Emotion in the Accelerated Post-Humanities 文学、社会孤立和加速后人文学科对情感的追求

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2021-0001

A. Neagu

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Narrative Quantum Cosmology in Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen Michael Frayn的《哥本哈根》中的叙事量子宇宙论

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2021-0005

Omid Amani, Hossein Pirnajmuddin

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Homes for Canadians (I) 加拿大人的家园(一)

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2021-0011

David Brian Howard

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Subarno Chattarji. The Distant Shores of Freedom: Vietnamese American Memoirs and Fiction. New Delhi: Bloomsbury India, 2019. Pp. 262. ISBN: 978-93-88271-46-2 Subarno Chattarji。自由的遥远海岸:越南裔美国人回忆录与小说。新德里:Bloomsbury India, 2019。262页。ISBN: 978-93-88271-46-2

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2021-0013

Vitor Soster

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Ferris Wheels, Faust, and Forms of Influence in Malcolm Lowry and Graham Greene 马尔科姆·洛瑞和格雷厄姆·格林的《摩天轮、浮士德和影响形式》

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2021-0010

R. Stevenson

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