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Historicist Cosmopolitanism from Scandinavia’s First Novel 从斯堪的纳维亚的第一部小说看历史主义世界主义

IF 0.1 3区文学

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/00104124-9722389

Mads Larsen

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引用次数: 2

Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance 帝国内部:竞争帝国，性别劳动和联盟的文学艺术

IF 0.1 3区文学

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/00104124-9722415

I. Almond

引用次数: 13

The Mythic Sea in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Poetry 当代爱尔兰和加勒比诗歌中的神话之海

IF 0.1 3区文学

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/00104124-9722363

Ellen Howley

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引用次数: 1

Lolita in Humbert Humbert’s Camera Obscura and Lolita in Vladimir Nabokov’s Camera Lucida 亨伯特·亨伯特的《暗箱照相机》中的洛丽塔和弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫的《透视照相机》中的洛丽塔

IF 0.1 3区文学

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/00104124-9722376

Byung-Wan Jung

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引用次数: 0

Northeast Indian or Assamese 东北印度或阿萨姆邦

IF 0.1 3区文学

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/00104124-9722337

A. Kashyap

引用次数: 0

The Poetics of Protest, from Africa to Minneapolis 抗议的诗学，从非洲到明尼阿波利斯

IF 0.1 3区文学

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/00104124-9722350

R. A. Judy

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引用次数: 0

Knowing and Not Knowing 知道与不知道

IF 0.1 3区文学

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/00104124-9722324

Sangeeta Ray

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引用次数: 0

L’art comme ombre et reflet du réel: dans les fragments de Reverdy et de Nietzsche 艺术作为现实的阴影和反映:在瑞弗迪和尼采的碎片中

IF 0.1 3区文学

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-06-30 DOI: 10.21720/complit87.06

Seon-ah Chung

引用次数: 0

“Shanghai”, the Beginning of Pure Novel: Representation of the May 30th Incident and Body as a Symbol “上海”，纯小说的开端:五三事件的再现与身体的象征

IF 0.1 3区文学

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-06-30 DOI: 10.21720/complit87.04

Seoyeong Shin

引用次数: 0

The Immersive Experience in the VR Film and Its Ethics of Affect VR电影中的沉浸式体验及其情感伦理