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Reconstructing Lewis Carroll's Looking Glass 重建刘易斯·卡罗尔的《镜中奇遇记》

The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.17077/2168-569X.1346

J. Hansen

引用次数: 2

"Cue the Sun": Soundings from Millennial Suburbia “暗示太阳”:来自千禧一代郊区的声音

The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.17077/2168-569X.1039

Robert Beuka

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引用次数: 7

Wittgenstein’s Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary. By Marjorie Perloff 维特根斯坦的阶梯:诗意语言与平凡的陌生感。马乔里·佩洛夫著

The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.17077/2168-569X.1342

J. Craig

引用次数: 0

Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History by Eduardo Cadava 《光的话语:历史摄影论纲》，作者:爱德华多·卡达瓦

The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.17077/2168-569X.1278

Sean Ross Meehan

引用次数: 1

Home From Half Moon Lake 从半月湖回家

The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.17077/2168-569X.1263

Peter Orner

引用次数: 0

The Showman Theory of History 历史演出者理论

The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.17077/2168-569X.1049

L. Glass

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Cul-de-Sac nightmares: Representations of Californian Suburbia in Science Fiction During the 1950s and '60s 死胡同噩梦:20世纪50年代和60年代科幻小说中加利福尼亚郊区的表现

The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.17077/2168-569X.1036

James B. Mitchell

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引用次数: 1

In the Silence of Others' Voices 在别人沉默的声音里

The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.17077/2168-569X.1192

L. Phillips

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Burn this Journal!: Reconstruction, the Value of Information, and the Future of the Journal 烧了这本日记!重构、信息价值与期刊的未来

The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.17077/2168-569X.1005

D. Heckman, Sarah Hildebrandt, R. Varner, Matthew Wolf‐Meyer

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Poetries, Micropoetries, Micropoetics 诗歌，微观诗歌，微观诗学

The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.17077/2168-569X.1075

Maria Damon

引用次数: 0