OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
“O, I die, Horatio”: Witness and martyrdom in Shakespeare’sHamlet	2
Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants”	2
Wulf and Eadwacer, eddic verse, and aural aesthetics	2
Beowulf and Freawaru	1
The Symbolic Fiction of Mr. Stevens: A Lacanian Reading of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day	1
Tragic Elements and Discourse-Time in “The Story of an Hour”	1
A Window on One’s Identity: Cultural Identity In Chinua Achebe’s “The Sacrificial Egg”	1
Temporality in The Overstory by Richard Powers	1
Forgetting, Memory, and Narrative in Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly	1
Mirabai and the Ethic of Universal Suffering: Reading Bhajans in Indian Pedagogy	1
Bacon’s The Advancement of Learning: A Possible Influence on Jonson’s The Alchemist	1
Middle English araten and Scenes of Condescension in Piers Plowman	1
Color Symbolisms of Diseases: Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”	1
“Trick or Treat!”: The Trickster Figure in Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr Rosewater and Slapstick	1
“This Leaving-Out Business”: Minimalist Techniques in John Ashbery’s Poetry	0
Words as Readymade: Mina Loy’s Verbal Portraiture of “Gertrude Stein” and “Joyce’s Ulysses”	0
How to talk religion: “The Affidavit” in Moby-Dick	0
TWELFTH NIGHT: Malvolio and the Tudor Heresy Trials	0
The Face of the Other in Home	0
A Word on a Word in a Word in William Wordsworth’s THE SOLITARY REAPER	0
The Underthought of John Milton’s Samson Agonistes in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “My own heart let me more have pity on.”	0
Interlaced maternity and matrimony in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God	0
“A good story?”: authors, readers, and storytelling in NATIVE SPEAKER	0
Derrida’s “aporia of responsibility” in José Rizal’s El Filibusterismo	0
Seamus Heaney’s “Failed” Elegy and the Nonhuman Subject: A Reading of “Widgeon”	0

Imagining Eternity in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Late Poetry	0
Geography in Bret Harte’s “The Luck of Roaring Camp”	0
Seamus Heaney’s “Clearances: ‘III’”	0
Tess Too? Revisiting the Chase Scene in Tess of the d'Urbervilles in the #MeToo Era	0
Translated China in Journey to a War	0
Dysfunctional tribalism in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises	0
The Give and Take: Feminist Redefinition of Detective Fiction in Maisie Dobbs and Death at La Fenice	0
Thomas Hardy’s Racialization of English Natives in The Return of the Native	0
“Born in the Wrong Body”: Fragmentation of the Self in Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis	0
Ted Hughes’s “The Jaguar” and Animal Ethics	0
Inherent advice: Pynchon’s earnest counsel in Slow Learner	0
Kindness and Sympathy in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility	0
Modern punctuation of Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale: Line 964	0
Queer Attachments in Tennessee Williams’ “Portrait of a Girl in Glass”	0
Remnants of the Past and the Quest for Identity: Reading August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson in the Context of Collective Memory	0
William James’s Metaphysical Revelation in Sherwood Anderson’s “Tandy”	0
Blood and Mud in Shelley’s “England in 1819.”	0
Modernity and Mobility: Re-reading Wordsworth and De Quincey	0
Gender Performance in Jim Shepard’s “Minotaur”	0
Rereading the Postscript in “Bartleby, the Scrivener”	0
Before Culture and Anarchy: Matthew Arnold’s “Worldly Place”	0
The Lacanian subject in Robert Frost’s “the road not taken”	0
Public Gentility and Private Predation: German as a Linguistic Signal of Guilt in Lolita	0
The Fantasy of Seduction in Kafka’s “The Silence of the Sirens”	0
“‘Aint Never Done Anything but Sing”: Understanding Betsey through Her Canary	0
A Post-pastoral Reading of Ron Rash’s “Speckled Trout”	0
“Monsters Worse to Come”: A Reconsideration of the Influence of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Upon Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God	0
What Barn? The Dialectical Revolt of Sarah Penn in Freeman’s “Revolt of ‘Mother’”	0
“Ma soul’s a Witness for de Waldorf-Astoria!” Langston Hughes’s Poetic Hotel Advertisement	0
The Ambivalent Garden and Wordsworth’s Shadow in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Deserted Garden”	0
Narratives of “borders conquered, disfigured” in Myung Mi Kim’s Under Flag	0
Disowning familial relations in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus	0
The Perils Of Being “Nice”: Stephen’s Dilemma in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	0
The Subaltern in the Ibis Trilogy	0
Marvell’s “the unfortunate lover”	0
Levin’s hunting in Anna Karenina	0
“The Work Wisdom of ‘From Plane to Plane’”	0
Virtualized Otherness in Edgar Allan Poe’s the BLACK CAT	0
Winston’s Parallel Universe: On History in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four	0
An Operatic Inspiration for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams”	0
“Hallow’d Mold”: Collins’s “Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746” (“How Sleep the Brave”)	0
Queer Desires in “The Daemon Lover” and “Trial by Combat”	0
We Are All Cain: Thomas Wolfe’s Transformation of Biblical Myth in “The Lost Boy”	0
The Parody of Holy Communion in John Donne’s TWICKENHAM GARDEN	0
“Be a Martin”: Luther and Reformation in Philip Roth’s “The Conversion of the Jews”	0
An Outcast in an Alien Land: The Metaphor of Dogs in Cormac McCarthy’sThe Crossing	0
Failed Seduction: Narratorial Authority in Katherine Mansfield’s “a Dill Pickle”	0
MUCH MADNESS: The Horatian Conceit of the Mad Poet in Emily Dickinson	0
Christ’s Redemption in George Saunders’s “STICKS”	0
Silko’s Narrative Negotiation of the Rain Man’s Rites of the Passage	0

Why Thoreau Spent a Night in Jail	0
‘Ac ic to þam grunde genge’: an analogue for Genesis B, line 834a	0
The Phenomena of Nothingness in de la Mare’s “The Listeners”	0
“A Truly Carnivalesque Death”: On Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”	0
Surprised by Sin: Medical Metaphors and Secular Eschatology in Ian McEwan’sSaturday	0
The Exile Within: An LGBTQ+ Reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Prodigal”	0
Moral Dogma and Ethical Relativity in Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly	0
“A crucial part of the social and cultural fabric”: Christianity and Chinua Achebe’s “In a Village Church”	0
The Jacqueminot Rose in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence	0
“A Hunger Artist”: As An Art Performance	0
The romance of Tristan and Isolde in Kristin Lavransdatter	0
A third biblical foundation of James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”	0
Ambiguity in Yeats’s “the Hosting of the Sidhe”	0
Flannery O’Connor’s “The Displaced Person” and the Legacy of Lynching	0
Religion and the Theology of Love in W. H. Auden’s “Stop all the clocks”	0
Dickinson’s daisy/sun(set), Daoism, and Emerson	0
The Wartime State and the Cigarette: Darkness and Temporality in Pale Horse, Pale Rider	0
“A Shared Passion”: Baseball as a Generational and Cultural Bridge in Monica Sone’s Nisei Daughter	0
Alchemical Decknamen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 33	0
Wallace Stevens’s “The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain”	0
If As I Lay Dying is a mock-epic, what is being mocked?	0
“Quite Convivial”: A Butler’s Duty in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day	0
From “Haworth Churchyard” to “Courage”: Emily Brontë Perceived by Matthew Arnold	0
Rappaccini’s Queer Daughter: Gender Non-Conformity in “Rappaccini’s Daughter”	0
Unsettling Progress: (Dis)order in Margaret Atwood’s “Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer”	0
“Us He Devours”: Christianity and Its Use of Human Fear in T. S. Eliot’s “Gerontion”¹	0
Samuel Beckett, Max Nordau, and the Worms of How It Is	0
Consent, rape and pollution: the context of Hrosvitha’s Dulcitius	0
Irritable Lines: The Revision of Shakespeare’s Blank Verse in Robert Creeley’s “The Crisis”	0
Revisiting the Tortoiseshell Cat: Subjectivity and Discursive Dilemma of the American wife in Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain”	0
Heathcliff as the masculine counterpart of androgynous Catherine in Wuthering Heights	0
Thoreau’s philosophy of work in frost’s “mowing”	0
Absalom, Absalom! And Acts Misreading	0
Standing Up for Evil: The Price of Knowledge in Frost's “Mending Wall”	0
Shakespeare’s Tempest Line 1786: “Wise” or “Wife”	0
Carnivalesque Imagery in Stevens’ “THE EMPEROR OF ICE-CREAM”	0
Maggie’s death and Dorothea’s growth — the sublimation of passion in George Eliot’s novels	0
No magical fish: the apocryphal book of Tobit in Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy	0
Women and the Bicycle in D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and The Lost Girl	0
Skilled at Delay: George Herbert’s “Justice (I)”	0
A literal reading of the shadow in “Ligeia:” Coleridge’s remarks on Ghosts and Poe’s poetics of misdirection	0
Seven years in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment	0
Revisiting Coleridge’s “Instead of the Cross, the Albatross About my Neck was Hung”	0
Body and perception reshaped by influenza pandemic in MRS DALLOWAY	0
Resisting Defense in Moore’s “Armor’s Undermining Modesty”	0
Hamlet’s Use of the Royal Plural	0
The End of History in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections	0
“A Mind of Winter”: Affect in Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man”	0
Babies in Bags: Dracula and The Importance of Being Earnest	0
Moderately and melodiously: Of music education in Marguerite Duras’s Moderato Cantabile	0
A Rite of Passage in Shakespeare’s LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST: 5.2.786-806	0
Crossing the Queensboro Bridge: Gatsby, Automobiles, and Immigrant Mobility in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker	0
“A Flake of Obsidian”: The Mother’s Suicide and Redemption in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road	0
Claudia Rankine and Robert Lowell, Again	0
Contemplating Stars and Solving Mysteries: Rationality in Mark Haddon’s the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime	0
Symbolic Images of Butterflies in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek	0
“Of coyotes and werewolves: Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero”	0
From the Penile to the Pinnal: Anatomizing Louis Chu’s Eat a Bowl of Tea	0
“Absent subjectivity in Poe’s THE MAN OF THE CROWD”	0
On the cyclical movement in John Keats’s “to autumn”	0
“The spatial symbolism of Gregor’s room in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis ”	0
Wollstonecraft’s critical reviews on Gilpin’s picturesque	0
“Ethical” or “Ethnical”?: Some Textual Errors in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird	0
Emotion and error: Paradise Lost 8.529–617	0