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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
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Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants”2
Wulf and Eadwacer, eddic verse, and aural aesthetics2
Middle English araten and Scenes of Condescension in Piers Plowman1
Symbolic Images of Butterflies in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek1
Consent, rape and pollution: the context of Hrosvitha’s Dulcitius1
Bacon’s The Advancement of Learning: A Possible Influence on Jonson’s The Alchemist1
Beowulf and Freawaru1
The Symbolic Fiction of Mr. Stevens: A Lacanian Reading of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day1
Tolkien, Shakespeare, Trees, and The Lord of the Rings1
“Trick or Treat!”: The Trickster Figure in Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr Rosewater and Slapstick1
Temporality in The Overstory by Richard Powers1
Color Symbolisms of Diseases: Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”1
Mirabai and the Ethic of Universal Suffering: Reading Bhajans in Indian Pedagogy1
A Window on One’s Identity: Cultural Identity In Chinua Achebe’s “The Sacrificial Egg”1
“Father,” “Son,” and Profane Ghost: an Unholy Trinity in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw0
Political Rumination and Imagination in Anna Burns’s Milkman0
“Born in the Wrong Body”: Fragmentation of the Self in Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis0
Public Gentility and Private Predation: German as a Linguistic Signal of Guilt in Lolita0
Ted Hughes’s “The Jaguar” and Animal Ethics0
A Tale of Two Fools: Middleton, Shakespeare, and Co-Authorship in Timon of Athens and King Lear0
The Old English Fates of the Apostles : A Note on lēofe on līfe , l. 6a0
Babies in Bags: Dracula and The Importance of Being Earnest0
Queer Attachments in Tennessee Williams’ “Portrait of a Girl in Glass”0
From the Penile to the Pinnal: Anatomizing Louis Chu’s Eat a Bowl of Tea0
Absalom, Absalom! And Acts Misreading0
Caesar’s Hands in Titus Andronicus0
Thoreau’s philosophy of work in frost’s “mowing”0
Modern punctuation of Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale: Line 9640
An Eye for an Eye: Dickinson’s Vision and Emerson’s Visuality0
Maggie’s death and Dorothea’s growth — the sublimation of passion in George Eliot’s novels0
“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
Correction0
The Lacanian subject in Robert Frost’s “the road not taken”0
Rereading Cynewulf’s Elene Line 140b: In Defense of the Manuscript0
Reading between the Stanzas of W. B. Yeats’s “Among School Children”0
A reparative reading of Toni Morrison’s Beloved0
Seamus Heaney’s “Failed” Elegy and the Nonhuman Subject: A Reading of “Widgeon”0
The Epistolary Narrative in Atonement0
“‘Aint Never Done Anything but Sing”: Understanding Betsey through Her Canary0
The New England Work Ethic and Robert Frost’s “The Code”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 End of History in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections0
The Image of the Stove in A Doll House0
If As I Lay Dying is a mock-epic, what is being mocked?0
Carving the I/Eye: The Chiasmus Structure in A. C. Swinburne’s “Hermaphroditus”0
Ambiguity in Yeats’s “the Hosting of the Sidhe”0
“A Hunger Artist”: As An Art Performance0
Tess Too? Revisiting the Chase Scene in Tess of the d'Urbervilles in the #MeToo Era0
Divinity and Decadence within Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
Irritable Lines: The Revision of Shakespeare’s Blank Verse in Robert Creeley’s “The Crisis”0
“Absent subjectivity in Poe’s THE MAN OF THE CROWD”0
Correction0
“Ma soul’s a Witness for de Waldorf-Astoria!” Langston Hughes’s Poetic Hotel Advertisement0
Words as Readymade: Mina Loy’s Verbal Portraiture of “Gertrude Stein” and “Joyce’s Ulysses”0
“Ethical” or “Ethnical”?: Some Textual Errors in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird0
Mary Shelton’s Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript0
“The spatial symbolism of Gregor’s room in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis0
Seamus Heaney’s “Clearances: ‘III’”0
Thomas Hardy’s Racialization of English Natives in The Return of the Native0
John Florio’s Second Fruits and the Theater of Life0
“O my prophetique soule”: Shakespeare’s influence on Fletcher and Massinger’s The Double Marriage0
The Face of the Other in Home0
Embedding the Unconscious in the Conscious: John Ashbery’s Sestina “The Painter” Revisited0
Language and Origin in John Ashbery’s “Myrtle”0
Singing Obedience, Speaking Violence: Desdemona’s “swansong” in Othello0
Gender Performance in Jim Shepard’s “Minotaur”0
History and Fantasy in George Peele’s David and Bathsheba0
Queer Desires in “The Daemon Lover” and “Trial by Combat”0
Revisiting Coleridge’s “Instead of the Cross, the Albatross About my Neck was Hung”0
Love as Suffering (Passion) in Dryden’s All for Love0
The Tiger-Woman in “Tale of Hemetes the Heremyte” (1575)0
Translated China in Journey to a War0
MUCH MADNESS: The Horatian Conceit of the Mad Poet in Emily Dickinson0
“Moses Was’nt Fairly Used—”: In the Footsteps of Harriet Tubman in Emily Dickinson’s “So I Pull My Stockings Off”0
Dawn of Britain: A New Interpretation of “Dawn” in Martineau’s Dawn Island0
Why Thoreau Spent a Night in Jail0
‘Ac ic to þam grunde genge’: an analogue for Genesis B, line 834a0
Suggested Sources for The Faithful Friends (ca 1613-1620)0
The Phenomena of Nothingness in de la Mare’s “The Listeners”0
The economy of Paulina’s demand in the Winter’s Tale0
“Keep Chaos Out, Order In”: Grid and Architectural Space in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One0
Modernity and Mobility: Re-reading Wordsworth and De Quincey0
Moral Dogma and Ethical Relativity in Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly0
A Post-pastoral Reading of Ron Rash’s “Speckled Trout”0
Imagining Eternity in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Late Poetry0
Disability and the Scene of Learning in Shakespeare, Lope, Ariosto0
Laughing Gas and Involuntary Laughter in The Chimes0
The romance of Tristan and Isolde in Kristin Lavransdatter0
“Spectral Gateways” and the “Horror of the City Road”: A Surreal Connection between The Great Gatsby and The Rainbow0
Dysfunctional tribalism in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises0
Beowulfian Archetypes: The Case of Hrómundr Gripsson0
Samuel Beckett, Max Nordau, and the Worms of How It Is0
The Image of the Biblical Ruth in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”0
Religion and the Theology of Love in W. H. Auden’s “Stop all the clocks”0
Wollstonecraft’s critical reviews on Gilpin’s picturesque0
TWELFTH NIGHT: Malvolio and the Tudor Heresy Trials0
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
Flannery O’Connor’s “The Displaced Person” and the Legacy of Lynching0
“A Shared Passion”: Baseball as a Generational and Cultural Bridge in Monica Sone’s Nisei Daughter0
Auden, Carnival and “The Love Feast”0
Crossing the Queensboro Bridge: Gatsby, Automobiles, and Immigrant Mobility in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker0
An Outcast in an Alien Land: The Metaphor of Dogs in Cormac McCarthy’sThe Crossing0
Surprised by Sin: Medical Metaphors and Secular Eschatology in Ian McEwan’sSaturday0
The Ambivalent Garden and Wordsworth’s Shadow in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Deserted Garden”0
The Fantasy of Seduction in Kafka’s “The Silence of the Sirens”0
Blood and Mud in Shelley’s “England in 1819.”0
“Hallow’d Mold”: Collins’s “Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746” (“How Sleep the Brave”)0
A Rite of Passage in Shakespeare’sLOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST:5.2.786-8060
Pleading with the King: The Representation of Sarah as Queen and Noblewoman in Genesis A0
“Monsters Worse to Come”: A Reconsideration of the Influence of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Upon Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God0
“Careful Not to Bump her Head”: A Symbolic Meaning in Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman0
Atheism vs Theism: Conflict and Ambiguity in Dylan Thomas’s “Poem on his Birthday”0
The Subaltern in the Ibis Trilogy0
Narratives of “borders conquered, disfigured” in Myung Mi Kim’s Under Flag0
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
“This Leaving-Out Business”: Minimalist Techniques in John Ashbery’s Poetry0
Isabella’s silence and Philocalia’s absence0
Women and the Bicycle in D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and The Lost Girl0
Lyric Space in Lorine Niedecker’s Poetry0
Body Narratives in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun0
Symbolic meanings of a caged parrot in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek0
“The Work Wisdom of ‘From Plane to Plane’”0
Whose Slavery is it?: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad0
"The First Three Shots": A Subtle Warning in Richard Connell’s "The Most Dangerous Game"0
Teeth as Metaphors in Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King0
A third biblical foundation of James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”0
On the emendation of The Phoenix lines 164–65 and The Wife’s Lament line 420
Geography in Bret Harte’s “The Luck of Roaring Camp”0
Extraordinary Countenance: An Examination of Gender and Sexual Identity Through Etymology in Nella Larsen’s Passing0
Poetics of Touch and Female Fetishism in Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel (2003)0
Moderately and melodiously: Of music education in Marguerite Duras’s Moderato Cantabile0
Contemplating Stars and Solving Mysteries: Rationality in Mark Haddon’s the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime0
A literal reading of the shadow in “Ligeia:” Coleridge’s remarks on Ghosts and Poe’s poetics of misdirection0
Helplessness of Resistance: Thoreauvian Intellectuals in Paul Auster’s Sunset Park0
“The Vain Lustre of Imagined Crowns”: Light and Dark Imagery in Marriage a la Mode0
The Exile Within: An LGBTQ+ Reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Prodigal”0
Resisting Defense in Moore’s “Armor’s Undermining Modesty”0
Dickinson’s daisy/sun(set), Daoism, and Emerson0
Winston’s Parallel Universe: On History in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four0
Tall Trees: A Proposed New Meaning for a Label on the Franks Casket0
Body and perception reshaped by influenza pandemic in MRS DALLOWAY0
Introducing Shakespeare and His Contemporaries0
The Parody of Holy Communion in John Donne’s TWICKENHAM GARDEN0
Inherent advice: Pynchon’s earnest counsel in Slow Learner0
Marvell’s “the unfortunate lover”0
Whose feathers were borrowed? A corpus stylistic approach to Richard Barnfield’s and William Shakespeare’s poetry0
Claudia Rankine and Robert Lowell, Again0
The Significance of a Single Letter and Word in Shakespeare0
Remnants of the Past and the Quest for Identity: Reading August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson in the Context of Collective Memory0
Victoria Chang’s poetic signature0
A Word on a Word in a Word in William Wordsworth’s THE SOLITARY REAPER0
Capitalism as Religion in Bambara’s “The Lesson”0
“Of coyotes and werewolves: Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero0
Alchemical Decknamen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 330
Levin’s hunting in Anna Karenina0
William James’s Metaphysical Revelation in Sherwood Anderson’s “Tandy”0
Carnivalesque Imagery in Stevens’ “THE EMPEROR OF ICE-CREAM”0
On the cyclical movement in John Keats’s “to autumn”0
The Deep Time of Local Color: Arctic Planetarity and Storytelling in The Country of the Pointed Firs0
“It Shall Be Set in Imperishable Crystal”: A Representation of Hair Memorabilia in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings0
Rereading the Postscript in “Bartleby, the Scrivener”0
“A Mind of Winter”: Affect in Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man”0
Rappaccini’s Queer Daughter: Gender Non-Conformity in “Rappaccini’s Daughter”0
Shakespeare and the Non-Jonsonian Court Masques0
The Wartime State and the Cigarette: Darkness and Temporality in Pale Horse, Pale Rider0
A New Source for the Unnamed phisicien in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess0
“Quite Convivial”: A Butler’s Duty in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day0
From “Haworth Churchyard” to “Courage”: Emily Brontë Perceived by Matthew Arnold0
Wallace Stevens’s “The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain”0
Prince Prospero and the Art of Predestinated Destruction0
The Perils Of Being “Nice”: Stephen’s Dilemma in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man0
“Us He Devours”: Christianity and Its Use of Human Fear in T. S. Eliot’s “Gerontion”10
Shakespeare’s Tempest Line 1786: “Wise” or “Wife”0
Lucan on Human Sacrifice and the God Esus0
Thomas Nashe: Balladeer0
Unraveling the Yarn at the Center of Mary Wilkins Freeman’s “The Lost Ghost”0
Silko’s Narrative Negotiation of the Rain Man’s Rites of the Passage0
Paradise or Paralysis: Mary Shelley’s Ambivalence in Frankenstein0
Failed Seduction: Narratorial Authority in Katherine Mansfield’s “a Dill Pickle”0
Skilled at Delay: George Herbert’s “Justice (I)”0
Metaphor and architectural space in Emily Dickinson’s “I Dwell in Possibility”0
Heathcliff as the masculine counterpart of androgynous Catherine in Wuthering Heights0
Kindness and Sympathy in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility0
Trauma and the Holocaust in John Banville’s Shroud0
Guhtlac a line 475a: textual criticism and metrical decontraction0
Work and Fraternity in Levine’s “What Work is”0
“Forgyd Taylis”: A gloss on line 43 of Thomas Wyatt or Pseudo-Wyatt’s “O Cruel Heart”0
Seven years in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment0
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