John Banville’s “Overman”: Intertextual dialogues with Friedrich Nietzsche in Shroud
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عنوان ژورنال: Études irlandaises
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0183-973X,2259-8863
DOI: 10.4000/etudesirlandaises.5826