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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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On the Emendation of The Phoenix lines 164–65 and The Wife’s Lament line 423
Exploring Therapeutic Dynamics in Anne Sexton’s Confessional Poetry: Self-expression, Healing, and Narrative Dialogue2
Anne Elliot’s Blush: The Language of Feeling, and the Feeling of Language in Jane Austen’s Persuasion2
Bloom as Unprofessional Reader: Readerly Forgetting and Misremembering in Joyce’s Ulysses1
Claudia Rankine and Robert Lowell, Again1
Botanical Symbolism and the Death of Ophelia in Hamlet1
A Resistant Reading of Emily Brontё’s “The Old Stoic”1
Alice Staverton as Midwife in Henry James’s “The Jolly Corner”1
An Arc of Larks1
“Who dealt these cards?”: the dealer’s choice in Faulkner’s “was”1
Political Rumination and Imagination in Anna Burns’s Milkman1
Correction1
Poetics of Touch and Female Fetishism in Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel (2003)1
Thomas Hardy’s Racialization of English Natives in The Return of the Native1
Modern punctuation of Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale: Line 9641
Paradise or Paralysis: Mary Shelley’s Ambivalence in Frankenstein1
“Of a Thing Which Could not be Put Back”: The Symbolic and Ecological Implications of Morel Mushrooms in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road1
“Demaine” and the Illusion of Legitimacy in The Great Gatsby1
Beowulfian Archetypes: The Case of Hrómundr Gripsson0
Gender Performance in Jim Shepard’s “Minotaur”0
Helplessness of Resistance: Thoreauvian Intellectuals in Paul Auster’s Sunset Park0
The fourfold in Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet0
Queer Attachments in Tennessee Williams’ “Portrait of a Girl in Glass”0
Inherent advice: Pynchon’s earnest counsel in Slow Learner0
“A Joke in a German Paper”: Uncovering a Neglected Reference in D. H. Lawrence’s “Do Women Change”0
Jonson’s Two Prologues to Epicœne : Libel, Print, and Play0
MUCH MADNESS: The Horatian Conceit of the Mad Poet in Emily Dickinson0
Translated China in Journey to a War0
Unsympathetic victim and conditional sympathy in Agatha Christie’s “The Blue Geranium”0
Explaining explanation in S. T. Coleridge’s rime of the ancient mariner0
This House Is Too Large for a Man to Live in Alone: the Haunted House and Spatial Absence in Ishiguro’s A Family Supper0
“Ye Came for Gold, Ye Slaves”: Irony of Paragone in Timon of Athens0
George Eliot’s Verse in Chapter 38 of Daniel Deronda0
Demogorgon’s “Spells” and Blackwood’s Magazine: The Last Stanza of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound0
Alchemical Decknamen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 330
Tall Trees: A Proposed New Meaning for a Label on the Franks Casket0
Capitalism as Religion in Bambara’s “The Lesson”0
Consent, rape and pollution: the context of Hrosvitha’s Dulcitius0
Failed Seduction: Narratorial Authority in Katherine Mansfield’s “a Dill Pickle”0
The Deep Time of Local Color: Arctic Planetarity and Storytelling in The Country of the Pointed Firs0
Carving the I/Eye: The Chiasmus Structure in A. C. Swinburne’s “Hermaphroditus”0
Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters as a resource for Black Time Studies0
“He was not a Mozart”: irony in Aldous Huxley’s “Young Archimedes”0
A Rite of Passage in Shakespeare’sLOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST:5.2.786-8060
Unraveling the Yarn at the Center of Mary Wilkins Freeman’s “The Lost Ghost”0
A literal reading of the shadow in “Ligeia:” Coleridge’s remarks on Ghosts and Poe’s poetics of misdirection0
“Moses Was’nt Fairly Used—”: In the Footsteps of Harriet Tubman in Emily Dickinson’s “So I Pull My Stockings Off”0
The economy of Paulina’s demand in the Winter’s Tale0
Through the Looking-Glass Cabinet: A (Very) Close Reading of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence0
“Careful Not to Bump her Head”: A Symbolic Meaning in Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman0
Thomas Lodge’s Life and Works: A Mutual Looking-Glass for the Elizabethan Age0
Families and Romantic Theology in Charles Williams’ War in Heaven0
“Let no Student… Take Anie Surfette of Cheries”: A Forgotten Early Modern Euphemism0
Resisting Defense in Moore’s “Armor’s Undermining Modesty”0
Diary of a bad week: the tedium of the Remains of the Day0
Trauma and the Holocaust in John Banville’s Shroud0
Lucan on Human Sacrifice and the God Esus0
Reconsidering the Hūgas : ethnonymy and historical memory in Beowulf0
The Tiger-Woman in “Tale of Hemetes the Heremyte” (1575)0
“A Mind of Winter”: Affect in Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man”0
More Echoes of Geoffrey of Monmouth in St. Erkenwald0
Mapping Postwar Englishness: Urban Pastoral in Philip Larkin’s “Here” and “The Whitsun Weddings”0
The Significance of a Single Letter and Word in Shakespeare0
Lexical Transubstantiation in the Old Saxon Hêliand0
The formal mechanism of the boat in William Wordsworth’s The Prelude (1850) and in Winslow Homer’s The fog Warning 0
Romantic-era explicating and The Explicator ’s romantic era0
Beyond Orientalist Orthodoxy: Historical Evidence and The Painted Veil0
Dawn of Britain: A New Interpretation of “Dawn” in Martineau’s Dawn Island0
Narrative Repair and Spatial Ethics in Richard Selzer’s “Imelda”0
Language and Origin in John Ashbery’s “Myrtle”0
Metaphor and meaning in Hart Crane’s “Voyages II”0
Guthlac A line 475a: Textual Criticism and Metrical Decontraction0
Tolkien, Shakespeare, Trees, and The Lord of the Rings0
Shelley’s Mont Blanc and the Voice of Manuscript0
Romancing Epic Poetry: Love, War, and Global Sway in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s “ Willehalm”0
The Affective Agency of Objects: Alice’s Herbs in Mary Barton0
“Of coyotes and werewolves: Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero0
“Reading the Baseball”: American Cultural Imperialism in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea0
“Born in the Wrong Body”: Fragmentation of the Self in Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis0
Reading Metrical Ambiguity in John Skelton’s a Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell0
Introducing Shakespeare and His Contemporaries0
Terror, obscurity, and the Burkean sublime in Gloucester’s blinding0
Unreliable Narration and Moral Culpability in Agatha Christie’s “Motive vs. Opportunity”0
The New England Work Ethic and Robert Frost’s “The Code”0
“Stretchers” in Flux: Reconsidering Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ’s Evasion Controversy through Percival Everett’s James0
A reparative reading of Toni Morrison’s Beloved0
“A Striking Likeness”: Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent0
“Father,” “Son,” and Profane Ghost: an Unholy Trinity in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw0
“Spectral Gateways” and the “Horror of the City Road”: A Surreal Connection between The Great Gatsby and The Rainbow0
Prince Prospero and the Art of Predestinated Destruction0
Elision and the Numbers in “We are seven”0
“A Hunger Artist”: As An Art Performance0
Looking for Kevin: A Rereading of Rosaleen O’Toole’s Journey in Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Cracked Looking-Glass”0
The Nexus of Literacy and Morality in Edith Wharton’s “Bunner Sisters”0
“A Truly Carnivalesque Death”: On Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”0
Vague Local Deities and the Franks Casket’s Erta0
Mary Shelton’s Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript0
TWELFTH NIGHT: Malvolio and the Tudor Heresy Trials0
‘Ac ic to þam grunde genge’: an analogue for Genesis B, line 834a0
Depicting the transgenerational transmission of trauma through photographic mediums in W.G. Sebald’s the emigrants0
Irritable Lines: The Revision of Shakespeare’s Blank Verse in Robert Creeley’s “The Crisis”0
Bosola’s Envy in The Duchess of Malfi0
“It Shall Be Set in Imperishable Crystal”: A Representation of Hair Memorabilia in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings0
The Lacanian subject in Robert Frost’s “the road not taken”0
Sound, Ambiguity, and Subjectivity in Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
She Is Not Only Tired but Also Sick: Illness and Inertia in James Joyce’s “Eveline”0
“Why Westward Turn?”: Keats’s Turn Away from the Dolphin’s Turn0
Ambiguity in Yeats’s “the Hosting of the Sidhe”0
Embedding the Unconscious in the Conscious: John Ashbery’s Sestina “The Painter” Revisited0
Wealhtheow’s Revenge and the Germanic Heroic Tradition: Failed Conflict Resolution in Beowulf0
Experiencing an Affective Shift: Bonding Unreliability in The Remains of the Day0
The Underthought of John Milton’s Samson Agonistes in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “My own heart let me more have pity on.”0
Clues among the Clutter: Circling Back with Jane Austen’s Miss Bates0
Middle English araten and Scenes of Condescension in Piers Plowman0
The Form of Evil in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”0
Revisiting Coleridge’s “Instead of the Cross, the Albatross About my Neck was Hung”0
A She-Wolf’s Counsel: Brunechildis and Her Grandsons in the Chronicle of Fredegar0
Lyric Space in Lorine Niedecker’s Poetry0
“Forgyd Taylis”: A Gloss on line 43 of Thomas Wyatt or Pseudo-Wyatt’s “O Cruel Heart”0
Parameters of Outdoing Oneself: A Reconsideration of the Bipartite Structure of Early Romance Poetry0
The Dragon’s Ecological Warning in John Gardner’s Grendel0
Rehearing Nature: Soundscape, Ecological Listening and the Critique of Sensory Hierarchy in Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall0
“This Leaving-Out Business”: Minimalist Techniques in John Ashbery’s Poetry0
Ted Hughes’s “The Jaguar” and Animal Ethics0
Heathcliff as the masculine counterpart of androgynous Catherine in Wuthering Heights0
Caesar’s Hands in Titus Andronicus0
Symbolic Images of Butterflies in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek0
A New Source for the Unnamed phisicien in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess0
The Devil is Contagious: Fictional Ontology of Evil in the Nibelungenlied. Toward a Literary-Philosophical Rereading of the Queens’ Quarrel0
“Trivial yet serious”: Re-Reading the fan in Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s fan0
Work and Fraternity in Levine’s “What Work is”0
The Perils Of Being “Nice”: Stephen’s Dilemma in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man0
The End of History in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections0
An Eye for an Eye: Dickinson’s Vision and Emerson’s Visuality0
Reading the Runes in Beowulf0
“The Vain Lustre of Imagined Crowns”: Light and Dark Imagery in Marriage a la Mode0
Robinson’s Lost anchors0
Apples, Editorial Errors, and Pronouns: Some Thoughts on the Textual Traditions of the Eckenot Scene0
Blood and Mud in Shelley’s “England in 1819.”0
Rereading the Beast’s Clothing in “The Tiger’s Bride”0
Teeth as Metaphors in Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King0
Floods and the divine: a Blue Humanities case study using Their Eyes Were Watching God0
A Portrait of the Teacher as a Young Man: Stephen Dedalus in Nestor0
“Weaves of Homely Stuff”: Ecological Formings in John Clare’s “Birds Nests”0
Double Sonnets in Keats’s “I Stood Tip-Toe upon a Little Hill”0
The Fantasy of Seduction in Kafka’s “The Silence of the Sirens”0
Sullen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 290
“That Death Has No Meaning”: The Imitation and Adaptation of Ernest Hemingway in Cormac McCarthy’s The Counselor0
A Weak Reading of Stephen Crane’s Maggie, A Girl of the Streets0
Aragorn, Sovereignty, and Mortality in Tolkien’s Mythic Historiography0
Moral Dogma and Ethical Relativity in Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly0
Verbal Corruptions in Q1 and Q2 Romeo and Juliet0
Auden, Carnival and “The Love Feast”0
Love Me or Else: Keats’s Impossible Desires in “I Cry Your Mercy”0
Madness as Resilience in Henry Chettle’s The Tragedy of Hoffman0
The Ambivalent Garden and Wordsworth’s Shadow in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Deserted Garden”0
On the Edge of Sound: Sensation and Memory in Seamus Heaney’s “Wordsworth’s Skates”0
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
Extraordinary Countenance: An Examination of Gender and Sexual Identity Through Etymology in Nella Larsen’s Passing0
Queer Desires in “The Daemon Lover” and “Trial by Combat”0
The Hand of “Benedictions” in Henry James’s “The Jolly Corner”0
“The Work Wisdom of ‘From Plane to Plane’”0
Divinity and Decadence within Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
Hamlet’s Problems0
Rhyming times0
The Image of the Stove in A Doll House0
Allegorical cartographies and the Road to Success in The Great Gatsby0
Daisy Fay’s Maternity: A Revision to the Chronology of The Great Gatsby0
Religion and the Theology of Love in W. H. Auden’s “Stop all the clocks”0
Crocodile Narratives and the Construction of African Natural Space in Tamburlaine the Great0
History and Fantasy in George Peele’s David and Bathsheba0
The Power of “Felt Absence” in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion0
Kindness and Sympathy in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility0
Lyrical epiphanies in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun0
The Choice of Hercules in Middlemarch0
The Exile Within: An LGBTQ+ Reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Prodigal”0
The Origins of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Mirkwood Revisited0
Singing Obedience, Speaking Violence: Desdemona’s “swansong” in Othello0
Thomas Nashe: Balladeer0
The Closet Scenes of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge0
Victoria Chang’s poetic signature0
The generative nature of diasporic spaces in Samuel Selvon’s “Come Back to Grenada” and Moyez G. Vassanji’s “Refugee”0
“Winter’s got to begin sometime”: Doctor Selgrove in Edith Wharton’s “All Souls’”0
Thoreau’s philosophy of work in frost’s “mowing”0
Windows as partitions: Class, gender, and transcendence in Oliver Twist0
“Surprized by Joy”: William Wordsworth’s Elegiac Reverse0
Geography and history in Waltharius0
“Hallow’d Mold”: Collins’s “Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746” (“How Sleep the Brave”)0
The Influence of Jacob Boehme’s Aurora on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian0
Body Narratives in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun0
“O my prophetique soule”: Shakespeare’s influence on Fletcher and Massinger’s The Double Marriage0
“Insensible Unrest”: William Wordsworth’s Revisions to Charlotte Smith’s “Written in the Church Yard at Middleton in Sussex”0
Wollstonecraft’s critical reviews on Gilpin’s picturesque0
Weaponizing the Womb: Militarized Maternity and Corrupted Virtue in Coriolanus0
The Old English Fates of the Apostles : A Note on lēofe on līfe , l. 6a0
Reading between the Stanzas of W. B. Yeats’s “Among School Children”0
The stylistic distancing of Montresor’s guilt in “the Cask of Amontillado”0
The Phenomena of Nothingness in de la Mare’s “The Listeners”0
Of Precarious Hospitality: George Meredith’s Sonnet XVII, “At Dinner She Is Hostess”0
Invisible burdens: Financial strain, social expectation, and clerical life in George Eliot’s “the sad fortunes of the reverend Amos Barton”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
Beyond Sovereignty: Reconsidering the Sea in Iris Murdoch’s the Sea, the Sea0
Temporality in The Overstory by Richard Powers0
Correction0
“It” Can Kill a Man: Existential Clauses in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens0
Rereading the Postscript in “Bartleby, the Scrivener”0
Dietrich von Bern’s captivity among monsters: a heroic motif and its variations in Waldere , Virginal, Sigenot, 0
Women and the Bicycle in D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and The Lost Girl0
“Quite Convivial”: A Butler’s Duty in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day0
Facing Autobiography in The Prelude0
William James’s Metaphysical Revelation in Sherwood Anderson’s “Tandy”0
Chaucer, Maps, and the Mongols: A Cartographic Approach to the Squire’s Tale0
Isabella’s Silence and Philocalia’s Absence0
Crossing the Queensboro Bridge: Gatsby, Automobiles, and Immigrant Mobility in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker0
Out of Nothing: The Theory of Omission and Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”0
Rintrah’s Swagger: On not Understanding Blake’s Argument0
Coleridge’’s "Lines to Charlotte Brent,"Punning,and the Tyrant Pain: Interpreting a Lost Poem"0
Coleridge, Hamlet, and the Distortions of a Myriad Mind0
The Jacqueminot Rose in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence0
The Self, the Body and the World in Wallace Stevens’s “Tea at the Palaz of Hoon”0
Laughing Gas and Involuntary Laughter in The Chimes0
Love as Suffering (Passion) in Dryden’s All for Love0
William Wordsworth, Edward Rushton, and Toussaint L’Ouverture0
The typewriter erased: Ecocritical silence in The Waste Land drafts0
The Native Christianity of Samson Occom’s “The Sufferings of Christ”0
Wordsworth’s relinquished delight0
The Image of the Biblical Ruth in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”0
Seascape, Divine Power, and Megincraft in the Old Saxon Heliand0
Body and perception reshaped by influenza pandemic in MRS DALLOWAY0
A Tale of Two Fools: Middleton, Shakespeare, and Co-Authorship in Timon of Athens and King Lear0
Skilled at Delay: George Herbert’s “Justice (I)”0
Journey of the Magi(strate): Reading J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians through T. S. Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi”0
Shakespeare and the Non-Jonsonian Court Masques0
Byron’s Speed: The Giaour0
Tamburlaine’s Asiatic Style and Shakespeare’s First Plays0
Rereading Cynewulf’s Elene Line 140b: In Defense of the Manuscript0
Oriental Spice-Plants in an English Garden: Explaining a Natural Impossibility in Pearl0
Inheritance of Paradoxes: The Characterization of Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of England, in More and Shakespeare0
Dickinson’s Click0
Whose Slavery is it?: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad0
Disability and the Scene of Learning in Shakespeare, Lope, Ariosto0
"The First Three Shots": A Subtle Warning in Richard Connell’s "The Most Dangerous Game"0
A third biblical foundation of James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”0
Metaphor and Architectural space in Emily Dickinson’s “I Dwell in Possibility”0
The duke’s self-unfolding in Act 1, scene 1 of Measure for Measure0
Distraction and “Playful” Reading in Agatha Christie’s “Mr Eastwood’s Adventure”0
“Keep Chaos Out, Order In”: Grid and Architectural Space in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One0
Pain and Gender in Hemingway’s “Indian Camp”0
The Lack of Lovemaking in Roman Love Elegy: The Example of Ovid’s Amores I.50
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