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“In the Dark, All the Shadows Disappear”: Remodelling the Poetics of Gripping Horror in Stephen King’s The Institute “在黑暗中，所有的阴影都消失了”:重塑斯蒂芬·金的《学院》中扣人心弦的恐怖诗学

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ANGLIA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ENGLISCHE PHILOLOGIE Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/ang-2023-0028

Oksana Bohovyk, Andrii Bezrukov

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“Words, Words, Words”: Mourid Barghouti’s Appropriation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in I Saw Ramallah “文字，文字，文字”:Mourid Barghouti在《我看到了拉马拉》中对莎士比亚哈姆雷特的改编

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ANGLIA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ENGLISCHE PHILOLOGIE Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/ang-2023-0026

Bilal Hamamra, Ahmad Qabaha, Sondos Qinnab

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The Cosmopolitan Stranger in Muriel Spark’s The Finishing School 穆丽尔·斯帕克的《精修学校》中的世界主义陌生人

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ANGLIA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ENGLISCHE PHILOLOGIE Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/ang-2023-0025

Carlos Villar Flor, Ana Isabel Altemir Giral

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Neidorf, Leonard. 2022. The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 216 pp., $ 36.95. 伦纳德·内多夫，2022。贝奥武夫诗人的艺术与思想。纽约州伊萨卡:康奈尔大学出版社，216页，36.95美元。

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ANGLIA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ENGLISCHE PHILOLOGIE Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/ang-2023-0030

Scott J. Gwara

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Frontmatter 头版头条

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ANGLIA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ENGLISCHE PHILOLOGIE Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/ang-2023-frontmatter3

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Displaced Geographies and Uncomfortable Truths: Unveiling Anglo-Irish Silenced Past in Bram Stoker’s “The Judge’s House” (1891) 移位的地理和令人不安的真相:在布拉姆·斯托克的《法官之家》(1891)中揭开盎格鲁-爱尔兰沉默的过去

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ANGLIA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ENGLISCHE PHILOLOGIE Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/ang-2023-0024

Richard Jorge

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Jean Lee Cole. 2020. How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895–1920. Jackson, MS: Mississippi University Press, 214 pp., 63 illustr., $ 112.00. Jean Lee Cole, 2020。《另一半是怎么笑的:1895-1920年美国文化中的喜剧情感》杰克逊，MS:密西西比大学出版社，214页，63插图。， $ 112.00。

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ANGLIA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ENGLISCHE PHILOLOGIE Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/ang-2023-0032

Ian Gordon

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Thomas D’Urfey’s Adaptation of Cervantes’s Quixote: The Comical History of Don Quixote 托马斯·杜菲对塞万提斯的《堂吉诃德》的改编:《堂吉诃德的喜剧史》

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ANGLIA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ENGLISCHE PHILOLOGIE Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/ang-2023-0022

María José Álvarez Faedo

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The Maypole of Merry Vagabonds: Hawthorne’s “The Seven Vagabonds” and the Birth of Conservative Utopia 快乐流浪汉的五月柱:霍桑的《七个流浪汉》与保守乌托邦的诞生

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ANGLIA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ENGLISCHE PHILOLOGIE Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/ang-2023-0023

Hossein Nazari, Ali Hassanpour Darbandi

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Forms and Functions of Description in the (New) Weird (新)怪异中描述的形式与功能

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ANGLIA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ENGLISCHE PHILOLOGIE Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/ang-2023-0027

Thomas Rauth

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