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Thomas Mann's Comic Spirit 托马斯·曼的喜剧精神

Novel Practices Pub Date : 2019-01-22 DOI: 10.4324/9781351323284-3

Eugene Goodheart

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Counterlives: Philip Roth in Autobiography and Fiction 反生活:菲利普·罗斯的自传与小说

Novel Practices Pub Date : 2019-01-22 DOI: 10.4324/9781351323284-12

Eugene Goodheart

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Censorship and Self-Censorship in the Fiction of D. H. Lawrence 劳伦斯小说中的审查与自我审查

Novel Practices Pub Date : 2019-01-22 DOI: 10.4324/9781351323284-7

Eugene Goodheart

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What May Knew in The Beast in the Jungle 《丛林中的野兽》中梅知道了什么

Novel Practices Pub Date : 2019-01-22 DOI: 10.4324/9781351323284-5

Eugene Goodheart

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“Sex Consciousness” and the Novel: A Room of One's Own “性意识”与小说:一间自己的房间

Novel Practices Pub Date : 2019-01-22 DOI: 10.4324/9781351323284-9

Eugene Goodheart

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Four Decades of Contemporary American Fiction 当代美国小说四十年

Novel Practices Pub Date : 2019-01-22 DOI: 10.4324/9781351323284-13

Eugene Goodheart

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Character in Saul Bellow's Novels 索尔·贝娄小说中的人物

Novel Practices Pub Date : 2019-01-22 DOI: 10.4324/9781351323284-11

Eugene Goodheart

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“The Licensed Trespasser”: The Omniscient Narrator in Middlemarch “有执照的入侵者”:米德尔马契的无所不知的叙述者

Novel Practices Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.4324/9781351323284-1

Eugene Goodheart

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The Art of Ambivalence: The Good Soldier 矛盾的艺术:好士兵

Novel Practices Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.4324/9781351323284-4

Eugene Goodheart

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