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Not Just a Cash Crop: Etymology and Naming in As I Lay Dying 不仅仅是一种经济作物:《当我弥留之际》的词源和命名

IF 0.1 4区文学

MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2021-06-16 DOI: 10.1353/mss.2020.0017

J. Ewert

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Vulnerable Youth in Richard Wright’s Protest Fiction 理查德·赖特抗议小说中的弱势青年

IF 0.1 4区文学

MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2021-06-16 DOI: 10.1353/mss.2020.0013

Claire E. Lenviel

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Powerhouse is Playing” with Languages: Un/Shared Intimacies in Eudora Welty’s “Powerhouse” “Powerhouse是在玩”语言:尤多拉·韦尔蒂的《Powerhouse》中的非共享亲密关系

IF 0.1 4区文学

MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2021-06-16 DOI: 10.1353/mss.2020.0016

Hyun-seok Yu

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James Branch Cabell’s Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice: A Reappraisal 詹姆斯·布兰奇·卡贝尔的《陪审团：正义的喜剧：重新评价》

IF 0.1 4区文学

MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2021-06-16 DOI: 10.1353/mss.2020.0014

I. Hopkins

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Faulkner's War Stories: World War I and the Origins of Yoknapatawpha 福克纳的战争故事:第一次世界大战和约克纳帕塔法的起源

IF 0.1 4区文学

MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2021-03-10 DOI: 10.1353/MSS.2020.0008

D. Davis

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Making the "New Death" New: A Fable and Faulkner's Revisit to World War I 让“新的死亡”变得新的:一个寓言和福克纳对第一次世界大战的重新审视

IF 0.1 4区文学

MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2021-03-10 DOI: 10.1353/MSS.2020.0011

A. Marutani

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Recovering John Crowe Ransom's Poems 找回约翰·克罗·兰森的诗歌