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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

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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

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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

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

K. Sako, Sarah Falcus

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Unresolved conflicts and suspended ethics: Reading “The Monster” from the perspective of voice 未解决的冲突与暂停的伦理:从声音的视角解读《怪物》

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2023-2011

Meng Kang

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Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s Little Red and Other Stories and gerotranscendence on the page Éilís Ní杜宾尼的《小红帽和其他故事》以及书页上的超越

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2023-2008

Zuzanna Zarebska

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“Inside many of us / is a small old man” – age/ing in Anne Sexton’s Transformations: A community discussion “在我们许多人的内心/是一个小老头”——安妮·塞克斯顿的《转变:一个社区讨论》中的年龄问题

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2023-2005

Andrea Zittlau

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Introduction: Narratives of ageing in the fantastic mode 简介:奇幻模式下的衰老叙事

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2023-2002

H. Hartung, Sarah Falcus

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Rewriting rules, changing worlds: Diegetic and ludic forms of metareference in The Magic Circle 重写规则，改变世界:《The Magic Circle》的叙事和搞笑形式

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2023-2010

Theresa Krampe

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Literary and critical encounters with the Anthropocene: An interview with Seán Hand 与人类世的文学和批评遭遇:对Seán Hand的采访

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2023-2001

Li Zou, S. Hand

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“It made her age hard to guess”: Narrating the dynamics of aging and gender through Victorian Gothic archetypes in Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black “这让她的年龄难以猜测”:在苏珊·希尔的《黑衣女人》中，通过维多利亚哥特式的原型来叙述衰老和性别的动态

IF 0.4 3区文学

Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2023-2006

Marta Miquel-Baldellou

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