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Get In and Get Out: White Racial Transformation and the US Gothic Imagination 《进进出出:白人种族转型与美国哥特想象

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 DOI: 10.3390/h12060129

Hannah Lauren Murray

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Intersections of Children’s Poetry, Popular Literature, and Mass Media: Fujimoto Giichi’s Adaptation of Holes in the Tin Roof like Stars from Tomo Fusako’s Poem to Radio Drama 儿童诗歌、大众文学与大众传媒的交叉点:藤本义一从富佐友夫的诗歌到广播剧的《星星一样的铁皮屋顶上的洞》改编

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.3390/h12060128

Koji Toba

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Making Words—The Unconscious in Translation: Philosophical, Psychoanalytical, and Philological Approaches 造词——翻译中的无意识:哲学、精神分析和语言学方法

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 DOI: 10.3390/h12060127

Judith Kasper

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“Edible Aesthetics”: Blurring Boundaries between Pastry and Art “食用美学”:模糊糕点与艺术的界限

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-10-22 DOI: 10.3390/h12050126

Maddalena Borsato

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“The United States of Lyncherdom”: Humor and Outrage in Percival Everett’s The Trees (2021) “美国的私刑”:珀西瓦尔·埃弗雷特《树》(2021)中的幽默与愤怒

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 DOI: 10.3390/h12050125

Michel Feith

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Did John Stuart Mill Write ‘On Social Freedom’? 约翰·斯图亚特·密尔写过《论社会自由》吗?

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 DOI: 10.3390/h12050123

Antis Loizides, Andreas Neocleous, Panagiotis Nicolaides

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Familiar Strangers in the Shrouded Forest: Stigma, Representation and Alzheimer’s Disease in Always 笼罩森林中熟悉的陌生人:耻辱、表征和阿尔茨海默病

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 DOI: 10.3390/h12050121

Andrew Phillip Young

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Worlds of Meaning at the Edge of Extinction: Conservation Behaviour and the Environmental Humanities 濒临灭绝的意义世界:保护行为和环境人文

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 DOI: 10.3390/h12050122

Thom van Dooren

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Israeli and Palestinian Settler Colonialism in New Media: The Case of Roots 新媒体中的以色列和巴勒斯坦定居者殖民主义:根的案例

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 DOI: 10.3390/h12050124

Magdalena Pycińska

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The Vagina, the Ear, and the Eye: Bodily Orifices and Sight in Miguel de Cervantes’s “El Celoso Extremeño” 阴道、耳朵和眼睛:米格尔·德·塞万提斯的《Celoso Extremeño》中的身体孔口和视觉

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 DOI: 10.3390/h12050119

Silvia Arroyo

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