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“The Difference” of Objects “Is Spreading”: A Non-Anthropocentric Reading of Tender Buttons 对象的“差异”“正在蔓延”：对温柔纽扣的非人类中心解读

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Literature Compass Pub Date : 2026-04-03 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.70052

Joon Ho Hwang

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Rewriting History in Two Tongues: Shih-I Hsiung's The Bridge of Heaven (1943) and Tianqiao (1960) 用两种语言改写历史：熊师义的《天桥》（1943）与《天桥》（1960）

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Literature Compass Pub Date : 2026-03-25 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.70051

Yue Kong

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Beyond Material Circuits and Formal Imprints: The Global Novel as a Critical Concept 超越物质回路与形式印记：作为批判概念的全球小说

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Literature Compass Pub Date : 2026-03-03 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.70046

Neus Rotger, Marta Puxan-Oliva

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Beyond the Imperial Edifice: Re-Placing the Cathedral in Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) 《超越帝国大厦：在威拉·凯瑟的死中取代大教堂》（1927年）

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Literature Compass Pub Date : 2026-02-28 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.70049

Hansong Dan

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“rather ridicule than censure”: Lady Caroline Lamb, Frances Arabella Rowden, and the Art of Respectability “与其责难，不如嘲笑”：卡罗琳·兰姆夫人、弗朗西斯·阿拉贝拉·罗登和《体面的艺术》

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Literature Compass Pub Date : 2026-02-18 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.70048

Lindsey Eckert

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Of Temporal Stasis and Cosmic Contamination: Precarious Lives in H. P. Lovecraft's Fiction 时间停滞与宇宙污染：h·p·洛夫克拉夫特小说中的不稳定生活

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Literature Compass Pub Date : 2026-02-09 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.70047

Subhasis Pal

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Mapping Tenderness: Ocean Vuong and the Afterlives of Modernist Geography 测绘温柔：海洋之王和现代主义地理学的来世

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Literature Compass Pub Date : 2026-02-04 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.70045

Kent Su

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Stanzas of Woe, Stanzas of Anger: Ann Yearsley and Poetry as Complaint and Instruction 《哀怨诗，愤怒诗：安·耶尔斯利与诗的抱怨与教导》

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Literature Compass Pub Date : 2026-01-28 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.70043

Catherine Keohane

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Crip-Diasporic Cartographies: Non-Normative Geographies in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée (1982) Crip-Diasporic制图学：Theresa Hak Kyung Cha的dicdicen（1982）中的非规范地理学

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Literature Compass Pub Date : 2026-01-25 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.70044

Jiaying Chen

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Romantic Temporalities 浪漫的短暂性

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Literature Compass Pub Date : 2026-01-18 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.70042

Stephen Tedeschi

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