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Rosalyn Borst

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中国儿童文学 Pub Date : 2025-05-16 DOI: 10.1007/s10583-025-09616-z

Michelle J. Smith

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Fairy Tales of Genocide: Processing the Holocaust by Recontextualising Fairy-Tale Narratives 种族灭绝的童话：通过重新背景化童话叙事来处理大屠杀

中国儿童文学 Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.3366/ircl.2024.0582

Nina Lopez-Ortiz

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Imagining Climate Change: The Representation of Plants in Three Nordic Climate Fictions for Young Adults 想象气候变化：三部北欧青年气候小说中植物的表现

中国儿童文学 Pub Date : 2019-05-17 DOI: 10.1007/s10583-019-09387-4

Lykke Guanio-Uluru

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中国儿童文学 Pub Date : 2017-07-24 DOI: 10.1007/s10583-017-9326-6

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