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Ron Silliman's Universe: Aging, Epic Poetry, and Everyday Life 罗恩·西利曼的宇宙：衰老、史诗与日常生活

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POETICS TODAY Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1215/03335372-10342155

J. Guimarães

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Queer Futures for an Aging Planet 老龄化星球的奇怪未来

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POETICS TODAY Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1215/03335372-10342141

Jacob Jewusiak

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Dementia, Language, and Performative Force: The Case of Laughter 痴呆症、语言和表演力：以笑为例

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POETICS TODAY Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1215/03335372-10342071

Elizabeth C. Barry

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The Aesthetics of Aging: Visual Strategies and Narrative Form in Tanizaki's Diary of a Mad Old Man 衰老美学:谷崎《疯老头日记》的视觉策略与叙事形式

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POETICS TODAY Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1215/03335372-10342183

Alice Crossley

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An Unreality Effect: Simile in Flaubert's Madame Bovary 虚幻效应：福楼拜《包法利夫人》中的相似性

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POETICS TODAY Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/03335372-10017667

Spencer Lee-Lenfield

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Playful Poetics: Metareferential Interfaces in Recent Indie Games 嬉戏诗学：近年独立游戏中的元指称界面

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POETICS TODAY Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/03335372-10017737

Theresa Krampe, Stephanie Lotzow, Jan-Noël Thon

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“To Tell a Story by Not Telling It”: Toward a Networked Poetics of Delay in Anne Carson's The Beauty of the Husband “不讲故事就讲故事”——论安妮·卡森《丈夫的美丽》中的网络延迟诗学

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POETICS TODAY Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/03335372-10017695

Helena Van Praet

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What Is Philology? From Crises of Reading to Comparative Reflections 什么是文献学？从阅读危机到比较反思

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POETICS TODAY Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/03335372-10017681

Sophus Helle

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The Literature of Absolute War: Transnationalism and World War II 绝对战争文学：跨国主义与第二次世界大战

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POETICS TODAY Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/03335372-10017765

Ron Ben-Tovim

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Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis 数字小说与非自然:跨媒介叙事理论、方法与分析

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POETICS TODAY Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/03335372-10017751

B. Richardson

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