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Pathologies of Motion: Historical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics, and Poetics 运动的病理学医学、美学和诗学中的历史思维

Genre Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1215/00166928-11175900

Maggie McGowan

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Poetic Priesthood in the Seventeenth Century: Reformed Ministry and Radical Verse 十七世纪的诗意圣职：改革派牧师与激进诗歌

Genre Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1215/00166928-11175892

Kenneth J. E. Graham

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From Modernizing Tradition to Traditionalizing Modernity: U. R. Ananthamurthy's Samskara as Postcolonial Bildungsroman 从传统现代化到现代传统化：U. R. Ananthamurthy 的《Sammskara》作为后殖民主义的儿童漫游小说

Genre Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1215/00166928-11175876

Arnab Dutta Roy

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Heroines and Villains, Orphans and Thieves: The Motley Melodramas of Oliver Twist 巾帼与恶棍，孤儿与盗贼：奥利弗-忒斯特的杂剧

Genre Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1215/00166928-11186135

Michael D'Alessandro

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Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England 文字魔法：中世纪英格兰的符咒和书面护身符

Genre Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1215/00166928-11175884

E. V. Thornbury

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Understanding Criticism 理解批评

Genre Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1215/00166928-11175868

Frances Ferguson