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Representing the Planet: Affect, Scale, and Utopia 代表地球:影响、规模和乌托邦

IF 0.3 2区文学

NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-8139267

D. Sergeant

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“Supreme Simplicity”: Reading the Child and Childlike Reading in Henry James's What Maisie Knew “至高的纯朴”:阅读亨利·詹姆斯的《梅奇所知》中的孩子和孩子般的阅读

IF 0.3 2区文学

NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-8139321

Katherine Kruger

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Ralph Ellison's Contemporaneity 拉尔夫·埃里森的当代性

IF 0.3 2区文学

NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-8139285

T. Persson

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Forgetting to Be Nice 忘记对人友善

IF 0.3 2区文学

NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-8139411

S. Samuels

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How to Be a Good Reader of World Literature 如何做好世界文学的读者

IF 0.3 2区文学

NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-8139447

J. Ho

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Kazuo Ishiguro's Nonactors 石黑一雄的《Nonactors》