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Piers Plowman and the Poetics of Enigma: Riddles, Rhetoric, and Theology by Curtis A. Gruenler (review) 皮尔斯·普洛曼与谜的诗学:谜语、修辞与神学柯蒂斯·格伦勒著(书评)

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RELIGION & LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-11-10 DOI: 10.1353/rel.2020.0010

Noelle Phillips

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"Give me your hand and say you will be mine": Containing Catholicism in Thomas Middleton's Measure for Measure “把你的手给我，说你将是我的”:托马斯·米德尔顿的《以牙还牙》中包含的天主教教义

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RELIGION & LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-11-10 DOI: 10.1353/rel.2020.0000

Gabriel A. Rieger

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"A Sensuous Embodiment": Sacramental Poetics in T. S. Eliot's Ariel Poems “感官的化身”:艾略特《阿里尔诗》中的圣礼诗学

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RELIGION & LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-11-10 DOI: 10.1353/rel.2020.0001

Asher Gelzer-Govatos

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Othello: Shakespeare's Realistic Samson 奥赛罗:莎士比亚的现实主义的参孙

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RELIGION & LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-11-10 DOI: 10.1353/rel.2020.0004

M. Kietzman

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"You learn me Noble Thankfulness": Restoring a Graceful Cycle of Giving and Receiving in Much Ado About Nothing 《你教会我高尚的感恩》:在无事生非中恢复给予和接受的优雅循环

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RELIGION & LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-11-10 DOI: 10.1353/rel.2020.0002

P. Patrick

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Ted Hughes and Christianity by David Troupes (review) 《泰德·休斯与基督教》大卫·特鲁普斯(书评)

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RELIGION & LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-11-10 DOI: 10.1353/rel.2020.0017

T. Gifford

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Dominion Built of Praise: Panegyric and Legitimacy Among Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean by Jonathan Decter (review) 赞美建立的统治:中世纪地中海犹太人的颂词和合法性乔纳森·德克特著(书评)

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RELIGION & LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-11-10 DOI: 10.1353/rel.2020.0006

David Torollo

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Scotland's Forgotten Treasure: The Visionary Romances of George MacDonald by Colin Manlove (review) 《苏格兰被遗忘的宝藏:乔治·麦克唐纳的幻想罗曼史》作者:科林·曼洛夫(书评)