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“Palpable to thinking”: Othello and Gross Conceits “易于思考”：奥赛罗与毛

IF 0.3 2区文学

ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/719057

Katherine Walker

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“Many Ciphers, Although But One for Meaning”: Lady Mary Wroth’s Many-Sided Monogram “许多密码，尽管只有一个意义”：玛丽夫人的多方面花押

IF 0.3 2区文学

ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/717202

V. M. Braganza

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How to Do Things With Numbers: Love’s Labour’s Lost and Quantitative Uncertainty 如何用数字做事：爱的劳动损失和数量的不确定性

IF 0.3 2区文学

ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/717200

B. Sheerin

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George Gascoigne’s “Patched Cote”: Writing Pedagogy and Poetic Style in the Literature Classroom 乔治·加斯科因的“补丁科特”：文学课堂上的写作教育学与诗歌风格

IF 0.3 2区文学

ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/717198

Adhaar Noor Desai

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Judith and Lucrece: Reading Shakespeare Between Copy and Work 朱迪思和勒克雷斯：在复制和作品之间阅读莎士比亚

IF 0.3 2区文学

ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/717199

Ben Higgins

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Early Modern Wetlands: A Brief Literary History of the Unfast 早期现代湿地：不公平的文学简史

IF 0.3 2区文学

ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/717201

Hillary Eklund

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The Experience of Authority: Hamlet and the Political Aesthetics of Majesty 权威的经验:哈姆雷特与威严的政治美学

IF 0.3 2区文学

ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/715427

E. Guagliardo

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Stomaching Satire: Poetaster, Troilus and Cressida, and the Hermeneutics of Hypocrisy 《忍痛讽刺:诗人、特洛伊罗斯和克蕾西达，以及伪善的解释学》

IF 0.3 2区文学

ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/715426

Marc Juberg

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The Physics of Poetic Form in Arthur Golding’s Translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses 论亚瑟·戈尔丁译奥维德《变形记》中的诗歌形式物理

IF 0.3 2区文学

ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/715422

Liza Blake

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Volume 51 (2021) 第51卷(2021年)

IF 0.3 2区文学

ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/716484

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