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Flirting with Filler in Our Mutual Friend 和我们共同的朋友调情

IF 0.2 3区文学

JNT-JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE THEORY Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/jnt.2023.a901895

Liwen Zhang

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Emotional Geographies of Belonging in Ravinder Randhawa's Beauty and the Beast 兰德华《美女与野兽》中归属感的情感地理

IF 0.2 3区文学

JNT-JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE THEORY Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/jnt.2023.a901898

S. Saxena, Diksha Sharma

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Contributors 贡献者

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JNT-JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE THEORY Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/jnt.2023.a901900

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Estrangement as Method in Trauma Narratives 作为创伤叙事方法的隔阂

IF 0.2 3区文学

JNT-JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE THEORY Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/jnt.2023.a901899

Sohomjit Ray

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Interpreting Timbuktu: An Unnatural Narrative, an Emotional Reading Experience, and a Cognitive Explanation 解读廷巴克图:一种不自然的叙事、一种情感阅读体验和一种认知解释

IF 0.2 3区文学

JNT-JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE THEORY Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/jnt.2023.a901896

Meng Kang, Jan Alber

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"September didn't know what sort of story she was in": The Hybrid Genres of Uncanny Fairy Tales “9月不知道她在讲什么样的故事”:离奇童话的混合流派

IF 0.2 3区文学

JNT-JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE THEORY Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/jnt.2023.a901897

Francesca Arnavas

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Grappling with the Unnarratable: Introduction to Special Issue on Narratologies of Science 与不可叙述的搏斗:科学叙事学特刊导论

IF 0.2 3区文学

JNT-JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE THEORY Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/jnt.2023.0005

D. Newman

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Theorizing Mathematical Narrative through Machine Learning 通过机器学习将数学叙述理论化

IF 0.2 3区文学

JNT-JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE THEORY Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/jnt.2023.0003

D. Gati

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Rabbit Holes and Butterfly Effects: Narrative Probabilities and Climate Science 兔子洞和蝴蝶效应:叙事概率和气候科学

IF 0.2 3区文学

JNT-JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE THEORY Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/jnt.2023.0007

Marco Malvezzi Caracciolo

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Mapping with Fi-Sci: Why and How Fictionality Illuminates Science 与科幻的映射:虚构为什么以及如何照亮科学

IF 0.2 3区文学

JNT-JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE THEORY Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/jnt.2023.0000

Rhona Trauvitch, Toon Staes, P. Manning, D. Gati, Daniel A. Newman, Eric Morel, Marco Malvezzi Caracciolo

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