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ARCADIA Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2023-2019

Jonas Rosenbrück

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Adrian Daub: The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany. London and Chicago, IL: The U of Chicago P, 2021. 253 pp. 阿德里安·道布:《王朝的想象:19世纪德国的家庭与现代性》。伦敦和芝加哥，伊利诺伊州:芝加哥大学，2021。253页。

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ARCADIA Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2023-2016

Serena Cianciotto

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Reimagining the Body Without Organs Through Exchange Value in Never Let Me Go 从《别让我走》的交换价值重新想象没有器官的身体

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ARCADIA Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2023-2013

Daniel R. Adler

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Engagement et mélancolie dans Écoutez nos défaites de Laurent Gaudé Laurent gaude的《倾听我们的失败》中的承诺和忧郁

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ARCADIA Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2023-2001

Isabelle Bernard

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Colossal Scrawls and Divine Naughts: Images of Formlessness in Gottfried Keller’s Der grüne Heinrich and Robert Walser’s Jakob von Gunten 巨大的潦草和神圣的虚无:戈特弗里德·凯勒的《新海因里希》和罗伯特·沃尔瑟的《雅各布·冯·冈腾》中无形的形象

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ARCADIA Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2023-2010

Jana Vijayakumaran

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Decolonized Trauma: Narrative, Memory and Identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah 非殖民化的创伤:奇曼达·恩戈齐·阿迪奇的《美国人》中的叙事、记忆和身份认同

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ARCADIA Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2023-2005

Behzad Pourgharib, Moussa Pourya Asl, Somayeh Esmaili

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ARCADIA Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2023-frontmatter1

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Paul B. Preciado: Dysphoria Mundi. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2022. 549 pp.

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ARCADIA Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2023-2008

Elisa Santucci

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Daniel O. Dahlstrom, ed.: Kant and His German Contemporaries. Volume II: Aesthetics, History, Politics, and Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2018. 285 pp. 丹尼尔O.达尔斯特罗姆主编:《康德和他的德国同代人》。第二卷:美学、历史、政治和宗教。剑桥:剑桥大学，2018年。285页。

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