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An Interview with Brenda Hillman 布伦达·希尔曼访谈录

IF 0.3 4区文学

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2020-09-04 DOI: 10.3368/cl.60.3.313

A. Hume

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A Vigil Wasted? Notes on the Ruin Sublime 守夜被浪费了？废墟升华笔记

IF 0.3 4区文学

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2020-09-04 DOI: 10.3368/cl.60.3.370

Mrinalini Chakravorty

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The Case for the Globality of Twenty-First-Century Poetry 21世纪诗歌全球化的个案

IF 0.3 4区文学

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2020-06-20 DOI: 10.3368/cl.60.2.300

Louise McCune

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When Fiction Rocks! 当小说震撼！

IF 0.3 4区文学

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2020-06-20 DOI: 10.3368/cl.60.2.282

Jessica E. Teague

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An Interview with Sheila Heti 采访希拉·海蒂

IF 0.3 4区文学

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2020-06-20 DOI: 10.3368/cl.60.2.146

Michael F. Miller, M. Bailar

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Car Culture and Its Trialectics 汽车文化及其试驾学

IF 0.3 4区文学

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2020-06-20 DOI: 10.3368/cl.60.2.305

M. Krishnan

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Rails, Networks, and Novels: Historicizing Infrastructure Space 铁路、网络和小说:历史性的基础设施空间

IF 0.3 4区文学

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2020-06-20 DOI: 10.3368/cl.60.2.174

Jacob Soule

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Institutions, Genres, Readers 机构，体裁，读者

IF 0.3 4区文学

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2020-06-20 DOI: 10.3368/cl.60.2.289

Robert Higney

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Liberal Humanitarianism: Obscuring US Culpability in James Disco and Susan Clark’s Echoes of the Lost Boys of Sudan and Dave Eggers’s What Is the What 自由人道主义：詹姆斯·迪斯科和苏珊·克拉克的《苏丹迷失男孩的回声》以及戴夫·艾格斯的《What Is the What

IF 0.3 4区文学

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2020-06-20 DOI: 10.3368/cl.60.2.198

Alaina Kaus

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The Documentary Photo-Poetics of C. D. Wright and Deborah Luster C.D.Wright和Deborah Luster的纪实摄影诗学

IF 0.3 4区文学

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2020-06-20 DOI: 10.3368/cl.60.2.253

Claire Grandy

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