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The Commodified Happiness: The Only Established Source of Meaning in Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince and The Nightingale and the Rose 商品化的幸福:奥斯卡·王尔德《快乐王子》和《夜莺与玫瑰》中唯一确定的意义来源
Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2022-0003
Younes Poorghorban
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Book Review: Ladislav Vít The Landscapes of W.H. Auden’s Interwar Poetry: Roots and Routes (New York and London: Routledge, 2022). 143 pp 书评:Ladislav Vít W.H.奥登两次世界大战之间诗歌的景观:根源和路线(纽约和伦敦:劳特利奇，2022)。143页
Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2022-0010
P. Chalupský
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The “bull goose looney” as a Totem Guide for Chief’s Writing Himself to Freedom “公牛鹅”作为酋长书写自由的图腾指南
Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2022-0006
M. Somerville
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The Mitford Voice: A Diachronic Inquiry into the “Upper-Crust” Accent of the Mitford Sisters 米特福德的声音:对米特福德姐妹的“上流社会”口音的历时性调查
Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2022-0009
Federico Prina
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Laughing with Beckett in Waiting for Godot and Endgame 在《等待戈多》和《终局之战》中与贝克特一起大笑
Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2022-0005
Mohammad Masoodi Miyanrostaq, Seyyed Mehdi Mousavi
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Rychter, Ewa, 2021. “Passing a looped and knotted string between their hands”. The Bible, the Women’s Liberation Movement and Women’s Bonds in Michèle Roberts’s The Wild Girl. Prague Journal of English Studies, Volume 10, Number 1, pages 23-41. doi: 10.2478/pjes-2021-0002 赖克特，艾奥瓦，2021年。“在他们的双手之间传递一根打结的绳子”。米歇尔·罗伯茨《野女孩》中的圣经、妇女解放运动和妇女纽带。《布拉格英语研究杂志》，第10卷第1期，第23-41页。doi: 10.2478 / pj - 2021 - 0002
Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-02 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2021-0008
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Peter Ackroyd’s Distorted Psychogeography 彼得·阿克罗伊德的《扭曲的心理地理学
Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2021-0004
K. Garayeva
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Disrupted Parenthood in Caryl Phillips’s The Final Passage 卡里尔·菲利普斯的《最后一段》中被打乱的亲子关系
Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2021-0003
Anastasiia Fediakova
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Understanding the Function of Empathy through Laila Halaby’s West of the Jordan 从莱拉·哈拉比的《约旦之西》看共情的功能
Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2021-0005
Ishak Berrebbah
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Discourse, Cultural Capital and Power Relations in Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending 论朱利安·巴恩斯《终结感》中的话语、文化资本与权力关系
Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2021-0006
E. Karagianni
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