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The Ugly Baby and the Beautiful Corpse: Robert Yarber's Gnostic Comedy 丑陋的婴儿和美丽的尸体:罗伯特·亚伯的诺斯替喜剧

The Yearbook of Comparative Literature Pub Date : 2017-07-06 DOI: 10.3138/YCL.60.X.224

H. Marks

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The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strained

The Yearbook of Comparative Literature Pub Date : 2017-07-06 DOI: 10.3138/YCL.60.X.9

M. Dolar

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The Reverse of Images (By Way of an Introduction) 图像的反转(导论)

The Yearbook of Comparative Literature Pub Date : 2017-07-06 DOI: 10.3138/YCL.60.X.1

Peter Szendy

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The Customs House of Hades: Why Dickens and Gogol Traffic with the Underworld 《冥府的海关:为什么狄更斯和果戈理与冥界打交道》

The Yearbook of Comparative Literature Pub Date : 2017-07-06 DOI: 10.3138/YCL.60.X.81

Jacob Emery

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The World Within: Worlding Theory and the Language of Method in World Literature 内在世界:世界文学的世界理论与方法语言

The Yearbook of Comparative Literature Pub Date : 2017-07-06 DOI: 10.3138/YCL.60.X.299

Adhira Mangalagiri

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Debt and the Moral Imagination in Middlemarch 《米德尔马契》中的债务与道德想象

The Yearbook of Comparative Literature Pub Date : 2017-07-06 DOI: 10.3138/YCL.60.X.125

Barbara Straumann

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Things of this World: On the Common Origin of Art and Market 世间万物:论艺术与市场的共同起源

The Yearbook of Comparative Literature Pub Date : 2017-07-06 DOI: 10.3138/YCL.60.X.41

E. Coccia, D. Lukes

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"Personation" and the Division of Labor “拟人”与劳动分工

The Yearbook of Comparative Literature Pub Date : 2017-07-06 DOI: 10.3138/YCL.60.X.67

Herschel Farbman

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Photography and the World: The Total World and Many, Many Worlds 摄影与世界:整个世界和许多许多世界

The Yearbook of Comparative Literature Pub Date : 2017-07-06 DOI: 10.3138/YCL.60.X.274

U. Baer

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The Poetic Numismatics of Aloysius Bertrand 阿洛伊修斯·伯特兰的诗性钱币学

The Yearbook of Comparative Literature Pub Date : 2017-07-06 DOI: 10.3138/YCL.60.X.183

Jean-Joseph Goux

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