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Becoming a Wolf: Indigenous Pedagogies and Settler Supervision in Sayet's Where We Belong 成为狼：萨耶特的《我们所属的地方》中的土著教学法和定居者监督

IF 0.2 3区文学

Literature Compass Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.70030

Jamie Paris

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Impacts of Empire: British Chinese Writers and Their Writing Codes 帝国的影响：英国华人作家及其写作规范

IF 0.2 3区文学

Literature Compass Pub Date : 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.70029

Chunduan Xiao

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Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale and the Post-9/11 Crusade Mentality: Unearthing Historical Echoes in Modern Context 乔叟的《法律人的故事》与“9·11”事件后的十字军心态：发掘现代语境中的历史回声

IF 0.2 3区文学

Literature Compass Pub Date : 2025-09-06 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.70028

Muhammad Hafeez ur Rehman

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Mengele Zoo by Gert Nygårdshaug. An “Exemplary” Global Novel? 《门格尔动物园》作者：Gert nyg<s:1> rdshaug。一部“堪称典范”的全球小说？

IF 0.2 3区文学

Literature Compass Pub Date : 2025-08-30 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.70027

Jorge J. Locane

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Navigating the Victorian Pacific 维多利亚时代的太平洋航行

IF 0.2 3区文学

Literature Compass Pub Date : 2025-06-28 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.70026

Lindsay Wilhelm

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Literary Festivals as Makers of the Global Novel 作为全球小说制造者的文学节

IF 0.2 3区文学

Literature Compass Pub Date : 2025-06-20 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.70025

Ana Gallego Cuiñas

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Eighteenth-Century British Law and Literature: A Survey of the Field 18世纪英国法律与文学：该领域概览

IF 0.2 3区文学

Literature Compass Pub Date : 2025-06-14 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.70024

Melissa J. Ganz

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Helen Maria Williams on Militancy: Women's Anger and Political Change in Letters From France (1790, 1796) 海伦·玛丽亚·威廉姆斯论战斗：法国来信中妇女的愤怒和政治变化（1790、1796）

IF 0.2 3区文学

Literature Compass Pub Date : 2025-04-15 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.70020

Kelly Fleming

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Stephen Dedalus and the Mourning Echoes to Shakespeare’s Hamlet 斯蒂芬·德达勒斯与莎士比亚《哈姆雷特》的哀悼声

IF 0.2 3区文学

Literature Compass Pub Date : 2025-04-13 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.70023

Christopher Chan, Vivien Chan

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‘Reading for Rage’ and Mary Chudleigh's Anger 《为愤怒而读》和玛丽·查德利的《愤怒》

IF 0.2 3区文学

Literature Compass Pub Date : 2025-04-03 DOI: 10.1111/lic3.70022

Fauve Vandenberghe

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