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The Ethics of Social Life in Sidonie de la Houssaye’s Louisiana Tales 西多尼·德拉·胡塞《路易斯安那故事集》中的社会生活伦理

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2025-06-13 DOI: 10.3390/h14060129

Christine A. Jones

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Framing Deaths, Embracing Lives: Alan M. Clark’s Jack the Ripper Victims Series 陷害死亡，拥抱生命：艾伦·m·克拉克的开膛手杰克受害者系列

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.3390/h14010014

Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko

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Analogical Perspective from “Shengsheng” Philosophy on Virginia Hamilton’s Survival Writing in M.C. Higgins, the Great 从“生”哲学的类比视角看弗吉尼亚·汉密尔顿在《希金斯》中的生存写作

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.3390/h13040102

Huimin Liu

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Törleß and the Scene of Reading Törleß和阅读现场

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 DOI: 10.3390/h12060136

Dominik Zechner

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Relational Narratives of Food in Design and Architecture Exhibitions 设计与建筑展览中食物的关系叙事

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 DOI: 10.3390/h12060135

Maddalena Castellani

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Place, Space, and the Affordances Thereof: Bly Manor as Depicted in Three Adaptations of The Turn of the Screw 地点、空间及其启示:《螺丝的转动》三部改编作品中描绘的布莱庄园

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 DOI: 10.3390/h12060134

Kristoffer S. Ekroll

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“Alma, si ciega vas tras tus antojos”: Going Blindly through Seventeenth-Century Literature "Alma, si ciega vas tras tus antojos"：盲目阅读十七世纪文学作品

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 DOI: 10.3390/h12060133

Cipriano López Lorenzo

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Technologies of Care: Robot Caregivers in Science and Fiction 护理技术:科幻小说中的机器人护理者

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 DOI: 10.3390/h12060132

Silvana Colella

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Mutual Doings: Exploring Affectivity in Participatory Methodologies 共同行为:参与式方法论中的情感探索

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 DOI: 10.3390/h12060131

Karin Gunnarsson

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‘D’oh Brother Where Art Thou’: Homer’s Women in The Simpsons and Contemporary Screen Adaptations 《兄弟，你在哪里》:《辛普森一家》中荷马笔下的女人和当代电影改编

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 DOI: 10.3390/h12060130

Alice Payne

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