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Geomediations in the Anthropocene: Fictions of the Geologic Turn 人类世的几何学:地质转折的虚构

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings Pub Date : 2018-02-12 DOI: 10.16995/C21.35

Alla Ivanchikova

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引用次数: 21

Tricking the Troll: A Conversation with Berit Ellingsen on the Anthropocene and Literature 欺骗巨魔:与Berit Ellingsen关于人类世和文学的对话

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings Pub Date : 2018-02-12 DOI: 10.16995/C21.28

A. Hageman, Berit Ellingsen

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引用次数: 0

Less Human, More Ourselves: Michel Houellebecq's Neohumans and the Anthropocene subject 少人类，多我们自己:米歇尔·维勒贝克的《新人类与人类世》主题

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings Pub Date : 2018-02-12 DOI: 10.16995/C21.32

Patricia Malone

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引用次数: 4

ʻWhere danger is, there rescue growsʼ: Technology, Time, and Dromology in Tom McCarthy’s C “哪里有危险，哪里就有救援”:汤姆·麦卡锡《C》中的技术、时间和语言

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings Pub Date : 2017-12-08 DOI: 10.16995/C21.26

J. Wrethed

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引用次数: 0

Review of Will Self and Contemporary British Society 威尔·赛尔夫与当代英国社会评论

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings Pub Date : 2017-12-08 DOI: 10.16995/C21.18

Ryan S. Trimm

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‘Reading the New Ruins: Loss, Mourning, and Melancholy in Dissident Gardens' 《解读新的废墟:不同政见者花园中的失落、哀悼和忧郁》

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings Pub Date : 2017-12-08 DOI: 10.16995/C21.39

A. Rowcroft

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‘When the Reservoir Comes’: Drowned Villages, Community and Nostalgia in Contemporary British Fiction “当水库来了”:当代英国小说中被淹没的村庄、社区和乡愁

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings Pub Date : 2017-12-08 DOI: 10.16995/C21.9

E. Pollard

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The Girl Who Fell to Earth : Sophia Al-Maria’s Retro-Futurism 落在地球上的女孩:索菲亚·阿尔玛丽亚的复古未来主义

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings Pub Date : 2017-12-08 DOI: 10.16995/C21.44

Mike Frangos

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Preferential Consideration: Bartleby, Class, and Genocide in David Foster Wallace’s “Consider the Lobster” 优先考虑:大卫·福斯特·华莱士《考虑龙虾》中的巴特比、阶级和种族灭绝

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings Pub Date : 2017-12-08 DOI: 10.16995/C21.17

M. Eve

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Tiny Jubilations: Using Photography in Fiction and an Extract from a Novel 微小的欢腾:在小说和小说节选中使用摄影

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings Pub Date : 2017-03-10 DOI: 10.16995/C21.25

Zoe Strachan

引用次数: 0