OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Style 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Dis/Appearance for Appeal: On Marianne Moore’s “Performing” Archive	14
Human Evolution and Fantastic Victorian Fiction	6
Why Cognitive Literary Studies Cannot Do Without Culture	5
Old Wine in a New Bottle? Literary Universal, Poetics, and Hermeneutics	4
Milton in China	3
Stylistics, Narratology, and Point of View: Partiality, Complementarity, and a New Definition	3
Response to Patrick Colm Hogan’s Article on Literary Universals and Culture	2
Cover	2
Narrative Theory and Neuroscience: Why Human Nature Matters	2
Three Conceptions of Culture	1
The Case of Literary Journalism: Rethinking Fictionality, Narrativity, and Imagination	1
Excavating Stephen King: A Darwinist Hermeneutic Study of the Fiction	1
Mediating a Western Classic in China: Woodcuts, Iconic Narrative, and the 1903 Chinese Translation of J. D. Wyss’s The Swiss Family Robinson	1
Partial Universals in Literature	1
Object-Oriented Narratology	1
Writing Modern Science with Fictionality: Understanding Benjamín Labatut’s Generic Experimentation	1
Essays in Narrative and Fictionality: Reassessing Nine Central Concepts	1
Fruitless Search for Coherence: A Transcultural Perspective on Netflix’s Adaptation of Empresses in the Palace	1
The Evasion of Literary History	1
Yu Yan or Fable: The Earliest Introductions to The Canterbury Tales in China	1
Simulation, the Paradox of Fiction, and Rhetorical Reading: Saying “Yes, and” to Patrick Hogan	1
Trauma, Mind Style, and Unreliable Narration in Toni Morrison’s Home	1
Comparative/Historical Poetics in an Age of Cultural Studies	1
A Response to Hogan’s “What Literary Universals Are and What Culture Is Not: The Example of Descriptive Ethics”	1
Neoclassical World-Making in William Collins’s Odes	1

Poetical Siblings: Thomson’s Vignette of Celadon and Amelia Transformed	1
Objects and Algorithmic Uncertainty in Video Game Narrative	1
1948: A Critical and Creative Prequel to George Orwell’s 1984	1
Extending the Frontiers of Story Universals: The Spiritual Dimension	1
Toward Embodied Defamiliarization: Immersion, Predictive Processing, and Anna Kavan’s Ice	1
Stylistic Approaches to Pop Culture	1
Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany: Cross-Cultural Freedoms and Female Opportunity	0
Dual Narrative Dynamics	0
Co-Opting Narrative Authority: How Thrones Is Reauthored Online	0
What’s in a Name: Can “Universality” Be Resuscitated?	0
The Reading, Translation, and Rewriting of Shakespeare’s Sonnets in China	0
Making Poetry from Prose: Robert Herrick’s Exercises in Paraphrase	0
“Life in death”: Decolonizing Trauma in Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer	0
A Tale of Two Theories	0
Introduction: Objects and Narrative	0
Petrarchan Love and the English Renaissance	0
Clash Moments and Narrative Empathy in Fiction	0
On the Verge of Verse: Charles Reznikoff’s Lineations in Holocaust	0
Nonnegligible Literary/Cultural Differences Beside Literary/Cultural Universals	0
Jackass , Ritual Clowning, and the Comic Themes of Universal Occurrence	0
A Review of Intimate Eating: Racialized Spaces and Radical Futures	0
“Our spring / is the yes of yes”: E. E. Cummings and the Rhetorical Formula “X of X”	0
Qiyun Shengdong and Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse	0
Response to Hogan	0
Laissez-Faire Storytelling: Fictionality, Post-Factuality, and the Filmic Voice in Joshua Oppenheimer’s Documentary The Act of Killing (2012)	0
The Fascination of Imitation: What Social Neuroscience Reveals about Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	0
Beowulf: Translation and Commentary	0
Introduction to Ethical Literary Criticism	0
Fictionality Fighting Superstition—Early Danish Novelists’ Engagement with Science	0
Virginia Woolf’s Mythical Method	0
Navigating Women’s Friendships in American Literature and Culture	0
Fictional Worlds Theory Problematized: Global Logical Impossibilities in Vladimir Nabokov’s Novels	0
Aubrey de Vere’s Political Passions in His Sonnet on Milton Annotated by Landor	0
Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty: Narrating Unstable Futures	0
Literary Universals and Eco-Cosmopolitan Ethics	0
Phraseology and Style in Subgenres of the Novel: A Synthesis of Corpus and Literary Perspectives	0
Nineteenth-Century Objects: Review of Marta Caraion, Comment la littérature pense les objets. Théorie littéraire de la culture matérielle	0
Fiction, Science, and Multiple Dualities in Andrew Porter’s “The Theory of Light and Matter”: An Experiment in Rhetorical Interpretation	0
Goldilocks in Outer Space, or: An Odd Conjunction That Makes Perfect Sense	0
New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style	0
From Fi-Sci Pattern Mapping to Literary Interpretation: The Whodunit Plot and Quantum Superposition in David Lodge’s Thinks . . .	0
From Theory to Data and Back Again: Authors’ Intentions, Characters’ Agency, and the Phenomenology of Writing Narrative	0
Falling Movements in Free Verse: Turning Back in Poems by William Carlos Williams and Sylvia Plath	0
Emily Dickinson’s Poetic Art: A Cognitive Reading	0
A Life with Poetry: The Development of Poetic Literacy	0
Discourse and Style: What Narratology and Stylistics Can Do for Each Other	0
Poetry Lies: Poststructuralism and Robert Lowell’s Idea of Literary Representation	0
The Aesthetics of Literal-Minded Speculation: Notes on Science Fiction by Way of Modernism	0
Conversations avec / with Dean Tavoularis	0
Diegetic Narrators and Narrations in Proust’s Recherche	0

Response to Hogan	0
Cover	0
Toward an Object-Oriented Poetics of Mystery in Short Narrative Fiction	0
Literary Universals and Their Implications for Literary Theory	0
EDITORS’ NOTE	0
Eighteenth-Century Illustration and Literary Material Culture: Richardson, Thomson, Defoe	0
The Polysemic Comedy of Too Busy to Work	0
“I hate snoops”: A Detective Fiction as Truman Capote’s Style	0
“Popping into Your Mind’s Eye”: Covert Multimodality in David Foster Wallace’s “The Soul Is Not a Smithy”	0
The Undernarrated and the Overnarrated	0
Stage Directions and the Insistent Narrator in Brian Friel	0
Widespread Stories, Moral Shows	0
The Contextual Model for Poem Translations and Criticisms: An Enlightenment from Wang Guowei’s Realm of Poetic World	0
Infinite Jest ’s Reconfiguration: Delayed Disclosure and Systems Science	0
99 Ways to Retell a Story: The Styles and Functions of Narrator Reconstrual	0
Material Studies and Medieval Narrative: The Case of Glass	0
Structuralist Pedagogy, Style, and Composition Studies: Past Paradigms’ Unfinished Possibilities	0
The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet	0
Listening for Thingness: Representing Sound in Chinese Literary Tradition	0
Poet as Literary Cartographer: Literary Cartography in Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Map”	0
The Problems of “Culture,” and the Future of Universals: A Rejoinder	0
Rewriting the Quixotic Novel in Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote	0
A Study of Ian McEwan’s Novels and Their Ethical Values	0
Extended Remembering: Georges Perec and Writing as Thinking	0
Linked Words, Linked Worlds: Metaphor(ic) Transformation as Intertextual Narrative Strategy in Rewrites of Shakespeare’s Plays	0
Between Science and Society: Charting the Space of Science Fiction	0
Thirty-Six Unpublished Letters from William Henry Davies to Edward Thomas	0
The Face of the Future: An Affective Mental Time Traveler in Saul Bellow’s “A Father-to-Be”	0
Object-Oriented Narratology	0
The Mythical Method in Ovid’s Exile Writings Based on His Tristia (3.10): The Cultural Myth of the Land of Eternal, Loveless Winter	0
If You Give a Narratologist a Muffin: Storying the Object-Oriented Associative Impulse	0
What Literary Universals Are and What Culture Is Not: The Example of Descriptive Ethics	0
The Interpretive and Ethical Payoffs of Intention-Curious Rhetorical Reading: Fictionality, Original Paratexts, and Ford’s Impressionism	0
Language, Social Media and Ideologies: Translingual Englishes, Facebook and Authenticities	0
Metagenre in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained: Its Relevance to Milton’s Presentation of the Son’s Self-Sacrificial Epic Heroism	0
Fail Better, Fail Worse	0
The Affective, Embodied, and Cognitive Dimensions of Literary Scandals: Performative Disgust and the Case of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray	0
Iris Murdoch and the Literary Imagination	0
Human Folk Psychology and Literary Processes: A Critical Review of The Secret Life of Literature	0
REtrying: The Genre of Romance from the Round Table to Around the Pool	0
Listen to What the Body Says: Reading Unnatural Narratives in Light of Readers’ Affective Responses	0
Experiencing Poetry. A Guidebook to Psychopoetics	0
Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies: An Aesthetics in All Things	0
Parallel Lives: From Freud and Mann to Arbus and Plath	0
Truths Universally Acknowledged: Memorable Opening Sentences in the Novel	0
Representational Intelligibility and the Confines of Framing the Self: Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House	0
Othered Temporalities and Possibilities: The Question of Narrative Synthesis in Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics and Anthony Doerr’sAbout Grace	0
Ford Madox Ford	0
Lyricality, Fictionality, and Scientific Thought in Contemporary Opera	0
W. B. Yeats: An Unpublished Letter	0
The Pragmatics of Fiction: Literature, Stage and Screen Discourse	0
Henry James: An Unpublished Letter	0
Contemporary Narrative and the Spectrum of Materiality	0
Shakespearean Genre: A Practice of Historical Poetics	0
“What came is gone forever every time”: Embedded Pentameter and Loss in Allen Ginsberg’s “Kaddish”	0
A Graveyard Smash: Analyzing Embodied Memories in Lincoln in the Bardo	0
Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform: Performance Practice and Debate in the Mao Era; Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture	0
Philip Roth, Mikhail Bakhtin, and the Dialogic Didactic	0
AI as Character: Real Patterns in Fictive Interactions	0
Creepiness and the Uncanny	0
Time’s Subjects: Horology and Literature in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance	0
Diaphanous Bodies: Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature	0
Plotting Against Plausibility: Toward a Poetics of the Improbable	0
British Formalist Aesthetics and Its Literary Writing Practice	0