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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Exploring Therapeutic Dynamics in Anne Sexton’s Confessional Poetry: Self-expression, Healing, and Narrative Dialogue2
On the Emendation of The Phoenix lines 164–65 and The Wife’s Lament line 422
Alice Staverton as midwife in Henry James’s “the jolly corner”2
Claudia Rankine and Robert Lowell, Again1
Thomas Hardy’s Racialization of English Natives in The Return of the Native1
“Of a Thing Which Could not be Put Back”: The Symbolic and Ecological Implications of Morel Mushrooms in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road1
A Resistant Reading of Emily Brontё’s “The Old Stoic”1
Correction1
Botanical Symbolism and the Death of Ophelia in Hamlet1
Modern punctuation of Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale: Line 9641
Political Rumination and Imagination in Anna Burns’s Milkman1
Paradise or Paralysis: Mary Shelley’s Ambivalence in Frankenstein1
Contemplating Stars and Solving Mysteries: Rationality in Mark Haddon’s the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime0
Disability and the Scene of Learning in Shakespeare, Lope, Ariosto0
A third biblical foundation of James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”0
The Ambivalent Garden and Wordsworth’s Shadow in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Deserted Garden”0
Lyric Space in Lorine Niedecker’s Poetry0
Divinity and Decadence within Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
A reparative reading of Toni Morrison’s Beloved0
Teeth as Metaphors in Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King0
The Cheshire Cat in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland : Anthropomorphism and Childhood as Socialization0
Rereading Cynewulf’s Elene Line 140b: In Defense of the Manuscript0
"The First Three Shots": A Subtle Warning in Richard Connell’s "The Most Dangerous Game"0
History and Fantasy in George Peele’s David and Bathsheba0
TWELFTH NIGHT: Malvolio and the Tudor Heresy Trials0
Queer Desires in “The Daemon Lover” and “Trial by Combat”0
Suggested Sources for The Faithful Friends (ca 1613-1620)0
Helplessness of Resistance: Thoreauvian Intellectuals in Paul Auster’s Sunset Park0
Thoreau’s philosophy of work in frost’s “mowing”0
On the cyclical movement in John Keats’s “to autumn”0
Beowulf and Freawaru0
Out of Nothing: The Theory of Omission and Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”0
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
Dawn of Britain: A New Interpretation of “Dawn” in Martineau’s Dawn Island0
George Eliot’s verse in Chapter 38 of Daniel Deronda0
Singing Obedience, Speaking Violence: Desdemona’s “swansong” in Othello0
“A Hunger Artist”: As An Art Performance0
The Symbolic Fiction of Mr. Stevens: A Lacanian Reading of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day0
“Quite Convivial”: A Butler’s Duty in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day0
“Careful Not to Bump her Head”: A Symbolic Meaning in Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman0
Imagining Eternity in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Late Poetry0
She Is Not Only Tired but Also Sick: Illness and Inertia in James Joyce’s “Eveline”0
“Born in the Wrong Body”: Fragmentation of the Self in Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis0
The Face of the Other in Home0
Inherent advice: Pynchon’s earnest counsel in Slow Learner0
A literal reading of the shadow in “Ligeia:” Coleridge’s remarks on Ghosts and Poe’s poetics of misdirection0
The Lacanian subject in Robert Frost’s “the road not taken”0
Temporality in The Overstory by Richard Powers0
Words as Readymade: Mina Loy’s Verbal Portraiture of “Gertrude Stein” and “Joyce’s Ulysses”0
The Nexus of Literacy and Morality in Edith Wharton’s “Bunner Sisters”0
Guthlac A line 475a: textual criticism and metrical decontraction0
Caesar’s Hands in Titus Andronicus0
Pain and Gender in Hemingway’s “Indian Camp”0
“Trick or Treat!”: The Trickster Figure in Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr Rosewater and Slapstick0
The Closet Scenes of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge0
Correction0
Rereading the Postscript in “Bartleby, the Scrivener”0
“Hallow’d Mold”: Collins’s “Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746” (“How Sleep the Brave”)0
Wallace Stevens’s “The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain”0
Mirabai and the Ethic of Universal Suffering: Reading Bhajans in Indian Pedagogy0
“Monsters Worse to Come”: A Reconsideration of the Influence of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Upon Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God0
We Are All Cain: Thomas Wolfe’s Transformation of Biblical Myth in “The Lost Boy”0
“Ye Came for Gold, Ye Slaves”: Irony of Paragone in Timon of Athens0
Symbolic Images of Butterflies in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek0
“Ma soul’s a Witness for de Waldorf-Astoria!” Langston Hughes’s Poetic Hotel Advertisement0
Whose Slavery is it?: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad0
Vague Local Deities and the Franks Casket’s Erta0
“A Joke in a German Paper”: Uncovering a Neglected Reference in D. H. Lawrence’s “Do Women Change”0
Beowulfian Archetypes: The Case of Hrómundr Gripsson0
Blood and Mud in Shelley’s “England in 1819.”0
Intermedial musicality in On Chesil Beach0
The Image of the Stove in A Doll House0
Failed Seduction: Narratorial Authority in Katherine Mansfield’s “a Dill Pickle”0
A New Source for the Unnamed phisicien in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess0
MUCH MADNESS: The Horatian Conceit of the Mad Poet in Emily Dickinson0
“A Mind of Winter”: Affect in Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man”0
Atheism vs Theism: Conflict and Ambiguity in Dylan Thomas’s “Poem on his Birthday”0
Poetics of Touch and Female Fetishism in Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel (2003)0
Madness as Resilience in Henry Chettle’s The Tragedy of Hoffman0
Body and perception reshaped by influenza pandemic in MRS DALLOWAY0
The Tiger-Woman in “Tale of Hemetes the Heremyte” (1575)0
Heathcliff as the masculine counterpart of androgynous Catherine in Wuthering Heights0
A Post-pastoral Reading of Ron Rash’s “Speckled Trout”0
Thomas Nashe: Balladeer0
If As I Lay Dying is a mock-epic, what is being mocked?0
A Window on One’s Identity: Cultural Identity In Chinua Achebe’s “The Sacrificial Egg”0
Aragorn, Sovereignty, and Mortality in Tolkien’s Mythic Historiography0
Auden, Carnival and “The Love Feast”0
John Florio’s Second Fruits and the Theater of Life0
The New England Work Ethic and Robert Frost’s “The Code”0
Jonson’s Two Prologues to Epicœne : Libel, Print, and Play0
Metaphor and Architectural space in Emily Dickinson’s “I Dwell in Possibility”0
Lucan on Human Sacrifice and the God Esus0
The Fantasy of Seduction in Kafka’s “The Silence of the Sirens”0
William James’s Metaphysical Revelation in Sherwood Anderson’s “Tandy”0
Victoria Chang’s poetic signature0
Maggie’s death and Dorothea’s growth — the sublimation of passion in George Eliot’s novels0
‘Ac ic to þam grunde genge’: an analogue for Genesis B, line 834a0
Isabella’s Silence and Philocalia’s Absence0
The Dragon’s Ecological Warning in John Gardner’s Grendel0
The Image of the Biblical Ruth in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”0
Thomas Lodge’s Life and Works: A Mutual Looking-Glass for the Elizabethan Age0
Translated China in Journey to a War0
Moral Dogma and Ethical Relativity in Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly0
Wollstonecraft’s critical reviews on Gilpin’s picturesque0
The Significance of a Single Letter and Word in Shakespeare0
“Forgyd Taylis”: A Gloss on line 43 of Thomas Wyatt or Pseudo-Wyatt’s “O Cruel Heart”0
Resisting Defense in Moore’s “Armor’s Undermining Modesty”0
Unraveling the Yarn at the Center of Mary Wilkins Freeman’s “The Lost Ghost”0
Carving the I/Eye: The Chiasmus Structure in A. C. Swinburne’s “Hermaphroditus”0
From the Penile to the Pinnal: Anatomizing Louis Chu’s Eat a Bowl of Tea0
“Moses Was’nt Fairly Used—”: In the Footsteps of Harriet Tubman in Emily Dickinson’s “So I Pull My Stockings Off”0
Tamburlaine’s Asiatic Style and Shakespeare’s First Plays0
Ted Hughes’s “The Jaguar” and Animal Ethics0
Reading between the Stanzas of W. B. Yeats’s “Among School Children”0
Winston’s Parallel Universe: On History in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four0
“Us He Devours”: Christianity and Its Use of Human Fear in T. S. Eliot’s “Gerontion”10
The Subaltern in the Ibis Trilogy0
The Epistolary Narrative in Atonement0
The End of History in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections0
Capitalism as Religion in Bambara’s “The Lesson”0
“Winter’s got to begin sometime”: doctor Selgrove in Edith Wharton’s “all souls’”0
Dickinson’s click0
Carnivalesque Imagery in Stevens’ “THE EMPEROR OF ICE-CREAM”0
The Jacqueminot Rose in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence0
Revisiting Coleridge’s “Instead of the Cross, the Albatross About my Neck was Hung”0
Tall Trees: A Proposed New Meaning for a Label on the Franks Casket0
Why Thoreau Spent a Night in Jail0
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 Old English Fates of the Apostles : A Note on lēofe on līfe , l. 6a0
The Parody of Holy Communion in John Donne’s TWICKENHAM GARDEN0
Looking for Kevin: A Rereading of Rosaleen O’Toole’s Journey in Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Cracked Looking-Glass”0
“Absent subjectivity in Poe’s THE MAN OF THE CROWD”0
Operatic Elements in Eileen Chang’s The Rouge of the North0
“Father,” “Son,” and Profane Ghost: an Unholy Trinity in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw0
Body Narratives in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun0
Trauma and the Holocaust in John Banville’s Shroud0
The Underthought of John Milton’s Samson Agonistes in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “My own heart let me more have pity on.”0
Rappaccini’s Queer Daughter: Gender Non-Conformity in “Rappaccini’s Daughter”0
Symbolic meanings of a caged parrot in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek0
The Native Christianity of Samson Occom’s “The Sufferings of Christ”0
Shakespeare’s Tempest Line 1786: “Wise” or “Wife”0
Love as Suffering (Passion) in Dryden’s All for Love0
Work and Fraternity in Levine’s “What Work is”0
The economy of Paulina’s demand in the Winter’s Tale0
“Obligation’s Ghosts: MacIntyre, Beckett, and Metafictive Ends”0
Tolkien, Shakespeare, Trees, and The Lord of the Rings0
“Seascape, Divine Power, and Megincraft in the Old Saxon Heliand”0
“Of coyotes and werewolves: Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero0
A Portrait of the Teacher as a Young Man: Stephen Dedalus in Nestor0
The Wartime State and the Cigarette: Darkness and Temporality in Pale Horse, Pale Rider0
Hearing is Believing: Sounds in Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”0
Queer Attachments in Tennessee Williams’ “Portrait of a Girl in Glass”0
Prince Prospero and the Art of Predestinated Destruction0
Oriental Spice-Plants in an English Garden: Explaining a Natural Impossibility in Pearl0
A Tale of Two Fools: Middleton, Shakespeare, and Co-Authorship in Timon of Athens and King Lear0
“It Shall Be Set in Imperishable Crystal”: A Representation of Hair Memorabilia in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings0
Levin’s hunting in Anna Karenina0
“The Work Wisdom of ‘From Plane to Plane’”0
Religion and the Theology of Love in W. H. Auden’s “Stop all the clocks”0
The Perils Of Being “Nice”: Stephen’s Dilemma in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man0
Silko’s Narrative Negotiation of the Rain Man’s Rites of the Passage0
Introducing Shakespeare and His Contemporaries0
Hamlet’s Problems0
Crossing the Queensboro Bridge: Gatsby, Automobiles, and Immigrant Mobility in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker0
Sound, Ambiguity, and Subjectivity in Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
Gender Performance in Jim Shepard’s “Minotaur”0
Samuel Beckett, Max Nordau, and the Worms of How It Is0
Pleading with the King: The Representation of Sarah as Queen and Noblewoman in Genesis A0
“He was not a Mozart”: irony in Aldous Huxley’s “young Archimedes”0
Mary Shelton’s Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript0
Experiencing an Affective Shift: Bonding Unreliability in The Remains of the Day0
More echoes of Geoffrey of Monmouth in St. Erkenwald0
Skilled at Delay: George Herbert’s “Justice (I)”0
Middle English araten and Scenes of Condescension in Piers Plowman0
“Spectral Gateways” and the “Horror of the City Road”: A Surreal Connection between The Great Gatsby and The Rainbow0
The Phenomena of Nothingness in de la Mare’s “The Listeners”0
The Exile Within: An LGBTQ+ Reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Prodigal”0
“This Leaving-Out Business”: Minimalist Techniques in John Ashbery’s Poetry0
Women and the Bicycle in D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and The Lost Girl0
An Eye for an Eye: Dickinson’s Vision and Emerson’s Visuality0
Seamus Heaney’s “Clearances: ‘III’”0
The Choice of Hercules in Middlemarch0
Consent, rape and pollution: the context of Hrosvitha’s Dulcitius0
Irritable Lines: The Revision of Shakespeare’s Blank Verse in Robert Creeley’s “The Crisis”0
Whose Feathers were Borrowed? A Corpus Stylistic Approach to Richard Barnfield’s and William Shakespeare’s Poetry0
“A Truly Carnivalesque Death”: On Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”0
Embedding the Unconscious in the Conscious: John Ashbery’s Sestina “The Painter” Revisited0
A Rite of Passage in Shakespeare’sLOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST:5.2.786-8060
“The Vain Lustre of Imagined Crowns”: Light and Dark Imagery in Marriage a la Mode0
Flannery O’Connor’s “The Displaced Person” and the Legacy of Lynching0
Alchemical Decknamen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 330
Marvell’s “the unfortunate lover”0
Ambiguity in Yeats’s “the Hosting of the Sidhe”0
The romance of Tristan and Isolde in Kristin Lavransdatter0
Reading Metrical Ambiguity in John Skelton’s a Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell0
Revisiting the Tortoiseshell Cat: Subjectivity and Discursive Dilemma of the American wife in Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain”0
Absalom, Absalom! And Acts Misreading0
“O my prophetique soule”: Shakespeare’s influence on Fletcher and Massinger’s The Double Marriage0
Surprised by Sin: Medical Metaphors and Secular Eschatology in Ian McEwan’sSaturday0
Seamus Heaney’s “Failed” Elegy and the Nonhuman Subject: A Reading of “Widgeon”0
Extraordinary Countenance: An Examination of Gender and Sexual Identity Through Etymology in Nella Larsen’s Passing0
Shakespeare and the Non-Jonsonian Court Masques0
The Deep Time of Local Color: Arctic Planetarity and Storytelling in The Country of the Pointed Firs0
Remnants of the Past and the Quest for Identity: Reading August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson in the Context of Collective Memory0
Kindness and Sympathy in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility0
“The spatial symbolism of Gregor’s room in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis0
“Keep Chaos Out, Order In”: Grid and Architectural Space in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One0
Laughing Gas and Involuntary Laughter in The Chimes0
Language and Origin in John Ashbery’s “Myrtle”0
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