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The Typewriter’s Tale: Re-Exploring the Historical Figure of Henry James through Fiction 打字机的故事:通过小说重新探索亨利·詹姆斯的历史人物

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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-19 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/13966

Albertus Breytenbach

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Blackface on the South African Stage 南非舞台上的黑脸

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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-16 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/14332

Marisa Keuris

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Culpability and Nature-Nature Infractions in Select Poems in Tanure Ojaide’s Narrow Escapes: A Poetic Diary of the Coronavirus Pandemic 罪责与自然——坦努尔·奥加德《死里逃生:冠状病毒大流行的诗歌日记》选集中的自然违规

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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-03 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/13815

Gabriel Kosiso Okonkwo Okonkwo

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LGBTQ+ Literature in the West: From Ancient Times to the Twenty-First Century, by Robert C. Evans 《西方LGBTQ+文学:从古代到二十一世纪》作者:罗伯特·c·埃文斯

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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-12 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/14602

Andy Carolin

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The Construction of Identities 身份的建构

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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/13800

Ammar Aqeeli

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Apartheid’s Patriarchies in Decline: White Masculinities in Damon Galgut’s The Promise 种族隔离的父权制在衰落:达蒙·高古特《无极》中的白人男子气概

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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/13609

A. Carolin

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Enjoying the Symptom: David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men 享受症状:大卫·福斯特·华莱士对丑陋男人的简短采访

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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/13519

Ferma Lekesizalin

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Negotiations of Anxiety in the Discourses of Melanie Klein and Edgar Allan Poe 梅兰妮·克莱因和埃德加·爱伦·坡话语中的焦虑谈判

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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-14 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/13590

D. Cârstea

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Reflections of Tartarin of Tarascon in Araba Sevdası in the Context of Impressionism 印象派背景下Tartarin of Tarascon在Araba sevdasi的反思

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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-13 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/13351

Esra Sazyek

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Poetics of the Medial State of Emily Dickinson’s Persona 艾米莉·狄金森人物形象媒介状态的诗学研究