Explicator

Papers
(The median citation count of Explicator is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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On the Emendation of The Phoenix lines 164–65 and The Wife’s Lament line 423
“Who dealt these cards?”: the dealer’s choice in Faulkner’s “was”2
Alice Staverton as Midwife in Henry James’s “The Jolly Corner”2
Exploring Therapeutic Dynamics in Anne Sexton’s Confessional Poetry: Self-expression, Healing, and Narrative Dialogue2
Paradise or Paralysis: Mary Shelley’s Ambivalence in Frankenstein1
Modern punctuation of Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale: Line 9641
Poetics of Touch and Female Fetishism in Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel (2003)1
Botanical Symbolism and the Death of Ophelia in Hamlet1
“Keep Chaos Out, Order In”: Grid and Architectural Space in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One1
An Arc of Larks1
Claudia Rankine and Robert Lowell, Again1
Correction1
“Of a Thing Which Could not be Put Back”: The Symbolic and Ecological Implications of Morel Mushrooms in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road1
Political Rumination and Imagination in Anna Burns’s Milkman1
Bloom as Unprofessional Reader: Readerly Forgetting and Misremembering in Joyce’s Ulysses1
Anne Elliot’s Blush: The Language of Feeling, and the Feeling of Language in Jane Austen’s Persuasion1
Thomas Hardy’s Racialization of English Natives in The Return of the Native1
“Demaine” and the Illusion of Legitimacy in The Great Gatsby1
A Resistant Reading of Emily Brontё’s “The Old Stoic”1
Invisible burdens: Financial strain, social expectation, and clerical life in George Eliot’s “the sad fortunes of the reverend Amos Barton”0
Elision and the Numbers in “We are seven”0
Oriental Spice-Plants in an English Garden: Explaining a Natural Impossibility in Pearl0
The fall of the Rebel Angels in Genesis B , Lines 306b-08a0
Kindness and Sympathy in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility0
Aquatic Memories in Richard Powers’ Playground0
Rereading the Postscript in “Bartleby, the Scrivener”0
“Let no Student… Take Anie Surfette of Cheries”: A Forgotten Early Modern Euphemism0
Bosola’s Envy in The Duchess of Malfi0
The Perils Of Being “Nice”: Stephen’s Dilemma in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man0
The Old English Fates of the Apostles : A Note on lēofe on līfe , l. 6a0
Portrait of Economic Women: Virginia Woolf’s The London Scene and Keynesian Economics0
Rhyming times0
Body Narratives in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun0
Whose Slavery is it?: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad0
“Ye Came for Gold, Ye Slaves”: Irony of Paragone in Timon of Athens0
Rintrah’s Swagger: On not Understanding Blake’s Argument0
Embedding the Unconscious in the Conscious: John Ashbery’s Sestina “The Painter” Revisited0
“Ontological Surplus in Krasznahorkai’s Seiobo There Below0
Horror and Remembrance in Ambrose Bierce’s “The Coup de Grâce”0
Failed Seduction: Narratorial Authority in Katherine Mansfield’s “a Dill Pickle”0
Verbal Corruptions in Q1 and Q2 Romeo and Juliet0
Allegorical cartographies and the Road to Success in The Great Gatsby0
A She-Wolf’s Counsel: Brunechildis and Her Grandsons in the Chronicle of Fredegar0
The Choice of Hercules in Middlemarch0
Floods and the divine: a Blue Humanities case study using Their Eyes Were Watching God0
The scent that invades: olfactory agency and via negativa in Louise Glück’s “Mock Orange”0
The duke’s self-unfolding in Act 1, scene 1 of Measure for Measure0
“Born in the Wrong Body”: Fragmentation of the Self in Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis0
“This Leaving-Out Business”: Minimalist Techniques in John Ashbery’s Poetry0
Double Sonnets in Keats’s “I Stood Tip-Toe upon a Little Hill”0
Inherent advice: Pynchon’s earnest counsel in Slow Learner0
“The Vain Lustre of Imagined Crowns”: Light and Dark Imagery in Marriage a la Mode0
Exilic travel and traveling memory: Rereading Bertolt Brecht’s poem on Laozi0
The Changeling and A Midsummer Night’s Dream0
“Weaves of Homely Stuff”: Ecological Formings in John Clare’s “Birds Nests”0
“Intruders from the Triassic past”: memory and J.G. Ballard’s The Drowned World0
The Jacqueminot Rose in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence0
Disability and the Scene of Learning in Shakespeare, Lope, Ariosto0
The body beyond time: Celtic temporality and imperial logic in Oscar Wilde’s the Picture of Dorian Gray0
A Place of Forgetting: Examining the Littoral in Dionne Brand’s a Map to the Door of No Return0
The typewriter erased: Ecocritical silence in The Waste Land drafts0
Journey of the Magi(strate): Reading J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians through T. S. Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi”0
The Influence of Jacob Boehme’s Aurora on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian0
Beyond Human Memory: Arboreal Memory and the Limits of the Human in Richard Powers’ The Overstory0
“It” Can Kill a Man: Existential Clauses in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens0
"The First Three Shots": A Subtle Warning in Richard Connell’s "The Most Dangerous Game"0
Unsympathetic victim and conditional sympathy in Agatha Christie’s “The Blue Geranium”0
An Eye for an Eye: Dickinson’s Vision and Emerson’s Visuality0
A Rite of Passage in Shakespeare’sLOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST:5.2.786-8060
From Platonic cave to Bachelardian cellar: the verticality of Gaze castle in Iris Murdoch’s the Unicorn0
Introducing Shakespeare and His Contemporaries0
Gender Performance in Jim Shepard’s “Minotaur”0
Thoreau’s philosophy of work in frost’s “mowing”0
Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters as a resource for Black Time Studies0
Diary of a bad week: the tedium of the Remains of the Day0
The Image of the Biblical Ruth in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”0
“A Joke in a German Paper”: Uncovering a Neglected Reference in D. H. Lawrence’s “Do Women Change”0
Out of Nothing: The Theory of Omission and Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”0
“That Death Has No Meaning”: The Imitation and Adaptation of Ernest Hemingway in Cormac McCarthy’s The Counselor0
Rehearing Nature: Soundscape, Ecological Listening and the Critique of Sensory Hierarchy in Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall0
Symbolic Images of Butterflies in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek0
Sullen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 290
Bildung , snow, Mann: Memory and forgetting in The Magic Mountain0
Wordsworth’s relinquished delight0
Windows as partitions: Class, gender, and transcendence in Oliver Twist0
Was the Middle High German Lanzelet known in medieval Iceland?0
Tall Trees: A Proposed New Meaning for a Label on the Franks Casket0
Mapping Postwar Englishness: Urban Pastoral in Philip Larkin’s “Here” and “The Whitsun Weddings”0
Women and the Bicycle in D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and The Lost Girl0
A New Source for the Unnamed phisicien in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess0
Translated China in Journey to a War0
“It Shall Be Set in Imperishable Crystal”: A Representation of Hair Memorabilia in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings0
Ambiguity in Yeats’s “the Hosting of the Sidhe”0
Victoria Chang’s poetic signature0
On the Edge of Sound: Sensation and Memory in Seamus Heaney’s “Wordsworth’s Skates”0
The Dragon’s Ecological Warning in John Gardner’s Grendel0
The Fantasy of Seduction in Kafka’s “The Silence of the Sirens”0
Reconsidering the Hūgas : ethnonymy and historical memory in Beowulf0
The Lack of Lovemaking in Roman Love Elegy: The Example of Ovid’s Amores I.50
Weaponizing the Womb: Militarized Maternity and Corrupted Virtue in Coriolanus0
Helplessness of Resistance: Thoreauvian Intellectuals in Paul Auster’s Sunset Park0
“Stretchers” in Flux: Reconsidering Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ’s Evasion Controversy through Percival Everett’s James0
Hawthorne as Melville’s guide to hell in Clarel0
Reflections on the Muddled Modern Mind in Allen Tate’s “Ode” and “Last Days of Alice”0
Wartonian echoes: the reclamation of Gondibert through Headley’s sonnet to Anna Laetitia Barbauld0
Tamburlaine’s Asiatic Style and Shakespeare’s First Plays0
The Image of the Stove in A Doll House0
Carving the I/Eye: The Chiasmus Structure in A. C. Swinburne’s “Hermaphroditus”0
Byron’s Speed: The Giaour0
Body and perception reshaped by influenza pandemic in MRS DALLOWAY0
Capitalism as Religion in Bambara’s “The Lesson”0
Aragorn, Sovereignty, and Mortality in Tolkien’s Mythic Historiography0
“A Striking Likeness”: Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent0
Lyric Space in Lorine Niedecker’s Poetry0
Extraordinary Countenance: An Examination of Gender and Sexual Identity Through Etymology in Nella Larsen’s Passing0
“Winter’s got to begin sometime”: Doctor Selgrove in Edith Wharton’s “All Souls’”0
Lexical Transubstantiation in the Old Saxon Hêliand0
This House Is Too Large for a Man to Live in Alone: the Haunted House and Spatial Absence in Ishiguro’s A Family Supper0
William Wordsworth, Edward Rushton, and Toussaint L’Ouverture0
The fourfold in Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet0
The stylistic distancing of Montresor’s guilt in “the Cask of Amontillado”0
“Moses Was’nt Fairly Used—”: In the Footsteps of Harriet Tubman in Emily Dickinson’s “So I Pull My Stockings Off”0
Vague Local Deities and the Franks Casket’s Erta0
Burning Hamlet : Fire and tragic inheritance in Iris Murdoch’s The Black Prince0
Shelley’s Mont Blanc and the Voice of Manuscript0
Between Silence and Confession: Korede’s Double Bind in My Sister, the Serial Killer0
Moral Dogma and Ethical Relativity in Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly0
Thomas Lodge’s Life and Works: A Mutual Looking-Glass for the Elizabethan Age0
Tolkien, Shakespeare, Trees, and The Lord of the Rings0
Consent, rape and pollution: the context of Hrosvitha’s Dulcitius0
“Hoarded Passion” and the Reversal of Erotic Authority in Hong’s “Not Henry Miller but Mother”0
“No Place for Us”: The Embodied Atmosphere of Displacement and Despair in W. H. Auden’s “Refugee Blues”0
Sound, Ambiguity, and Subjectivity in Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
Lyrical epiphanies in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun0
Romantic-era explicating and The Explicator ’s romantic era0
Vertical Travel in James Dickey’s “Falling”0
“A Truly Carnivalesque Death”: On Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”0
Isabella’s Silence and Philocalia’s Absence0
Jonson’s Two Prologues to Epicœne : Libel, Print, and Play0
Caesar’s Hands in Titus Andronicus0
Skilled at Delay: George Herbert’s “Justice (I)”0
The Power of “Felt Absence” in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion0
Terror, obscurity, and the Burkean sublime in Gloucester’s blinding0
Doubling Shakespeare: Louisa May Alcott’s National Tragedy0
Failed Translation: Memory, Language and Identity in Siang Lu’s Ghost Cities0
Experiencing an Affective Shift: Bonding Unreliability in The Remains of the Day0
“What fires run, what craving wakes”: devouring desire and the poetics of incorporation in Sylvia Plath’s love poetry0
The Closet Scenes of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge0
Romancing Epic Poetry: Love, War, and Global Sway in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s “ Willehalm”0
Advertising Nobody: Publicity and Recognition in Dickinson’s “I’m Nobody! Who are you?”0
Shakespeare and the Non-Jonsonian Court Masques0
Trauma and the Holocaust in John Banville’s Shroud0
Madness as Resilience in Henry Chettle’s The Tragedy of Hoffman0
“Surprized by Joy”: William Wordsworth’s Elegiac Reverse0
Dietrich von Bern’s captivity among monsters: a heroic motif and its variations in Waldere , Virginal, Sigenot, 0
Dawn of Britain: A New Interpretation of “Dawn” in Martineau’s Dawn Island0
The Exile Within: An LGBTQ+ Reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Prodigal”0
“If thy right eye offend thee”: the economy of redemptive sacrifice in Jane Eyre0
The Affective Agency of Objects: Alice’s Herbs in Mary Barton0
Resisting Defense in Moore’s “Armor’s Undermining Modesty”0
The economy of Paulina’s demand in the Winter’s Tale0
Rereading the Beast’s Clothing in “The Tiger’s Bride”0
Lucan on Human Sacrifice and the God Esus0
Revisiting Coleridge’s “Instead of the Cross, the Albatross About my Neck was Hung”0
More Echoes of Geoffrey of Monmouth in St. Erkenwald0
Beyond Sovereignty: Reconsidering the Sea in Iris Murdoch’s the Sea, the Sea0
The Form of Evil in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”0
The spatial bildungsroman: Displacing the cultural center in Julian Barnes’s Metroland0
History and Fantasy in George Peele’s David and Bathsheba0
Is Wilfred Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth” an Anti-Elegy? A Comparison with Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard”0
Singing Obedience, Speaking Violence: Desdemona’s “swansong” in Othello0
George Eliot’s Verse in Chapter 38 of Daniel Deronda0
Instrumental Belonging and Bureaucratic Usefulness in Timothy Mo’s The Monkey King0
The powerful female protagonist in medieval German heroic poetry: Nibelungenlied and Kudrun0
Divinity and Decadence within Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
“He was not a Mozart”: irony in Aldous Huxley’s “Young Archimedes”0
“A Hunger Artist”: As An Art Performance0
Robinson’s Lost anchors0
Parameters of Outdoing Oneself: A Reconsideration of the Bipartite Structure of Early Romance Poetry0
Geography and history in Waltharius0
“No More Noise It Hears”: Acoustic Disturbance and Nesting Risk in John Clare’s Summer Evening0
“Of coyotes and werewolves: Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero0
Through the Looking-Glass Cabinet: A (Very) Close Reading of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence0
The formal mechanism of the boat in William Wordsworth’s The Prelude (1850) and in Winslow Homer’s The fog Warning 0
The Nexus of Literacy and Morality in Edith Wharton’s “Bunner Sisters”0
Teeth as Metaphors in Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King0
“Father,” “Son,” and Profane Ghost: an Unholy Trinity in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw0
Mary Shelton’s Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript0
Love as Suffering (Passion) in Dryden’s All for Love0
“Hallow’d Mold”: Collins’s “Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746” (“How Sleep the Brave”)0
Metaphor and meaning in Hart Crane’s “Voyages II”0
Distraction and “Playful” Reading in Agatha Christie’s “Mr Eastwood’s Adventure”0
Temporality in The Overstory by Richard Powers0
The Native Christianity of Samson Occom’s “The Sufferings of Christ”0
Laughing Gas and Involuntary Laughter in The Chimes0
Reading between the Stanzas of W. B. Yeats’s “Among School Children”0
A Weak Reading of Stephen Crane’s Maggie, A Girl of the Streets0
Reading the Runes in Beowulf0
“Reading the Baseball”: American Cultural Imperialism in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea0
Dickinson’s Click0
Unraveling the Yarn at the Center of Mary Wilkins Freeman’s “The Lost Ghost”0
Reading Metrical Ambiguity in John Skelton’s a Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell0
Pain and Gender in Hemingway’s “Indian Camp”0
Language and Origin in John Ashbery’s “Myrtle”0
“Spectral Gateways” and the “Horror of the City Road”: A Surreal Connection between The Great Gatsby and The Rainbow0
TWELFTH NIGHT: Malvolio and the Tudor Heresy Trials0
Guthlac A line 475a: Textual Criticism and Metrical Decontraction0
Facing Autobiography in The Prelude0
Beyond Orientalist Orthodoxy: Historical Evidence and The Painted Veil0
‘Ac ic to þam grunde genge’: an analogue for Genesis B, line 834a0
“Trivial yet serious”: Re-Reading the fan in Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s fan0
Of Precarious Hospitality: George Meredith’s Sonnet XVII, “At Dinner She Is Hostess”0
Coleridge, Hamlet, and the Distortions of a Myriad Mind0
The End of History in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections0
Had the Rose Theater shut down by 1606? New evidence from The Travels of the Three English Brothers 0
Chaucer, Maps, and the Mongols: A Cartographic Approach to the Squire’s Tale0
Prince Prospero and the Art of Predestinated Destruction0
Wollstonecraft’s critical reviews on Gilpin’s picturesque0
“A Mind of Winter”: Affect in Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man”0
Depicting the transgenerational transmission of trauma through photographic mediums in W.G. Sebald’s the emigrants0
Wealhtheow’s Revenge and the Germanic Heroic Tradition: Failed Conflict Resolution in Beowulf0
Queer Desires in “The Daemon Lover” and “Trial by Combat”0
Heathcliff as the masculine counterpart of androgynous Catherine in Wuthering Heights0
The Hand of “Benedictions” in Henry James’s “The Jolly Corner”0
Alchemical Decknamen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 330
Blood and Mud in Shelley’s “England in 1819.”0
Daisy Fay’s Maternity: A Revision to the Chronology of The Great Gatsby0
The Lacanian subject in Robert Frost’s “the road not taken”0
Auden, Carnival and “The Love Feast”0
“Insensible Unrest”: William Wordsworth’s Revisions to Charlotte Smith’s “Written in the Church Yard at Middleton in Sussex”0
Seascape, Divine Power, and Megincraft in the Old Saxon Heliand0
Thomas Nashe: Balladeer0
Gender and Sexuality in _Dukus Horant_ and Early Yiddish Epic0
The Self, the Body and the World in Wallace Stevens’s “Tea at the Palaz of Hoon”0
“Careful Not to Bump her Head”: A Symbolic Meaning in Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman0
The Significance of a Single Letter and Word in Shakespeare0
Narrative Repair and Spatial Ethics in Richard Selzer’s “Imelda”0
Queer Attachments in Tennessee Williams’ “Portrait of a Girl in Glass”0
Irritable Lines: The Revision of Shakespeare’s Blank Verse in Robert Creeley’s “The Crisis”0
Love Me or Else: Keats’s Impossible Desires in “I Cry Your Mercy”0
“Quite Convivial”: A Butler’s Duty in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day0
The generative nature of diasporic spaces in Samuel Selvon’s “Come Back to Grenada” and Moyez G. Vassanji’s “Refugee”0
She Is Not Only Tired but Also Sick: Illness and Inertia in James Joyce’s “Eveline”0
Explaining explanation in S. T. Coleridge’s rime of the ancient mariner0
Crossing the Queensboro Bridge: Gatsby, Automobiles, and Immigrant Mobility in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker0
Metaphor and Architectural space in Emily Dickinson’s “I Dwell in Possibility”0
Demogorgon’s “Spells” and Blackwood’s Magazine: The Last Stanza of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound0
Clues among the Clutter: Circling Back with Jane Austen’s Miss Bates0
Unreliable Narration and Moral Culpability in Agatha Christie’s “Motive vs. Opportunity”0
“Why Westward Turn?”: Keats’s Turn Away from the Dolphin’s Turn0
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