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Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00071_1

Fraser Grace

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Reading the ‘wordless unease’ in Margaret Atwood’s ‘Death by Landscape’ 解读玛格丽特·阿特伍德《风景之死》中的“无言的不安”

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00070_1

Eleanora Togyer

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Reverse Engineering, Tom Conaghan (ed.) (2022) 逆向工程，汤姆·科纳汉(编)(2022)

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00076_5

Aleix Tura Vecino

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‘Always half-and-half’: ‘Voyage in’ as halfness in Jean Rhys’s short fiction “总是一半一半”:“Voyage in”是Jean Rhys短篇小说中的“一半”

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00073_1

Ruchi Mundeja

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‘Mainlining Ray Bradbury’: An interview with Carmen Maria Machado “主要是雷·布拉德伯里”:对卡门·玛丽亚·马查多的采访

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00079_7

A. Ashworth

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‘She would probably envy herself, from outside’: Auto-fictional narrations in Alice Munro’s ‘Fiction’ “她可能会羡慕自己，从外面看”:爱丽丝·门罗小说中的自虚构叙述

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00074_1

Dan Disney

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Knowledge and understanding: Education in Aldous Huxley’s short stories 知识与理解:赫胥黎短篇小说中的教育

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00075_1

Andrija Matić

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Writing popular music fiction 创作流行音乐小说

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00072_1

Hussein Boon

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Resocialization and regeneration in Ernest Cline’s ‘The Omnibot Incident’ 欧内斯特·克莱恩《万能机器人事件》中的再社会化与再生

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00078_7

Tom Ue

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‘Into the woods’: In conversation with Carolina Brown “走进树林”:与卡罗莱纳·布朗谈话

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00068_7

Lucy Dawes Durneen

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