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Ferdinand de Saussure

Literary and Critical Theory Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780190221911-0106

Boris Gasparov

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Georg Lukács

Literary and Critical Theory Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-663-10145-1

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Leo Tolstoy 列夫·托尔斯泰

Literary and Critical Theory Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt1gxp787.8

Inessa Medzhibovskaya

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Reader Response Theory 读者反应理论

Literary and Critical Theory Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780190221911-0107

Susan Browne, Xiufang Chen, Faten Baroudi, E. Sevinc

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