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Finding Patterns: Virginia Woolf and Marianne Moore's Poetics of Paper 寻找模式：弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫和玛丽安·摩尔的《纸的诗学》

IF 0.2 4区文学

CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2025-07-28 DOI: 10.1111/criq.70006

Claire Battershill

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Ethnographies of Paper in Early Modern England 近代早期英国的纸人种志

IF 0.2 4区文学

CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2025-07-27 DOI: 10.1111/criq.70005

Helen Smith

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Introduction: Paper and Poetry – Interventions in Theory and Practice 导论：论文与诗歌——理论与实践的介入

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CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2025-07-24 DOI: 10.1111/criq.70001

Georgina Wilson, Orietta Da Rold

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A Paper Chase: Call a Group of Foxes 纸上追逐：召集一群狐狸

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CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2025-07-24 DOI: 10.1111/criq.70002

Charmaine Cadeau

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Conducting Liquids in Pursuit of Romance: Reading Ed Ruscha's Stains 传导液体追求浪漫：阅读埃德·拉斯查的《污渍》

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CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2025-07-23 DOI: 10.1111/criq.70003

Annabelle Hondier

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CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2025-07-21

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CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2025-06-08

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Experience 经验

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CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2025-06-03 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12825

Peter Womack

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IF 0.2 4区文学

CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2025-05-29

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IF 0.2 4区文学

CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2025-05-16

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