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Beginning Again: Darwin’s Caterpillar from George Eliot to Beckett 重新开始:达尔文的毛毛虫从乔治·艾略特到贝克特
Modernist Life Histories Pub Date : 2019-02-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439619.003.0007
Daniel A. Newman
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Conclusion 结论
Modernist Life Histories Pub Date : 2019-02-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439619.003.0008
Daniel A. Newman
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Bildung, Biology and the Narrative Structure of Development 建筑、生物学和发展的叙事结构
Modernist Life Histories Pub Date : 2019-02-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439619.003.0002
Daniel A. Newman
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A Portrait of the Artist as a ‘Biologist in Words’: Language, Epiphany and Atavistic Bildung 作为“语言中的生物学家”的艺术家肖像:语言、顿悟和返祖的形成
Modernist Life Histories Pub Date : 2019-02-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439619.003.0003
Daniel A. Newman
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Anachrony, Neoteny and the ‘Education of an Amphibian’ in Eyeless in Gaza 在加沙的“无眼者”中，时代错误、新时代和“两栖动物的教育”
Modernist Life Histories Pub Date : 2019-02-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439619.003.0006
Daniel A. Newman
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Mendelian Inheritance, ‘Eternal Differences’ and Entropy in Howards End 孟德尔遗传，“永恒差异”和熵在霍华德结束
Modernist Life Histories Pub Date : 2019-02-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439619.003.0004
Daniel A. Newman
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‘Tampering with the Expected Sequence’: Heterochrony and Sex Change in Orlando “篡改预期序列”:奥兰多的异时性和变性
Modernist Life Histories Pub Date : 2019-02-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439619.003.0005
Daniel A. Newman
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