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Keeping Myth Memory Alive: The Usual and the Unusual in Sudha Murty’s Unusual Tales Series 保持神话记忆的活力:苏达·穆蒂不寻常故事系列中的寻常与不寻常

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2023-09-12 DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.27

Susan Lobo

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The Historical Revolution of Vatican II and the Vision of a Post-Western Christianity in India 梵二的历史革命与后西方基督教在印度的愿景

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2023-09-12 DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.26

Enrico Beltramini

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A Critical Analysis of Honorification in Human Relations 人际关系中敬语的批判性分析

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2023-09-04 DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.24

Tanima Bagchi, Rajesh Kumar

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Toleration and Tolerance as Human Challenges: The Voice of an Eighteenth-Century Dramatist, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, for the Twenty-First Century 宽容和宽容作为人类的挑战:18世纪剧作家戈特霍尔德·以法莲·莱辛对21世纪的声音

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2023-09-04 DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.21

Albrecht Classen

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Socio-cultural practices and stress among working mothers of underage children in the Public Universities of Nigeria 尼日利亚公立大学中有未成年子女的职业母亲的社会文化习俗和压力

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2023-09-04 DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.22

Ngozi Christina Nwadike, John Thompson Okpa, Nnana Okoi Ofem, Benjamin Okorie Ajah, Uzochukwu Chukwuka Chinweze, Isife, Chima Theresa

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A Saga of Cosmopolitan Friendship in Time of the Breaking of Nations: A Study of Ali Smith’s Autumn 民族分裂时代的世界性友谊传奇——阿里·史密斯《秋天》研究

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2023-09-04 DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.23

Mousumi Chowdhury

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Born twice: A redemptive revisioning uncovering the metaphors of representation 重生两次:揭示再现隐喻的救赎性修正

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-28 DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.19

Anu Mathai, Rolla Das

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Memory, Insidious trauma, and Refugee crisis in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer (2015) 阮越青的《同情者》中的记忆、潜伏的创伤和难民危机

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-28 DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.30

Rashi Shrivastava, Avishek Parui, Merin Simi Raj

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Towards a Problematic Canon: Indian Poetry Anthologies and the Construction of Modernism 走向有问题的经典:印度诗歌选集与现代主义的建构

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-28 DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.20

Benjamin Karam

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Redefining the Identity of People of Indian Origin in Mauritius 重新定义毛里求斯印第安人的身份

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-28 DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.16

Rashmi Kapoor

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