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Joanna Scott and the Biofictional Art of Educating the Eyes 乔安娜·斯科特和教育眼睛的生物小说艺术

IF 0.3 4区文学

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-06-04 DOI: 10.3368/cl.62.2.207

Michael Lackey

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Decolonizing the Cold War 冷战的非殖民化

IF 0.3 4区文学

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-06-04 DOI: 10.3368/cl.62.2.262

E. Hyde

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An Interview with Ivan Vladislavić 伊万·弗拉迪斯拉维奇访谈录

IF 0.3 4区文学

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-06-04 DOI: 10.3368/cl.62.2.141

Jane Poyner, Josh Jewell

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The Sound of All Water: Petro-Culture and Black Modernity in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing 水之声：杰斯明·沃德《歌唱，未埋葬，歌唱》中的石油文化与黑人现代性

IF 0.3 4区文学

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-06-04 DOI: 10.3368/cl.62.2.177

Sara Stephens Loomis

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Localized Phonon Densities of States at Grain Boundaries in Silicon. 硅晶粒边界的局部声子密度。

IF 2.8 4区文学

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-03-16 DOI: 10.1017/S143192762200040X

Peter Rez, Tara Boland, Christian Elsässer, Arunima Singh

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Cruising the Real Estate of Empire: Chris Kraus's Road Novels 巡航帝国的房地产:克里斯·克劳斯的公路小说

IF 0.3 4区文学

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-03-10 DOI: 10.3368/cl.62.1.67

Myka Tucker-Abramson

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This Disability Which Is Not One: Autistic Intermittency in Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 这不是一种残疾:马克·哈登的《夜间狗的奇怪事件》中的自闭症间歇性

IF 0.3 4区文学

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-03-10 DOI: 10.3368/cl.62.1.35

J. Valente

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"My / Eye Locked in / Self Sight": The Self-Portrait Poems of Robert Creeley's Words “我/眼睛被锁住/自视”：罗伯特·克里利的自画像诗

IF 0.3 4区文学

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-03-10 DOI: 10.3368/cl.62.1.97

A. Gold

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Writing Precarity: Neoliberalism and the Globalized Atlantic 写作的不稳定性：新自由主义与全球化的大西洋

IF 0.3 4区文学

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-03-10 DOI: 10.3368/cl.62.1.130

N. Islam

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Navigating the Ruins of Pax Americana 《美国治下和平的废墟

IF 0.3 4区文学

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-03-10 DOI: 10.3368/cl.62.1.125

A. J. Y. Lee

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