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The Political Experiment of “Pot-Boylers”: Thinking, Feeling, and Romance in Kay Boyle’s Resistance Thriller Avalanche “大麻贩子”的政治实验:凯·博伊尔的抵抗惊悚片《雪崩》中的思考、情感和浪漫

IF 0.2 3区文学

JNT-JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE THEORY Pub Date : 2018-10-01 DOI: 10.1353/JNT.2018.0015

Eric Keenaghan

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A Kinetoscope of War: The Cinematic Effects of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried 战争的活动放映机:蒂姆·奥布莱恩的《他们携带的东西》的电影效果

IF 0.2 3区文学

JNT-JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE THEORY Pub Date : 2018-07-01 DOI: 10.1353/JNT.2018.0008

Alex Vernon

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A Passage from Adam's Dream to the Cessation of Desire: A Buddhist Reading of John Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale" 从亚当的梦到欲望的停止——济慈《夜莺颂》的佛教解读

IF 0.2 3区文学

JNT-JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE THEORY Pub Date : 2018-07-01 DOI: 10.1353/JNT.2018.0006

Carol L. Yang

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The Queer Narrativity of the Hero's Journey in Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda Video Games 任天堂《塞尔达传说》电子游戏中英雄旅程的怪异叙事

IF 0.2 3区文学

JNT-JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE THEORY Pub Date : 2018-07-01 DOI: 10.1353/JNT.2018.0009

T. Pugh

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Ambiguity as Aesthetic Strategy: Edgar Allan Poe's Ambitions for the American Short Story 作为美学策略的歧义:爱伦坡对美国短篇小说的抱负

IF 0.2 3区文学

JNT-JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE THEORY Pub Date : 2018-07-01 DOI: 10.1353/JNT.2018.0007

Wanlin Li

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"How Do You Not Understand a Word?": Language as Contagion and Cure in Pontypool “你怎么会听不懂一个单词?”语言在庞泰普尔的传染与治疗

IF 0.2 3区文学

JNT-JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE THEORY Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/JNT.2018.0010

Sharon J. Kirsch, Michael Stancliff

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Sex and the Storyworld: Narrativizing Desirability in the Early Films of Fred Astaire 性与故事世界:弗雷德·阿斯泰尔早期电影中的欲望叙事

IF 0.2 3区文学

JNT-JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE THEORY Pub Date : 2018-05-18 DOI: 10.1353/JNT.2018.0001

Nora Gilbert

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Masquerade in Fingersmith 芬格史密斯的假面舞会

IF 0.2 3区文学

JNT-JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE THEORY Pub Date : 2018-05-18 DOI: 10.1353/JNT.2018.0004

H. Yurttaş

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The Domestic Politics of Disability in Octavia Butler's Kindred 奥克塔维亚·巴特勒《亲族》中残疾的国内政治

IF 0.2 3区文学

JNT-JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE THEORY Pub Date : 2018-05-18 DOI: 10.1353/JNT.2018.0003

T. Comer

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Nabokov's Gradual and Dual Blues: Taxonomy, Unreliability, and Ethics in Lolita 纳博科夫的渐进式与双重蓝调:《洛丽塔》中的分类、不可靠性与伦理

IF 0.2 3区文学

JNT-JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE THEORY Pub Date : 2018-05-18 DOI: 10.1353/JNT.2018.0002

Daniel A. Newman

引用次数: 1