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Introduction. Beyond Endings – Past Tenses and Future Imaginaries 介绍。超越结尾-过去时和未来想象

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2020-12-28 DOI: 10.21827/EJLW.9.37320

Lut Missinne, K. Sarkowsky, Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf

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Unseen: Exploring the Lived Experience of Visually Impaired South Africans 《看不见:探索南非视障人士的生活经历》

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2020-12-28 DOI: 10.21827/EJLW.9.37040

J. Bloch

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Autobiography in the Anthropocene. A Geological Reading of Alice Munro 人类世的自传。爱丽丝·门罗的地质学解读

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2020-12-28 DOI: 10.21827/EJLW.9.37326

M. Goldman

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Autobiography as Political Legacy in Transition Periods. Benjamin Franklin and Konrad Adenauer Compared 自传作为转型期的政治遗产。本杰明·富兰克林和康拉德·阿登纳的比较

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2020-12-28 DOI: 10.21827/EJLW.9.37325

V. Depkat

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Birgitte Possing. Understanding Biographies; Caitríona Ní Dhúill. Metabiography

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2020-12-28 DOI: 10.21827/EJLW.9.37311

Henrik Rosengren

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A View to Distant Hills: Essaying a Grievous Self 遥望远山:抒写忧伤的自我

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2020-12-28 DOI: 10.21827/EJLW.9.36946

Myna Trustram

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Patricia López-Gay. Ficciones de verdad. Archivo e narrativas de vida 帕特丽夏López-Gay。真实的小说。档案和生活叙述

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2020-12-28 DOI: 10.21827/EJLW.9.37342

Jobst Welge

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Ippolito Nievo. Portrait of the Writer as an Old Man 使役动词Nievo。作家的老年画像

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2020-12-28 DOI: 10.21827/EJLW.9.37327

C. Nannicini

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Juxtaposing and Jostling: The Art of Writing History? 并列与推挤:书写历史的艺术?

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2020-12-28 DOI: 10.21827/EJLW.9.35933

J. Somerset

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Mobilizing Grief and Remembrance with and for Networked Publics: towards a Typology of Hyper-Mourning 动员悲痛和记忆与网络公众:走向超级哀悼的类型学

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2020-07-06 DOI: 10.21827/ejlw.9.36910

K. Giaxoglou

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