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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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A Resistant Reading of Emily Brontё’s “The Old Stoic”1
Exploring Therapeutic Dynamics in Anne Sexton’s Confessional Poetry: Self-expression, Healing, and Narrative Dialogue1
Alice Staverton as midwife in Henry James’s “the jolly corner”1
Thomas Hardy’s Racialization of English Natives in The Return of the Native1
Claudia Rankine and Robert Lowell, Again1
On the Emendation of The Phoenix lines 164–65 and The Wife’s Lament line 421
Correction1
Political Rumination and Imagination in Anna Burns’s Milkman1
Modern punctuation of Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale: Line 9641
Paradise or Paralysis: Mary Shelley’s Ambivalence in Frankenstein1
The New England Work Ethic and Robert Frost’s “The Code”0
Dawn of Britain: A New Interpretation of “Dawn” in Martineau’s Dawn Island0
Correction0
Symbolic Images of Butterflies in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek0
Translated China in Journey to a War0
The Old English Fates of the Apostles : A Note on lēofe on līfe , l. 6a0
The Exile Within: An LGBTQ+ Reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Prodigal”0
Flannery O’Connor’s “The Displaced Person” and the Legacy of Lynching0
Surprised by Sin: Medical Metaphors and Secular Eschatology in Ian McEwan’sSaturday0
Carving the I/Eye: The Chiasmus Structure in A. C. Swinburne’s “Hermaphroditus”0
Tamburlaine’s Asiatic Style and Shakespeare’s First Plays0
The Face of the Other in Home0
“Winter’s got to begin sometime”: doctor Selgrove in Edith Wharton’s “all souls’”0
Mirabai and the Ethic of Universal Suffering: Reading Bhajans in Indian Pedagogy0
“A Mind of Winter”: Affect in Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man”0
Shakespeare’s Tempest Line 1786: “Wise” or “Wife”0
The End of History in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections0
“Trick or Treat!”: The Trickster Figure in Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr Rosewater and Slapstick0
Levin’s hunting in Anna Karenina0
Ambiguity in Yeats’s “the Hosting of the Sidhe”0
Thoreau’s philosophy of work in frost’s “mowing”0
Seamus Heaney’s “Clearances: ‘III’”0
The Parody of Holy Communion in John Donne’s TWICKENHAM GARDEN0
“The spatial symbolism of Gregor’s room in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis0
The Wartime State and the Cigarette: Darkness and Temporality in Pale Horse, Pale Rider0
"The First Three Shots": A Subtle Warning in Richard Connell’s "The Most Dangerous Game"0
Wollstonecraft’s critical reviews on Gilpin’s picturesque0
The Cheshire Cat in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland : Anthropomorphism and Childhood as Socialization0
Introducing Shakespeare and His Contemporaries0
Ted Hughes’s “The Jaguar” and Animal Ethics0
Religion and the Theology of Love in W. H. Auden’s “Stop all the clocks”0
“Father,” “Son,” and Profane Ghost: an Unholy Trinity in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw0
Isabella’s Silence and Philocalia’s Absence0
The Lacanian subject in Robert Frost’s “the road not taken”0
John Florio’s Second Fruits and the Theater of Life0
Out of Nothing: The Theory of Omission and Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”0
Remnants of the Past and the Quest for Identity: Reading August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson in the Context of Collective Memory0
Sound, Ambiguity, and Subjectivity in Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
The Native Christianity of Samson Occom’s “The Sufferings of Christ”0
On the cyclical movement in John Keats’s “to autumn”0
Trauma and the Holocaust in John Banville’s Shroud0
Symbolic meanings of a caged parrot in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek0
“It Shall Be Set in Imperishable Crystal”: A Representation of Hair Memorabilia in Tolkien’sThe Lord of the Rings0
The Phenomena of Nothingness in de la Mare’s “The Listeners”0
Imagining Eternity in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Late Poetry0
Botanical Symbolism and the Death of Ophelia in Hamlet0
“Born in the Wrong Body”: Fragmentation of the Self in Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis0
“Of coyotes and werewolves: Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero0
The Choice of Hercules in Middlemarch0
Contemplating Stars and Solving Mysteries: Rationality in Mark Haddon’s the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime0
Experiencing an Affective Shift: Bonding Unreliability in The Remains of the Day0
Pleading with the King: The Representation of Sarah as Queen and Noblewoman in Genesis A0
An Eye for an Eye: Dickinson’s Vision and Emerson’s Visuality0
History and Fantasy in George Peele’s David and Bathsheba0
Beowulfian Archetypes: The Case of Hrómundr Gripsson0
A reparative reading of Toni Morrison’s Beloved0
“The Work Wisdom of ‘From Plane to Plane’”0
Dickinson’s click0
A Window on One’s Identity: Cultural Identity In Chinua Achebe’s “The Sacrificial Egg”0
Looking for Kevin: A Rereading of Rosaleen O’Toole’s Journey in Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Cracked Looking-Glass”0
Embedding the Unconscious in the Conscious: John Ashbery’s Sestina “The Painter” Revisited0
MUCH MADNESS: The Horatian Conceit of the Mad Poet in Emily Dickinson0
Crossing the Queensboro Bridge: Gatsby, Automobiles, and Immigrant Mobility in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker0
Samuel Beckett, Max Nordau, and the Worms of How It Is0
‘Ac ic to þam grunde genge’: an analogue for Genesis B, line 834a0
Marvell’s “the unfortunate lover”0
Mary Shelton’s Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript0
Carnivalesque Imagery in Stevens’ “THE EMPEROR OF ICE-CREAM”0
“Absent subjectivity in Poe’s THE MAN OF THE CROWD”0
More echoes of Geoffrey of Monmouth in St. Erkenwald0
Revisiting the Tortoiseshell Cat: Subjectivity and Discursive Dilemma of the American wife in Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain”0
The Symbolic Fiction of Mr. Stevens: A Lacanian Reading of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day0
Thomas Nashe: Balladeer0
Why Thoreau Spent a Night in Jail0
Rappaccini’s Queer Daughter: Gender Non-Conformity in “Rappaccini’s Daughter”0
Heathcliff as the masculine counterpart of androgynous Catherine in Wuthering Heights0
Auden, Carnival and “The Love Feast”0
“Moses Was’nt Fairly Used—”: In the Footsteps of Harriet Tubman in Emily Dickinson’s “So I Pull My Stockings Off”0
Reading between the Stanzas of W. B. Yeats’s “Among School Children”0
Operatic Elements in Eileen Chang’s The Rouge of the North0
Blood and Mud in Shelley’s “England in 1819.”0
Madness as Resilience in Henry Chettle’s The Tragedy of Hoffman0
“A Truly Carnivalesque Death”: On Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”0
Consent, rape and pollution: the context of Hrosvitha’s Dulcitius0
The Epistolary Narrative in Atonement0
The Fantasy of Seduction in Kafka’s “The Silence of the Sirens”0
Laughing Gas and Involuntary Laughter in The Chimes0
The Jacqueminot Rose in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence0
Absalom, Absalom! And Acts Misreading0
Atheism vs Theism: Conflict and Ambiguity in Dylan Thomas’s “Poem on his Birthday”0
Failed Seduction: Narratorial Authority in Katherine Mansfield’s “a Dill Pickle”0
“O my prophetique soule”: Shakespeare’s influence on Fletcher and Massinger’s The Double Marriage0
Prince Prospero and the Art of Predestinated Destruction0
Journey of the Magi(strate): Reading J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians through T. S. Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi”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
A third biblical foundation of James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”0
Silko’s Narrative Negotiation of the Rain Man’s Rites of the Passage0
The Underthought of John Milton’s Samson Agonistes in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “My own heart let me more have pity on.”0
If As I Lay Dying is a mock-epic, what is being mocked?0
Tolkien, Shakespeare, Trees, and The Lord of the Rings0
Beowulf and Freawaru0
A New Source for the Unnamed phisicien in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess0
Suggested Sources for The Faithful Friends (ca 1613-1620)0
The Significance of a Single Letter and Word in Shakespeare0
William James’s Metaphysical Revelation in Sherwood Anderson’s “Tandy”0
“This Leaving-Out Business”: Minimalist Techniques in John Ashbery’s Poetry0
The Image of the Stove in A Doll House0
“The Vain Lustre of Imagined Crowns”: Light and Dark Imagery in Marriage a la Mode0
Love as Suffering (Passion) in Dryden’s All for Love0
The Ambivalent Garden and Wordsworth’s Shadow in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Deserted Garden”0
Inherent advice: Pynchon’s earnest counsel in Slow Learner0
“Quite Convivial”: A Butler’s Duty in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day0
Lyric Space in Lorine Niedecker’s Poetry0
Poetics of Touch and Female Fetishism in Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel (2003)0
From the Penile to the Pinnal: Anatomizing Louis Chu’s Eat a Bowl of Tea0
Oriental Spice-Plants in an English Garden: Explaining a Natural Impossibility in Pearl0
The Tiger-Woman in “Tale of Hemetes the Heremyte” (1575)0
Thomas Lodge’s Life and Works: A Mutual Looking-Glass for the Elizabethan Age0
Alchemical Decknamen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 330
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
Women and the Bicycle in D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and The Lost Girl0
Pain and Gender in Hemingway’s “Indian Camp”0
A Tale of Two Fools: Middleton, Shakespeare, and Co-Authorship in Timon of Athens and King Lear0
Victoria Chang’s poetic signature0
The Subaltern in the Ibis Trilogy0
Gender Performance in Jim Shepard’s “Minotaur”0
The Deep Time of Local Color: Arctic Planetarity and Storytelling in The Country of the Pointed Firs0
“Hallow’d Mold”: Collins’s “Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746” (“How Sleep the Brave”)0
The Dragon’s Ecological Warning in John Gardner’s Grendel0
The Image of the Biblical Ruth in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”0
Skilled at Delay: George Herbert’s “Justice (I)”0
The economy of Paulina’s demand in the Winter’s Tale0
Singing Obedience, Speaking Violence: Desdemona’s “swansong” in Othello0
We Are All Cain: Thomas Wolfe’s Transformation of Biblical Myth in “The Lost Boy”0
“Careful Not to Bump her Head”: A Symbolic Meaning in Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman0
Seamus Heaney’s “Failed” Elegy and the Nonhuman Subject: A Reading of “Widgeon”0
Wallace Stevens’s “The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain”0
She Is Not Only Tired but Also Sick: Illness and Inertia in James Joyce’s “Eveline”0
Vague Local Deities and the Franks Casket’s Erta0
Middle English araten and Scenes of Condescension in Piers Plowman0
“A Joke in a German Paper”: Uncovering a Neglected Reference in D. H. Lawrence’s “Do Women Change”0
The romance of Tristan and Isolde in Kristin Lavransdatter0
Kindness and Sympathy in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility0
Body Narratives in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun0
Caesar’s Hands in Titus Andronicus0
A Rite of Passage in Shakespeare’sLOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST:5.2.786-8060
Intermedial musicality in On Chesil Beach0
“A Hunger Artist”: As An Art Performance0
“Seascape, Divine Power, and Megincraft in the Old Saxon Heliand”0
Rereading the Postscript in “Bartleby, the Scrivener”0
“Ye Came for Gold, Ye Slaves”: Irony of Paragone in Timon of Athens0
“Ma soul’s a Witness for de Waldorf-Astoria!” Langston Hughes’s Poetic Hotel Advertisement0
Words as Readymade: Mina Loy’s Verbal Portraiture of “Gertrude Stein” and “Joyce’s Ulysses”0
Temporality in The Overstory by Richard Powers0
“Monsters Worse to Come”: A Reconsideration of the Influence of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Upon Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God0
Hearing is Believing: Sounds in Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”0
Shakespeare and the Non-Jonsonian Court Masques0
“Forgyd Taylis”: A Gloss on line 43 of Thomas Wyatt or Pseudo-Wyatt’s “O Cruel Heart”0
Jonson’s Two Prologues to Epicœne : Libel, Print, and Play0
Whose Slavery is it?: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad0
“Us He Devours”: Christianity and Its Use of Human Fear in T. S. Eliot’s “Gerontion”10
Queer Attachments in Tennessee Williams’ “Portrait of a Girl in Glass”0
A Post-pastoral Reading of Ron Rash’s “Speckled Trout”0
Queer Desires in “The Daemon Lover” and “Trial by Combat”0
TWELFTH NIGHT: Malvolio and the Tudor Heresy Trials0
George Eliot’s verse in Chapter 38 of Daniel Deronda0
Extraordinary Countenance: An Examination of Gender and Sexual Identity Through Etymology in Nella Larsen’s Passing0
Disability and the Scene of Learning in Shakespeare, Lope, Ariosto0
“He was not a Mozart”: irony in Aldous Huxley’s “young Archimedes”0
Rereading Cynewulf’s Elene Line 140b: In Defense of the Manuscript0
“Spectral Gateways” and the “Horror of the City Road”: A Surreal Connection between The Great Gatsby and The Rainbow0
A literal reading of the shadow in “Ligeia:” Coleridge’s remarks on Ghosts and Poe’s poetics of misdirection0
Unraveling the Yarn at the Center of Mary Wilkins Freeman’s “The Lost Ghost”0
“Keep Chaos Out, Order In”: Grid and Architectural Space in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One0
Moral Dogma and Ethical Relativity in Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly0
Body and perception reshaped by influenza pandemic in MRS DALLOWAY0
Teeth as Metaphors in Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King0
Work and Fraternity in Levine’s “What Work is”0
Maggie’s death and Dorothea’s growth — the sublimation of passion in George Eliot’s novels0
Reading Metrical Ambiguity in John Skelton’s a Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell0
Guthlac A line 475a: textual criticism and metrical decontraction0
Divinity and Decadence within Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
Whose Feathers were Borrowed? A Corpus Stylistic Approach to Richard Barnfield’s and William Shakespeare’s Poetry0
A Portrait of the Teacher as a Young Man: Stephen Dedalus in Nestor0
Winston’s Parallel Universe: On History in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four0
Resisting Defense in Moore’s “Armor’s Undermining Modesty”0
The Closet Scenes of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge0
The Perils Of Being “Nice”: Stephen’s Dilemma in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man0
Lucan on Human Sacrifice and the God Esus0
Capitalism as Religion in Bambara’s “The Lesson”0
Hamlet’s Problems0
Helplessness of Resistance: Thoreauvian Intellectuals in Paul Auster’s Sunset Park0
Tall Trees: A Proposed New Meaning for a Label on the Franks Casket0
Language and Origin in John Ashbery’s “Myrtle”0
Revisiting Coleridge’s “Instead of the Cross, the Albatross About my Neck was Hung”0
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