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“Reading” Pathologic 2: Russian Literature as a Trans-Medial Idea “阅读”病理学2：作为跨媒介观念的俄罗斯文学

IF 0.2 3区文学

RUSSIAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ruslit.2022.11.004

Matthew Kendall

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Illness as Metaphor in Alexei Salnikov’s The Petrovs in the Flu and Around It 阿列克谢·萨尔尼科夫《流感中的彼得罗夫》及其周围的疾病隐喻

IF 0.2 3区文学

RUSSIAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ruslit.2023.05.001

Nataliya Karageorgos

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Moscow Metro as the Leviathan: Corporeal and Political Infections 作为利维坦的莫斯科地铁:肉体和政治感染

IF 0.2 3区文学

RUSSIAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ruslit.2023.04.001

Richard Boyechko

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Contagion and Disgust in Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Children 屠格涅夫《父亲与孩子》中的传染病与厌恶

IF 0.2 3区文学

RUSSIAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ruslit.2022.09.004

Giulia Dossi

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The Rhizome in and Around Sal'nikov’s The Petrovs in and Around the Flu 萨尔尼科夫作品中的根状茎

IF 0.2 3区文学

RUSSIAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ruslit.2022.11.012

Olga Seliazniova (Ольга Селезнёва)

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Comradely Exchanges: Aleksandr Bogdanov’s Physiological Collectivism and Community Reimagined 同志交往：亚历山大·博格丹诺夫的生理集体主义与共同体重塑

IF 0.2 3区文学

RUSSIAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ruslit.2022.11.009

Felix Helbing

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Ideas That Plague Us: Crime and Punishment as a Pandemic Narrative 困扰我们的想法:作为一种流行叙事的犯罪和惩罚

IF 0.2 3区文学

RUSSIAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ruslit.2022.11.003

Irina Erman

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Apocalyptic Pandemic in Yana Vagner’s To The Lake 亚娜·瓦格纳的《去湖》中的启示性流行病