Explicator

Article	Citations
An Arc of Larks	3
On the Emendation of The Phoenix lines 164–65 and The Wife’s Lament line 42	2
Modern punctuation of Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale: Line 964	1
Exploring Therapeutic Dynamics in Anne Sexton’s Confessional Poetry: Self-expression, Healing, and Narrative Dialogue	1
Political Rumination and Imagination in Anna Burns’s Milkman	1
A Resistant Reading of Emily Brontё’s “The Old Stoic”	1
Anne Elliot’s Blush: The Language of Feeling, and the Feeling of Language in Jane Austen’s Persuasion	1
Claudia Rankine and Robert Lowell, Again	1
Correction	1
Botanical Symbolism and the Death of Ophelia in Hamlet	1
Alice Staverton as Midwife in Henry James’s “The Jolly Corner”	1
Paradise or Paralysis: Mary Shelley’s Ambivalence in Frankenstein	1
Thomas Hardy’s Racialization of English Natives in The Return of the Native	1
“Keep Chaos Out, Order In”: Grid and Architectural Space in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One	1
“Of a Thing Which Could not be Put Back”: The Symbolic and Ecological Implications of Morel Mushrooms in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road	1
Poetics of Touch and Female Fetishism in Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel (2003)	1
Speculative Fiction and Empathy: A Case Study of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower	0
Lucan on Human Sacrifice and the God Esus	0
Daisy Fay’s Maternity: A Revision to the Chronology of The Great Gatsby	0
A reparative reading of Toni Morrison’s Beloved	0
Singing Obedience, Speaking Violence: Desdemona’s “swansong” in Othello	0
The economy of Paulina’s demand in the Winter’s Tale	0
The Language of Tyranny in The Cenci : Detached Similes, Vital Metaphors	0
Queer Desires in “The Daemon Lover” and “Trial by Combat”	0
The Lacanian subject in Robert Frost’s “the road not taken”	0

Contemplating Stars and Solving Mysteries: Rationality in Mark Haddon’s the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime	0
Clues among the Clutter: Circling Back with Jane Austen’s Miss Bates	0
Diary of a bad week: the tedium of the Remains of the Day	0
The End of History in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections	0
“Ye Came for Gold, Ye Slaves”: Irony of Paragone in Timon of Athens	0
Lyrical epiphanies in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun	0
Carving the I/Eye: The Chiasmus Structure in A. C. Swinburne’s “Hermaphroditus”	0
More Echoes of Geoffrey of Monmouth in St. Erkenwald	0
Tolkien, Shakespeare, Trees, and The Lord of the Rings	0
Obligation’s Ghosts: MacIntyre, Beckett, and Metafictive Ends	0
Laughing Gas and Involuntary Laughter in The Chimes	0
Reading between the Stanzas of W. B. Yeats’s “Among School Children”	0
Thomas Nashe: Balladeer	0
“Us He Devours”: Christianity and Its Use of Human Fear in T. S. Eliot’s “Gerontion”1	0
Auden, Carnival and “The Love Feast”	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
William James’s Metaphysical Revelation in Sherwood Anderson’s “Tandy”	0
Seascape, Divine Power, and Megincraft in the Old Saxon Heliand	0
Byron’s Speed: The Giaour	0
“Why Westward Turn?”: Keats’s Turn Away from the Dolphin’s Turn	0
Kindness and Sympathy in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility	0
Correction	0
Wordsworth’s relinquished delight	0
Whose Slavery is it?: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad	0
TWELFTH NIGHT: Malvolio and the Tudor Heresy Trials	0
"The First Three Shots": A Subtle Warning in Richard Connell’s "The Most Dangerous Game"	0
The Face of the Other in Home	0
Romantic-era explicating and The Explicator ’s romantic era	0
Mirabai and the Ethic of Universal Suffering: Reading Bhajans in Indian Pedagogy	0
The Significance of a Single Letter and Word in Shakespeare	0
Rereading the Postscript in “Bartleby, the Scrivener”	0
The Deep Time of Local Color: Arctic Planetarity and Storytelling in The Country of the Pointed Firs	0
Jonson’s Two Prologues to Epicœne : Libel, Print, and Play	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
“Moses Was’nt Fairly Used—”: In the Footsteps of Harriet Tubman in Emily Dickinson’s “So I Pull My Stockings Off”	0
Moral Dogma and Ethical Relativity in Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly	0
Intermedial Musicality in On Chesil Beach	0
The Choice of Hercules in Middlemarch	0
Absalom, Absalom! And Acts Misreading	0
The Phenomena of Nothingness in de la Mare’s “The Listeners”	0
Madness as Resilience in Henry Chettle’s The Tragedy of Hoffman	0
Floods and the divine: a Blue Humanities case study using Their Eyes Were Watching God	0
The Nexus of Literacy and Morality in Edith Wharton’s “Bunner Sisters”	0
Levin’s hunting in Anna Karenina	0
Vague Local Deities and the Franks Casket’s Erta	0
Victoria Chang’s poetic signature	0
Work and Fraternity in Levine’s “What Work is”	0
Failed Seduction: Narratorial Authority in Katherine Mansfield’s “a Dill Pickle”	0
Language and Origin in John Ashbery’s “Myrtle”	0
“A Striking Likeness”: Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent	0

Dickinson’s Click	0
Seamus Heaney’s “Failed” Elegy and the Nonhuman Subject: A Reading of “Widgeon”	0
Capitalism as Religion in Bambara’s “The Lesson”	0
Dawn of Britain: A New Interpretation of “Dawn” in Martineau’s Dawn Island	0
The formal mechanism of the boat in William Wordsworth’s The Prelude (1850) and in Winslow Homer’s The fog Warning	0
Unraveling the Yarn at the Center of Mary Wilkins Freeman’s “The Lost Ghost”	0
“Of coyotes and werewolves: Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero”	0
Hearing is Believing: Sounds in Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”	0
The Old English Fates of the Apostles : A Note on lēofe on līfe , l. 6a	0
The Image of the Biblical Ruth in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”	0
Metaphor and meaning in Hart Crane’s “Voyages II”	0
Thomas Lodge’s Life and Works: A Mutual Looking-Glass for the Elizabethan Age	0
Metaphor and Architectural space in Emily Dickinson’s “I Dwell in Possibility”	0
Geography and history in Waltharius	0
John Florio’s Second Fruits and the Theater of Life	0
Women and the Bicycle in D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and The Lost Girl	0
Love Me or Else: Keats’s Impossible Desires in “I Cry Your Mercy”	0
William Wordsworth, Edward Rushton, and Toussaint L’Ouverture	0
George Eliot’s Verse in Chapter 38 of Daniel Deronda	0
‘Ac ic to þam grunde genge’: an analogue for Genesis B, line 834a	0
Weaponizing the Womb: Militarized Maternity and Corrupted Virtue in Coriolanus	0
Pleading with the King: The Representation of Sarah as Queen and Noblewoman in Genesis A	0
Embedding the Unconscious in the Conscious: John Ashbery’s Sestina “The Painter” Revisited	0
Mary Shelton’s Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript	0
Hamlet’s Problems	0
Translated China in Journey to a War	0
Symbolic Images of Butterflies in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek	0
Rereading Cynewulf’s Elene Line 140b: In Defense of the Manuscript	0
Body Narratives in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun	0
The Influence of Jacob Boehme’s Aurora on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian	0
“He was not a Mozart”: irony in Aldous Huxley’s “Young Archimedes”	0
Demogorgon’s “Spells” and Blackwood’s Magazine: The Last Stanza of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound	0
The Closet Scenes of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge	0
“A Truly Carnivalesque Death”: On Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”	0
Consent, rape and pollution: the context of Hrosvitha’s Dulcitius	0
Resisting Defense in Moore’s “Armor’s Undermining Modesty”	0
Heathcliff as the masculine counterpart of androgynous Catherine in Wuthering Heights	0
The Fantasy of Seduction in Kafka’s “The Silence of the Sirens”	0
The Native Christianity of Samson Occom’s “The Sufferings of Christ”	0
Poetry’s politics for the poor: Charlotte Smith and Anna Barbauld	0
The Affective Agency of Objects: Alice’s Herbs in Mary Barton	0
A Rite of Passage in Shakespeare’sLOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST:5.2.786-806	0
“Surprized by Joy”: William Wordsworth’s Elegiac Reverse	0
The Perils Of Being “Nice”: Stephen’s Dilemma in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	0
Shakespeare and the Non-Jonsonian Court Masques	0
Double Sonnets in Keats’s “I Stood Tip-Toe upon a Little Hill”	0
The Origins of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Mirkwood Revisited	0
Teeth as Metaphors in Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King	0
The Dragon’s Ecological Warning in John Gardner’s Grendel	0
Middle English araten and Scenes of Condescension in Piers Plowman	0
Surprised by Sin: Medical Metaphors and Secular Eschatology in Ian McEwan’sSaturday	0
Crocodile Narratives and the Construction of African Natural Space in Tamburlaine the Great	0
Disability and the Scene of Learning in Shakespeare, Lope, Ariosto	0
“Father,” “Son,” and Profane Ghost: an Unholy Trinity in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw	0
MUCH MADNESS: The Horatian Conceit of the Mad Poet in Emily Dickinson	0
Prince Prospero and the Art of Predestinated Destruction	0
Parameters of Outdoing Oneself: A Reconsideration of the Bipartite Structure of Early Romance Poetry	0
Guthlac A line 475a: Textual Criticism and Metrical Deconstruction	0
Why Thoreau Spent a Night in Jail	0
“Spectral Gateways” and the “Horror of the City Road”: A Surreal Connection between The Great Gatsby and The Rainbow	0
The Power of “Felt Absence” in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion	0
“Quite Convivial”: A Butler’s Duty in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day	0
Reconsidering the Hūgas : ethnonymy and historical memory in Beowulf	0
“A Hunger Artist”: As An Art Performance	0
Skilled at Delay: George Herbert’s “Justice (I)”	0
Operatic Elements in Eileen Chang’s The Rouge of the North	0
Pain and Gender in Hemingway’s “Indian Camp”	0
Helplessness of Resistance: Thoreauvian Intellectuals in Paul Auster’s Sunset Park	0
A literal reading of the shadow in “Ligeia:” Coleridge’s remarks on Ghosts and Poe’s poetics of misdirection	0
Experiencing an Affective Shift: Bonding Unreliability in The Remains of the Day	0
Love as Suffering (Passion) in Dryden’s All for Love	0
Queer Attachments in Tennessee Williams’ “Portrait of a Girl in Glass”	0
The fourfold in Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet	0
Symbolic meanings of a caged parrot in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek	0
The generative nature of diasporic spaces in Samuel Selvon’s “Come Back to Grenada” and Moyez G. Vassanji’s “Refugee”	0
Crossing the Queensboro Bridge: Gatsby, Automobiles, and Immigrant Mobility in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker	0
The Epistolary Narrative in Atonement	0
Lyric Space in Lorine Niedecker’s Poetry	0
A Weak Reading of Stephen Crane’s Maggie, A Girl of the Streets	0
The Subaltern in the Ibis Trilogy	0

Historiography in Richard Wilbur’s “Looking into History”	0
Revisiting Coleridge’s “Instead of the Cross, the Albatross About my Neck was Hung”	0
Sullen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29	0
Coleridge’’s "Lines to Charlotte Brent,"Punning,and the Tyrant Pain: Interpreting a Lost Poem"	0
“This Leaving-Out Business”: Minimalist Techniques in John Ashbery’s Poetry	0
Oriental Spice-Plants in an English Garden: Explaining a Natural Impossibility in Pearl	0
Ambiguity in Yeats’s “the Hosting of the Sidhe”	0
A third biblical foundation of James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”	0
Through the Looking-Glass Cabinet: A (Very) Close Reading of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence	0
“A Joke in a German Paper”: Uncovering a Neglected Reference in D. H. Lawrence’s “Do Women Change”	0
Aragorn, Sovereignty, and Mortality in Tolkien’s Mythic Historiography	0
“Trivial yet serious”: Re-Reading the fan in Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s fan	0
“A Mind of Winter”: Affect in Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man”	0
Tall Trees: A Proposed New Meaning for a Label on the Franks Casket	0
Suggested Sources for The Faithful Friends (ca 1613-1620)	0
Trauma and the Holocaust in John Banville’s Shroud	0
Bosola’s Envy in The Duchess of Malfi	0
“Reading the Baseball”: American Cultural Imperialism in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea	0
Gender Performance in Jim Shepard’s “Minotaur”	0
Invisible burdens: Financial strain, social expectation, and clerical life in George Eliot’s “the sad fortunes of the reverend Amos Barton”	0
The Ambivalent Garden and Wordsworth’s Shadow in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Deserted Garden”	0
Tamburlaine’s Asiatic Style and Shakespeare’s First Plays	0
“Careful Not to Bump her Head”: A Symbolic Meaning in Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman	0
Beowulfian Archetypes: The Case of Hrómundr Gripsson	0
“Insensible Unrest”: William Wordsworth’s Revisions to Charlotte Smith’s “Written in the Church Yard at Middleton in Sussex”	0
“Absent subjectivity in Poe’s THE MAN OF THE CROWD”	0
The Wartime State and the Cigarette: Darkness and Temporality in Pale Horse, Pale Rider	0
“Winter’s got to begin sometime”: Doctor Selgrove in Edith Wharton’s “All Souls’”	0
“The Work Wisdom of ‘From Plane to Plane’”	0
She Is Not Only Tired but Also Sick: Illness and Inertia in James Joyce’s “Eveline”	0
Isabella’s Silence and Philocalia’s Absence	0
The Jacqueminot Rose in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence	0
The New England Work Ethic and Robert Frost’s “The Code”	0
A She-Wolf’s Counsel: Brunechildis and Her Grandsons in the Chronicle of Fredegar	0
Depicting the transgenerational transmission of trauma through photographic mediums in W.G. Sebald’s the emigrants	0
Words as Readymade: Mina Loy’s Verbal Portraiture of “Gertrude Stein” and “Joyce’s Ulysses”	0
Out of Nothing: The Theory of Omission and Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”	0
Reading Metrical Ambiguity in John Skelton’s a Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell	0
Whose Feathers were Borrowed? A Corpus Stylistic Approach to Richard Barnfield’s and William Shakespeare’s Poetry	0
“That Death Has No Meaning”: The Imitation and Adaptation of Ernest Hemingway in Cormac McCarthy’s The Counselor	0
The Parody of Holy Communion in John Donne’s TWICKENHAM GARDEN	0
Alchemical Decknamen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 33	0
“Let no Student… Take Anie Surfette of Cheries”: A Forgotten Early Modern Euphemism	0
Coleridge, Hamlet, and the Distortions of a Myriad Mind	0
Introducing Shakespeare and His Contemporaries	0
Extraordinary Countenance: An Examination of Gender and Sexual Identity Through Etymology in Nella Larsen’s Passing	0
Looking for Kevin: A Rereading of Rosaleen O’Toole’s Journey in Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Cracked Looking-Glass”	0
Thoreau’s philosophy of work in frost’s “mowing”	0
Wollstonecraft’s critical reviews on Gilpin’s picturesque	0
The typewriter erased: Ecocritical silence in The Waste Land drafts	0
Snodgrass’ (In-)conveniently selected memories: Reclaiming parental identity in “Heart’s Needle”	0
Shelley’s Mont Blanc and the Voice of Manuscript	0
The Image of the Stove in A Doll House	0
The Underthought of John Milton’s Samson Agonistes in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “My own heart let me more have pity on.”	0
Religion and the Theology of Love in W. H. Auden’s “Stop all the clocks”	0
“O my prophetique soule”: Shakespeare’s influence on Fletcher and Massinger’s The Double Marriage	0
Of Precarious Hospitality: George Meredith’s Sonnet XVII, “At Dinner She Is Hostess”	0
“Weaves of Homely Stuff”: Ecological Formings in John Clare’s “Birds Nests”	0
“Ma soul’s a Witness for de Waldorf-Astoria!” Langston Hughes’s Poetic Hotel Advertisement	0
Inherent advice: Pynchon’s earnest counsel in Slow Learner	0
The Lack of Lovemaking in Roman Love Elegy: The Example of Ovid’s Amores I.5	0
“Forgyd Taylis”: A Gloss on line 43 of Thomas Wyatt or Pseudo-Wyatt’s “O Cruel Heart”	0
Facing Autobiography in The Prelude	0
“The Vain Lustre of Imagined Crowns”: Light and Dark Imagery in Marriage a la Mode	0
“Born in the Wrong Body”: Fragmentation of the Self in Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis	0
Atheism vs Theism: Conflict and Ambiguity in Dylan Thomas’s “Poem on his Birthday”	0
“It Shall Be Set in Imperishable Crystal”: A Representation of Hair Memorabilia in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings	0
Elision and the Numbers in “We are seven”	0
Ted Hughes’s “The Jaguar” and Animal Ethics	0
Sound, Ambiguity, and Subjectivity in Oscar Wilde’s Salomé	0
Rintrah’s Swagger: On not Understanding Blake’s Argument	0
Caesar’s Hands in Titus Andronicus	0
Irritable Lines: The Revision of Shakespeare’s Blank Verse in Robert Creeley’s “The Crisis”	0
An Eye for an Eye: Dickinson’s Vision and Emerson’s Visuality	0
“The spatial symbolism of Gregor’s room in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis ”	0
“Hallow’d Mold”: Collins’s “Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746” (“How Sleep the Brave”)	0
Rereading the Beast’s Clothing in “The Tiger’s Bride”	0
The Tiger-Woman in “Tale of Hemetes the Heremyte” (1575)	0
Temporality in The Overstory by Richard Powers	0
Body and perception reshaped by influenza pandemic in MRS DALLOWAY	0
Blood and Mud in Shelley’s “England in 1819.”	0
The Cheshire Cat in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland : Anthropomorphism and Childhood as Socialization	0
We Are All Cain: Thomas Wolfe’s Transformation of Biblical Myth in “The Lost Boy”	0
The Self, the Body and the World in Wallace Stevens’s “Tea at the Palaz of Hoon”	0
A Portrait of the Teacher as a Young Man: Stephen Dedalus in Nestor	0
Imagining Eternity in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Late Poetry	0
Divinity and Decadence within Oscar Wilde’s Salomé	0
Explaining explanation in S. T. Coleridge’s rime of the ancient mariner	0
A Highbury Street View	0
A New Source for the Unnamed phisicien in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess	0
The Exile Within: An LGBTQ+ Reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Prodigal”	0
A Tale of Two Fools: Middleton, Shakespeare, and Co-Authorship in Timon of Athens and King Lear	0
Winston’s Parallel Universe: On History in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four	0
History and Fantasy in George Peele’s David and Bathsheba	0
The Form of Evil in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”	0