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“Catastrophically Romantic”: Radical Inversions of Gilbert and Gubar’s Monstrous Angel in Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl “灾难性的浪漫”:吉莉安·弗林《消失的爱人》中吉尔伯特和古巴饰演的怪物天使的彻底颠倒

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2020-0018

Ashley Christensen

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Becoming a Legend: Edna O’Brien and Her Life-Long Journey 成为传奇:埃德娜·奥布莱恩和她一生的旅程

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2020-0020

Zuzanna Zarebska

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Transgression and Empowerment in Sarah Hall’s Short Fiction 莎拉·霍尔短篇小说中的越界与赋权

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2020-0021

A. Fernandes

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You’re an Orphan When Science Fiction Raises You 科幻小说把你养大，你就是孤儿

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2020-0017

Jenni G. Halpin

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“I Have This Kind of Grief for the Earth”: A.S. Byatt’s Ecopoetics in Ragnarök, “Thoughts on Myth” and “Sea Story” “我对地球有这样一种悲伤”:拜厄特在Ragnarök、《神话思考》与《海上故事》中的生态诗学

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2020-0016

Alexandra Cheira

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Olivia Chirobocea-Tudor. History and Fiction in American Postmodernist Novels: Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller and Thomas Pynchon. Constanța: Ovidius University Press, 2019. Pp 262. ISBN: 978-606-060-000-8 奥利维亚Chirobocea-Tudor。库尔特·冯内古特，约瑟夫·海勒和托马斯·品钦。Constanța: Ovidius大学出版社,2019年。第262页。ISBN: 978-606-060-000-8

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2020-0024

R. Rogoveanu

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Sea Imagery in Hala Alyan’s Salt Houses Hala Alyan盐屋中的海洋意象

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2020-0015

Yousef Awad

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Review: Vanessa Guignery and Wojciech Drąg, eds. The Poetics of Fragmentation in Contemporary British and American Fiction, Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2019. (£24.00 Hb.). Pp 235. ISBN 9780691159492 评论:Vanessa Guignery和Wojciech Drąg编辑。《当代英美小说中的碎片诗学》，威尔明顿，德文州:弗农出版社，2019年。(£24.00 Hb)。页235。ISBN 9780691159492

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2020-0022

Corina Selejan

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Mystified Life: Joyce Carol Oates’ Adaptation of Wonderland 《迷惘的生活:乔伊斯·卡罗尔·奥茨改编的仙境》

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2020-0019

R. Nagalakshmi, K. Tamilmani

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Welcome to the New Millennium 欢迎来到新千年

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2020-0013

A. Fernandes

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