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Mordecai Richler’s Imperfect Search for Moral Values by Shana Rosenblatt Mauer (review) 莫迪凯-里希勒对道德价值的不完美探索》，作者 Shana Rosenblatt Mauer（评论）

Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2024.a916707

Ira Robinson

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Arts of Healing: Cultural Narratives of Trauma ed. by Arleen Ionescu and Maria Margaroni (review) 治愈的艺术：Arleen Ionescu 和 Maria Margaroni 编著的《创伤的文化叙事》（评论）

Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2024.a916706

Balázs Berkovits

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Dispersing the Devil’s Stench: Shifting Perceptions of Sulfuric Miasma in Early Modern English Literatures 驱散恶魔的恶臭：早期现代英国文学中对硫磺瘴气的认识转变

Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2024.a916698

Andrew Kettler

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Creative Work Ethic and Autofiction: Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be? 创作道德与自传体小说：希拉-赫蒂的《一个人应该怎样？

Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2024.a916705

David Hadar

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The (Not-So-)Private Mind: Why Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury Is and Is Not a Failure 非）私人心灵》：福克纳的《声与怒》为何是失败之作？

Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2024.a916700

Daniel Schwartz

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The Mirror and the Icon: A Theological Perspective on Nabokov’s Pale Fire 镜子与圣像：纳博科夫《苍白之火》的神学视角

Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2024.a916702

Erik Eklund

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Creativity — Narrativity — Fictionality: A Critical Genealogy 创造性-叙事性-虚构性：批判性谱系

Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2024.a916697

Paul Dawson

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Excluding the Rural Girl Student: Rural-Urban Divide, Knowledge Transmission, and Female Homosociality in Xiao Hong’s “Hands” 排斥农村女学生：萧红《手》中的城乡差别、知识传承与女性同社会性

Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2024.a916701

Lang Wang

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On Listening and Failure: Roger Laporte with Marcel Proust 关于倾听与失败罗杰-拉波特与马塞尔-普鲁斯特

Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2024.a916703

Joseph Acquisto

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Toni Morrison and the Natural World: An Ecology of Color by Anissa Janine Wardi (review) 托尼-莫里森与自然世界：色彩生态学》，作者 Anissa Janine Wardi（评论）

Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/pan.2024.a916708

Yongchao Wen

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