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Reading Pierre during the Pandemic 大流行期间阅读皮埃尔

4区社会学

South Central Review Pub Date : 2021-11-12 DOI: 10.1353/scr.2021.0040

Samantha O'Connor

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Now is the Time for A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 现在是康涅狄格州洋基队进入亚瑟王法庭的时候了

4区社会学

South Central Review Pub Date : 2021-11-12 DOI: 10.1353/scr.2021.0032

Sandy Feinstein

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Re-emerging Relevance: Did we just re-live the apocalyptic novel World War Z? 重新出现的相关性:我们刚刚是在重演末日小说《僵尸世界大战》吗?

4区社会学

South Central Review Pub Date : 2021-11-12 DOI: 10.1353/scr.2021.0023

Lisa Beckelhimer

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Till We Have Faces as Spiritual Autobiography 直到我们有了作为精神自传的面孔

4区社会学

South Central Review Pub Date : 2021-11-12 DOI: 10.1353/scr.2021.0039

Lex O. McMillan III

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My Canon and a Heresy 我的正典和异端

4区社会学

South Central Review Pub Date : 2021-11-12 DOI: 10.1353/scr.2021.0025

P. Caputo

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On Alice in Wonderland 论爱丽丝梦游仙境

4区社会学

South Central Review Pub Date : 2021-11-12 DOI: 10.1353/scr.2021.0024

P. Bruckner, Nathan Bracher

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Of Pandemics and Pilgrims: Reconciling Grief and Death in Cormac McCarthy's The Road 《流行病与朝圣者:科马克·麦卡锡《道路》中悲恸与死亡的调和

4区社会学

South Central Review Pub Date : 2021-11-12 DOI: 10.1353/scr.2021.0042

Shreya Rastogi, Srirupa Chatterjee

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Interview with Novelist Catie Disabato 采访小说家凯蒂·迪阿托

4区社会学

South Central Review Pub Date : 2021-11-12 DOI: 10.1353/scr.2021.0016

N. Lawrence

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Rereading Joseph Heller's Catch-22 重读约瑟夫·海勒的《第二十二条军规》

4区社会学

South Central Review Pub Date : 2021-11-12 DOI: 10.1353/scr.2021.0026

S. Chesters

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The Self and the Screened World: Walker Percy's The Moviegoer 自我与银幕世界：沃克·珀西的电影观众

4区社会学

South Central Review Pub Date : 2021-11-12 DOI: 10.1353/scr.2021.0044

Bill R. Scalia

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