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Lacanian Implications of Departures in Zemeckis’s Beowulf from Beowulf, the Old English Epic 《贝奥武夫》从古英语史诗《贝奥武夫》出发的拉康意义

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2021-11-22 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.11.12

Nurten Birlik

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“. . .delivered from the lie of being truth”: The Affective Force of Disinformation, Stickiness and Dissensus in Randy Ribay’s Patron Saints of Nothing “……从成为真理的谎言中解脱出来”:兰迪·里贝的《虚无的守护神》中虚假信息、粘性和异议的情感力量

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2021-11-22 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.11.06

Vincent Pacheco, Jeremy C. De Chavez

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Professor Dorota Filipczak In Memoriam 纪念多洛塔·菲利普扎克教授

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2021-11-22 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.11.01

A. Jasper

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Transforming the Ich-Du to the Ich-Es: The Migrant as “Terrorist” in Kabir Khan’s New York and Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire 从Ich-Du到Ich-Es的转变:卡比尔·汗的《纽约》和卡米拉·沙姆西的《家火》中的移民“恐怖分子”

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2021-11-22 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.11.07

M. Koshy

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Shibboleths of Grief: Paul Muldoon’s “The Triumph” 悲伤的信条:保罗·马尔登的《胜利》

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2021-11-22 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.11.04

Wit Píetrzak

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One Hundred Frogs in Steve McCaffery’s The Basho Variations 史蒂夫·麦卡弗里的《芭蕉变奏曲》中的一百只青蛙

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2021-11-22 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.11.23

M. Kocot

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The Gospel of Divine Mercy in King Lear 《李尔王》中的神圣慈悲福音

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2021-11-22 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.11.20

M. Grzegorzewska

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Performing More-Than-Human Corporeal Connections in Kiki Smith’s Sculpture 在Kiki Smith的雕塑中表演超越人类的肉体联系

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2021-11-22 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.11.15

Justyna Stępień

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Episodic Literary Movement and Translation: Ideology Embodied in Prefaces 情景文学运动与翻译:序言中的意识形态

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2021-11-22 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.11.25

Mir Mohammad Khademnabi

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Dystopias in the Realm of Popular Culture: Introducing Elements of Posthuman and Postfeminist Discourse to the Mass Audience Female Readership in Cecelia Ahern’s Roar (2018) 大众文化领域的反乌托邦:《塞西莉亚·埃亨的咆哮》中女性读者的后人类和后女权主义话语元素

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2021-11-22 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.11.14

Katarzyna Ostalska

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