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A Bond Stronger Than Marriage: Discipleship in the Works of Christopher Isherwood 比婚姻更牢固的纽带:克里斯托弗·伊舍伍德作品中的门徒训练

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2019-07-01 DOI: 10.2478/pjes-2019-0005

Kinga Latała

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From “Big Red” Hydrick to Goat Dykeman: Eudora Welty’s Navigation between the Fictional and the Real in “Where Is the Voice Coming From?” 从“大红”海德里克到山羊戴克曼:尤多拉·韦尔蒂在《声音从哪里来?》中在虚构与现实之间的导航

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2018-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/pjes-2018-0005

Q. Ha, R. Hitchcock

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Marvell’s Green Thought(s): The Paradoxes of Marvell’s Nature Poetry 马维尔的绿色思想:马维尔自然诗的悖论

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2018-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/pjes-2018-0001

Tomáš Jajtner

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Rhetorical Strategies of Alterity in Arthur Leared’s Morocco and the Moors (1876) and Budgett Meakin’s Life in Morocco (1905) 阿瑟·利德的《摩洛哥与摩尔人》(1876)和巴吉特·米金的《摩洛哥生活》(1905)中的互斥修辞策略

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2018-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/pjes-2018-0003

Lahoucine Aammari

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The Fictional Avatars of Mrs W: The Influence of the Adoptive Mother and the Birth of Jeanette Winterson as a Writer W夫人的小说形象:养母的影响与珍妮特·温特森作家的诞生

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2018-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/pjes-2018-0008

Émilie Walezak

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Terminology as a Specific Carrier of Information 术语作为信息的特定载体

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2018-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/pjes-2018-0009

Milan Smutný

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From Carlyle’s Hero to Conrad’s Depraved: Hermeneutics of Morbidity in Heart of Darkness 从卡莱尔的英雄到康拉德的堕落:《黑暗的心》中病态的解释学

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2018-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/pjes-2018-0004

Eduardo Valls Oyarzun

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The Ideologies of War and Social Class in Atonement: A Critical Stylistic Analysis 《赎罪》中的战争意识形态与社会阶级意识形态:一种批判的文体分析

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2018-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/pjes-2018-0010

Doha Mahmoud Abdel-Moety

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“Hospitality to the Exile and Broken Bones to the Tyrant”: Early Modernity in Walter Scott’s Waverley “对流亡者的殷勤和对暴君的断骨”:沃尔特·斯科特的《韦弗利》中的早期现代性

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2018-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/pjes-2018-0002

Sinan Gül

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Appropriating Writing in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God 奇努阿·阿契贝的《上帝之箭》中的挪用文字

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2018-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/pjes-2018-0006

Eric Sipyinyu Njeng

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