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“Stories of Making and Unmaking”: Deep Time and the Anthropocene in New Nature Writing “创造与毁灭的故事”:新自然写作中的深层时间和人类世

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.02

A. Player

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Appositions: The Future in Solarpunk and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction 对立:太阳能朋克和后启示录小说中的未来

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.21

K. Więckowska

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Prophesying the End of Human Time: Eco-Anxiety and Regress in J. G. Ballard’s Short Fiction 预言人类时间的终结:巴拉德短篇小说中的生态焦虑与回归

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.10

D. Oramus

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Ecotopia. Based on Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia. Adapted by Elizabeth Watson 生态乌托邦。根据欧内斯特·卡伦巴赫的《生态乌托邦》改编。伊丽莎白·沃森改编

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.19

E. Watson

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The Nature of Irrevocability: Anthropocene Nostalgia in Hayley Eichenbaum’s Photography Series The Mother Road 不可逆转的本质:海利·艾肯鲍姆摄影系列《母亲之路》中的人类世怀旧

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.11

Alicja Relidzyńska

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Firing up the Anthropocene: Conflagration, Representation and Temporality in Modern Australia 点燃人类世:现代澳大利亚的火焰、表现和时间性

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.09

P. Hayward

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Nec Tecum Nec Sine Te: The Inseparability of Word and Image in Virginia Woolf 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫笔下文字与形象的不可分离性

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.29

Małgorzata Hołda

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“The Only Way Out Is In”: Transcending Modernity and Embracing Interconnectedness in Gary Snyder and Kenneth White 加里·斯奈德和肯尼斯·怀特的《唯一的出路是在》:超越现代性和拥抱互联性

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.15

M. Kocot

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Environmental Neocolonialism and the Quest for Social Justice in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were 在Imbolo Mbue的《我们是多么美丽》中，环境新殖民主义和对社会正义的追求

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.12.12

B. Gasztold

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“. . .delivered from the lie of being truth”: The Affective Force of Disinformation, Stickiness and Dissensus in Randy Ribay’s Patron Saints of Nothing “……从成为真理的谎言中解脱出来”:兰迪·里贝的《虚无的守护神》中虚假信息、粘性和异议的情感力量

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2021-11-22 DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.11.06

Vincent Pacheco, Jeremy C. De Chavez

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