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PandemIcons? The Medical Scientist as Iconic Figure in Times of Crisis PandemIcons吗?危机时代的标志性人物——医学家
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2021-11-10 DOI: 10.1353/con.2021.0031
M. Butler, Sina Farzin, M. Fuchs
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Toward a Pandemic Poetics: Contamination, Infiltration, and Dispersal in Inger Christensen’s Alphabet 走向流行病诗学：英格·克里斯滕森字母表中的污染、渗透和分散
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2021-11-10 DOI: 10.1353/con.2021.0029
Hannah Cooper-Smithson
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Special Issue: Science, Technology, and Literature during Plague and Pandemics 特刊:鼠疫和大流行时期的科学、技术和文学
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2021-11-10 DOI: 10.1353/con.2021.0026
Timothy T. Urban, M. Littlefield, R. Sudan
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Breathing in a Pandemic: Covid-19’s Atmospheric Erasures 在大流行中呼吸:Covid-19的大气消除
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2021-11-10 DOI: 10.1353/con.2021.0027
Sara DiCaglio
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引用次数: 1
Aliens, Plagues, One Health, and the Medical Posthumanities 外星人、瘟疫、健康与医学后人文
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2021-11-10 DOI: 10.1353/con.2021.0032
Lucinda Cole
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引用次数: 1
Media Exposure: Communicable Disease and Communication Networks in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash and Don DeLillo’s White Noise 媒体曝光:Neal Stephenson的Snow Crash和Don DeLillo的White Noise中的传染病和通信网络
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2021-11-10 DOI: 10.1353/con.2021.0030
M. Ingwersen
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The Monster Theory Reader ed. by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (review) 杰弗里·安德鲁·温斯托克主编的《怪物理论读本》（评论）
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2021-08-13 DOI: 10.1353/con.2021.0023
Cody Jones
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The Interplay of Human and Nonhuman Realities in Shaun Tan’s Tales from Outer Suburbia 谭《外郊故事》中人与非人的真实互动
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2021-08-13 DOI: 10.1353/con.2021.0019
Andrei Ionescu
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Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction by David Farrier (review) 《人类世诗学:深时间、牺牲地带与灭绝》大卫·法里尔著(书评)
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2021-08-13 DOI: 10.1353/con.2021.0024
B. Platt
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Quantum Theory and Samuel Beckett’s Endgame 量子理论与贝克特的终局
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2021-08-13 DOI: 10.1353/con.2021.0018
P. Brown
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