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Interpolation as Critical Category 插值作为关键范畴

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New Literary History Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2022.0000

Hannah Weaver

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Verbal Fframe-Advance: Toward a Cinematographic Sentence 语言框架推进：走向一个摄影句子

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New Literary History Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2022.0005

G. Stewart

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What Does Biodiversity Loss Feel Like? Realism in the Age of Extinction 生物多样性丧失是什么感觉？灭绝时代的现实主义

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New Literary History Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2022.0001

Adrienne Ghaly

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Lil Wayne, Imitatio, and the Poetics of Cannibalism Lil Wayne，模仿，和同类相食的诗学

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New Literary History Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2022.0004

Andrew Mcclellan

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What is the Matter? A Meditation on Illegible Writing 出什么事了?对难以辨认的文字的沉思

IF 0.9 2区文学

New Literary History Pub Date : 2021-08-12 DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2021.0013

W. Stables

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The Scale of Genre 流派的规模

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New Literary History Pub Date : 2021-08-12 DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2021.0012

R. King

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Critical Thinking 批判性思维

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New Literary History Pub Date : 2021-08-12 DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2021.0009

Audrey Wasser

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A Timely Villon: Anachrony and Premodern Poetic Fiction 一个适时的维隆：时间与前现代诗歌小说

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New Literary History Pub Date : 2021-08-12 DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2021.0014

Helen Solterer

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Primo Levi's Chernobyl: Ecology and Trauma in The Reawakening 普里莫·李维的切尔诺贝利：觉醒中的生态与创伤

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New Literary History Pub Date : 2021-08-12 DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2021.0015

A. Slater

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Squaring the Circle: Aesthetics and Its History 圈地：美学及其历史

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New Literary History Pub Date : 2021-08-12 DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2021.0010

Christopher Braider

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