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Is the Twilight Saga a Modern-Time Fairy Tale? A Study of Stephenie Meyer’s Source Material from Folklore and Canonical Narratives 《暮光之城》是现代童话吗?从民间传说和正典叙事看史蒂芬妮·迈耶的素材来源

Polish Journal for American Studies Pub Date : 2019-10-15 DOI: 10.7311/pjas.13/1/2019.09

S. Rosenberg

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Bataille in the South: James Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Erskine Caldwell’s Depression Fiction 南方的巴塔耶:詹姆斯·阿吉的《现在让我们赞美名人》和厄斯金·考德威尔的《抑郁小说》

Polish Journal for American Studies Pub Date : 2019-10-15 DOI: 10.7311/pjas.13/2/2019.10

Josepha Kuhn

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Between Pictures and Words: Sally Mann’s Hold Still 图片与文字之间:莎莉·曼的《静止不动》

Polish Journal for American Studies Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.7311/pjas.11/1/2017.11

J. Durczak

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“Running in Both Directions”: The Reflective Character of Single-Image Narratives in Joe Sacco’s Graphic Journalism “双向奔跑”:乔·萨科平面新闻中单意象叙事的反思性

Polish Journal for American Studies Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.7311/pjas.11/1/2017.13

Małgorzata Olsza

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From Hopeless Selfhood to Hopeful Otherness: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road 从绝望的自我到充满希望的他者:科马克·麦卡锡的《路》

Polish Journal for American Studies Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.7311/pjas.11/1/2017.09

Jędrzej Tazbir

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Other Discourses in Poetry: Christian Bök’s Crystallographyand The Xenotext (Book 1) 诗歌中的其他话语:基督教Bök的晶体学和外文(第一册)

Polish Journal for American Studies Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.7311/pjas.11/2/2017.10

Marianne Olholm

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Autobiography and the Politics and Aesthetics of Language Writing 自传与语言写作的政治与美学

Polish Journal for American Studies Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.7311/pjas.11/2/2017.04

T. Pióro

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The Matrix of Poetry: James Schuyler’s Diary 诗歌矩阵:詹姆斯·斯凯勒的日记

Polish Journal for American Studies Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.7311/pjas.11/2/2017.03

Mikołaj Wiśniewski

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Exceptional Spaces: Pop-Cultural Debris and the Spatial (Re)Construction of American Exceptionalism in Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity 例外空间:阿方索Cuarón《地心引力》中流行文化碎片与美国例外主义的空间建构

Polish Journal for American Studies Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.7311/pjas.11/1/2017.14

Steffen Wöll

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Dangerous Pets, Misguided Owners: The Pitfalls of Pet-Keeping in T.C. Boyle’s Stories 危险的宠物，误入歧途的主人:T.C.博伊尔故事中养宠物的陷阱

Polish Journal for American Studies Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.7311/pjas.11/1/2017.10

M. Rutkowska

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