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From a Laughable Anachronism to a Civilizing Mission: French Colonization, 1830–71 从可笑的时代错误到文明使命:1830-71年的法国殖民

IF 0.1 4区文学

DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Pub Date : 2021-07-08 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2020.0011

Dan Benson

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Critical Anthropomorphism after #MeToo: Reading The Friend #MeToo之后的批判拟人化:阅读朋友

IF 0.1 4区文学

DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Pub Date : 2021-02-26 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2020.0001

S. Guyer

引用次数: 2

Anarchival Dislocations: Modes of Reading (in) Black Studies 无政府的错位:黑人研究的阅读模式

IF 0.1 4区文学

DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Pub Date : 2021-02-26 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2020.0000

M. Scully

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Mechanical Brains: Autism and Artificial Intelligence 机械大脑：自闭症与人工智能

IF 0.1 4区文学

DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Pub Date : 2021-02-26 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2020.0002

D. Squires

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Labor, Thought, and the Work of Authorship: Virginia Woolf and Hannah Arendt 《劳动、思想和作者工作:弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫和汉娜·阿伦特》

IF 0.1 4区文学

DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Pub Date : 2021-02-26 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2020.0003

V. Baena

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引用次数: 2

Moral Support 精神支持

IF 0.1 4区文学

DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Pub Date : 2021-02-26 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2020.0005

S. Rhodes, K. Sutherland

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引用次数: 5

Broken Light on the Ground of Home: Non-Being and Diasporic Trauma in the Parmenidean Poem 家地上的破碎之光：帕门尼诗歌中的非存在与孢子创伤

IF 0.1 4区文学

DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Pub Date : 2021-02-26 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2020.0004

D. M. Spitzer

引用次数: 0

The Sonic Turn 声波转向

IF 0.1 4区文学

DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Pub Date : 2020-12-03 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2019.0035

T. McEnaney

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引用次数: 4

Turning Ears; Or, Ec(h)otechnics 转动耳朵；或者，Ec（h）技术

IF 0.1 4区文学

DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Pub Date : 2020-12-03 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2019.0036

Naomi Waltham-Smith

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The “Turn” Turn “转弯”

IF 0.1 4区文学

DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Pub Date : 2020-12-03 DOI: 10.1353/dia.2019.0031

C. Rojas

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