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Wild Blue Media: Thinking through Seawater by Melody Jue (review) Wild Blue Media: Thinking through海水作者:Melody Jue(评论)

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Configurations Pub Date : 2021-08-13 DOI: 10.1353/con.2021.0022

Pujita Guha

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Branded Communities: Colson Whitehead’s Apex Hides the Hurt and the Struggle for Utopia in the New Millennium 品牌社区：科尔森·怀特黑德的《Apex隐藏伤害》与新千年的乌托邦之争

IF 0.1 4区文学

Configurations Pub Date : 2021-08-13 DOI: 10.1353/con.2021.0021

Mark A. Tabone

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The Laboratory of the Mind’s Eye: Scientific Romance as Thought Experiment and Jules Verne’s Extraordinary Voyages 《心灵之眼的实验室:作为思想实验的科学浪漫》和《儒勒·凡尔纳的非凡航行》

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Configurations Pub Date : 2021-08-13 DOI: 10.1353/con.2021.0020

Anastasia Klimchynskaya

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The Scientific Imagination: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives ed. by Arnon Levy and Peter Godfrey-Smith (review) 《科学想象:哲学与心理学视角》，作者:阿农·列维、彼得·戈弗雷-史密斯

IF 0.1 4区文学

Configurations Pub Date : 2021-06-11 DOI: 10.1353/con.2021.0015

Paul Driskill

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Climate and Literature ed. by Adeline Johns-Putra (review) 气候与文学艾德琳·约翰-普特拉主编(评论)

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Configurations Pub Date : 2021-06-11 DOI: 10.1353/con.2021.0014

J. Labinger

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Writing as Biometric: The Case of Graphology and Keystroke Dynamics 书写为生物识别：以图形学和击键动力学为例

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Configurations Pub Date : 2021-06-11 DOI: 10.1353/con.2021.0010

Akrish Adhikari

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Symptomatic Subjects: Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England by Julie Orlemanski (review) Julie Orlemanski的《症状主题：中世纪晚期英国文学中的身体、医学和因果关系》（综述）

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Configurations Pub Date : 2021-06-11 DOI: 10.1353/con.2021.0016

Aylin Malcolm

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The Passing Hour: 1930s Real-Time, Vile Bodies, and the Ethics of Reading 逝去的时光：20世纪30年代的真实时间、肮脏的身体与阅读伦理