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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
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Wulf and Eadwacer, eddic verse, and aural aesthetics2
Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants”2
Temporality in The Overstory by Richard Powers1
Color Symbolisms of Diseases: Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”1
Mirabai and the Ethic of Universal Suffering: Reading Bhajans in Indian Pedagogy1
A Window on One’s Identity: Cultural Identity In Chinua Achebe’s “The Sacrificial Egg”1
Middle English araten and Scenes of Condescension in Piers Plowman1
Symbolic Images of Butterflies in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek1
Consent, rape and pollution: the context of Hrosvitha’s Dulcitius1
Bacon’s The Advancement of Learning: A Possible Influence on Jonson’s The Alchemist1
Beowulf and Freawaru1
The Symbolic Fiction of Mr. Stevens: A Lacanian Reading of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day1
Tolkien, Shakespeare, Trees, and The Lord of the Rings1
“Trick or Treat!”: The Trickster Figure in Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr Rosewater and Slapstick1
"The First Three Shots": A Subtle Warning in Richard Connell’s "The Most Dangerous Game"0
From “Haworth Churchyard” to “Courage”: Emily Brontë Perceived by Matthew Arnold0
On the emendation of The Phoenix lines 164–65 and The Wife’s Lament line 420
Wallace Stevens’s “The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain”0
Poetics of Touch and Female Fetishism in Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel (2003)0
“Us He Devours”: Christianity and Its Use of Human Fear in T. S. Eliot’s “Gerontion”10
A literal reading of the shadow in “Ligeia:” Coleridge’s remarks on Ghosts and Poe’s poetics of misdirection0
Shakespeare’s Tempest Line 1786: “Wise” or “Wife”0
Skilled at Delay: George Herbert’s “Justice (I)”0
The Exile Within: An LGBTQ+ Reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Prodigal”0
Heathcliff as the masculine counterpart of androgynous Catherine in Wuthering Heights0
Winston’s Parallel Universe: On History in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four0
Silko’s Narrative Negotiation of the Rain Man’s Rites of the Passage0
Body and perception reshaped by influenza pandemic in MRS DALLOWAY0
Seven years in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment0
The Parody of Holy Communion in John Donne’s TWICKENHAM GARDEN0
Thomas Nashe: Balladeer0
Kindness and Sympathy in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility0
Marvell’s “the unfortunate lover”0
Work and Fraternity in Levine’s “What Work is”0
A Tale of Two Fools: Middleton, Shakespeare, and Co-Authorship in Timon of Athens and King Lear0
Remnants of the Past and the Quest for Identity: Reading August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson in the Context of Collective Memory0
Failed Seduction: Narratorial Authority in Katherine Mansfield’s “a Dill Pickle”0
“Father,” “Son,” and Profane Ghost: an Unholy Trinity in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw0
A Word on a Word in a Word in William Wordsworth’s THE SOLITARY REAPER0
Public Gentility and Private Predation: German as a Linguistic Signal of Guilt in Lolita0
Claudia Rankine and Robert Lowell, Again0
Caesar’s Hands in Titus Andronicus0
Levin’s hunting in Anna Karenina0
Guhtlac a line 475a: textual criticism and metrical decontraction0
The Old English Fates of the Apostles : A Note on lēofe on līfe , l. 6a0
Carnivalesque Imagery in Stevens’ “THE EMPEROR OF ICE-CREAM”0
From the Penile to the Pinnal: Anatomizing Louis Chu’s Eat a Bowl of Tea0
“Of coyotes and werewolves: Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero0
“A Truly Carnivalesque Death”: On Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”0
“Born in the Wrong Body”: Fragmentation of the Self in Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis0
Correction0
“A Mind of Winter”: Affect in Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man”0
An Eye for an Eye: Dickinson’s Vision and Emerson’s Visuality0
The Deep Time of Local Color: Arctic Planetarity and Storytelling in The Country of the Pointed Firs0
A reparative reading of Toni Morrison’s Beloved0
Queer Attachments in Tennessee Williams’ “Portrait of a Girl in Glass”0
The Epistolary Narrative in Atonement0
A New Source for the Unnamed phisicien in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess0
Rereading Cynewulf’s Elene Line 140b: In Defense of the Manuscript0
“Quite Convivial”: A Butler’s Duty in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day0
If As I Lay Dying is a mock-epic, what is being mocked?0
Prince Prospero and the Art of Predestinated Destruction0
The New England Work Ethic and Robert Frost’s “The Code”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
Tess Too? Revisiting the Chase Scene in Tess of the d'Urbervilles in the #MeToo Era0
Lucan on Human Sacrifice and the God Esus0
Carving the I/Eye: The Chiasmus Structure in A. C. Swinburne’s “Hermaphroditus”0
Unraveling the Yarn at the Center of Mary Wilkins Freeman’s “The Lost Ghost”0
Ambiguity in Yeats’s “the Hosting of the Sidhe”0
Paradise or Paralysis: Mary Shelley’s Ambivalence in Frankenstein0
Irritable Lines: The Revision of Shakespeare’s Blank Verse in Robert Creeley’s “The Crisis”0
Metaphor and architectural space in Emily Dickinson’s “I Dwell in Possibility”0
“Absent subjectivity in Poe’s THE MAN OF THE CROWD”0
Trauma and the Holocaust in John Banville’s Shroud0
Words as Readymade: Mina Loy’s Verbal Portraiture of “Gertrude Stein” and “Joyce’s Ulysses”0
“Forgyd Taylis”: A gloss on line 43 of Thomas Wyatt or Pseudo-Wyatt’s “O Cruel Heart”0
“Ethical” or “Ethnical”?: Some Textual Errors in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird0
Political Rumination and Imagination in Anna Burns’s Milkman0
The Face of the Other in Home0
Ted Hughes’s “The Jaguar” and Animal Ethics0
Seamus Heaney’s “Clearances: ‘III’”0
Gender Performance in Jim Shepard’s “Minotaur”0
Babies in Bags: Dracula and The Importance of Being Earnest0
Queer Desires in “The Daemon Lover” and “Trial by Combat”0
Absalom, Absalom! And Acts Misreading0
Embedding the Unconscious in the Conscious: John Ashbery’s Sestina “The Painter” Revisited0
Thoreau’s philosophy of work in frost’s “mowing”0
Modern punctuation of Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale: Line 9640
“Moses Was’nt Fairly Used—”: In the Footsteps of Harriet Tubman in Emily Dickinson’s “So I Pull My Stockings Off”0
Maggie’s death and Dorothea’s growth — the sublimation of passion in George Eliot’s novels0
John Florio’s Second Fruits and the Theater of Life0
Revisiting Coleridge’s “Instead of the Cross, the Albatross About my Neck was Hung”0
Revisiting the Tortoiseshell Cat: Subjectivity and Discursive Dilemma of the American wife in Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain”0
Translated China in Journey to a War0
The economy of Paulina’s demand in the Winter’s Tale0
Reading between the Stanzas of W. B. Yeats’s “Among School Children”0
Singing Obedience, Speaking Violence: Desdemona’s “swansong” in Othello0
Dawn of Britain: A New Interpretation of “Dawn” in Martineau’s Dawn Island0
Seamus Heaney’s “Failed” Elegy and the Nonhuman Subject: A Reading of “Widgeon”0
Suggested Sources for The Faithful Friends (ca 1613-1620)0
The Lacanian subject in Robert Frost’s “the road not taken”0
Disability and the Scene of Learning in Shakespeare, Lope, Ariosto0
The Underthought of John Milton’s Samson Agonistes in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “My own heart let me more have pity on.”0
The Tiger-Woman in “Tale of Hemetes the Heremyte” (1575)0
“Keep Chaos Out, Order In”: Grid and Architectural Space in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One0
The Image of the Stove in A Doll House0
A Post-pastoral Reading of Ron Rash’s “Speckled Trout”0
“‘Aint Never Done Anything but Sing”: Understanding Betsey through Her Canary0
Beowulfian Archetypes: The Case of Hrómundr Gripsson0
‘Ac ic to þam grunde genge’: an analogue for Genesis B, line 834a0
The Image of the Biblical Ruth in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”0
“A Hunger Artist”: As An Art Performance0
“Spectral Gateways” and the “Horror of the City Road”: A Surreal Connection between The Great Gatsby and The Rainbow0
Divinity and Decadence within Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
Moral Dogma and Ethical Relativity in Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly0
Flannery O’Connor’s “The Displaced Person” and the Legacy of Lynching0
Correction0
Wollstonecraft’s critical reviews on Gilpin’s picturesque0
“Ma soul’s a Witness for de Waldorf-Astoria!” Langston Hughes’s Poetic Hotel Advertisement0
The Jacqueminot Rose in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence0
Surprised by Sin: Medical Metaphors and Secular Eschatology in Ian McEwan’sSaturday0
Mary Shelton’s Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript0
Auden, Carnival and “The Love Feast”0
“The spatial symbolism of Gregor’s room in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis0
Crossing the Queensboro Bridge: Gatsby, Automobiles, and Immigrant Mobility in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker0
“Hallow’d Mold”: Collins’s “Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746” (“How Sleep the Brave”)0
Thomas Hardy’s Racialization of English Natives in The Return of the Native0
The Ambivalent Garden and Wordsworth’s Shadow in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Deserted Garden”0
“O my prophetique soule”: Shakespeare’s influence on Fletcher and Massinger’s The Double Marriage0
The Fantasy of Seduction in Kafka’s “The Silence of the Sirens”0
Language and Origin in John Ashbery’s “Myrtle”0
Pleading with the King: The Representation of Sarah as Queen and Noblewoman in Genesis A0
History and Fantasy in George Peele’s David and Bathsheba0
“Monsters Worse to Come”: A Reconsideration of the Influence of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Upon Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God0
Love as Suffering (Passion) in Dryden’s All for Love0
The Subaltern in the Ibis Trilogy0
MUCH MADNESS: The Horatian Conceit of the Mad Poet in Emily Dickinson0
Narratives of “borders conquered, disfigured” in Myung Mi Kim’s Under Flag0
Body Narratives in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun0
Why Thoreau Spent a Night in Jail0
“The Work Wisdom of ‘From Plane to Plane’”0
The Phenomena of Nothingness in de la Mare’s “The Listeners”0
Isabella’s silence and Philocalia’s absence0
Modernity and Mobility: Re-reading Wordsworth and De Quincey0
Geography in Bret Harte’s “The Luck of Roaring Camp”0
Imagining Eternity in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Late Poetry0
Whose Slavery is it?: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad0
Laughing Gas and Involuntary Laughter in The Chimes0
A third biblical foundation of James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”0
Helplessness of Resistance: Thoreauvian Intellectuals in Paul Auster’s Sunset Park0
Dysfunctional tribalism in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises0
Lyric Space in Lorine Niedecker’s Poetry0
Extraordinary Countenance: An Examination of Gender and Sexual Identity Through Etymology in Nella Larsen’s Passing0
Samuel Beckett, Max Nordau, and the Worms of How It Is0
Contemplating Stars and Solving Mysteries: Rationality in Mark Haddon’s the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime0
The romance of Tristan and Isolde in Kristin Lavransdatter0
Tall Trees: A Proposed New Meaning for a Label on the Franks Casket0
TWELFTH NIGHT: Malvolio and the Tudor Heresy Trials0
Teeth as Metaphors in Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King0
“The Vain Lustre of Imagined Crowns”: Light and Dark Imagery in Marriage a la Mode0
We Are All Cain: Thomas Wolfe’s Transformation of Biblical Myth in “The Lost Boy”0
Dickinson’s daisy/sun(set), Daoism, and Emerson0
Religion and the Theology of Love in W. H. Auden’s “Stop all the clocks”0
Inherent advice: Pynchon’s earnest counsel in Slow Learner0
Moderately and melodiously: Of music education in Marguerite Duras’s Moderato Cantabile0
Whose feathers were borrowed? A corpus stylistic approach to Richard Barnfield’s and William Shakespeare’s poetry0
An Outcast in an Alien Land: The Metaphor of Dogs in Cormac McCarthy’sThe Crossing0
Introducing Shakespeare and His Contemporaries0
“A Shared Passion”: Baseball as a Generational and Cultural Bridge in Monica Sone’s Nisei Daughter0
Victoria Chang’s poetic signature0
Resisting Defense in Moore’s “Armor’s Undermining Modesty”0
Capitalism as Religion in Bambara’s “The Lesson”0
Blood and Mud in Shelley’s “England in 1819.”0
The Significance of a Single Letter and Word in Shakespeare0
A Rite of Passage in Shakespeare’sLOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST:5.2.786-8060
On the cyclical movement in John Keats’s “to autumn”0
“Careful Not to Bump her Head”: A Symbolic Meaning in Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman0
Alchemical Decknamen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 330
Atheism vs Theism: Conflict and Ambiguity in Dylan Thomas’s “Poem on his Birthday”0
William James’s Metaphysical Revelation in Sherwood Anderson’s “Tandy”0
Rappaccini’s Queer Daughter: Gender Non-Conformity in “Rappaccini’s Daughter”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
“It Shall Be Set in Imperishable Crystal”: A Representation of Hair Memorabilia in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings0
“This Leaving-Out Business”: Minimalist Techniques in John Ashbery’s Poetry0
Rereading the Postscript in “Bartleby, the Scrivener”0
Women and the Bicycle in D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and The Lost Girl0
Shakespeare and the Non-Jonsonian Court Masques0
Symbolic meanings of a caged parrot in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek0
The Wartime State and the Cigarette: Darkness and Temporality in Pale Horse, Pale Rider0
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