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The Agentic Force of Clothing in Amy Tan’s The Valley of Amazement 谭《惊奇谷》中的服饰代理力

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Journal of Language Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/20512856.2022.2071812

Qiping Liu, Quan Zhou

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Between Literary Entertainment, Public Engagement, and Social Research: Nineteenth-Century Investigative Reporting and the Case of ‘London Horrors’ (1861) by John Hollingshead 在文学娱乐、公众参与和社会研究之间:19世纪的调查报道和“伦敦恐怖事件”(1861)，约翰·霍林斯黑德著

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Journal of Language Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2021-11-21 DOI: 10.1080/20512856.2021.1979736

C. Schwab

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Water and its Kinship with Communities in Subhash Vyam’s Water 水及其与Subhash Vyam水社区的亲缘关系

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Journal of Language Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2021-11-18 DOI: 10.1080/20512856.2021.2001153

Sohini Bera, Rajni Singh

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Silence, Empowerment, and Speaking Up: A Transcultural Analysis of Southeast Asian Female Marriage Immigrants’ Nonfiction Writing in Taiwan 沉默、授权与发声——台湾东南亚女性婚姻移民非虚构写作的跨文化分析

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Journal of Language Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2021-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/20512856.2021.1985705

Yi Yang, Kuan-Yu Ko

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Cross-Species Contagion in Beckett’s Endgame: A Posthumanist (Re)reading 贝克特《终局之战》中的跨物种传染：后人文主义解读

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Journal of Language Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2021-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/20512856.2021.1992819

G. Alhasan, Dina Salman

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Silence as Political Strategy in Art: A Study of Susan Sontag’s Alice in Bed 沉默作为艺术中的政治策略:苏珊·桑塔格《床上的爱丽丝》研究

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Journal of Language Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2021-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/20512856.2021.1935497

Prity Barnwal, Rajni Singh

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Verbal and Visual Arts Engagement in University Classrooms 大学课堂中的语言和视觉艺术参与

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Journal of Language Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2021-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/20512856.2021.1938955

Aljawharah A. Aziz Alfuhayd

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The Influences of Books of Manners and Dedekind's Grobianus on John Gay's Trivia 《礼仪书》和戴德金的《Grobianus》对盖伊杂谈的影响

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Journal of Language Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2021-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/20512856.2021.1940757

W. Patton

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The Past and ‘Discontinuity in Religion’ in Octavia Butler’s Parables: A Feminist Theological Perspective 奥克塔维亚·巴特勒寓言中的过去和“宗教的不连续性”:一个女权主义神学的视角

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Journal of Language Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2021-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/20512856.2021.1935492

Elham Mohammadi Achachelooei, C. Leon

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Obesity, Contemporary Gothic, and the Rhetoric of Excess in Push 肥胖、当代哥特式与Push中的过度修辞

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Journal of Language Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/20512856.2021.1882025

Srirupa Chatterjee, N. Ghosal

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