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When “We Believe that ...”: The Role of Collective “we” in the Dialogic Negotiation in Hard News Discourse 当“我们相信……”:集体“我们”在硬新闻话语对话谈判中的作用

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2020-0008

Zuzana Nádraská

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引用次数: 1

Rebekah Hyneman’s Leaves of the Upas Tree: A Tale of (In)temperance and (Im)morality 丽贝卡·海曼的《Upas Tree: In)temperance and (In) morality》

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2020-0003

Irina Rabinovich

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引用次数: 2

On Writer’s Block: The Reflection of Lacanian Post-Structuralist Psychoanalysis in Paul Auster’s Oracle Night 作家的障碍:拉康后结构主义精神分析在保罗·奥斯特的《神谕之夜》中的反映

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2019-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2019-0008

Maroš Buday

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Alienation and Character Typology in African American and Native American Narratives: A Jungian Reading of The Bluest Eye and Winter in the Blood 非裔美国人和印第安人叙事中的异化与人物类型学:《最蓝的眼睛》和《血中的冬天》的荣格解读

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2019-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2019-0004

Issa Omotosho Garuba

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引用次数: 1

A Shadow of Truth: Honor Klein in Iris Murdoch’s A Severed Head 真相的阴影:爱瑞丝·默多克《斩首》中的荣耀·克莱因

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2019-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2019-0002

Barbora Kašpárková

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Suburban Identity in the Poetry of John Updike 约翰·厄普代克诗歌中的郊区身份

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2019-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/PJES-2019-0003

Jiří Flajšar

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Early Modern Cultural Hybridity: Bartholomew Fair as a Heterotopia of Hamlet 近代早期文化混杂:巴塞洛缪集市作为哈姆雷特的异托邦

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2019-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2019-0001

M. Procházka

引用次数: 1

“I am rather strong on Voyages and Cannibalism”: The other Dickens and other Victorians in Richard Flanagan’s Wanting “我很擅长航海和食人”:理查德·弗拉纳根《欲望》中的其他狄更斯和维多利亚时代的人

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2019-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2019-0009

B. Kucała

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Remediating Joyce’s Techno-Poetics: Mark Amerika, Kenneth Goldsmith, Mark Z. Danielewski 修复乔伊斯的技术诗学:马克·阿梅里卡，肯尼斯·戈德史密斯，马克·z·丹尼尔维斯基

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2019-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2019-0007

David Vichnar

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Aesthetic Universals in Neil Gaiman’s Post-Postmodern Mythmaking 尼尔·盖曼后后现代神话创作中的美学共性

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2019-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2019-0006

Ivan Čipkár

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