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Urban Space, Singularity and Networks in Laura Del-Rivo’s The Furnished Room (1961) 劳拉·德里沃的《带家具的房间》(1961)中的城市空间、奇点和网络

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2020-0003

N. Tredell

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Marital Suffering in Sylvia Plath’s Poetry: A Feminist Reading 西尔维娅·普拉斯诗歌中的婚姻苦难:女性主义解读

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2020-0008

Subrata Chandra Mozumder

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From Outcasts in the Streets to Movers on the Hill: Narrating the Dark Side of Washington, D.C. in D.C. Noir 从街头的弃儿到山上的搬家者:讲述华盛顿特区的黑暗面

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2020-0006

Raluca Andreescu

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Sounding Harlem: Ann Petry’s The Street and the Experience of “Dwelling” 听起来像是哈莱姆:安·佩特里的《街道》和“居住”的体验

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2020-0005

J. V. Yeldho

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Suspect Survival: Matrophobia in Postmemory Generational Writing 怀疑生存:后记忆世代写作中的恐母症

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2019-0017

Elizabeth Kella

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“In the desert, we are all illegal aliens”: Border Confluences and Border Wars in Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway “在沙漠里，我们都是非法移民”:路易斯·阿尔贝托·乌雷亚的《魔鬼公路》中的边境汇合和边境战争

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2019-0022

Raluca Andreescu

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Quixotism, Federalism, and the Question of American National Identity in Royall Tyler’s The Algerine Captive 罗亚尔·泰勒《阿尔及利亚俘虏》中的堂吉诃德主义、联邦制和美国民族认同问题

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2019-0014

Dragoş Ivana

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Forgetting to Re-member: Politics of Amnesia and the Reconstruction of Memory in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Everything Is Illuminated and Memento 遗忘记忆:《美丽心灵的永恒阳光》、《一切都被照亮》、《纪念品》中的失忆政治与记忆重建

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2019-0019

M. Goc

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Ellen Glasgow’s In This Our Life: “The Betrayals of Life” in the Crumbling Aristocratic South 艾伦·格拉斯哥的《这是我们的生活》:摇摇欲坠的南方贵族社会中的“对生活的背叛”

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2019-0016

I. Milică

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“Thank you for your country” “感谢你的国家”

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2019-0012

P. Barry

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