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Robert Challe: A Utopian Voice In The Early Enlightenment by Sister Lois Ann Russell, S.H.C.J. (review) 罗伯特·查尔斯:早期启蒙运动中的乌托邦之声作者:露易丝·安·罗素修女，S.H.C.J.(书评)

Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature Pub Date : 2016-01-06 DOI: 10.2307/1347823

Owen A. Wollam

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Pure Lives by Reed Whittemore (review) 里德·惠特莫尔《纯洁的生活》(书评)

Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature Pub Date : 2016-01-06 DOI: 10.1353/RMR.1989.0067

Dante K. Cantrill

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Poet of Exile: A Study of Milton's Poetry by Louis L. Martz (review) 流亡诗人:路易斯·l·马茨弥尔顿诗歌研究(书评)

Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature Pub Date : 2016-01-06 DOI: 10.2307/1347425

Philip J. Gallagher

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Chant for Those Who Would Sleep 为那些愿意睡觉的人吟唱

Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature Pub Date : 2016-01-06 DOI: 10.1353/RMR.1977.0019

J. Seale

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Walter Van Tilburg Clark: Critiques ed. by Charlton Laird (review) 沃尔特·范·蒂尔伯格·克拉克:《批判》，查尔顿·莱尔德主编(书评)

Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature Pub Date : 2016-01-06 DOI: 10.2307/1346908

T. L. Clark

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Guerin and the Sail Cat Blues Guerin和Sail Cat Blues

Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature Pub Date : 2016-01-06 DOI: 10.1353/RMR.1978.0022

Les Standiford

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Notes from the Executive Director 执行主任的说明

Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature Pub Date : 2016-01-06 DOI: 10.1353/rmr.1990.0065

C. G. Davis

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Forests of Symbols: World, Text, and Self in Malcolm Lowry's Fiction by Patrick A. McCarthy (review) 象征的森林:马尔科姆·洛瑞小说中的世界、文本与自我(帕特里克·a·麦卡锡)

Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature Pub Date : 2016-01-06 DOI: 10.5860/choice.32-3758

Michael Wutz

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Evolutionary Theory in Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy 福克纳《Snopes三部曲》中的进化论

Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature Pub Date : 2016-01-06 DOI: 10.1353/RMR.1986.0045

G. Mortimer

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The Future of an Illusion: Film, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis by Constance Penley (review) 《幻想的未来:电影、女权主义与精神分析》作者:康斯坦斯·彭利

Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature Pub Date : 2016-01-06 DOI: 10.1353/rmr.1990.0050

D. Waldman

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