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Capitalism, Ecosocialism and Reparative Readers in Ursula Le Guin’s The Word for World Is Forest 厄休拉·勒奎恩《世界就是森林》中的资本主义、生态社会主义和修复性读者

Childrens Literature Pub Date : 2023-11-12 DOI: 10.3390/literature3040030

Sneharika Roy

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Gothic Fairy-Tale Feminism: The Rise of Eyre/‘Error’ 哥特式童话女性主义:《爱》的兴起/《错误》

Childrens Literature Pub Date : 2023-10-31 DOI: 10.3390/literature3040029

Aileen Miyuki Farrar

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All the Better to Eat You with: Sexuality, Violence, and Disgust in ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ Adaptations 更适合吃你的:《小红帽》改编中的性、暴力和厌恶

Childrens Literature Pub Date : 2023-10-30 DOI: 10.3390/literature3040028

Nicola Welsh-Burke

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Interactivity and Influence: A Research on the Relationship between Epitaph (muzhi 墓志) and Mourning Poetry for Deceased Wives in Ancient China 互动与影响:中国古代墓志铭与丧妻诗关系研究

Childrens Literature Pub Date : 2023-09-30 DOI: 10.3390/literature3040027

Qiong Yang

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As in Forests, So in Verse: Clearings and the Poetics of Lack in Finnish Forest Poetry 森林如其诗:芬兰森林诗歌中的空旷与匮乏诗学

Childrens Literature Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI: 10.3390/literature3040026

Karoliina Lummaa

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The Last Entrustment: Funeral Concepts and Arrangements of for the Afterlife in the Tang Dynasty 最后的嘱托:唐代的丧葬观念与后世安排

Childrens Literature Pub Date : 2023-09-19 DOI: 10.3390/literature3030025

Guodong Meng

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Serving the Dead as Serving the Living: Examining the Concept of Burial and Life Consciousness in Medieval China 服务死者即服务生者:检视中世纪中国的丧葬观念与生命意识

Childrens Literature Pub Date : 2023-09-18 DOI: 10.3390/literature3030024

Wei Wang

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Facing Your Fears: Navigating Social Anxieties and Difference in Contemporary Fairy Tales 面对你的恐惧:驾驭社会焦虑和当代童话的差异

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Childrens Literature Pub Date : 2023-09-04 DOI: 10.3390/literature3030023

Dorothea Trotter

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The Tales of Bluebeard’s Wives: Carmen Maria Machado’s Intertextual Storytelling in In the Dream House and “The Husband Stitch” 蓝胡子的妻子们的故事:卡门·玛丽亚·马查多在《梦之屋》和《丈夫史迪奇》中的互文叙事

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Childrens Literature Pub Date : 2023-08-30 DOI: 10.3390/literature3030022

Carolin Jesussek

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Media as Metaphor: Realism in Meiji Print Narratives and Visual Cultures 媒介隐喻:明治版画叙事与视觉文化中的现实主义

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Childrens Literature Pub Date : 2023-08-15 DOI: 10.3390/literature3030021

Jonathan E. Abel

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