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Reclaiming the Past: Restoration of Personal and Communal History in Petals of Blood 重拾过去:在《血的花瓣》中恢复个人和公共的历史

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2018-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/pjes-2018-0007

Simona Klimková

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The Poet at the Teacher’s Desk: W.H. Auden on Education, Democracy and Humanity 讲台上的诗人:奥登谈教育、民主与人性

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2017-07-26 DOI: 10.1515/pjes-2017-0002

Ladislav Vít

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The Dramatic Arc of the Theory of FSP: A Tentative Diachronic Excursion FSP理论的戏剧性弧线:一个试探性历时偏移

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2017-07-26 DOI: 10.1515/pjes-2017-0008

Martin T. Adam

引用次数: 2

A Corpus-Based Diachronic Study of a Change in the Use of Non-Finite Clauses in Written English 基于语料库的书面英语非限定从句使用变化历时研究

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2017-07-26 DOI: 10.1515/pjes-2017-0009

Marcela Malá

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A Woman Traveller in the Moorish Sanctum: A Look at Emily Keene, Shareefa of Wazzan’s My Life Story 摩尔人圣地中的一个女旅行者:看艾米丽·基恩，瓦兹赞的《我的人生故事》中的莎莉法

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2017-07-26 DOI: 10.1515/pjes-2017-0001

Lahoucine Aammari

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Dodging the Literary Undertaker – Biographic Metafiction in Hanif Kureishi’s The Last Word 躲避文学承担者——黑石哈尼夫《最后的话语》中的传记性元小说

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2017-07-26 DOI: 10.1515/pjes-2017-0007

P. Chalupský

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New Transatlantic African Writing: Translation, Transculturation and Diasporic Images in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck and Americanah 新跨大西洋非洲写作:中国的翻译、跨文化和流散形象:阿曼达·恩戈齐·阿迪奇的《你脖子上的东西》和《美国》

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2017-07-26 DOI: 10.1515/pjes-2017-0006

Elena Rodríguez Murphy

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William Golding’s Apocalyptic Vision in Lord of the Flies and Pincher Martin 威廉·戈尔丁在《蝇王》和《平彻·马丁》中的末世愿景

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2017-07-26 DOI: 10.1515/pjes-2017-0003

Arnab Chatterjee

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Literature and Learning in Marilynne Robinson’s Novel Gilead 玛丽莲·罗宾逊小说《基列》中的文学与学习

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2017-07-26 DOI: 10.1515/pjes-2017-0004

Mária Hricková

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Healing Trauma and Reasserting Identity through Remembrance in Joanne Fedler’s The Dreamcloth 乔安妮·费德勒的《梦布》，通过记忆治愈创伤和重申身份

Prague Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2017-07-26 DOI: 10.1515/pjes-2017-0005

Md Abu Shahid Abdullah

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