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Life criticism and De Quincey's ethical concern over the aestheticiability of murder 生命批判与德昆西对谋杀可审美性的伦理关注

IF 0.2 3区文学

ORBIS LITTERARUM Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1111/oli.12462

Yingjie Duan, Junwu Tian

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Travels with BERT: Surfacing the intertextuality in Hans Christian Andersen's travel writing and fairy tales through the network lens of large language model‐based topic modeling 与 BERT 一起旅行：通过基于大语言模型的主题建模网络透视安徒生游记和童话中的互文性

IF 0.2 3区文学

ORBIS LITTERARUM Pub Date : 2024-07-23 DOI: 10.1111/oli.12458

Timothy R. Tangherlini, Ruofei Chen

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„Nichts verlangte er von seiner Umwelt, außer dass er sie provozieren und vor den Kopf stoßen durfte“: Jesus‐Figuren in der modernen deutschsprachigen und polnischen Literatur "他对周围的人没有任何要求，只是允许他挑衅和冒犯他们"。现代德语和波兰语文学中的耶稣形象

IF 0.2 3区文学

ORBIS LITTERARUM Pub Date : 2024-06-20 DOI: 10.1111/oli.12457

Marek Jakubów

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“A saint, a heroine, and a town”: The incarnation of “rose” and poetics of resistance in Edwidge Danticat's Claire of the Sea Light "一位圣人，一位女英雄，一座小镇"：埃德维奇-丹蒂卡特的《海之光的克莱尔》中 "玫瑰 "的化身与反抗诗学

IF 0.2 3区文学

ORBIS LITTERARUM Pub Date : 2024-05-02 DOI: 10.1111/oli.12448

Yi Cai

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“Partialist” and “universalist”: American exceptionalism in antebellum writing on national identity "局部主义 "与 "普遍主义"：前贝卢姆时期关于国家认同的著作中的美国例外论

IF 0.2 3区文学

ORBIS LITTERARUM Pub Date : 2024-05-02 DOI: 10.1111/oli.12449

Iulian Cananau

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The deixis of literature: On the conditions for recognizing computers as authors 文学的析取：论承认计算机为作者的条件

IF 0.2 3区文学

ORBIS LITTERARUM Pub Date : 2024-04-26 DOI: 10.1111/oli.12450

Hannes Bajohr

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Camilla's traces: Movement as an analytical key to literary history 卡米拉的痕迹作为文学史分析关键的运动

IF 0.2 3区文学

ORBIS LITTERARUM Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI: 10.1111/oli.12443

Eva von Contzen, Karin Kukkonen

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“An enormous sadness touched with rue”: The pathos of oneness in Cormac McCarthy's Suttree "芸芸众生的巨大悲哀"：科马克-麦卡锡《苏特里》中的一体性悲怆

IF 0.2 3区文学

ORBIS LITTERARUM Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI: 10.1111/oli.12447

Russell M. Hillier

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La contevelle mauricienne d'après Ananada Devi. Le cas du Poids des êtres 阿纳纳达-德维笔下的毛里求斯故事。存在的重量》案例

IF 0.2 3区文学

ORBIS LITTERARUM Pub Date : 2024-04-06 DOI: 10.1111/oli.12446

Katarzyna Gadomska

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« La liberté, c'est le vent ». Histoire et humanisme dans Le chant du retour de Vera Feyder "自由是风维拉-费尔德《回归之歌》中的历史与人文主义

IF 0.2 3区文学

ORBIS LITTERARUM Pub Date : 2024-03-19 DOI: 10.1111/oli.12438

Judyta Niedokos

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