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Fathers, Mothers, Saints, Martyrs: Religion as a Lineage of Belief 父亲、母亲、圣徒、殉道者:作为信仰谱系的宗教

IF 0.4 2区文学

MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-10088718

Dawn M. Coleman

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How to See Global Religion: Comparativism, Connectivity, and the Undisciplining of Victorian Literary Studies 如何看待全球宗教:维多利亚文学研究的比较主义、连通性和无纪律

IF 0.4 2区文学

MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-10088731

W. Werner, Mimi Winick

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Dynamic Form: How Intermediality Made Modernism 动态形式:中间性如何造就现代主义

IF 0.4 2区文学

MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-9792659

M. Goble

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The Age of the Author: Print and Precocity in the English Renaissance 作者的时代:英国文艺复兴时期的印刷与早熟

IF 0.4 2区文学

MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-9791003

J. Werlin

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“To Consort with Eccentricities”: Edith Sitwell’s Eighteenth Century “与怪癖为伍”:伊迪丝·西特维尔的《十八世纪》

IF 0.4 2区文学

MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-9790977

Katherine G. Charles

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The Decay of Singing: Remembering the Castrato 歌唱的衰落:追忆阉割者

IF 0.4 2区文学

MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-9790990

Hal Gladfelder

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Beckett and Buddhism 贝克特和佛教

IF 0.4 2区文学

MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-9791055

Lidan Lin

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Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare’s England 奥维德与莎士比亚时代英国的言论自由

IF 0.4 2区文学

MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-9791042

Andrew M. Hui

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Whose Resistance Theory? 谁的抵抗理论?

IF 0.4 2区文学

MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-9791016

A. Rosensweig

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The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany 王朝想象:19世纪德国的家庭与现代性

IF 0.4 2区文学

MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-9791068

Jason Groves

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