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Secondary Utterances: A Response to Michael Lucey 次要言辞：对迈克尔-卢西的回应

Genre Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1215/00166928-10982812

Timothy Bewes

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Affordances of Fantasy 奇思妙想

Genre Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1215/00166928-10982852

Brian Attebery

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From “Natural Institution” to Poetic Genre: Literary Testimony and the Issues of Witnessing in Verse 从 "自然制度 "到诗歌体裁：文学见证与诗歌见证问题

Genre Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1215/00166928-10982828

Dunja Dušanić

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Reading and Listening to Lost Children Archive: Audiobooks as Oral History 阅读和聆听迷失儿童档案：作为口述历史的有声读物

Genre Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1215/00166928-10982844

Alison Turner

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John Guillory's Distortions 约翰-吉洛里的歪曲

Genre Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1215/00166928-10982820

Michael W. Clune

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Negative Language and Apophatic Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Fantastic Literature 十九世纪奇幻文学中的否定语言和启示知识

Genre Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/00166928-10779291

Irene Bulla

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On Paradox: The Claims of Theory 论悖论：理论的主张

Genre Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/00166928-10779282

Anthony Ossa-Richardson

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The Pursuit of Style in Early Modern Drama: Forms of Talk on the London Stage 早期现代戏剧中的风格追求：伦敦舞台上的谈话形式

Genre Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/00166928-10779309

Jonathan P. Lamb

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Thought's Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature 思想的荒野浪漫主义与对自然的理解

Genre Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/00166928-10779327

Tobias Menely

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National Sovereignty and the Postcolonial Bildungsroman 国家主权与后殖民时期的长篇小说

Genre Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/00166928-10779300

Siddharth Srikanth

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