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Otherization and Identity Distortion in Dangarembga’s Writing 丹加伦巴写作中的异化和身份扭曲

Shanlax international journal of English Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.34293/english.v12i3.7769

Inas Laheg

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Integrative, Hierarchic, and Anarchic Oikos in Ancient Tamil Poetry: An Analysis of Ainkurunuru’s Translation by Martha Ann Selby 古代泰米尔语诗歌中的综合、等级和无政府 Oikos：玛莎-安-塞尔比的 Ainkurunuru 翻译分析

Shanlax international journal of English Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.34293/english.v12i3.7485

S. Garret Raja Immanuel

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Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun: A Posthumanist Anatomization 石黑一雄的《克拉拉与太阳》：后人文主义解剖

Shanlax international journal of English Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.34293/english.v12i3.7636

P. Catherine Benita

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The Intersection of Transhumanism, Prognosis, and AI in Dan Brown’s Origin 丹-布朗《起源》中超人类主义、预言和人工智能的交集

Shanlax international journal of English Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.34293/english.v12i3.7624

Suresh Frederick, Larin John Reid

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Impact of Language Processing on the Growth of Cognitive Abilities 语言处理对认知能力成长的影响

Shanlax international journal of English Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.34293/english.v12i3.7620

R. Vidya Krishnan, S. Vinodhini

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Colonial Landscape Navigation: Postcolonial Ecocriticism in Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh 殖民地景观导航：阿米塔夫-高什《罂粟花海》中的后殖民主义生态批评

Shanlax international journal of English Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.34293/english.v12i3.7494

Harsha Eswaraiah, J.G Ravi Kumar, S. Narasimha Murthy

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Through Feminist Eyes: Gender Identities and Gender Roles in the Fiction of Fay Weldon 透过女权主义的眼睛：费伊-韦尔登小说中的性别认同和性别角色

Shanlax international journal of English Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.34293/english.v12i3.7275

Vidya Rajagopal

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Instilling Values through Short Stories with Special Reference to Sudha Murty’s Grandma’s Bag of Stories 通过短篇小说灌输价值观，特别参考 Sudha Murty 的《奶奶的故事袋

Shanlax international journal of English Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.34293/english.v12i3.7623

A. Hajira Banu

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Exploring Decolonization and Colonial Legacies: A Postcolonial Reading of Khushwant Singh’s Novel Train to Pakistan 探索非殖民化与殖民遗产：库什万特-辛格小说《开往巴基斯坦的列车》的后殖民解读

Shanlax international journal of English Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.34293/english.v12i3.7702

Mahmud AI Hasan

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Discerning Pervasive Figures of Speech in English Poetic Constructions 辨析英语诗歌结构中无处不在的语用符号

Shanlax international journal of English Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.34293/english.v12i3.7703

L. Sharma

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