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‘Shut Your Eyes and See’: Time, Ekphrasis and Enargeia in James Joyce's Ulysses 闭上眼睛看"：詹姆斯-乔伊斯《尤利西斯》中的时间、咏叹调与恩纳吉亚

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CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-10-28 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12750

Francis Haran

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The Rescue Plot: Maritime Encounter and the Borders of Europe 营救情节：海上遭遇和欧洲边界

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CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-10-27 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12743

Chloe Howe Haralambous

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An Irish Childhood in the City of London 《伦敦金融城的爱尔兰童年

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CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-10-26 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12742

Colin MacCabe

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Matter 事

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CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-10-20 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12752

Colin MacCabe

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CHE CHE

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CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-10-18 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12749

Matthew Sperling

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Afterword to the Critical Quarterly Special Issue ‘Peripheral Europes’ 《欧洲外围》关键季刊特刊后记

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CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12747

Timothy Garton Ash

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‘Yours truly saying with an invisible voice’: W. S. Graham's Smalltalk “你用一种看不见的声音真诚地说”：w·s·格雷厄姆的《Smalltalk》

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CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-10-02 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12745

Jack Barron

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Habeas Corpus? Cultural Keywords, Statistical Keywords, and the Role of a Corpus in their Identification 人身保护令？文化关键词、统计关键词及其语料库在识别中的作用

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CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12734

Martin Montgomery, Carol Ting

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From Hard Slavic Endings to Making Things Possible: The Political in Saša Stanišić's Prose 从艰难的斯拉夫结局到使事情成为可能：Saša Stanišić散文中的政治

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CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-09-24 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12744

Lilla Balint, Djordje Popović

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Neither Centre nor Periphery: Rethinking Postcoloniality through the Perspective of Eastern Europe 既非中心也非边缘：从东欧的视角重新思考后殖民主义

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CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-09-24 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12746

Daniella Gáti

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