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Women's Narratives in Reading Multicultural Subjectivities: An Academic Discourse 多元文化主体性阅读中的女性叙事:一个学术话语

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Interdisciplinary Literary Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-07 DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v36i1.52626

Susmita Talukdar

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Disjuncture as a Trope of Conjuncture in Sudeep Pakhrin’s Selected Poems 苏迪普·帕赫林《诗选》中的一种衔接修辞——断裂

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Interdisciplinary Literary Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-07 DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v36i1.53057

Kumari Lama

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The End of the Rights of Man in Sweetness in the Belly 《肚子里的甜蜜》中人权的终结

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Interdisciplinary Literary Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-07 DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v36i1.53055

Anima Dhungana

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Rosenberg, Joseph Elkanah. Wastepaper Modernism: Twentieth-century Fiction and the Ruins of Print Joseph Elkanah, Rosenberg。废纸现代主义:二十世纪的小说和印刷的废墟

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Interdisciplinary Literary Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-07 DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v36i1.53056

Megh Raj Adhikari

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Denial and Lack of Unconditional Hospitality 拒绝和缺乏无条件的款待

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Interdisciplinary Literary Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-04 DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v36i1.52075

Arun Shrestha

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Women Breaking the Silence over Violence: Revising Historiography through Sorayya Khan’s Novels 打破暴力沉默的女性:从索拉亚·汗的小说看史学的修正

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Interdisciplinary Literary Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.5325/intelitestud.25.1.0001

Urvashi Kaushal, P. Tripathi

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Exposition of Body Aesthetics: Reading Koirala’s Sumnima and Parijat’s Shirisko Phool 身体美学的阐释:阅读柯伊拉腊的Sumnima和Parijat的Shirisko Phool

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Interdisciplinary Literary Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v36i1.52084

Manisha Gautam

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Freedom of Speech and Press in Sub-Austrian Galicia (from the Spring of Nations in 1848 to the First World War) 亚奥地利加利西亚的言论和新闻自由(从1848年的“民族之春”到第一次世界大战)

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Interdisciplinary Literary Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.5325/intelitestud.25.1.0079

O. Makarchuk, V. Makarchuk, I. Terlyuk, N. Zakharchyn, Andriy Koval

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Exposition of Disgust Rasa in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby 菲茨杰拉德《了不起的盖茨比》中对厌恶的阐释

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Interdisciplinary Literary Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v36i1.52078

Dhaneshwar Paudel

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Caste and Construction of a Tharu Subjectivity in Resham Chaudhary's Selected Novels 乔杜里小说选集中的种姓与塔鲁主体性建构

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Interdisciplinary Literary Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v36i1.52085

Mohan Dangaura

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