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‘“Shall we gather at the river?”: the folklore and trauma of Toni Morrison’s landscape in Sula’ “我们在河边集合好吗?”:托妮·莫里森《秀拉》中风景的民俗与创伤

Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14775700.2021.1873023

C. Gooch

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The transatlantic Thames: Anglo-American tensions on the Victorian ‘stream of pleasure’ 跨大西洋的泰晤士河:英美在维多利亚时代“享乐之流”上的紧张关系

Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14775700.2021.1873024

T. R. Smith

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Waterproofing the State: Migration, River-Borders, and Ecologies of Control 国家的防水:移民、河流边界和控制生态

Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14775700.2021.1872765

Jorge E. Cuéllar

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Rivers, Reflections, and Memories in Raymond Carver’s Where Water Comes Together with Other Water 雷蒙德·卡弗的《水与其他水在一起的地方》中的河流、倒影和记忆

Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14775700.2021.1872764

Barbara Miceli

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Flow, form, and feeling: reading Rebecca Solnit and Kathleen Dean Moore’s Riverine writing in an era of ecological crisis 流动、形式和感觉:在生态危机时代阅读丽贝卡·索尔尼特和凯瑟琳·迪恩·摩尔的河流写作

Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14775700.2021.1875726

Daisy Henwood

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Introduction: Following the River 导读:沿河而行

Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14775700.2021.1882130

T. R. Smith

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Small-town Styx: Edgar Lee Masters, Rural Confinement and Pastoral Subversion 小镇冥河:埃德加·李·马斯特斯，乡村禁闭和田园颠覆

Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14775700.2020.1849924

W. Carroll

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‘Where tide and river meet’: the estuarial imaginaries of Sarah Orne Jewett, H.D., and Louise Bogan “潮水与河流交汇之处”:莎拉·欧恩·朱伊特、h.d.和路易丝·博根对河口的想象

Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-30 DOI: 10.1080/14775700.2020.1868255

A. Maas

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William Faulkner and the faces of modernity 威廉·福克纳和现代性的面孔

Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/14775700.2020.1855862

Edward Clough

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'Cops Are Cops': American Campus Police and the Global Carceral Apparatus 《警察就是警察》:美国校园警察和全球警察机构

Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/14775700.2021.1895039

Grace Watkins

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