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Walking with shadows: Writing trauma, short fiction and Jungian psychoanalysis 与阴影同行:创作创伤、短篇小说和荣格精神分析

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00049_1

Rachel Newsome

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‘Gate Five’

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00052_7

Nancy Freund

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Contagious symptoms: The need to tell stories and the health of the form 传染症状:需要讲故事和健康的形式

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00044_2

Lucy Dawes Durneen

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Short stories of expanded lives: The augmented human in Edith Nesbit’s ‘The Five Senses’, Mary E. Braddon’s ‘Good Lady Ducayne’ and Clotilde Graves’s ‘Lady Clanbevan’s Baby’ 扩展生命的短篇小说:伊迪丝·内斯比特的《五种感官》中的扩展人类，玛丽·e·布莱登的《好夫人杜凯恩》和克洛蒂尔德·格雷夫斯的《克兰伯文夫人的孩子》中的扩展人类

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00048_1

Zoé Hardy

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Silence, gender and metamorphosis in Joanna Walsh’s ‘Worlds from the Word’s End’ 乔安娜·沃尔什《世界尽头的世界》中的沉默、性别与变形

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00038_1

P. Fagan

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‘It is sound that lives in her’: An interview with Joanna Walsh 乔安娜·沃尔什的专访:“她的内心充满了声音。

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00043_7

P. Fagan, Joanna Walsh

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‘I start again with every story, listening’: Sound, silence and voice in two short stories by David Constantine “我从每一个故事开始，倾听”：大卫·康斯坦丁的两个短篇小说中的声音、沉默和声音

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00037_1

Wolfgang Görtschacher

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Sounding diasporic dislocation: The object voice in postcolonial short stories 散居错位的声音:后殖民短篇小说中的客体声音

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00033_1

Jorge Sacido-Romero

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Sounding displaced memories: Narrative soundscapes in Edwidge Danticat’s Krik? Krak! 声音置换的记忆：埃德维奇·丹蒂卡特的《克里克？克拉克！

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00035_1

Paula Barba Guerrero

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‘Modulation’ by Richard Powers: Digital sound, compression and the short story 理查德·鲍尔斯的《调制》:数字声音、压缩和短篇小说

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00042_1

Michael Hedges

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