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Digging Up the Past, Complicating the Present, and Damaging the Future: Post-Postmodernism and the Postracial in Percival Everett’s The Trees 挖掘过去，使现在复杂化，破坏未来:珀西瓦尔·埃弗雷特《树木》中的后后现代主义和后后现代主义

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 DOI: 10.3390/h12040086

George Kowalik

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The Humanities: What Future? 人文学科：什么是未来？

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 DOI: 10.3390/h12040085

Deborah Pike

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Network Temporality in Percival Everett’s Poetry Percival Everett诗歌中的网络时代性

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 DOI: 10.3390/h12040084

Zach Linge

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Power and Subjectification at the Edge of Social Media Interfaces in the Aftermath of the Jallikattu Protest 贾利卡特图抗议活动后社交媒体界面边缘的权力与主体化

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 DOI: 10.3390/h12040082

Deepak Prince

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Comment on Moralee (2018). It’s in the Water: Byzantine Borderlands and the Village War. Humanities 7: 86 评论Moralee(2018)。它在水中:拜占庭边境和村庄战争。人文学科7:86

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 DOI: 10.3390/h12040080

Christine Robins, Zêdan Xelef, Emad Bashar, A. Levinson-LaBrosse

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Divide and the Rules: A Study on the Colonial Inheritance of Digital Games 划分与规则:数字游戏的殖民继承研究

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 DOI: 10.3390/h12040083

Prabhash Tripathy

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On Displacement and the Humanities—An Introduction 论位移与人文——导论

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 DOI: 10.3390/h12040081

Elena Isayev, Evan Jewell, Gerawork Teferra Gizaw, Marcia C. Schenck

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Jazzthetic Technique: Oralizing Fiction and Jazz Strategies in Toni Morrison’s Jazz 爵士艺术技巧:托妮·莫里森《爵士》中的小说口述与爵士策略

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 DOI: 10.3390/h12040079

Trivius Gerard Caldwell

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Bawds, Midwifery, and the Evil Eye in Golden Age Spanish Literature and Medicine 黄金时代西班牙文学与医学中的女侍、助产学和邪恶之眼

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI: 10.3390/h12040078

E. Kuffner

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The Eye as a Symbol of Ill-Fatedness in Two Canonical Picaresque Works: Lazarillo de Tormes and Guzmán de Alfarache 在两部典型的流浪汉作品中，眼睛是厄运的象征:拉扎里洛·德·托尔梅斯和Guzmán·德·阿尔法拉奇

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 DOI: 10.3390/h12040077

Sarah Louise Ellis

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