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Arguments and Counterarguments for and against Coffee in 17^th-Century English Literature 17世纪英国文学中咖啡的正反论证

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2023-0001

Ashfaque Ahmad Shovon

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Stimulating the Law through Ubuntu and Nagomi in Three Japanese Short Stories 从三个日本短篇小说的“乌班图”和“长生”来刺激法律

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2023-0004

Gabriel Kosiso Okonkwo

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The Loss of the Real in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Klara and the Sun and Nocturnes 石黑一雄的《别让我走》、《克拉拉与太阳》和《夜曲》中真实的失落

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2023-0003

El Habib El Hadari

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New stories from the Mabinogion and Pedeir Keinc y Mabinogi: Texts, Narratives and Tradition¹ 马比诺吉奥翁的新故事和马比诺吉的彼得·基恩:文本、叙事和传统1

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2023-0002

Hynek Daniel Janoušek

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The Passive across Two Registers of Present-Day British English: A Corpus-Based Lexico-Grammatical Perspective 现代英国英语跨两个语域的被动语态:基于语料库的词汇语法视角

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2023-0005

Markéta Malá, Zuzana Ježková

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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Ecophilosophy in “Rappaccini’s Daughter” 从《拉帕奇尼的女儿》看霍桑的生态哲学

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2022-0001

Sabri Mnassar

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Naomi Alderman’s The Power: A Speculative Feminist Dystopian Fiction Mirroring the Here and Now 娜奥米·奥德曼的《权力:反映此时此地的投机女权主义反乌托邦小说》

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2022-0008

T. Sen

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“Her tears fell with the dews at even”: The Ekphrastic and Intertextual Dialogue between Victorian Poetry and Pre-Raphaelite Painting “她的泪随露珠落在黄昏”:维多利亚时代诗歌与拉斐尔前派绘画的互文对话

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2022-0002

Rocío Moyano Rejano

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The Materialisation of “torrential languages” within the Avant-Garde: Mina Loy, James Joyce, and Aesthetic Modernism 先锋派中“激流语言”的物化:米娜·洛伊、詹姆斯·乔伊斯与审美现代主义

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2022-0004

Bowen Wang

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Existential Dualism and Absurdity: Modernist Theatricality in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and Samuel Beckett’s Endgame 存在的二元论与荒诞:索因卡的《死亡与国王的骑士》和贝克特的《终局之战》中的现代主义戏剧性

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2022-0007

Issa Omotosho Garuba

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