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Explaining the innovation dichotomy: the contexts, contents, conflicts, and compromises of innovation stories 解释创新二分法：创新故事的背景、内容、冲突和妥协

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2024-2007

Soila Lemmetty

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Secondary storyworld possible selves: narrative response and cultural (un)predictability 次级故事世界的可能自我：叙事反应与文化（不可）预测性

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2024-2006

Melina Ghasseminejad, María-Ángeles Martínez

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Audience-authored paratexts: legitimation of online discourse about Game of Thrones 受众撰写的副文本：《权力的游戏》在线话语的合法化

IF 0.1 3区文学

Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2024-2003

Markus Laukkanen

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Horizontal metalepsis in narrative fiction 叙事小说中的横向金属性

IF 0.1 3区文学

Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2024-2004

Sabine Schlickers

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Joseph Conrad’s reluctant raconteurs 约瑟夫-康拉德不情愿的说书人

IF 0.1 3区文学

Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2024-2002

John G. Peters

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“Small machines of words”: poetics, phonetics, and mechanisms of narrative realism in late twentieth-century Hip Hop "小型文字机器"：二十世纪后期 Hip Hop 中的诗学、语音学和叙事现实主义机制

IF 0.1 3区文学

Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2024-2005

David Cosper

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Figures of discourse in prose fiction 散文小说中的话语形象

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2024-2001

Leona Toker

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“Old things made new”: Transfusive rejuvenescence in M. E. Braddon’s “Good Lady Ducayne” and H. G. Wells’s “The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham” “旧物变新”:M. E.布莱登的《杜凯恩夫人》和H. G.威尔斯的《已故埃尔维舍姆先生的故事》中的注入式的返老还童

IF 0.4 3区文学

Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2023-2004

J. Green

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The wisdom of intergenerational relationships in Ursula Le Guin’s series Annals of the Western Shore (Gifts, Voices and Powers) 厄休拉·勒奎恩系列小说《西海岸年鉴》(天赋、声音和力量)中代际关系的智慧

IF 0.4 3区文学

Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2023-2007

Maricel Oró-Piqueras, Yuliia Benderska

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Futurity, the life course and aging in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun 石黑一雄的《克拉拉与太阳》中的未来、生命历程和衰老

IF 0.4 3区文学

Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2023-2009

K. Sako, Sarah Falcus

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