Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture最新文献

Robustness and Vulnerability: Caring for the Earth in an Age of Loss 稳健性与脆弱性:在失去的时代照顾地球

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.07

W. DeBuys

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Past Conditional Subjectivities: Enacting Relationships with the Non-Human in the Work of Ana Mendieta 过去条件主体性:安娜·门迭塔作品中与非人类的关系

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.16

Matthew Harrison Tedford

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Sympoiesis, Autopoiesis and Immunity: How to Coexist with Nonhuman Others? 共生、自生与免疫:如何与非人类共存?

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.23

A. Žukauskaitė

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The Butterfly Effect: Creating and Recreating the Story of Madame Butterfly, on Paper and on Stage 蝴蝶效应:在纸上和舞台上创作和再现蝴蝶夫人的故事

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.26

Magdalena Szuster

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Museum Project: 14 Henrietta St. Museum, Paula Meehan, Dragana Jurišić and the Irish Housing Crisis 博物馆项目:14 Henrietta St. Museum, Paula Meehan, Dragana Jurišić和爱尔兰住房危机

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.27

Joanna Kruczkowska

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“Looking to the Past to Reinvent the Future”: Writing About the Long Descent, Practicing Green Wizardry. A Conversation with John Michael Greer “回顾过去，重塑未来”:书写漫长的传承，实践绿色魔法。与约翰·迈克尔·格里尔的对话

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.05

C. Arnsperger, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, J. Greer

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Apocalypse When? Storytelling and Spiralic Time in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves and Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God 末日什么时候?切丽·迪玛琳的《偷骨髓的人》和路易丝·厄德里奇的《永生上帝的未来之家》中的故事叙述和螺旋时间

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.13

Emily Childers, Hannah Menendez

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Affective Realities and Conceptual Contradictions of Patricia Piccinini’s Art: Ecofeminist and Disability Studies Perspectives 帕特里夏·皮奇尼尼艺术的情感现实与概念矛盾:生态女性主义与残疾研究视角

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.22

Edyta Lorek-Jezińska

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“The Paradise of How It Has to Be”: Writing About the Future of the Earth in a Time of Decline. A Conversation with William deBuys “天堂的样子”:写关于地球的未来在一个衰落的时代。《与威廉·戴比斯的对话

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.08

C. Arnsperger, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, W. DeBuys

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Apocalypse . . . Eventually: Trans-Corporeality and Slow Horror in M. R. Carey’s The Girl with All the Gifts 天启……最终:M. R. Carey的《拥有一切礼物的女孩》中的跨肉体和缓慢的恐怖

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.18

Courtney A. Druzak

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