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Women’s relational autonomy and the short story cycle: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 女性的关系自主性与短篇小说周期：伊丽莎白·斯特罗特的《奥利弗·基特里奇》

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2019-04-01 DOI: 10.1386/FICT.9.1.39_1

Helena Kadmos

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‘Anything was possible’: (In)fidelities, (dis)connections and narcissistic (self-)love in Alice Munro’s ‘The Bear Came over the Mountain’ “一切皆有可能”:爱丽丝·门罗的《熊翻山越岭》中的忠诚、疏远和自恋。

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2019-04-01 DOI: 10.1386/FICT.9.1.27_1

Dan Disney

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‘The great unhappiness of another’: Writers and readers in three stories by Alice Munro “他人的巨大不幸”：作家和读者在爱丽丝·芒罗的三个故事中

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2019-04-01 DOI: 10.1386/FICT.9.1.17_1

S. Bernstein

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‘We are cyborgs’: Technology in Hari Kunzru’s short fiction “我们是半机械人”：Hari Kunzru短篇小说中的技术

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/FICT.8.1-2.53_1

B. Jansen

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Book Reviews 书评

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict.8.1-2.123_5

Ella V. Baines, Emily Devane

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‘The Child of the Century’: ‘Reading and writing short fiction across media’ “世纪之子”:“跨媒体阅读和写作短篇小说”

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/FICT.8.1-2.3_2

A. Cox

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On writing ‘Woods for the Trees’ and the spaciousness of collaborative short fiction 论“以林换树”的写作与合作短篇小说的空间性

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/FICT.8.1-2.37_1

Micaela Maftei, Laura Tansley

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Beyond cinema: Daphne du Maurier’s intermedial experiments in ‘The Little Photographer’ (1952) 超越电影:达芙妮·杜穆里埃在《小摄影师》(1952)中的中间实验

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict.8.1-2.89_1

C. Reynier

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‘The constant failure to articulate the world in words’: An interview with Roman Ehrlich “用语言表达世界的持续失败”:采访罗曼·埃利希

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/FICT.8.1-2.139_7

Lyn Marven, Andrew Plowman

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Curating conclusions in ‘Among Us’: Collaborative Twitter fiction and the implied author 《在我们中间》的策划结论：推特合作小说和隐含作者

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/FICT.8.1-2.21_1

E. Segar

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