Essays in English Language and Literature
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Engendering a Professional Woman Playwright : Aphra Behn’s Adaptation Strategies ....................................................................Riwako Kaji Ghosts and Money in Great Expectations ..........................................................Takashi Nakamura The Changing Distance between Jude and Sue: Cousinship and Hardy in Jude the Obscure ................................................................Machiko Fujita Ideas Floating on Their Causes: Purgatory, Endgame and the Irish Dissentient Tradition ......................................................................Miki Iwata Excess of Vision: Modernity and the Body in Pynchon’s V. ..........................................................Shizuka Hayasaka 1
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