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Crossing the Figurative Gap: Metaphor and Metonymy in Midnight’s Children 跨越比喻的鸿沟:《午夜的孩子》中的隐喻与转喻

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2004-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989404047046

M. Fenwick

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引用次数: 2

Pandering Caribbean Spice: The Strategic Exoticism of Robert Antoni’s My Grandmother’s Erotic Folktales 迎合加勒比风情:罗伯特·安东尼《我祖母的情色民间故事》的战略异国情调

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2004-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989404047043

Eric D. Smith

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引用次数: 3

Editorial Leonard Woolf in Ceylon 1904–1911 伦纳德·伍尔夫在锡兰的社论，1904-1911

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2004-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989404047042

Y. Gooneratne

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引用次数: 2

with Covered Eyes: Amerindians and the Arts of Seeing in Wilson Harris and Steve McQueen 威尔森·哈里斯和史蒂夫·麦奎因的《蒙着眼睛:美洲印第安人与视觉艺术》

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2004-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989404047049

Michael Mitchell

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引用次数: 1

Caught between the Goddess and the Cyborg: Third-World Women and the Politics of Science in Three Works of Indian Science Fiction 夹在女神与半机械人之间:三部印度科幻小说中的第三世界女性与科学政治

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2004-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989404047050

S. Mathur

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引用次数: 30

Modernism or Exile? E.H. McCormick and Letters and Art in New Zealand 现代主义还是流亡?E.H.麦考密克与新西兰的文学和艺术

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2004-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989404047048

J. Smithies

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引用次数: 2

“It’s Game Over Forever”: Atwood’s Satiric Vision of a Bioengineered Posthuman Future in Oryx and Crake “游戏永远结束了”:阿特伍德在《羚羊与秧鸡》中对生物工程后人类未来的讽刺愿景

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2004-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989404047051

J. Bouson, Margaret Atwood

引用次数: 41

Tagore and Nationalism 泰戈尔与民族主义

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2004-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989404044732

M. Quayum

引用次数: 7

Anti-Racism, the Nation-State and Contemporary Black British Literature 反种族主义、民族国家与当代英国黑人文学

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2004-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989404044734

Dave Gunning

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引用次数: 13

“City of Mongrel Joy”: Bombay and the Shiv Sena in Midnight’s Children and the Moor’s Last Sigh “杂种欢乐之城”:《午夜的孩子》和《摩尔人的最后叹息》中的孟买和湿婆塞纳

IF 0.2 3区文学

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2004-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/0021989404044738

Rachel Trousdale

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引用次数: 4