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The Role and Function of Author Interviews in the Contemporary Anglophone Literary Field 作者访谈在当代英语文学领域的作用与功能

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Book History Pub Date : 2020-10-22 DOI: 10.1353/bh.2020.0009

Rebecca Roach

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The Postwar American Poet's Library: An Archival Consideration with Charles Olson and the Maud/Olson Library 战后美国诗人图书馆——与查尔斯·奥尔森和莫德/奥尔森图书馆的档案思考

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Book History Pub Date : 2020-10-22 DOI: 10.1353/bh.2020.0005

M. Kinniburgh

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Reading as Patterned Play: Everyday Religion and the Spatialization of Doctrine in a Buddhist Board Game 作为模式游戏的阅读：日常宗教与佛教棋盘游戏中教义的空间化

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Book History Pub Date : 2020-10-22 DOI: 10.1353/bh.2020.0001

Charlotte Eubanks

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Visualizing the Stanley-Livingstone Meeting: The Birth and Lives of an Iconic Scene in Print Media and Beyond since 1872 可视化斯坦利-利文斯通会议:自1872年以来印刷媒体上一个标志性场景的诞生和生活

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Book History Pub Date : 2020-10-22 DOI: 10.1353/bh.2020.0004

Leila Koivunen

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Forgetting Fiction: An Oral History of Reading: (Centred on Interviews in South London, 2014–15) 遗忘小说：阅读口述史：（以伦敦南部访谈为中心，2014-2015）

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Book History Pub Date : 2020-06-05 DOI: 10.1353/bh.2020.0007

S. Trower

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Contributors 贡献者

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Book History Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/bh.2020.0011

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The Post-Liberation Resurgence of the Livre d'artiste in France: A Quantitative Analysis 解放后法国文艺复兴的定量分析

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