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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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The Phenomena of Nothingness in de la Mare’s “The Listeners”2
A literal reading of the shadow in “Ligeia:” Coleridge’s remarks on Ghosts and Poe’s poetics of misdirection2
“Quite Convivial”: A Butler’s Duty in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day1
Remnants of the Past and the Quest for Identity: Reading August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson in the Context of Collective Memory1
“Ma soul’s a Witness for de Waldorf-Astoria!” Langston Hughes’s Poetic Hotel Advertisement1
Atheism vs Theism: Conflict and Ambiguity in Dylan Thomas’s “Poem on his Birthday”1
Ted Hughes’s “The Jaguar” and Animal Ethics1
Dysfunctional tribalism in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises1
“This Leaving-Out Business”: Minimalist Techniques in John Ashbery’s Poetry1
“The spatial symbolism of Gregor’s room in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis1
MUCH MADNESS: The Horatian Conceit of the Mad Poet in Emily Dickinson1
Maggie’s death and Dorothea’s growth — the sublimation of passion in George Eliot’s novels1
Unraveling the Yarn at the Center of Mary Wilkins Freeman’s “The Lost Ghost”1
Skilled at Delay: George Herbert’s “Justice (I)”0
Whose feathers were borrowed? A corpus stylistic approach to Richard Barnfield’s and William Shakespeare’s poetry0
Symbolic Images of Butterflies in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek0
Embedding the Unconscious in the Conscious: John Ashbery’s Sestina “The Painter” Revisited0
Language and Origin in John Ashbery’s “Myrtle”0
Levin’s hunting in Anna Karenina0
Thomas Nashe: Balladeer0
Dickinson’s daisy/sun(set), Daoism, and Emerson0
The Face of the Other in Home0
Blood and Mud in Shelley’s “England in 1819.”0
Love as Suffering (Passion) in Dryden’s All for Love0
Winston’s Parallel Universe: On History in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four0
Queer Attachments in Tennessee Williams’ “Portrait of a Girl in Glass”0
Tamburlaine’s Asiatic Style and Shakespeare’s First Plays0
Queer Desires in “The Daemon Lover” and “Trial by Combat”0
Flannery O’Connor’s “The Displaced Person” and the Legacy of Lynching0
Why Thoreau Spent a Night in Jail0
The Parody of Holy Communion in John Donne’s TWICKENHAM GARDEN0
The Subaltern in the Ibis Trilogy0
“It Shall Be Set in Imperishable Crystal”: A Representation of Hair Memorabilia in Tolkien’sThe Lord of the Rings0
Seven years in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment0
The Image of the Stove in A Doll House0
Extraordinary Countenance: An Examination of Gender and Sexual Identity Through Etymology in Nella Larsen’s Passing0
Intermedial musicality in On Chesil Beach0
Heathcliff as the masculine counterpart of androgynous Catherine in Wuthering Heights0
“Keep Chaos Out, Order In”: Grid and Architectural Space in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One0
Middle English araten and Scenes of Condescension in Piers Plowman0
Wulf and Eadwacer, eddic verse, and aural aesthetics0
Rereading the Postscript in “Bartleby, the Scrivener”0
Wollstonecraft’s critical reviews on Gilpin’s picturesque0
Inherent advice: Pynchon’s earnest counsel in Slow Learner0
Hearing is Believing: Sounds in Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”0
“A Mind of Winter”: Affect in Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man”0
Auden, Carnival and “The Love Feast”0
Thomas Hardy’s Racialization of English Natives in The Return of the Native0
The Fantasy of Seduction in Kafka’s “The Silence of the Sirens”0
Alchemical Decknamen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 330
Beowulfian Archetypes: The Case of Hrómundr Gripsson0
Thoreau’s philosophy of work in frost’s “mowing”0
Mirabai and the Ethic of Universal Suffering: Reading Bhajans in Indian Pedagogy0
Guthlac A line 475a: textual criticism and metrical decontraction0
Claudia Rankine and Robert Lowell, Again0
A Tale of Two Fools: Middleton, Shakespeare, and Co-Authorship in Timon of Athens and King Lear0
“Spectral Gateways” and the “Horror of the City Road”: A Surreal Connection between The Great Gatsby and The Rainbow0
A reparative reading of Toni Morrison’s Beloved0
Carnivalesque Imagery in Stevens’ “THE EMPEROR OF ICE-CREAM”0
George Eliot’s verse in Chapter 38 of Daniel Deronda0
The Tiger-Woman in “Tale of Hemetes the Heremyte” (1575)0
Religion and the Theology of Love in W. H. Auden’s “Stop all the clocks”0
“Absent subjectivity in Poe’s THE MAN OF THE CROWD”0
Correction0
Exploring Therapeutic Dynamics in Anne Sexton’s Confessional Poetry: Self-expression, Healing, and Narrative Dialogue0
Moderately and melodiously: Of music education in Marguerite Duras’s Moderato Cantabile0
“Careful Not to Bump her Head”: A Symbolic Meaning in Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman0
Wallace Stevens’s “The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain”0
Prince Prospero and the Art of Predestinated Destruction0
History and Fantasy in George Peele’s David and Bathsheba0
Teeth as Metaphors in Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King0
Looking for Kevin: A Rereading of Rosaleen O’Toole’s Journey in Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Cracked Looking-Glass”0
Seamus Heaney’s “Clearances: ‘III’”0
Beowulf and Freawaru0
On the Emendation of The Phoenix lines 164–65 and The Wife’s Lament line 420
The Wartime State and the Cigarette: Darkness and Temporality in Pale Horse, Pale Rider0
Kindness and Sympathy in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility0
"The First Three Shots": A Subtle Warning in Richard Connell’s "The Most Dangerous Game"0
Divinity and Decadence within Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
Gender Performance in Jim Shepard’s “Minotaur”0
Revisiting Coleridge’s “Instead of the Cross, the Albatross About my Neck was Hung”0
Tall Trees: A Proposed New Meaning for a Label on the Franks Casket0
Dawn of Britain: A New Interpretation of “Dawn” in Martineau’s Dawn Island0
Mary Shelton’s Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript0
TWELFTH NIGHT: Malvolio and the Tudor Heresy Trials0
Singing Obedience, Speaking Violence: Desdemona’s “swansong” in Othello0
Suggested Sources for The Faithful Friends (ca 1613-1620)0
“The Work Wisdom of ‘From Plane to Plane’”0
Marvell’s “the unfortunate lover”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
Absalom, Absalom! And Acts Misreading0
From “Haworth Churchyard” to “Courage”: Emily Brontë Perceived by Matthew Arnold0
A Post-pastoral Reading of Ron Rash’s “Speckled Trout”0
The Symbolic Fiction of Mr. Stevens: A Lacanian Reading of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day0
On the cyclical movement in John Keats’s “to autumn”0
Samuel Beckett, Max Nordau, and the Worms of How It Is0
The Deep Time of Local Color: Arctic Planetarity and Storytelling in The Country of the Pointed Firs0
Isabella’s silence and Philocalia’s absence0
The closet scenes of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge0
Pain and Gender in Hemingway’s “Indian Camp”0
“The Vain Lustre of Imagined Crowns”: Light and Dark Imagery in Marriage a la Mode0
Whose Slavery is it?: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad0
The Perils Of Being “Nice”: Stephen’s Dilemma in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man0
William James’s Metaphysical Revelation in Sherwood Anderson’s “Tandy”0
The Old English Fates of the Apostles : A Note on lēofe on līfe , l. 6a0
Irritable Lines: The Revision of Shakespeare’s Blank Verse in Robert Creeley’s “The Crisis”0
The Exile Within: An LGBTQ+ Reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Prodigal”0
Ambiguity in Yeats’s “the Hosting of the Sidhe”0
Public Gentility and Private Predation: German as a Linguistic Signal of Guilt in Lolita0
“A Truly Carnivalesque Death”: On Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”0
Revisiting the Tortoiseshell Cat: Subjectivity and Discursive Dilemma of the American wife in Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain”0
Tolkien, Shakespeare, Trees, and The Lord of the Rings0
Contemplating Stars and Solving Mysteries: Rationality in Mark Haddon’s the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime0
Women and the Bicycle in D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and The Lost Girl0
“Moses Was’nt Fairly Used—”: In the Footsteps of Harriet Tubman in Emily Dickinson’s “So I Pull My Stockings Off”0
The New England Work Ethic and Robert Frost’s “The Code”0
The economy of Paulina’s demand in the Winter’s Tale0
Seamus Heaney’s “Failed” Elegy and the Nonhuman Subject: A Reading of “Widgeon”0
A Rite of Passage in Shakespeare’sLOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST:5.2.786-8060
Body Narratives in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun0
The Lacanian subject in Robert Frost’s “the road not taken”0
Disability and the Scene of Learning in Shakespeare, Lope, Ariosto0
The Image of the Biblical Ruth in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”0
Tess Too? Revisiting the Chase Scene in Tess of the d'Urbervilles in the #MeToo Era0
Thomas Lodge’s Life and Works: A Mutual Looking-Glass for the Elizabethan Age0
Lyric Space in Lorine Niedecker’s Poetry0
Paradise or Paralysis: Mary Shelley’s Ambivalence in Frankenstein0
“Ethical” or “Ethnical”?: Some Textual Errors in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird0
Political Rumination and Imagination in Anna Burns’s Milkman0
“O my prophetique soule”: Shakespeare’s influence on Fletcher and Massinger’s The Double Marriage0
“Born in the Wrong Body”: Fragmentation of the Self in Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis0
“A Shared Passion”: Baseball as a Generational and Cultural Bridge in Monica Sone’s Nisei Daughter0
Narratives of “borders conquered, disfigured” in Myung Mi Kim’s Under Flag0
Jonson’s Two Prologues to Epicœne : Libel, Print, and Play0
Reading between the Stanzas of W. B. Yeats’s “Among School Children”0
Resisting Defense in Moore’s “Armor’s Undermining Modesty”0
“Forgyd Taylis”: A Gloss on line 43 of Thomas Wyatt or Pseudo-Wyatt’s “O Cruel Heart”0
Silko’s Narrative Negotiation of the Rain Man’s Rites of the Passage0
Temporality in The Overstory by Richard Powers0
“Of coyotes and werewolves: Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero0
Color Symbolisms of Diseases: Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”0
Correction0
Trauma and the Holocaust in John Banville’s Shroud0
A Window on One’s Identity: Cultural Identity In Chinua Achebe’s “The Sacrificial Egg”0
A third biblical foundation of James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”0
The Epistolary Narrative in Atonement0
“Us He Devours”: Christianity and Its Use of Human Fear in T. S. Eliot’s “Gerontion”10
Surprised by Sin: Medical Metaphors and Secular Eschatology in Ian McEwan’sSaturday0
A New Source for the Unnamed phisicien in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess0
The Underthought of John Milton’s Samson Agonistes in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “My own heart let me more have pity on.”0
Failed Seduction: Narratorial Authority in Katherine Mansfield’s “a Dill Pickle”0
From the Penile to the Pinnal: Anatomizing Louis Chu’s Eat a Bowl of Tea0
Caesar’s Hands in Titus Andronicus0
“A Hunger Artist”: As An Art Performance0
“He was not a Mozart”: irony in Aldous Huxley’s “young Archimedes”0
Imagining Eternity in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Late Poetry0
The Significance of a Single Letter and Word in Shakespeare0
Pleading with the King: The Representation of Sarah as Queen and Noblewoman in Genesis A0
Geography in Bret Harte’s “The Luck of Roaring Camp”0
Madness as Resilience in Henry Chettle’s The Tragedy of Hoffman0
Rappaccini’s Queer Daughter: Gender Non-Conformity in “Rappaccini’s Daughter”0
Modern punctuation of Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale: Line 9640
Hamlet’s Problems0
Laughing Gas and Involuntary Laughter in The Chimes0
Shakespeare and the Non-Jonsonian Court Masques0
Modernity and Mobility: Re-reading Wordsworth and De Quincey0
Crossing the Queensboro Bridge: Gatsby, Automobiles, and Immigrant Mobility in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker0
An Eye for an Eye: Dickinson’s Vision and Emerson’s Visuality0
The End of History in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections0
If As I Lay Dying is a mock-epic, what is being mocked?0
The Ambivalent Garden and Wordsworth’s Shadow in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Deserted Garden”0
Babies in Bags: Dracula and The Importance of Being Earnest0
Words as Readymade: Mina Loy’s Verbal Portraiture of “Gertrude Stein” and “Joyce’s Ulysses”0
Carving the I/Eye: The Chiasmus Structure in A. C. Swinburne’s “Hermaphroditus”0
Victoria Chang’s poetic signature0
“Hallow’d Mold”: Collins’s “Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746” (“How Sleep the Brave”)0
Body and perception reshaped by influenza pandemic in MRS DALLOWAY0
Translated China in Journey to a War0
The romance of Tristan and Isolde in Kristin Lavransdatter0
Helplessness of Resistance: Thoreauvian Intellectuals in Paul Auster’s Sunset Park0
Introducing Shakespeare and His Contemporaries0
The Jacqueminot Rose in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence0
We Are All Cain: Thomas Wolfe’s Transformation of Biblical Myth in “The Lost Boy”0
“Winter’s got to begin sometime”: doctor Selgrove in Edith Wharton’s “all souls’”0
Work and Fraternity in Levine’s “What Work is”0
Symbolic meanings of a caged parrot in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek0
Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants”0
Rereading Cynewulf’s Elene Line 140b: In Defense of the Manuscript0
An Outcast in an Alien Land: The Metaphor of Dogs in Cormac McCarthy’sThe Crossing0
Alice Staverton as midwife in Henry James’s “the jolly corner”0
John Florio’s Second Fruits and the Theater of Life0
Lucan on Human Sacrifice and the God Esus0
“Monsters Worse to Come”: A Reconsideration of the Influence of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Upon Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God0
A Word on a Word in a Word in William Wordsworth’s THE SOLITARY REAPER0
Consent, rape and pollution: the context of Hrosvitha’s Dulcitius0
‘Ac ic to þam grunde genge’: an analogue for Genesis B, line 834a0
Operatic Elements in Eileen Chang’s The Rouge of the North0
Shakespeare’s Tempest Line 1786: “Wise” or “Wife”0
Moral Dogma and Ethical Relativity in Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly0
Metaphor and Architectural space in Emily Dickinson’s “I Dwell in Possibility”0
Capitalism as Religion in Bambara’s “The Lesson”0
“Father,” “Son,” and Profane Ghost: an Unholy Trinity in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw0
Poetics of Touch and Female Fetishism in Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel (2003)0
“Trick or Treat!”: The Trickster Figure in Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr Rosewater and Slapstick0
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