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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
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
A Resistant Reading of Emily Brontё’s “The Old Stoic”1
Botanical Symbolism and the Death of Ophelia in Hamlet1
Correction1
Paradise or Paralysis: Mary Shelley’s Ambivalence in Frankenstein1
Political Rumination and Imagination in Anna Burns’s Milkman1
“Keep Chaos Out, Order In”: Grid and Architectural Space in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One1
Poetics of Touch and Female Fetishism in Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel (2003)1
Exploring Therapeutic Dynamics in Anne Sexton’s Confessional Poetry: Self-expression, Healing, and Narrative Dialogue1
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
Modern punctuation of Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale: Line 9641
Depicting the transgenerational transmission of trauma through photographic mediums in W.G. Sebald’s the emigrants0
Carving the I/Eye: The Chiasmus Structure in A. C. Swinburne’s “Hermaphroditus”0
Trauma and the Holocaust in John Banville’s Shroud0
Madness as Resilience in Henry Chettle’s The Tragedy of Hoffman0
Historiography in Richard Wilbur’s “Looking into History”0
The Face of the Other in Home0
The Lacanian subject in Robert Frost’s “the road not taken”0
Teeth as Metaphors in Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King0
“Us He Devours”: Christianity and Its Use of Human Fear in T. S. Eliot’s “Gerontion”10
If As I Lay Dying is a mock-epic, what is being mocked?0
The Cheshire Cat in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland : Anthropomorphism and Childhood as Socialization0
Seamus Heaney’s “Clearances: ‘III’”0
Disability and the Scene of Learning in Shakespeare, Lope, Ariosto0
Silko’s Narrative Negotiation of the Rain Man’s Rites of the Passage0
Laughing Gas and Involuntary Laughter in The Chimes0
Pleading with the King: The Representation of Sarah as Queen and Noblewoman in Genesis A0
Resisting Defense in Moore’s “Armor’s Undermining Modesty”0
“Trick or Treat!”: The Trickster Figure in Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr Rosewater and Slapstick0
Out of Nothing: The Theory of Omission and Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”0
Winston’s Parallel Universe: On History in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four0
Crocodile Narratives and the Construction of African Natural Space in Tamburlaine the Great0
Double Sonnets in Keats’s “I Stood Tip-Toe upon a Little Hill”0
Guthlac A line 475a: textual criticism and metrical decontraction0
“Ye Came for Gold, Ye Slaves”: Irony of Paragone in Timon of Athens0
Thomas Lodge’s Life and Works: A Mutual Looking-Glass for the Elizabethan Age0
“He was not a Mozart”: irony in Aldous Huxley’s “young Archimedes”0
Reading Metrical Ambiguity in John Skelton’s a Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell0
“Born in the Wrong Body”: Fragmentation of the Self in Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis0
Lucan on Human Sacrifice and the God Esus0
Body Narratives in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun0
MUCH MADNESS: The Horatian Conceit of the Mad Poet in Emily Dickinson0
“This Leaving-Out Business”: Minimalist Techniques in John Ashbery’s Poetry0
“Quite Convivial”: A Butler’s Duty in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day0
Extraordinary Countenance: An Examination of Gender and Sexual Identity Through Etymology in Nella Larsen’s Passing0
The Subaltern in the Ibis Trilogy0
Language and Origin in John Ashbery’s “Myrtle”0
Pain and Gender in Hemingway’s “Indian Camp”0
The Tiger-Woman in “Tale of Hemetes the Heremyte” (1575)0
Ted Hughes’s “The Jaguar” and Animal Ethics0
Rereading the Postscript in “Bartleby, the Scrivener”0
Dickinson’s click0
A Window on One’s Identity: Cultural Identity In Chinua Achebe’s “The Sacrificial Egg”0
Embedding the Unconscious in the Conscious: John Ashbery’s Sestina “The Painter” Revisited0
Whose Feathers were Borrowed? A Corpus Stylistic Approach to Richard Barnfield’s and William Shakespeare’s Poetry0
Aragorn, Sovereignty, and Mortality in Tolkien’s Mythic Historiography0
William James’s Metaphysical Revelation in Sherwood Anderson’s “Tandy”0
Absalom, Absalom! And Acts Misreading0
The Form of Evil in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”0
History and Fantasy in George Peele’s David and Bathsheba0
The Old English Fates of the Apostles : A Note on lēofe on līfe , l. 6a0
Why Thoreau Spent a Night in Jail0
The Power of “Felt Absence” in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion0
Symbolic Images of Butterflies in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek0
‘Ac ic to þam grunde genge’: an analogue for Genesis B, line 834a0
Lyric Space in Lorine Niedecker’s Poetry0
Operatic Elements in Eileen Chang’s The Rouge of the North0
Remnants of the Past and the Quest for Identity: Reading August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson in the Context of Collective Memory0
The Self, the Body and the World in Wallace Stevens’s “Tea at the Palaz of Hoon”0
Blood and Mud in Shelley’s “England in 1819.”0
Singing Obedience, Speaking Violence: Desdemona’s “swansong” in Othello0
The Wartime State and the Cigarette: Darkness and Temporality in Pale Horse, Pale Rider0
Seamus Heaney’s “Failed” Elegy and the Nonhuman Subject: A Reading of “Widgeon”0
The New England Work Ethic and Robert Frost’s “The Code”0
The Image of the Biblical Ruth in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”0
Explaining explanation in S. T. Coleridge’s rime of the ancient mariner0
More echoes of Geoffrey of Monmouth in St. Erkenwald0
The Affective Agency of Objects: Alice’s Herbs in Mary Barton0
A Highbury Street View0
Middle English araten and Scenes of Condescension in Piers Plowman0
“Careful Not to Bump her Head”: A Symbolic Meaning in Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman0
The Fantasy of Seduction in Kafka’s “The Silence of the Sirens”0
Heathcliff as the masculine counterpart of androgynous Catherine in Wuthering Heights0
“Seascape, Divine Power, and Megincraft in the Old Saxon Heliand”0
A third biblical foundation of James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”0
Of Precarious Hospitality: George Meredith’s Sonnet XVII, “At Dinner She Is Hostess”0
“It Shall Be Set in Imperishable Crystal”: A Representation of Hair Memorabilia in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings0
“Let no Student… Take Anie Surfette of Cheries”: A Forgotten Early Modern Euphemism0
"The First Three Shots": A Subtle Warning in Richard Connell’s "The Most Dangerous Game"0
John Florio’s Second Fruits and the Theater of Life0
Caesar’s Hands in Titus Andronicus0
Reading between the Stanzas of W. B. Yeats’s “Among School Children”0
Shakespeare and the Non-Jonsonian Court Masques0
Religion and the Theology of Love in W. H. Auden’s “Stop all the clocks”0
“The spatial symbolism of Gregor’s room in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis0
“A Truly Carnivalesque Death”: On Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”0
Rintrah’s Swagger: On not Understanding Blake’s Argument0
“Winter’s got to begin sometime”: doctor Selgrove in Edith Wharton’s “all souls’”0
The Significance of a Single Letter and Word in Shakespeare0
Sound, Ambiguity, and Subjectivity in Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
Beowulfian Archetypes: The Case of Hrómundr Gripsson0
Tolkien, Shakespeare, Trees, and The Lord of the Rings0
Moral Dogma and Ethical Relativity in Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly0
The Parody of Holy Communion in John Donne’s TWICKENHAM GARDEN0
Imagining Eternity in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Late Poetry0
TWELFTH NIGHT: Malvolio and the Tudor Heresy Trials0
Whose Slavery is it?: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad0
An Eye for an Eye: Dickinson’s Vision and Emerson’s Visuality0
“Forgyd Taylis”: A Gloss on line 43 of Thomas Wyatt or Pseudo-Wyatt’s “O Cruel Heart”0
Inherent advice: Pynchon’s earnest counsel in Slow Learner0
Work and Fraternity in Levine’s “What Work is”0
Jonson’s Two Prologues to Epicœne : Libel, Print, and Play0
The Phenomena of Nothingness in de la Mare’s “The Listeners”0
The Image of the Stove in A Doll House0
Irritable Lines: The Revision of Shakespeare’s Blank Verse in Robert Creeley’s “The Crisis”0
Body and perception reshaped by influenza pandemic in MRS DALLOWAY0
Revisiting Coleridge’s “Instead of the Cross, the Albatross About my Neck was Hung”0
“Weaves of Homely Stuff”: Ecological Formings in John Clare’s “Birds Nests”0
A Portrait of the Teacher as a Young Man: Stephen Dedalus in Nestor0
Looking for Kevin: A Rereading of Rosaleen O’Toole’s Journey in Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Cracked Looking-Glass”0
Rereading Cynewulf’s Elene Line 140b: In Defense of the Manuscript0
“The Vain Lustre of Imagined Crowns”: Light and Dark Imagery in Marriage a la Mode0
Divinity and Decadence within Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
“Hallow’d Mold”: Collins’s “Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746” (“How Sleep the Brave”)0
Correction0
A Tale of Two Fools: Middleton, Shakespeare, and Co-Authorship in Timon of Athens and King Lear0
The Underthought of John Milton’s Samson Agonistes in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “My own heart let me more have pity on.”0
“The Work Wisdom of ‘From Plane to Plane’”0
Tall Trees: A Proposed New Meaning for a Label on the Franks Casket0
Metaphor and Architectural space in Emily Dickinson’s “I Dwell in Possibility”0
A New Source for the Unnamed phisicien in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess0
The romance of Tristan and Isolde in Kristin Lavransdatter0
Victoria Chang’s poetic signature0
“Absent subjectivity in Poe’s THE MAN OF THE CROWD”0
Love as Suffering (Passion) in Dryden’s All for Love0
Queer Desires in “The Daemon Lover” and “Trial by Combat”0
Intermedial musicality in On Chesil Beach0
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
Sullen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 290
Kindness and Sympathy in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility0
Translated China in Journey to a War0
Shakespeare’s Tempest Line 1786: “Wise” or “Wife”0
Symbolic meanings of a caged parrot in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek0
Thomas Nashe: Balladeer0
Mary Shelton’s Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript0
Isabella’s Silence and Philocalia’s Absence0
She Is Not Only Tired but Also Sick: Illness and Inertia in James Joyce’s “Eveline”0
Failed Seduction: Narratorial Authority in Katherine Mansfield’s “a Dill Pickle”0
“Obligation’s Ghosts: MacIntyre, Beckett, and Metafictive Ends”0
Wollstonecraft’s critical reviews on Gilpin’s picturesque0
“A Joke in a German Paper”: Uncovering a Neglected Reference in D. H. Lawrence’s “Do Women Change”0
Tamburlaine’s Asiatic Style and Shakespeare’s First Plays0
Words as Readymade: Mina Loy’s Verbal Portraiture of “Gertrude Stein” and “Joyce’s Ulysses”0
Thoreau’s philosophy of work in frost’s “mowing”0
Hearing is Believing: Sounds in Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”0
“Moses Was’nt Fairly Used—”: In the Footsteps of Harriet Tubman in Emily Dickinson’s “So I Pull My Stockings Off”0
Auden, Carnival and “The Love Feast”0
Gender Performance in Jim Shepard’s “Minotaur”0
Prince Prospero and the Art of Predestinated Destruction0
Suggested Sources for The Faithful Friends (ca 1613-1620)0
The End of History in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections0
Consent, rape and pollution: the context of Hrosvitha’s Dulcitius0
Introducing Shakespeare and His Contemporaries0
Experiencing an Affective Shift: Bonding Unreliability in The Remains of the Day0
The Ambivalent Garden and Wordsworth’s Shadow in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Deserted Garden”0
The Jacqueminot Rose in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence0
“A Hunger Artist”: As An Art Performance0
A Rite of Passage in Shakespeare’sLOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST:5.2.786-8060
George Eliot’s verse in Chapter 38 of Daniel Deronda0
The Dragon’s Ecological Warning in John Gardner’s Grendel0
Journey of the Magi(strate): Reading J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians through T. S. Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi”0
Skilled at Delay: George Herbert’s “Justice (I)”0
The Exile Within: An LGBTQ+ Reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Prodigal”0
“Spectral Gateways” and the “Horror of the City Road”: A Surreal Connection between The Great Gatsby and The Rainbow0
Unraveling the Yarn at the Center of Mary Wilkins Freeman’s “The Lost Ghost”0
The Deep Time of Local Color: Arctic Planetarity and Storytelling in The Country of the Pointed Firs0
“Father,” “Son,” and Profane Ghost: an Unholy Trinity in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw0
The Nexus of Literacy and Morality in Edith Wharton’s “Bunner Sisters”0
Women and the Bicycle in D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and The Lost Girl0
Vague Local Deities and the Franks Casket’s Erta0
Contemplating Stars and Solving Mysteries: Rationality in Mark Haddon’s the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime0
A literal reading of the shadow in “Ligeia:” Coleridge’s remarks on Ghosts and Poe’s poetics of misdirection0
The Native Christianity of Samson Occom’s “The Sufferings of Christ”0
The Closet Scenes of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge0
“Of coyotes and werewolves: Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero0
Capitalism as Religion in Bambara’s “The Lesson”0
The Epistolary Narrative in Atonement0
A reparative reading of Toni Morrison’s Beloved0
“O my prophetique soule”: Shakespeare’s influence on Fletcher and Massinger’s The Double Marriage0
Queer Attachments in Tennessee Williams’ “Portrait of a Girl in Glass”0
The economy of Paulina’s demand in the Winter’s Tale0
Oriental Spice-Plants in an English Garden: Explaining a Natural Impossibility in Pearl0
We Are All Cain: Thomas Wolfe’s Transformation of Biblical Myth in “The Lost Boy”0
Mirabai and the Ethic of Universal Suffering: Reading Bhajans in Indian Pedagogy0
Helplessness of Resistance: Thoreauvian Intellectuals in Paul Auster’s Sunset Park0
Ambiguity in Yeats’s “the Hosting of the Sidhe”0
The Perils Of Being “Nice”: Stephen’s Dilemma in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man0
The Choice of Hercules in Middlemarch0
“Ma soul’s a Witness for de Waldorf-Astoria!” Langston Hughes’s Poetic Hotel Advertisement0
Hamlet’s Problems0
Crossing the Queensboro Bridge: Gatsby, Automobiles, and Immigrant Mobility in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker0
Surprised by Sin: Medical Metaphors and Secular Eschatology in Ian McEwan’sSaturday0
Beowulf and Freawaru0
Temporality in The Overstory by Richard Powers0
Levin’s hunting in Anna Karenina0
The Symbolic Fiction of Mr. Stevens: A Lacanian Reading of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day0
Dawn of Britain: A New Interpretation of “Dawn” in Martineau’s Dawn Island0
“A Mind of Winter”: Affect in Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man”0
Clues among the Clutter: Circling Back with Jane Austen’s Miss Bates0
“That Death Has No Meaning”: The Imitation and Adaptation of Ernest Hemingway in Cormac McCarthy’s The Counselor0
Atheism vs Theism: Conflict and Ambiguity in Dylan Thomas’s “Poem on his Birthday”0
Alchemical Decknamen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 330
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