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On Sade’s Sovereign Excess: Beckett Translating Blanchot and Bataille 论萨德的主权过剩:贝克特对布朗肖和巴塔耶的翻译

IF 0.1 4区文学

JOURNAL OF BECKETT STUDIES Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.3366/jobs.2022.0362

Michael Krimper

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Samuel Beckett's 'The North' 塞缪尔·贝克特的《北方》

IF 0.1 4区文学

JOURNAL OF BECKETT STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.3366/JOBS.2021.0340

Galina Kiryushina, M. Nixon

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‘Of her tenacious trace’: Samuel Beckett and Contemporary Art “她的顽强痕迹”：塞缪尔·贝克特与当代艺术

IF 0.1 4区文学

JOURNAL OF BECKETT STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-08-31 DOI: 10.3366/JOBS.2021.0339

Katherine Weiss

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Beckett in the Opera Realm: An Interview with Pierre Audi 贝克特在歌剧领域:采访皮埃尔·奥迪

IF 0.1 4区文学

JOURNAL OF BECKETT STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-08-31 DOI: 10.3366/JOBS.2021.0341

Alane S. Lockwood

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The Death of Moran's Bees: Beckett and Adorno on the Dialectic of Subject and Object 莫兰蜜蜂之死：贝克特与阿多诺论主体与客体的辩证法