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Body Horror in Octavia E. Butler’s Clay’s Ark 奥克塔维亚·e·巴特勒的《克莱方舟》中的人体恐怖

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 DOI: 10.3390/h12050120

Maria Holmgren Troy

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Modern Anxieties and Traditional Influence in Horror Anime 恐怖动画中的现代焦虑与传统影响

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 DOI: 10.3390/h12050118

Anik Sarkar

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A Re-Evaluation of the Grievance Studies Affair 对申诉研究事务的再评价

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 DOI: 10.3390/h12050116

Geoff G. Cole

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The Purloined Letters of Elizabeth Bishop 伊丽莎白·毕晓普被盗信件

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 DOI: 10.3390/h12050117

Axel Nesme

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Role of Cinema and Psychoanalysis in Affective Experience 电影和精神分析在情感体验中的作用

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.3390/h12050115

Elisabetta Bellagamba

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Jane Austen’s Persuasion: Finding Companionate Marriage through Sickness and Health 简·奥斯汀的《劝导》:在疾病与健康中寻找伴侣婚姻

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.3390/h12050114

Maureen Johnson

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Joking Around, Seriously: Freud, Derrida, and the Irrepressible Wit of Heinrich Heine 开玩笑，严肃:弗洛伊德，德里达和海因里希·海涅的不可抑制的智慧

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-10-08 DOI: 10.3390/h12050113

Elizabeth Rottenberg

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The Submerged, Post-Truth “Island of Happiness” in Michel Houellebecq’s Extension du domaine de la lutte Michel Houellebecq的Extension du domaine de la lutte中被淹没的后真相“幸福岛”

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.3390/h12050111

Keith Moser

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So-Called Sovereign Settlers: Settler Conspirituality and Nativism in the Australian Anti-Vax Movement 所谓的主权定居者:澳大利亚反疫苗运动中的定居者阴谋论和本土主义

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.3390/h12050112

Madi Day, Bronwyn Carlson

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“Education Is a Cultural Weapon”: The Inner London Education Authority and the Politics of Literature for Young People “教育是一种文化武器”:内伦敦教育当局与青年文学政治

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 DOI: 10.3390/h12050109

Karen Sands-O’Connor

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