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Chasing Death’s Memory: Representational Space in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 追逐死亡的记忆:极大声和极近的再现空间

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings Pub Date : 2018-04-15 DOI: 10.16995/C21.49

Wayne E. Arnold

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How ‘the Old Stories Persist’: Folklore in Literature after Postmodernism “旧故事如何延续”:后现代主义后文学中的民间传说

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings Pub Date : 2018-04-15 DOI: 10.16995/C21.69

Sara Helen Binney

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Review of Sam Solnick, Poetry and the Anthropocene: Ecology, Biology and Technology in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry 萨姆·索尔尼克:《诗歌与人类世:当代英国和爱尔兰诗歌中的生态、生物学和技术》

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings Pub Date : 2018-02-12 DOI: 10.16995/C21.54

S. Cooper

引用次数: 2

Introduction: the literature of the Anthropocene 引言:人类世的文献

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings Pub Date : 2018-02-12 DOI: 10.16995/C21.73

D. Cristofaro, D. Cordle

引用次数: 7

Anthroposcenes: Towards an Environmental Graphic Novel 人类场景:迈向环境图形小说

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings Pub Date : 2018-02-12 DOI: 10.16995/C21.37

L. Perry

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引用次数: 8

The Horror of the Anthropocene 人类世的恐怖

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings Pub Date : 2018-02-12 DOI: 10.16995/C21.38

Sarah Dillon

引用次数: 3

‘The Problem of This Trash Society’: Anthropogenic Waste and the Neoliberal City in Super-Cannes, Millennium People and Kingdom Come “这个垃圾社会的问题”:在超级戛纳，千年人民和王国到来的人为浪费和新自由主义城市

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings Pub Date : 2018-02-12 DOI: 10.16995/C21.27

R. Dini

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引用次数: 1

Radical Homemaking in Contemporary American Environmental Fiction 当代美国环境小说中的激进家庭主义

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings Pub Date : 2018-02-12 DOI: 10.16995/C21.31

Kris Jacobson

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引用次数: 22

Anthropocene Knowledge Practices in McKenzie Wark’s Molecular Red and Kim Stanley Robinson’s Aurora 麦肯齐·沃克的《分子红》和金·斯坦利·罗宾逊的《极光》中的人类世知识实践

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings Pub Date : 2018-02-12 DOI: 10.16995/C21.36

Gib Prettyman

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引用次数: 1

Belonging to the Human and Non-human Animals in J. M. Coetzee’s Recent Novels 库切近代小说中人类与非人类动物的归属

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings Pub Date : 2018-02-12 DOI: 10.16995/C21.29

Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice

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