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Norms of Embodiment and Transgender Recognition: The “Wrong Body” Problem, the Taboo on Translocation, and the Case of Henry James 化身规范与跨性别认知：“错误身体”问题、跨性别禁忌与亨利·詹姆斯个案

IF 0.3 2区文学

NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-10562835

Victoria Coulson

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“If It No Go So, It Go Near So”: Marlon James and Collective Memory 马龙·詹姆斯与《集体记忆》:《如果不是这样，就是这样

IF 0.3 2区文学

NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-10562799

N. T. Kortenaar

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Mental Reflexes 心理反射

IF 0.3 2区文学

NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-10562907

Michael North

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Strange Forms 奇怪的形式

IF 0.3 2区文学

NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-10251316

Mary L. Mullen

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The Racial Economy of Perception: Reading Black Sociality in the Nineteenth Century 感知的种族经济——解读19世纪的黑人社会

IF 0.3 2区文学

NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-10251190

A. Moskowitz

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The Edges of Fiction: Dostoevsky, Merezhkovsky, and the Birth of Novel Theory 小说的边缘：陀思妥耶夫斯基、梅列日科夫斯基与小说理论的诞生

IF 0.3 2区文学

NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-10251226

Chloë Kitzinger

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Notes on the Novella 中篇小说札记

IF 0.3 2区文学

NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-10251280

Morgan Day Frank

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Colson Whitehead's Paranoid Styles 科尔森·怀特黑德的偏执风格

IF 0.3 2区文学

NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-10251208

Timothy Lem-Smith

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The Privilege of Art 艺术的特权

IF 0.3 2区文学

NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-10251334

Paul Stasi

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Prosthetic Grand Synthesis 假体大合成

IF 0.3 2区文学

NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-10251298

Marta Figlerowicz

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