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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
On the Emendation of The Phoenix lines 164–65 and The Wife’s Lament line 423
Anne Elliot’s Blush: The Language of Feeling, and the Feeling of Language in Jane Austen’s Persuasion2
Exploring Therapeutic Dynamics in Anne Sexton’s Confessional Poetry: Self-expression, Healing, and Narrative Dialogue2
Bloom as Unprofessional Reader: Readerly Forgetting and Misremembering in Joyce’s Ulysses1
Claudia Rankine and Robert Lowell, Again1
Botanical Symbolism and the Death of Ophelia in Hamlet1
A Resistant Reading of Emily Brontё’s “The Old Stoic”1
Alice Staverton as Midwife in Henry James’s “The Jolly Corner”1
An Arc of Larks1
“Who dealt these cards?”: the dealer’s choice in Faulkner’s “was”1
Political Rumination and Imagination in Anna Burns’s Milkman1
Correction1
Poetics of Touch and Female Fetishism in Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel (2003)1
Thomas Hardy’s Racialization of English Natives in The Return of the Native1
Modern punctuation of Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale: Line 9641
Paradise or Paralysis: Mary Shelley’s Ambivalence in Frankenstein1
“Of a Thing Which Could not be Put Back”: The Symbolic and Ecological Implications of Morel Mushrooms in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road1
“Demaine” and the Illusion of Legitimacy in The Great Gatsby1
Helplessness of Resistance: Thoreauvian Intellectuals in Paul Auster’s Sunset Park0
Failed Seduction: Narratorial Authority in Katherine Mansfield’s “a Dill Pickle”0
Gender Performance in Jim Shepard’s “Minotaur”0
Queer Attachments in Tennessee Williams’ “Portrait of a Girl in Glass”0
The fourfold in Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet0
Beowulfian Archetypes: The Case of Hrómundr Gripsson0
Capitalism as Religion in Bambara’s “The Lesson”0
“A Joke in a German Paper”: Uncovering a Neglected Reference in D. H. Lawrence’s “Do Women Change”0
Translated China in Journey to a War0
Explaining explanation in S. T. Coleridge’s rime of the ancient mariner0
MUCH MADNESS: The Horatian Conceit of the Mad Poet in Emily Dickinson0
“He was not a Mozart”: irony in Aldous Huxley’s “Young Archimedes”0
“Ye Came for Gold, Ye Slaves”: Irony of Paragone in Timon of Athens0
Unsympathetic victim and conditional sympathy in Agatha Christie’s “The Blue Geranium”0
Unraveling the Yarn at the Center of Mary Wilkins Freeman’s “The Lost Ghost”0
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
Tall Trees: A Proposed New Meaning for a Label on the Franks Casket0
The Deep Time of Local Color: Arctic Planetarity and Storytelling in The Country of the Pointed Firs0
Through the Looking-Glass Cabinet: A (Very) Close Reading of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence0
Consent, rape and pollution: the context of Hrosvitha’s Dulcitius0
Alchemical Decknamen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 330
Thomas Lodge’s Life and Works: A Mutual Looking-Glass for the Elizabethan Age0
Carving the I/Eye: The Chiasmus Structure in A. C. Swinburne’s “Hermaphroditus”0
Diary of a bad week: the tedium of the Remains of the Day0
A literal reading of the shadow in “Ligeia:” Coleridge’s remarks on Ghosts and Poe’s poetics of misdirection0
Trauma and the Holocaust in John Banville’s Shroud0
A Rite of Passage in Shakespeare’sLOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST:5.2.786-8060
Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters as a resource for Black Time Studies0
Reconsidering the Hūgas : ethnonymy and historical memory in Beowulf0
More Echoes of Geoffrey of Monmouth in St. Erkenwald0
Families and Romantic Theology in Charles Williams’ War in Heaven0
The Significance of a Single Letter and Word in Shakespeare0
“Careful Not to Bump her Head”: A Symbolic Meaning in Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman0
“Moses Was’nt Fairly Used—”: In the Footsteps of Harriet Tubman in Emily Dickinson’s “So I Pull My Stockings Off”0
“Let no Student… Take Anie Surfette of Cheries”: A Forgotten Early Modern Euphemism0
Shelley’s Mont Blanc and the Voice of Manuscript0
The Tiger-Woman in “Tale of Hemetes the Heremyte” (1575)0
Narrative Repair and Spatial Ethics in Richard Selzer’s “Imelda”0
Lucan on Human Sacrifice and the God Esus0
Resisting Defense in Moore’s “Armor’s Undermining Modesty”0
“A Mind of Winter”: Affect in Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man”0
Introducing Shakespeare and His Contemporaries0
Mapping Postwar Englishness: Urban Pastoral in Philip Larkin’s “Here” and “The Whitsun Weddings”0
The formal mechanism of the boat in William Wordsworth’s The Prelude (1850) and in Winslow Homer’s The fog Warning 0
The Affective Agency of Objects: Alice’s Herbs in Mary Barton0
Lexical Transubstantiation in the Old Saxon Hêliand0
Beyond Orientalist Orthodoxy: Historical Evidence and The Painted Veil0
Romantic-era explicating and The Explicator ’s romantic era0
“Spectral Gateways” and the “Horror of the City Road”: A Surreal Connection between The Great Gatsby and The Rainbow0
Dawn of Britain: A New Interpretation of “Dawn” in Martineau’s Dawn Island0
Metaphor and meaning in Hart Crane’s “Voyages II”0
Unreliable Narration and Moral Culpability in Agatha Christie’s “Motive vs. Opportunity”0
Language and Origin in John Ashbery’s “Myrtle”0
Tolkien, Shakespeare, Trees, and The Lord of the Rings0
Guthlac A line 475a: Textual Criticism and Metrical Decontraction0
Romancing Epic Poetry: Love, War, and Global Sway in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s “ Willehalm”0
“Reading the Baseball”: American Cultural Imperialism in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea0
Prince Prospero and the Art of Predestinated Destruction0
“Of coyotes and werewolves: Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero0
Reading Metrical Ambiguity in John Skelton’s a Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell0
“Born in the Wrong Body”: Fragmentation of the Self in Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis0
Vague Local Deities and the Franks Casket’s Erta0
Terror, obscurity, and the Burkean sublime in Gloucester’s blinding0
A reparative reading of Toni Morrison’s Beloved0
Sound, Ambiguity, and Subjectivity in Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
“Stretchers” in Flux: Reconsidering Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ’s Evasion Controversy through Percival Everett’s James0
“Father,” “Son,” and Profane Ghost: an Unholy Trinity in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw0
“A Striking Likeness”: Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent0
The New England Work Ethic and Robert Frost’s “The Code”0
“It Shall Be Set in Imperishable Crystal”: A Representation of Hair Memorabilia in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings0
Looking for Kevin: A Rereading of Rosaleen O’Toole’s Journey in Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Cracked Looking-Glass”0
Experiencing an Affective Shift: Bonding Unreliability in The Remains of the Day0
“A Hunger Artist”: As An Art Performance0
“A Truly Carnivalesque Death”: On Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”0
The Nexus of Literacy and Morality in Edith Wharton’s “Bunner Sisters”0
Elision and the Numbers in “We are seven”0
Embedding the Unconscious in the Conscious: John Ashbery’s Sestina “The Painter” Revisited0
Mary Shelton’s Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript0
Depicting the transgenerational transmission of trauma through photographic mediums in W.G. Sebald’s the emigrants0
Lyric Space in Lorine Niedecker’s Poetry0
‘Ac ic to þam grunde genge’: an analogue for Genesis B, line 834a0
Bosola’s Envy in The Duchess of Malfi0
Irritable Lines: The Revision of Shakespeare’s Blank Verse in Robert Creeley’s “The Crisis”0
TWELFTH NIGHT: Malvolio and the Tudor Heresy Trials0
Revisiting Coleridge’s “Instead of the Cross, the Albatross About my Neck was Hung”0
The Lacanian subject in Robert Frost’s “the road not taken”0
She Is Not Only Tired but Also Sick: Illness and Inertia in James Joyce’s “Eveline”0
Ambiguity in Yeats’s “the Hosting of the Sidhe”0
The Underthought of John Milton’s Samson Agonistes in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “My own heart let me more have pity on.”0
The Dragon’s Ecological Warning in John Gardner’s Grendel0
Wealhtheow’s Revenge and the Germanic Heroic Tradition: Failed Conflict Resolution in Beowulf0
“Why Westward Turn?”: Keats’s Turn Away from the Dolphin’s Turn0
“This Leaving-Out Business”: Minimalist Techniques in John Ashbery’s Poetry0
Clues among the Clutter: Circling Back with Jane Austen’s Miss Bates0
Symbolic Images of Butterflies in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek0
The Form of Evil in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”0
“Forgyd Taylis”: A Gloss on line 43 of Thomas Wyatt or Pseudo-Wyatt’s “O Cruel Heart”0
A New Source for the Unnamed phisicien in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess0
A She-Wolf’s Counsel: Brunechildis and Her Grandsons in the Chronicle of Fredegar0
Middle English araten and Scenes of Condescension in Piers Plowman0
“Trivial yet serious”: Re-Reading the fan in Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s fan0
An Eye for an Eye: Dickinson’s Vision and Emerson’s Visuality0
Ted Hughes’s “The Jaguar” and Animal Ethics0
Reading the Runes in Beowulf0
Rehearing Nature: Soundscape, Ecological Listening and the Critique of Sensory Hierarchy in Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall0
Parameters of Outdoing Oneself: A Reconsideration of the Bipartite Structure of Early Romance Poetry0
Robinson’s Lost anchors0
Heathcliff as the masculine counterpart of androgynous Catherine in Wuthering Heights0
The Fantasy of Seduction in Kafka’s “The Silence of the Sirens”0
Work and Fraternity in Levine’s “What Work is”0
Teeth as Metaphors in Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King0
The Devil is Contagious: Fictional Ontology of Evil in the Nibelungenlied. Toward a Literary-Philosophical Rereading of the Queens’ Quarrel0
Caesar’s Hands in Titus Andronicus0
The Perils Of Being “Nice”: Stephen’s Dilemma in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man0
Auden, Carnival and “The Love Feast”0
Apples, Editorial Errors, and Pronouns: Some Thoughts on the Textual Traditions of the Eckenot Scene0
“That Death Has No Meaning”: The Imitation and Adaptation of Ernest Hemingway in Cormac McCarthy’s The Counselor0
“The Vain Lustre of Imagined Crowns”: Light and Dark Imagery in Marriage a la Mode0
The End of History in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections0
Blood and Mud in Shelley’s “England in 1819.”0
Queer Desires in “The Daemon Lover” and “Trial by Combat”0
Rereading the Beast’s Clothing in “The Tiger’s Bride”0
A Portrait of the Teacher as a Young Man: Stephen Dedalus in Nestor0
Madness as Resilience in Henry Chettle’s The Tragedy of Hoffman0
Floods and the divine: a Blue Humanities case study using Their Eyes Were Watching God0
Double Sonnets in Keats’s “I Stood Tip-Toe upon a Little Hill”0
“Weaves of Homely Stuff”: Ecological Formings in John Clare’s “Birds Nests”0
Sullen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 290
Aragorn, Sovereignty, and Mortality in Tolkien’s Mythic Historiography0
The Hand of “Benedictions” in Henry James’s “The Jolly Corner”0
A Weak Reading of Stephen Crane’s Maggie, A Girl of the Streets0
Verbal Corruptions in Q1 and Q2 Romeo and Juliet0
Moral Dogma and Ethical Relativity in Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly0
Allegorical cartographies and the Road to Success in The Great Gatsby0
Love Me or Else: Keats’s Impossible Desires in “I Cry Your Mercy”0
Reflections on the Muddled Modern Mind in Allen Tate’s “Ode” and “Last Days of Alice”0
Religion and the Theology of Love in W. H. Auden’s “Stop all the clocks”0
On the Edge of Sound: Sensation and Memory in Seamus Heaney’s “Wordsworth’s Skates”0
Extraordinary Countenance: An Examination of Gender and Sexual Identity Through Etymology in Nella Larsen’s Passing0
Wartonian echoes: the reclamation of Gondibert through Headley’s sonnet to Anna Laetitia Barbauld0
The Ambivalent Garden and Wordsworth’s Shadow in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Deserted Garden”0
The Choice of Hercules in Middlemarch0
Daisy Fay’s Maternity: A Revision to the Chronology of The Great Gatsby0
Hamlet’s Problems0
Thoreau’s philosophy of work in frost’s “mowing”0
Divinity and Decadence within Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
The Image of the Stove in A Doll House0
Rhyming times0
“The Work Wisdom of ‘From Plane to Plane’”0
The generative nature of diasporic spaces in Samuel Selvon’s “Come Back to Grenada” and Moyez G. Vassanji’s “Refugee”0
The Power of “Felt Absence” in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion0
Body Narratives in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun0
History and Fantasy in George Peele’s David and Bathsheba0
Lyrical epiphanies in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun0
Kindness and Sympathy in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility0
Crocodile Narratives and the Construction of African Natural Space in Tamburlaine the Great0
“Hallow’d Mold”: Collins’s “Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746” (“How Sleep the Brave”)0
The Exile Within: An LGBTQ+ Reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Prodigal”0
The stylistic distancing of Montresor’s guilt in “the Cask of Amontillado”0
Singing Obedience, Speaking Violence: Desdemona’s “swansong” in Othello0
Victoria Chang’s poetic signature0
The Closet Scenes of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge0
The Origins of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Mirkwood Revisited0
The Old English Fates of the Apostles : A Note on lēofe on līfe , l. 6a0
“Winter’s got to begin sometime”: Doctor Selgrove in Edith Wharton’s “All Souls’”0
Thomas Nashe: Balladeer0
Windows as partitions: Class, gender, and transcendence in Oliver Twist0
Invisible burdens: Financial strain, social expectation, and clerical life in George Eliot’s “the sad fortunes of the reverend Amos Barton”0
Geography and history in Waltharius0
“O my prophetique soule”: Shakespeare’s influence on Fletcher and Massinger’s The Double Marriage0
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
The Influence of Jacob Boehme’s Aurora on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian0
“Surprized by Joy”: William Wordsworth’s Elegiac Reverse0
Temporality in The Overstory by Richard Powers0
“Insensible Unrest”: William Wordsworth’s Revisions to Charlotte Smith’s “Written in the Church Yard at Middleton in Sussex”0
Dietrich von Bern’s captivity among monsters: a heroic motif and its variations in Waldere , Virginal, Sigenot, 0
Weaponizing the Womb: Militarized Maternity and Corrupted Virtue in Coriolanus0
The Phenomena of Nothingness in de la Mare’s “The Listeners”0
Women and the Bicycle in D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and The Lost Girl0
Reading between the Stanzas of W. B. Yeats’s “Among School Children”0
Wollstonecraft’s critical reviews on Gilpin’s picturesque0
Facing Autobiography in The Prelude0
Isabella’s Silence and Philocalia’s Absence0
Correction0
Out of Nothing: The Theory of Omission and Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”0
Beyond Sovereignty: Reconsidering the Sea in Iris Murdoch’s the Sea, the Sea0
Of Precarious Hospitality: George Meredith’s Sonnet XVII, “At Dinner She Is Hostess”0
“It” Can Kill a Man: Existential Clauses in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens0
Wordsworth’s relinquished delight0
William James’s Metaphysical Revelation in Sherwood Anderson’s “Tandy”0
Laughing Gas and Involuntary Laughter in The Chimes0
“Quite Convivial”: A Butler’s Duty in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day0
Rereading the Postscript in “Bartleby, the Scrivener”0
Chaucer, Maps, and the Mongols: A Cartographic Approach to the Squire’s Tale0
Shakespeare and the Non-Jonsonian Court Masques0
Crossing the Queensboro Bridge: Gatsby, Automobiles, and Immigrant Mobility in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker0
Coleridge’’s "Lines to Charlotte Brent,"Punning,and the Tyrant Pain: Interpreting a Lost Poem"0
Seascape, Divine Power, and Megincraft in the Old Saxon Heliand0
Rintrah’s Swagger: On not Understanding Blake’s Argument0
The Jacqueminot Rose in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence0
Coleridge, Hamlet, and the Distortions of a Myriad Mind0
Disability and the Scene of Learning in Shakespeare, Lope, Ariosto0
The Self, the Body and the World in Wallace Stevens’s “Tea at the Palaz of Hoon”0
William Wordsworth, Edward Rushton, and Toussaint L’Ouverture0
Tamburlaine’s Asiatic Style and Shakespeare’s First Plays0
Love as Suffering (Passion) in Dryden’s All for Love0
The Native Christianity of Samson Occom’s “The Sufferings of Christ”0
The typewriter erased: Ecocritical silence in The Waste Land drafts0
The Image of the Biblical Ruth in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”0
A Tale of Two Fools: Middleton, Shakespeare, and Co-Authorship in Timon of Athens and King Lear0
"The First Three Shots": A Subtle Warning in Richard Connell’s "The Most Dangerous Game"0
Body and perception reshaped by influenza pandemic in MRS DALLOWAY0
Journey of the Magi(strate): Reading J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians through T. S. Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi”0
Skilled at Delay: George Herbert’s “Justice (I)”0
Pain and Gender in Hemingway’s “Indian Camp”0
Byron’s Speed: The Giaour0
Inheritance of Paradoxes: The Characterization of Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of England, in More and Shakespeare0
Jonson’s Two Prologues to Epicœne : Libel, Print, and Play0
Oriental Spice-Plants in an English Garden: Explaining a Natural Impossibility in Pearl0
Whose Slavery is it?: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad0
Dickinson’s Click0
Rereading Cynewulf’s Elene Line 140b: In Defense of the Manuscript0
Inherent advice: Pynchon’s earnest counsel in Slow Learner0
The duke’s self-unfolding in Act 1, scene 1 of Measure for Measure0
George Eliot’s Verse in Chapter 38 of Daniel Deronda0
Metaphor and Architectural space in Emily Dickinson’s “I Dwell in Possibility”0
“Keep Chaos Out, Order In”: Grid and Architectural Space in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One0
Distraction and “Playful” Reading in Agatha Christie’s “Mr Eastwood’s Adventure”0
A third biblical foundation of James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”0
This House Is Too Large for a Man to Live in Alone: the Haunted House and Spatial Absence in Ishiguro’s A Family Supper0
The Lack of Lovemaking in Roman Love Elegy: The Example of Ovid’s Amores I.50
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