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Citizenship in the Racial Break: Japanese Incarceration and Racial Subjectivity in Miné Okubo's Citizen 13660 种族决裂中的公民权:大久保明惠《公民》13660中日本的监禁与种族主体性

IF 0.1 3区文学

TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/0041462x-9373733

C. Ravela

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Abandoned Being: The Aesthetic of Inhabiting in Meridel Le Sueur's The Girl 被抛弃的存在:梅里德尔·勒·苏尔《女孩》中的居住美学

IF 0.1 3区文学

TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/0041462x-9373746

Claire Callahan

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Flat Stevie Smith 史蒂夫·史密斯

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TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1215/0041462X-9084354

Noreen Masud

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Materialities of Abstraction 抽象的物质性

IF 0.1 3区文学

TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1215/0041462X-9084341

Brandon Truett

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Morbid Vitalism 病态的活力论

IF 0.1 3区文学

TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1215/0041462x-9084328

Tim Clarke

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The "Better Judgement" behind the "Walk on Air": Heaney's Productive Misreading of Bishop “在空中行走”背后的“更好的判断”:希尼对毕晓普的生产性误读

IF 0.1 3区文学

TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/0041462X-8912273

Christopher Laverty

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Bad Seeds and Wayward Boys in Postwar Adoption Fiction 战后收养小说中的坏种子和任性男孩

IF 0.1 3区文学

TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/0041462X-8912286

Cynthia A. Callahan

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D. H. Lawrence's Stained Glass 劳伦斯的彩色玻璃

IF 0.1 3区文学

TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/0041462X-8912247

I. Yamboliev

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May the Record Speak: The Correspondence of T. S. Eliot and Emily Hale 让记录说话:t·s·艾略特与艾米丽·黑尔的通信

IF 0.1 3区文学

TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/0041462x-8770684

Frances Dickey

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Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature by Elizabeth Outka 病毒现代主义:流感大流行和两次世界大战之间的文学伊丽莎白·奥特卡

IF 0.1 3区文学

TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/0041462x-8770717

C. Seiler

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