Explicator

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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An Arc of Larks3
On the Emendation of The Phoenix lines 164–65 and The Wife’s Lament line 422
Anne Elliot’s Blush: The Language of Feeling, and the Feeling of Language in Jane Austen’s Persuasion1
Claudia Rankine and Robert Lowell, Again1
Correction1
Botanical Symbolism and the Death of Ophelia in Hamlet1
Alice Staverton as Midwife in Henry James’s “The Jolly Corner”1
Paradise or Paralysis: Mary Shelley’s Ambivalence in Frankenstein1
Thomas Hardy’s Racialization of English Natives in The Return of the Native1
“Keep Chaos Out, Order In”: Grid and Architectural Space in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One1
“Of a Thing Which Could not be Put Back”: The Symbolic and Ecological Implications of Morel Mushrooms in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road1
Poetics of Touch and Female Fetishism in Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel (2003)1
Modern punctuation of Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale: Line 9641
Exploring Therapeutic Dynamics in Anne Sexton’s Confessional Poetry: Self-expression, Healing, and Narrative Dialogue1
Political Rumination and Imagination in Anna Burns’s Milkman1
A Resistant Reading of Emily Brontё’s “The Old Stoic”1
Depicting the transgenerational transmission of trauma through photographic mediums in W.G. Sebald’s the emigrants0
Guthlac A line 475a: Textual Criticism and Metrical Deconstruction0
Wordsworth’s relinquished delight0
The Power of “Felt Absence” in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion0
"The First Three Shots": A Subtle Warning in Richard Connell’s "The Most Dangerous Game"0
Whose Feathers were Borrowed? A Corpus Stylistic Approach to Richard Barnfield’s and William Shakespeare’s Poetry0
“A Hunger Artist”: As An Art Performance0
Alchemical Decknamen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 330
Skilled at Delay: George Herbert’s “Justice (I)”0
The Significance of a Single Letter and Word in Shakespeare0
Coleridge, Hamlet, and the Distortions of a Myriad Mind0
Helplessness of Resistance: Thoreauvian Intellectuals in Paul Auster’s Sunset Park0
Jonson’s Two Prologues to Epicœne : Libel, Print, and Play0
Looking for Kevin: A Rereading of Rosaleen O’Toole’s Journey in Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Cracked Looking-Glass”0
Love as Suffering (Passion) in Dryden’s All for Love0
The fourfold in Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet0
The Choice of Hercules in Middlemarch0
Snodgrass’ (In-)conveniently selected memories: Reclaiming parental identity in “Heart’s Needle”0
Crossing the Queensboro Bridge: Gatsby, Automobiles, and Immigrant Mobility in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker0
Madness as Resilience in Henry Chettle’s The Tragedy of Hoffman0
The Underthought of John Milton’s Samson Agonistes in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “My own heart let me more have pity on.”0
A Weak Reading of Stephen Crane’s Maggie, A Girl of the Streets0
Wollstonecraft’s critical reviews on Gilpin’s picturesque0
The Subaltern in the Ibis Trilogy0
Vague Local Deities and the Franks Casket’s Erta0
“Ma soul’s a Witness for de Waldorf-Astoria!” Langston Hughes’s Poetic Hotel Advertisement0
Sullen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 290
Failed Seduction: Narratorial Authority in Katherine Mansfield’s “a Dill Pickle”0
“Forgyd Taylis”: A Gloss on line 43 of Thomas Wyatt or Pseudo-Wyatt’s “O Cruel Heart”0
Oriental Spice-Plants in an English Garden: Explaining a Natural Impossibility in Pearl0
Of Precarious Hospitality: George Meredith’s Sonnet XVII, “At Dinner She Is Hostess”0
Capitalism as Religion in Bambara’s “The Lesson”0
Atheism vs Theism: Conflict and Ambiguity in Dylan Thomas’s “Poem on his Birthday”0
“A Joke in a German Paper”: Uncovering a Neglected Reference in D. H. Lawrence’s “Do Women Change”0
Unraveling the Yarn at the Center of Mary Wilkins Freeman’s “The Lost Ghost”0
Ted Hughes’s “The Jaguar” and Animal Ethics0
“A Mind of Winter”: Affect in Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man”0
“A Striking Likeness”: Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent0
Caesar’s Hands in Titus Andronicus0
The Old English Fates of the Apostles : A Note on lēofe on līfe , l. 6a0
“The spatial symbolism of Gregor’s room in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis0
Bosola’s Envy in The Duchess of Malfi0
Thomas Lodge’s Life and Works: A Mutual Looking-Glass for the Elizabethan Age0
The Tiger-Woman in “Tale of Hemetes the Heremyte” (1575)0
Gender Performance in Jim Shepard’s “Minotaur”0
Geography and history in Waltharius0
The Cheshire Cat in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland : Anthropomorphism and Childhood as Socialization0
“Careful Not to Bump her Head”: A Symbolic Meaning in Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman0
George Eliot’s Verse in Chapter 38 of Daniel Deronda0
A Portrait of the Teacher as a Young Man: Stephen Dedalus in Nestor0
“Insensible Unrest”: William Wordsworth’s Revisions to Charlotte Smith’s “Written in the Church Yard at Middleton in Sussex”0
Weaponizing the Womb: Militarized Maternity and Corrupted Virtue in Coriolanus0
Women and the Bicycle in D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and The Lost Girl0
A Highbury Street View0
“Winter’s got to begin sometime”: Doctor Selgrove in Edith Wharton’s “All Souls’”0
A Tale of Two Fools: Middleton, Shakespeare, and Co-Authorship in Timon of Athens and King Lear0
She Is Not Only Tired but Also Sick: Illness and Inertia in James Joyce’s “Eveline”0
Symbolic Images of Butterflies in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek0
The Jacqueminot Rose in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence0
Embedding the Unconscious in the Conscious: John Ashbery’s Sestina “The Painter” Revisited0
Speculative Fiction and Empathy: A Case Study of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower0
A She-Wolf’s Counsel: Brunechildis and Her Grandsons in the Chronicle of Fredegar0
A reparative reading of Toni Morrison’s Beloved0
Words as Readymade: Mina Loy’s Verbal Portraiture of “Gertrude Stein” and “Joyce’s Ulysses”0
The Closet Scenes of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge0
Reading Metrical Ambiguity in John Skelton’s a Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell0
Body Narratives in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun0
The Parody of Holy Communion in John Donne’s TWICKENHAM GARDEN0
Contemplating Stars and Solving Mysteries: Rationality in Mark Haddon’s the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime0
“Let no Student… Take Anie Surfette of Cheries”: A Forgotten Early Modern Euphemism0
The Fantasy of Seduction in Kafka’s “The Silence of the Sirens”0
Extraordinary Countenance: An Examination of Gender and Sexual Identity Through Etymology in Nella Larsen’s Passing0
The Affective Agency of Objects: Alice’s Herbs in Mary Barton0
The Language of Tyranny in The Cenci : Detached Similes, Vital Metaphors0
Lyrical epiphanies in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun0
The typewriter erased: Ecocritical silence in The Waste Land drafts0
Shakespeare and the Non-Jonsonian Court Masques0
The Image of the Stove in A Doll House0
Teeth as Metaphors in Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King0
Obligation’s Ghosts: MacIntyre, Beckett, and Metafictive Ends0
“O my prophetique soule”: Shakespeare’s influence on Fletcher and Massinger’s The Double Marriage0
Thomas Nashe: Balladeer0
“Weaves of Homely Stuff”: Ecological Formings in John Clare’s “Birds Nests”0
Disability and the Scene of Learning in Shakespeare, Lope, Ariosto0
The Lack of Lovemaking in Roman Love Elegy: The Example of Ovid’s Amores I.50
Prince Prospero and the Art of Predestinated Destruction0
William James’s Metaphysical Revelation in Sherwood Anderson’s “Tandy”0
“The Vain Lustre of Imagined Crowns”: Light and Dark Imagery in Marriage a la Mode0
“Why Westward Turn?”: Keats’s Turn Away from the Dolphin’s Turn0
“Born in the Wrong Body”: Fragmentation of the Self in Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis0
“Spectral Gateways” and the “Horror of the City Road”: A Surreal Connection between The Great Gatsby and The Rainbow0
Correction0
Elision and the Numbers in “We are seven”0
Reconsidering the Hūgas : ethnonymy and historical memory in Beowulf0
TWELFTH NIGHT: Malvolio and the Tudor Heresy Trials0
Rintrah’s Swagger: On not Understanding Blake’s Argument0
An Eye for an Eye: Dickinson’s Vision and Emerson’s Visuality0
Pain and Gender in Hemingway’s “Indian Camp”0
Mirabai and the Ethic of Universal Suffering: Reading Bhajans in Indian Pedagogy0
Rereading the Beast’s Clothing in “The Tiger’s Bride”0
Experiencing an Affective Shift: Bonding Unreliability in The Remains of the Day0
The Deep Time of Local Color: Arctic Planetarity and Storytelling in The Country of the Pointed Firs0
Body and perception reshaped by influenza pandemic in MRS DALLOWAY0
The Face of the Other in Home0
Blood and Mud in Shelley’s “England in 1819.”0
The generative nature of diasporic spaces in Samuel Selvon’s “Come Back to Grenada” and Moyez G. Vassanji’s “Refugee”0
Intermedial Musicality in On Chesil Beach0
The Self, the Body and the World in Wallace Stevens’s “Tea at the Palaz of Hoon”0
Lyric Space in Lorine Niedecker’s Poetry0
The Phenomena of Nothingness in de la Mare’s “The Listeners”0
Divinity and Decadence within Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
“Moses Was’nt Fairly Used—”: In the Footsteps of Harriet Tubman in Emily Dickinson’s “So I Pull My Stockings Off”0
Revisiting Coleridge’s “Instead of the Cross, the Albatross About my Neck was Hung”0
Levin’s hunting in Anna Karenina0
The Exile Within: An LGBTQ+ Reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Prodigal”0
“This Leaving-Out Business”: Minimalist Techniques in John Ashbery’s Poetry0
Work and Fraternity in Levine’s “What Work is”0
History and Fantasy in George Peele’s David and Bathsheba0
Ambiguity in Yeats’s “the Hosting of the Sidhe”0
Through the Looking-Glass Cabinet: A (Very) Close Reading of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence0
Seamus Heaney’s “Failed” Elegy and the Nonhuman Subject: A Reading of “Widgeon”0
Daisy Fay’s Maternity: A Revision to the Chronology of The Great Gatsby0
“Trivial yet serious”: Re-Reading the fan in Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s fan0
The formal mechanism of the boat in William Wordsworth’s The Prelude (1850) and in Winslow Homer’s The fog Warning 0
Singing Obedience, Speaking Violence: Desdemona’s “swansong” in Othello0
Tall Trees: A Proposed New Meaning for a Label on the Franks Casket0
Hearing is Believing: Sounds in Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”0
The Lacanian subject in Robert Frost’s “the road not taken”0
Metaphor and meaning in Hart Crane’s “Voyages II”0
Clues among the Clutter: Circling Back with Jane Austen’s Miss Bates0
Invisible burdens: Financial strain, social expectation, and clerical life in George Eliot’s “the sad fortunes of the reverend Amos Barton”0
The End of History in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections0
Trauma and the Holocaust in John Banville’s Shroud0
John Florio’s Second Fruits and the Theater of Life0
“Ye Came for Gold, Ye Slaves”: Irony of Paragone in Timon of Athens0
William Wordsworth, Edward Rushton, and Toussaint L’Ouverture0
Carving the I/Eye: The Chiasmus Structure in A. C. Swinburne’s “Hermaphroditus”0
“Absent subjectivity in Poe’s THE MAN OF THE CROWD”0
Tolkien, Shakespeare, Trees, and The Lord of the Rings0
Tamburlaine’s Asiatic Style and Shakespeare’s First Plays0
Reading between the Stanzas of W. B. Yeats’s “Among School Children”0
Hamlet’s Problems0
“Us He Devours”: Christianity and Its Use of Human Fear in T. S. Eliot’s “Gerontion”10
Isabella’s Silence and Philocalia’s Absence0
Journey of the Magi(strate): Reading J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians through T. S. Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi”0
The Wartime State and the Cigarette: Darkness and Temporality in Pale Horse, Pale Rider0
Pleading with the King: The Representation of Sarah as Queen and Noblewoman in Genesis A0
Byron’s Speed: The Giaour0
“He was not a Mozart”: irony in Aldous Huxley’s “Young Archimedes”0
Kindness and Sympathy in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility0
Out of Nothing: The Theory of Omission and Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”0
Whose Slavery is it?: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad0
“That Death Has No Meaning”: The Imitation and Adaptation of Ernest Hemingway in Cormac McCarthy’s The Counselor0
Rereading Cynewulf’s Elene Line 140b: In Defense of the Manuscript0
Resisting Defense in Moore’s “Armor’s Undermining Modesty”0
Romantic-era explicating and The Explicator ’s romantic era0
Introducing Shakespeare and His Contemporaries0
Rereading the Postscript in “Bartleby, the Scrivener”0
Thoreau’s philosophy of work in frost’s “mowing”0
Poetry’s politics for the poor: Charlotte Smith and Anna Barbauld0
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
“Surprized by Joy”: William Wordsworth’s Elegiac Reverse0
Moral Dogma and Ethical Relativity in Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly0
Shelley’s Mont Blanc and the Voice of Manuscript0
Absalom, Absalom! And Acts Misreading0
Religion and the Theology of Love in W. H. Auden’s “Stop all the clocks”0
The Origins of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Mirkwood Revisited0
Floods and the divine: a Blue Humanities case study using Their Eyes Were Watching God0
Middle English araten and Scenes of Condescension in Piers Plowman0
The Nexus of Literacy and Morality in Edith Wharton’s “Bunner Sisters”0
Inherent advice: Pynchon’s earnest counsel in Slow Learner0
Crocodile Narratives and the Construction of African Natural Space in Tamburlaine the Great0
Victoria Chang’s poetic signature0
Facing Autobiography in The Prelude0
MUCH MADNESS: The Horatian Conceit of the Mad Poet in Emily Dickinson0
Language and Origin in John Ashbery’s “Myrtle”0
Dickinson’s Click0
“It Shall Be Set in Imperishable Crystal”: A Representation of Hair Memorabilia in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings0
Why Thoreau Spent a Night in Jail0
Dawn of Britain: A New Interpretation of “Dawn” in Martineau’s Dawn Island0
Sound, Ambiguity, and Subjectivity in Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
“Quite Convivial”: A Butler’s Duty in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day0
“Of coyotes and werewolves: Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero0
Parameters of Outdoing Oneself: A Reconsideration of the Bipartite Structure of Early Romance Poetry0
“Hallow’d Mold”: Collins’s “Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746” (“How Sleep the Brave”)0
Operatic Elements in Eileen Chang’s The Rouge of the North0
The Image of the Biblical Ruth in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”0
Temporality in The Overstory by Richard Powers0
A literal reading of the shadow in “Ligeia:” Coleridge’s remarks on Ghosts and Poe’s poetics of misdirection0
Metaphor and Architectural space in Emily Dickinson’s “I Dwell in Possibility”0
Irritable Lines: The Revision of Shakespeare’s Blank Verse in Robert Creeley’s “The Crisis”0
Queer Attachments in Tennessee Williams’ “Portrait of a Girl in Glass”0
We Are All Cain: Thomas Wolfe’s Transformation of Biblical Myth in “The Lost Boy”0
Symbolic meanings of a caged parrot in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek0
Love Me or Else: Keats’s Impossible Desires in “I Cry Your Mercy”0
Imagining Eternity in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Late Poetry0
The Epistolary Narrative in Atonement0
‘Ac ic to þam grunde genge’: an analogue for Genesis B, line 834a0
Explaining explanation in S. T. Coleridge’s rime of the ancient mariner0
A New Source for the Unnamed phisicien in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess0
Historiography in Richard Wilbur’s “Looking into History”0
Mary Shelton’s Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript0
Winston’s Parallel Universe: On History in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four0
Coleridge’’s "Lines to Charlotte Brent,"Punning,and the Tyrant Pain: Interpreting a Lost Poem"0
Translated China in Journey to a War0
The Form of Evil in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”0
A third biblical foundation of James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”0
The Influence of Jacob Boehme’s Aurora on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian0
Aragorn, Sovereignty, and Mortality in Tolkien’s Mythic Historiography0
Demogorgon’s “Spells” and Blackwood’s Magazine: The Last Stanza of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound0
The economy of Paulina’s demand in the Winter’s Tale0
“A Truly Carnivalesque Death”: On Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”0
Lucan on Human Sacrifice and the God Esus0
Suggested Sources for The Faithful Friends (ca 1613-1620)0
Consent, rape and pollution: the context of Hrosvitha’s Dulcitius0
“Reading the Baseball”: American Cultural Imperialism in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea0
Heathcliff as the masculine counterpart of androgynous Catherine in Wuthering Heights0
Diary of a bad week: the tedium of the Remains of the Day0
The Native Christianity of Samson Occom’s “The Sufferings of Christ”0
Queer Desires in “The Daemon Lover” and “Trial by Combat”0
A Rite of Passage in Shakespeare’sLOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST:5.2.786-8060
Beowulfian Archetypes: The Case of Hrómundr Gripsson0
The Perils Of Being “Nice”: Stephen’s Dilemma in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man0
More Echoes of Geoffrey of Monmouth in St. Erkenwald0
Double Sonnets in Keats’s “I Stood Tip-Toe upon a Little Hill”0
Laughing Gas and Involuntary Laughter in The Chimes0
The Ambivalent Garden and Wordsworth’s Shadow in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Deserted Garden”0
The Dragon’s Ecological Warning in John Gardner’s Grendel0
“The Work Wisdom of ‘From Plane to Plane’”0
Surprised by Sin: Medical Metaphors and Secular Eschatology in Ian McEwan’sSaturday0
Auden, Carnival and “The Love Feast”0
“Father,” “Son,” and Profane Ghost: an Unholy Trinity in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw0
Seascape, Divine Power, and Megincraft in the Old Saxon Heliand0
The New England Work Ethic and Robert Frost’s “The Code”0
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