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Media, modality, and motivation in literary-aesthetic experience: exploring auditory and visual reception of literature 文学审美体验中的媒介、形态与动机：文学听觉与视觉接受探索

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-06-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102021

Lukas Kosch , Günther Stocker , Annika Ahrens-Schwabe , Hajo Boomgaarden

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Cultural critics as moral reputational entrepreneurs: Controversy, metaethical discourse, and authority in the documentary field 作为道德声誉企业家的文化批评家：纪录片领域的争议、元伦理话语和权威

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-06-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102019

Christine Delp

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Is fiction a remedy for our wish to live many lives? Testing a popular assumption among contemporary readers 小说是我们想活很多次的愿望的一种补救方法吗？验证了当代读者的一个普遍假设

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-06-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102018

Cristina Loi

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Investigating Musical Taxonomy in the era of Streaming Platforms: Insights from Rap music through actual consumption data 调查流媒体平台时代的音乐分类：从实际消费数据看说唱音乐

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-05-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102006

Myriam Boualami , Camille Roth

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Culture as configurations of categories: Analyzing peer effects via dual-to-regression modeling 文化作为类别的配置：通过双回归模型分析同伴效应

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102014

Ronald L. Breiger , Alessandro Lomi , Francesca Pallotti

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“If NPR doesn’t see this as a crisis, I don’t know what it’ll take”: How journalists use digital platforms to make industry critiques “如果NPR不认为这是一场危机，我不知道会发生什么”：记者如何利用数字平台对行业进行批评

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-05-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102007

Laura Garbes , Thomas Marlow

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Mapping relational structures in culture 在文化中映射关系结构

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102005

Marco Serino , Thierry Rossier , Elisa Klüger , Fabien Eloire

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Bach, Beethoven and Brahms again? A computational view on the de facto canon of classical orchestral music in Germany and the USA at the beginning of the 21st century 还是巴赫、贝多芬和勃拉姆斯？对21世纪初德国和美国古典管弦乐事实上的经典的计算观点

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-04-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102004

Markus Radke , Dr. Steffen Lepa , Melissa Panlasigui

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Duality and value realism 二元性与价值现实主义

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-04-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102002

Kyle Puetz

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The dual clustering of tastes and ties: Extending the notion of relational similarity in cultural fields 品味与关系的双重聚类：关系相似性概念在文化领域的扩展

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102003

Xinwei Xu , Alessandro Lomi , Christoph Stadtfeld

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