Nostalgic Masculinity: Homosocial Desire and Homosexual Panic in James Ellroy's This Storm
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عنوان ژورنال: Crime Fiction Studies
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2517-7982,2517-7990
DOI: 10.3366/cfs.2020.0022