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Scaling the Detail: Woolfian Proportions 缩放细节:伍尔夫比例
IF 0.4 2区 文学
MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-03-15 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-10335688
Jennifer Spitzer
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The Mark of the Detail: Universalism, Type, Difference 细节的标记:普遍性、类型、差异
IF 0.4 2区 文学
MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-03-15 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-10335706
Dora Zhang
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Editorial Introduction 编辑介绍
2区 文学
MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-03-15 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-10335724
Jennifer Spitzer, Shirley Lau Wong
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The Detail of Place and the Place of Detail 地点的细节和细节的地方
IF 0.4 2区 文学
MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-03-15 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-10335733
Shirley Lau Wong
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引用次数: 0
Structures All the Way Down: Literary Methods and the Detail 结构:文学方法和细节
IF 0.4 2区 文学
MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-03-15 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-10335715
C. Levine
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引用次数: 0
Unsettling Ethnic Detail in Asian American Metafiction 亚裔美国人元小说中令人不安的种族细节
IF 0.4 2区 文学
MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-03-15 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-10335742
Wendy Allison Lee
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Medical Storyworlds: Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 医学故事世界:二十世纪之交俄罗斯和欧洲文学中的健康、疾病和身体
IF 0.4 2区 文学
MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-10189279
Angela Brintlinger
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引用次数: 2
In Praise of Idling: Johnson, Austen, and Literary Leisure 赞美闲散:约翰逊、奥斯汀与文学休闲
IF 0.4 2区 文学
MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-10189270
Amit S. Yahav
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引用次数: 0
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature 阅读直到你理解:黑人生活和文学的深刻智慧
IF 0.4 2区 文学
MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-10189243
Francesca T. Royster
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引用次数: 2
Vagrancy in the Victorian Age: Representing the Wandering Poor in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 维多利亚时代的流浪:19世纪文学与文化中的流浪贫民
IF 0.4 2区 文学
MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-10189288
Carolyn Betensky
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