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IF 0.4 2区文学

MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-10189261

V. Adams

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Resounding the Sublime: Music in English and German Literature and Aesthetic Theory, 1670–1850 崇高的回响:1670-1850年英德文学与美学理论中的音乐

IF 0.4 2区文学

MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-10189225

Leslie Ritchie

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Infinite Variety: Literary Invention, Theology, and the Disorder of Kinds, 1688–1730 无穷变化:文学发明、神学和种类的混乱，1688-1730

IF 0.4 2区文学

MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-10189198

Dustin D. Stewart

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Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony 非殖民化记忆:阿尔及利亚与证词政治

2区文学

MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-10189207

Olivia C. Harrison

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Extinction Panic: C. S. Lewis and Planetary Nihilism 灭绝恐慌:c.s.刘易斯和行星虚无主义

IF 0.4 2区文学

MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-10189315

T. Harper

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Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton 国内乔治:从拉伯雷到弥尔顿的保存劳动

IF 0.4 2区文学

MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-10189297

Marissa O. Nicosia

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Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England 翻译效果:中世纪英格兰的语言、时间和社会

IF 0.4 2区文学

MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-10189252

Benjamin A. Saltzman

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New Ecological Realisms: Post-apocalyptic Fiction and Contemporary Theory 新生态现实主义:后启示录小说与当代理论

IF 0.4 2区文学

MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-10189324

Clint C. Wilson

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The Novel and the Problem of New Life 小说与新生活问题

IF 0.4 2区文学

MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-10189306

Matthew Rowlinson

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Networking Print in Shakespeare’s England: Influence, Agency, and Revolutionary Change 莎士比亚时代英国的网络印刷:影响、代理和革命性变革

IF 0.4 2区文学

MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-10189216

John R. Ladd

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