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Random Pandemic Perambulations: A Brief History of Literary Walks in the Age of Corona 随机的流行病传播：科罗纳时代的文学行走简史

IF 0.2 3区文学

Comparative Critical Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.3366/ccs.2021.0402

Peter Arnds

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A Serendipitous Comparison? Jin Yong and J. R. R. Tolkien: Genre, Prosimetrum and Modern Medievalism East and West 偶然的比较?金庸与J. R. R.托尔金:体裁、创作与东西方现代中世纪主义

IF 0.2 3区文学

Comparative Critical Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.3366/ccs.2021.0407

Jonathan Y. H. Hui

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Thinking Fungi, or Random Considerations 思维真菌，或随机考虑

IF 0.2 3区文学

Comparative Critical Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.3366/ccs.2021.0405

Kylie Crane

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Transnational Auto/Biography and European Identity: Klaus Mann's Portrait of André Gide 跨国汽车/传记与欧洲认同:克劳斯·曼对安德烈·格德的描述

IF 0.2 3区文学

Comparative Critical Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.3366/ccs.2021.0416

M. Rensen

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Randomness and Political Complexity in the Contemporary Arab Novel 当代阿拉伯小说的随机性与政治复杂性

IF 0.2 3区文学

Comparative Critical Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.3366/ccs.2021.0406

Jihan Zakarriya

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No One in Control? China's Battler Poetry 没有人在控制?中国的战斗诗

IF 0.2 3区文学

Comparative Critical Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.3366/ccs.2021.0401

Maghiel van Crevel

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The Values of Imperfection 缺陷的价值

IF 0.2 3区文学

Comparative Critical Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.3366/ccs.2021.0404

Mads Rosendahl Thomsen

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The Cosmopolitan Wife: (Self-)erasure and (Self-)empowerment of Isabel Burton and her Neo-Victorian Representations 世界主义的妻子：伊莎贝尔·伯顿及其新维多利亚时代代表的（自我）抹杀与（自我）赋权

IF 0.2 3区文学

Comparative Critical Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.3366/ccs.2021.0417

S. Mieszkowski

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Chance Encounters with Literature, Language and Meaning in John Williams' Stoner and Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language 约翰·威廉姆斯的《斯通纳》和伊娃·霍夫曼的《迷失在翻译中:一种新语言中的生活》与文学、语言和意义的偶遇

IF 0.2 3区文学

Comparative Critical Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.3366/ccs.2021.0400

Megha Agarwal

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Cross-Border Narratives and Life Writing: Émile Verhaeren by Stefan Zweig and its English Translation in Wartime 跨界叙事与生活写作——茨威格的《Émile Verhaeren》及其战时英译

IF 0.2 3区文学

Comparative Critical Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.3366/ccs.2021.0415

C. Dessy

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