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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Exploring Therapeutic Dynamics in Anne Sexton’s Confessional Poetry: Self-expression, Healing, and Narrative Dialogue2
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
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
A Resistant Reading of Emily Brontё’s “The Old Stoic”1
Correction1
Botanical Symbolism and the Death of Ophelia in Hamlet1
Modern punctuation of Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale: Line 9641
Political Rumination and Imagination in Anna Burns’s Milkman1
Paradise or Paralysis: Mary Shelley’s Ambivalence in Frankenstein1
The Closet Scenes of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge0
Body and perception reshaped by influenza pandemic in MRS DALLOWAY0
“Hallow’d Mold”: Collins’s “Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746” (“How Sleep the Brave”)0
Seamus Heaney’s “Failed” Elegy and the Nonhuman Subject: A Reading of “Widgeon”0
MUCH MADNESS: The Horatian Conceit of the Mad Poet in Emily Dickinson0
Poetics of Touch and Female Fetishism in Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel (2003)0
A Window on One’s Identity: Cultural Identity In Chinua Achebe’s “The Sacrificial Egg”0
We Are All Cain: Thomas Wolfe’s Transformation of Biblical Myth in “The Lost Boy”0
“The spatial symbolism of Gregor’s room in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis0
The Tiger-Woman in “Tale of Hemetes the Heremyte” (1575)0
Thomas Nashe: Balladeer0
Wallace Stevens’s “The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain”0
Metaphor and Architectural space in Emily Dickinson’s “I Dwell in Possibility”0
Vague Local Deities and the Franks Casket’s Erta0
A third biblical foundation of James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”0
Aragorn, Sovereignty, and Mortality in Tolkien’s Mythic Historiography0
The New England Work Ethic and Robert Frost’s “The Code”0
Symbolic Images of Butterflies in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek0
‘Ac ic to þam grunde genge’: an analogue for Genesis B, line 834a0
Failed Seduction: Narratorial Authority in Katherine Mansfield’s “a Dill Pickle”0
The Cheshire Cat in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland : Anthropomorphism and Childhood as Socialization0
Lucan on Human Sacrifice and the God Esus0
Victoria Chang’s poetic signature0
Blood and Mud in Shelley’s “England in 1819.”0
Madness as Resilience in Henry Chettle’s The Tragedy of Hoffman0
Suggested Sources for The Faithful Friends (ca 1613-1620)0
Wollstonecraft’s critical reviews on Gilpin’s picturesque0
The Image of the Biblical Ruth in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”0
“A Mind of Winter”: Affect in Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man”0
Translated China in Journey to a War0
If As I Lay Dying is a mock-epic, what is being mocked?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
Resisting Defense in Moore’s “Armor’s Undermining Modesty”0
Heathcliff as the masculine counterpart of androgynous Catherine in Wuthering Heights0
Carving the I/Eye: The Chiasmus Structure in A. C. Swinburne’s “Hermaphroditus”0
“Quite Convivial”: A Butler’s Duty in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day0
The End of History in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections0
Reading between the Stanzas of W. B. Yeats’s “Among School Children”0
Auden, Carnival and “The Love Feast”0
“Us He Devours”: Christianity and Its Use of Human Fear in T. S. Eliot’s “Gerontion”10
Jonson’s Two Prologues to Epicœne : Libel, Print, and Play0
The Jacqueminot Rose in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence0
Isabella’s Silence and Philocalia’s Absence0
“Winter’s got to begin sometime”: doctor Selgrove in Edith Wharton’s “all souls’”0
The Fantasy of Seduction in Kafka’s “The Silence of the Sirens”0
Guthlac A line 475a: textual criticism and metrical decontraction0
Maggie’s death and Dorothea’s growth — the sublimation of passion in George Eliot’s novels0
A literal reading of the shadow in “Ligeia:” Coleridge’s remarks on Ghosts and Poe’s poetics of misdirection0
Journey of the Magi(strate): Reading J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians through T. S. Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi”0
Moral Dogma and Ethical Relativity in Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly0
The Parody of Holy Communion in John Donne’s TWICKENHAM GARDEN0
The Significance of a Single Letter and Word in Shakespeare0
Correction0
Thomas Lodge’s Life and Works: A Mutual Looking-Glass for the Elizabethan Age0
“Father,” “Son,” and Profane Ghost: an Unholy Trinity in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw0
From the Penile to the Pinnal: Anatomizing Louis Chu’s Eat a Bowl of Tea0
Trauma and the Holocaust in John Banville’s Shroud0
Tamburlaine’s Asiatic Style and Shakespeare’s First Plays0
Mirabai and the Ethic of Universal Suffering: Reading Bhajans in Indian Pedagogy0
Looking for Kevin: A Rereading of Rosaleen O’Toole’s Journey in Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Cracked Looking-Glass”0
Unraveling the Yarn at the Center of Mary Wilkins Freeman’s “The Lost Ghost”0
The Subaltern in the Ibis Trilogy0
Love as Suffering (Passion) in Dryden’s All for Love0
Capitalism as Religion in Bambara’s “The Lesson”0
“Ma soul’s a Witness for de Waldorf-Astoria!” Langston Hughes’s Poetic Hotel Advertisement0
The Underthought of John Milton’s Samson Agonistes in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “My own heart let me more have pity on.”0
Winston’s Parallel Universe: On History in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four0
The Native Christianity of Samson Occom’s “The Sufferings of Christ”0
Dickinson’s click0
“Of coyotes and werewolves: Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero0
Revisiting Coleridge’s “Instead of the Cross, the Albatross About my Neck was Hung”0
Intermedial musicality in On Chesil Beach0
Work and Fraternity in Levine’s “What Work is”0
Tolkien, Shakespeare, Trees, and The Lord of the Rings0
Oriental Spice-Plants in an English Garden: Explaining a Natural Impossibility in Pearl0
The Old English Fates of the Apostles : A Note on lēofe on līfe , l. 6a0
Atheism vs Theism: Conflict and Ambiguity in Dylan Thomas’s “Poem on his Birthday”0
A Portrait of the Teacher as a Young Man: Stephen Dedalus in Nestor0
Queer Attachments in Tennessee Williams’ “Portrait of a Girl in Glass”0
Tall Trees: A Proposed New Meaning for a Label on the Franks Casket0
The Perils Of Being “Nice”: Stephen’s Dilemma in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man0
Body Narratives in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun0
A Post-pastoral Reading of Ron Rash’s “Speckled Trout”0
A Tale of Two Fools: Middleton, Shakespeare, and Co-Authorship in Timon of Athens and King Lear0
“The Work Wisdom of ‘From Plane to Plane’”0
“Absent subjectivity in Poe’s THE MAN OF THE CROWD”0
Shakespeare’s Tempest Line 1786: “Wise” or “Wife”0
John Florio’s Second Fruits and the Theater of Life0
Pleading with the King: The Representation of Sarah as Queen and Noblewoman in Genesis A0
Crossing the Queensboro Bridge: Gatsby, Automobiles, and Immigrant Mobility in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker0
Rappaccini’s Queer Daughter: Gender Non-Conformity in “Rappaccini’s Daughter”0
Gender Performance in Jim Shepard’s “Minotaur”0
“Seascape, Divine Power, and Megincraft in the Old Saxon Heliand”0
William James’s Metaphysical Revelation in Sherwood Anderson’s “Tandy”0
Middle English araten and Scenes of Condescension in Piers Plowman0
Mary Shelton’s Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript0
The economy of Paulina’s demand in the Winter’s Tale0
More echoes of Geoffrey of Monmouth in St. Erkenwald0
The Dragon’s Ecological Warning in John Gardner’s Grendel0
Seamus Heaney’s “Clearances: ‘III’”0
The Exile Within: An LGBTQ+ Reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Prodigal”0
The Wartime State and the Cigarette: Darkness and Temporality in Pale Horse, Pale Rider0
Women and the Bicycle in D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and The Lost Girl0
Prince Prospero and the Art of Predestinated Destruction0
“Forgyd Taylis”: A Gloss on line 43 of Thomas Wyatt or Pseudo-Wyatt’s “O Cruel Heart”0
“A Truly Carnivalesque Death”: On Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”0
Silko’s Narrative Negotiation of the Rain Man’s Rites of the Passage0
Consent, rape and pollution: the context of Hrosvitha’s Dulcitius0
“It Shall Be Set in Imperishable Crystal”: A Representation of Hair Memorabilia in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings0
Religion and the Theology of Love in W. H. Auden’s “Stop all the clocks”0
Alchemical Decknamen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 330
Samuel Beckett, Max Nordau, and the Worms of How It Is0
A Rite of Passage in Shakespeare’sLOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST:5.2.786-8060
Introducing Shakespeare and His Contemporaries0
The Epistolary Narrative in Atonement0
Sound, Ambiguity, and Subjectivity in Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
Ted Hughes’s “The Jaguar” and Animal Ethics0
Reading Metrical Ambiguity in John Skelton’s a Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell0
Skilled at Delay: George Herbert’s “Justice (I)”0
Absalom, Absalom! And Acts Misreading0
“Spectral Gateways” and the “Horror of the City Road”: A Surreal Connection between The Great Gatsby and The Rainbow0
Carnivalesque Imagery in Stevens’ “THE EMPEROR OF ICE-CREAM”0
Experiencing an Affective Shift: Bonding Unreliability in The Remains of the Day0
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
The Choice of Hercules in Middlemarch0
Why Thoreau Spent a Night in Jail0
“O my prophetique soule”: Shakespeare’s influence on Fletcher and Massinger’s The Double Marriage0
“This Leaving-Out Business”: Minimalist Techniques in John Ashbery’s Poetry0
Extraordinary Countenance: An Examination of Gender and Sexual Identity Through Etymology in Nella Larsen’s Passing0
Irritable Lines: The Revision of Shakespeare’s Blank Verse in Robert Creeley’s “The Crisis”0
Language and Origin in John Ashbery’s “Myrtle”0
Embedding the Unconscious in the Conscious: John Ashbery’s Sestina “The Painter” Revisited0
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
“Keep Chaos Out, Order In”: Grid and Architectural Space in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One0
“The Vain Lustre of Imagined Crowns”: Light and Dark Imagery in Marriage a la Mode0
Divinity and Decadence within Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
Marvell’s “the unfortunate lover”0
Symbolic meanings of a caged parrot in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek0
Contemplating Stars and Solving Mysteries: Rationality in Mark Haddon’s the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime0
The Ambivalent Garden and Wordsworth’s Shadow in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Deserted Garden”0
History and Fantasy in George Peele’s David and Bathsheba0
Revisiting the Tortoiseshell Cat: Subjectivity and Discursive Dilemma of the American wife in Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain”0
“Obligation’s Ghosts: MacIntyre, Beckett, and Metafictive Ends”0
A reparative reading of Toni Morrison’s Beloved0
Rereading Cynewulf’s Elene Line 140b: In Defense of the Manuscript0
Ambiguity in Yeats’s “the Hosting of the Sidhe”0
On the cyclical movement in John Keats’s “to autumn”0
Shakespeare and the Non-Jonsonian Court Masques0
Hearing is Believing: Sounds in Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”0
TWELFTH NIGHT: Malvolio and the Tudor Heresy Trials0
Helplessness of Resistance: Thoreauvian Intellectuals in Paul Auster’s Sunset Park0
Surprised by Sin: Medical Metaphors and Secular Eschatology in Ian McEwan’sSaturday0
Laughing Gas and Involuntary Laughter in The Chimes0
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
Kindness and Sympathy in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility0
Singing Obedience, Speaking Violence: Desdemona’s “swansong” in Othello0
Lyric Space in Lorine Niedecker’s Poetry0
Hamlet’s Problems0
The Face of the Other in Home0
“Careful Not to Bump her Head”: A Symbolic Meaning in Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman0
Disability and the Scene of Learning in Shakespeare, Lope, Ariosto0
She Is Not Only Tired but Also Sick: Illness and Inertia in James Joyce’s “Eveline”0
“He was not a Mozart”: irony in Aldous Huxley’s “young Archimedes”0
Caesar’s Hands in Titus Andronicus0
The Lacanian subject in Robert Frost’s “the road not taken”0
Teeth as Metaphors in Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King0
Words as Readymade: Mina Loy’s Verbal Portraiture of “Gertrude Stein” and “Joyce’s Ulysses”0
"The First Three Shots": A Subtle Warning in Richard Connell’s "The Most Dangerous Game"0
The Phenomena of Nothingness in de la Mare’s “The Listeners”0
Rereading the Postscript in “Bartleby, the Scrivener”0
Beowulf and Freawaru0
“Trick or Treat!”: The Trickster Figure in Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr Rosewater and Slapstick0
Queer Desires in “The Daemon Lover” and “Trial by Combat”0
Thoreau’s philosophy of work in frost’s “mowing”0
“Monsters Worse to Come”: A Reconsideration of the Influence of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Upon Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God0
“A Hunger Artist”: As An Art Performance0
“Ye Came for Gold, Ye Slaves”: Irony of Paragone in Timon of Athens0
Out of Nothing: The Theory of Omission and Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”0
Whose Feathers were Borrowed? A Corpus Stylistic Approach to Richard Barnfield’s and William Shakespeare’s Poetry0
George Eliot’s verse in Chapter 38 of Daniel Deronda0
Whose Slavery is it?: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad0
“Born in the Wrong Body”: Fragmentation of the Self in Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis0
“A Joke in a German Paper”: Uncovering a Neglected Reference in D. H. Lawrence’s “Do Women Change”0
Inherent advice: Pynchon’s earnest counsel in Slow Learner0
Flannery O’Connor’s “The Displaced Person” and the Legacy of Lynching0
Imagining Eternity in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Late Poetry0
The Nexus of Literacy and Morality in Edith Wharton’s “Bunner Sisters”0
A New Source for the Unnamed phisicien in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess0
Pain and Gender in Hemingway’s “Indian Camp”0
The romance of Tristan and Isolde in Kristin Lavransdatter0
Beowulfian Archetypes: The Case of Hrómundr Gripsson0
Temporality in The Overstory by Richard Powers0
The Image of the Stove in A Doll House0
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