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Buddhist Cultural Heritage of Lo Manthang and Satellite Settlements, Mustang, Nepal 尼泊尔穆斯坦洛曼塘和卫星定居点的佛教文化遗产

Literary Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-04 DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v37i1.63040

Umesh Regmi

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Traces of Guilt and a Hint of Reparation in Kyung-Sook Shin’s Please Look After Mother Kyung-Sook Shin 的《请照顾好母亲》中的内疚痕迹和补偿暗示

Literary Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-04 DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v37i1.63037

Shruti Das, Suman Adak

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Winter Trees as the Symbol of Female's Self: Reading Sylvia Plath's "Winter Trees" through an Eco-feminist Perspective 作为女性自我象征的冬树：从生态女性主义视角解读西尔维娅-普拉斯的《冬树

Literary Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-04 DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v37i1.63036

Sangita Gajmer

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Sent Out of the Garden: Posthuman Stewardship in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy 被送出花园：玛格丽特-阿特伍德的 "疯人院三部曲 "中的后人类管理制度

Literary Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-04 DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v37i1.63001

Alphy Sebastian

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Homely Pastorals versus the Unhomely Forest in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and The Hobbit 魔戒三部曲》和《霍比特人》中温馨的牧歌与不温馨的森林

Literary Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-04 DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v37i1.63024

Mahasweta Sikdar

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Analysis of Paudyal’s “The Parrot in the Cage” and Sama’s “Don’t Cut down the Trees, Brother Woodcutter” from Ecological Perspectives 从生态学视角分析保迪亚的《笼中鹦鹉》和萨玛的《樵夫兄弟，别砍树了

Literary Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-04 DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v37i1.63034

Raj Kumar Gurung

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Exploring the Intersection of Crime and Society in Deepti Kapoor’s Age of Vice 探索德普蒂-卡普尔《罪恶时代》中犯罪与社会的交集

Literary Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-04 DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v37i1.63022

Khum Prasad Sharma

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Traumatic Healing Responsiveness in Frost’s “Birches” 弗罗斯特《桦树》中的创伤愈合反应

Literary Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-04 DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v37i1.63032

Bishnu-Prasad Pokharel

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Tree Consciousness in Tarun Tapasi 塔伦塔帕西的树木意识

Literary Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-04 DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v37i1.63019

Keshav Raj Chalise

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For a New Form of Forest Living in Future Literature 未来文学中的森林生活新形式

Literary Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-04 DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v37i1.63038

Sooshilla Gopaul

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