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Making money in museums: what’s appropriate? Negotiating commercial pressures and professional values in a context of austerity 在博物馆赚钱：什么是合适的？在经济紧缩的背景下谈判商业压力和专业价值

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Poetics Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-10-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102121

Bethany Rex, Peter Eckersley

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Expanding agency in precarious careers: Evidence from a guaranteed income program for artists 在不稳定的职业生涯中扩大代理机构：来自艺术家收入保证计划的证据

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Poetics Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-09-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102120

Joanna Woronkowicz, Douglas Noonan

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Symbolic presence without identification: Institutionalized cultural memory and youth reception of a religious figure in Poland 没有身份认同的象征性存在：波兰宗教人物的制度化文化记忆和青年接待

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Poetics Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102122

Stanisław Fel, Jarosław Kozak

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What do culture vouchers really buy? Evidence from France's ‘pass Culture’ policy uses 文化券到底能买到什么？来自法国“文化通行证”政策使用的证据

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Poetics Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-10-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102124

Abel Aussant

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How technological innovation restructures cultural space: Digital effects, narrative convergence, and the concentration of economic and symbolic capital in American Film, 1980–2022 技术创新如何重构文化空间：1980-2022年美国电影中的数字效应、叙事趋同以及经济资本和象征资本的集中

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Poetics Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-10-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102123

Likun Cao

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Mechanisms of change: How focus events reshape online meaning-making 变化机制：焦点事件如何重塑在线意义生成

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Poetics Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-07-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102108

Miriam Hurtado Bodell, Anastasia Menshikova

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Narrative perspective and immersion in literary reading: Experimental evidence from behavioural and neural measures 文学阅读中的叙事视角和沉浸感：来自行为和神经测量的实验证据

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Poetics Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-07-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102110

Letian Li, Meijia Wang, Siyun Liu

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Corrigendum to ‘Race, nation, and commemoration: Representations of the national Juneteenth holiday in news media’ Poetics 115-116 (2026) 102093 《种族、民族和纪念：新闻媒体对国庆节的表述》的更正《诗学》115-116 (2026)102093

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Poetics Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102106

Kira Pratt

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Narrative pacing under fragmented attention: A structural approach to suspense in serialized television 分散注意力下的叙事节奏：系列化电视中悬疑的结构方法

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Poetics Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-07-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102109

Diego Vallarino

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The fuzzy mechanism of processing stereotyped gay characters in media 媒体中刻板同性恋角色加工的模糊机制

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Poetics Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-04-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102090

Gina Junhan Fu , María T. Soto-Sanfiel , Juan-José Sánchez-Soriano

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