OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Texas Studies in Literature and Language 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
Mischaracterizing the Environment: Hardy, Darwin, and the Art of Ecological Storytelling	2
Masculine Capital / Yuppie Patriarchy: Visualizing the Noir Commodity in American Psycho	1
Between Transgression and Conviviality: Everyday Urban Space and the Carnivalesque Strategies in The Lonely Londoners	1
Bleak Environmentalism: The Science of Dickens’s Weathered Bodies	1
Owning a Sense of Perversity in Ellen Wood’s East Lynne	0
Race and National Identity in Modernist Anthropology and Jean Toomer’s “The Blue Meridian”	0
The Latinx Fantastic: Robert Rodriguez and the Power of His Speculative Storytelling	0
Robert Rodriguez: Teaching Creativity	0
Love as Subjectification in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go	0
Roles That Contain and Restrain: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, Klara and the Sun, and Living	0
Reimagining Community at the Open Marshland: Ecocritical Anti-Bildung in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go	0
Miserable Communions: Sentimentality in Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric	0
End of the Road: Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, and True Crime in the Auto-Apocalyptic West	0
“No Sorcery”: Chess, Artistic Sensibility, and Subjective Development in The Queen’s Gambit	0
Samuel Beckett’s Allusions to John Donne	0
Intratextual Ishiguro: Transitional Spaces and the Unmaking of Interpretative Communities	0
Charles d’Orléans’s “Fowle Langage”	0
The Wizard of Awe: An Introduction in Three Parts	0
A Rite of Finitude: Richard Wilbur’s Hermeneutic Ontology	0
The South/Western Gothic: White Capitalist Zombies in Katherine Anne Porter’s Noon Wine	0
Shakespeare the Formalist: Reading and Rewriting John Marston in the Poets’ War	0
Irony, Recusancy, and Repentance in Robert Southwell’s Saint Peter’s Complaint	0
García Márquez’s Literary Smuggling in The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor	0
Introduction	0
The Politics of the Poison Pen: Communism, Caricature, and Scapegoats in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man	0

Archive Notes: An Introduction to the Kazuo Ishiguro Papers	0
The Daughter’s Paradox: Filial Piety and Rebellion in Three Chinese Mother-Daughter Narratives	0
Out of the Closet and Into the Home: Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and the Affordances of the Domestic Interior	0
The Other James: James Joyce, Henry James, and Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark	0
The Ecologies of Choice in Trollope’s The Fixed Period	0
“You Are a Cortez!”: Robert Rodriguez’s Tejano Sensibility and Restorative Kinship in the Spy Kids Series	0
“The Surface on Which You Work”: Self-Alienation and the Culture of Narcissism in The Edible Woman	0
Reopening the Dan White Trial in Emily Mann’s Execution of Justice	0
Post-9/11-Disaster Katrina: Reenacting American Innocence in Dave Eggers’s Zeitoun	0
“The Moon Slides Down the Stair / To See Who’s There”: The Poetics of the Crossword and the Cross Words of Poetics	0
From Dawn Till Dusk: El Rey Network and the Evolution of Cable Television in the 2010s	0
“Observance of Civility”: Jewish Identity and Anxiety in Seinfeld and William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice	0
The Roots and Routes of Black Emancipation in Sutton Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio	0
Emotional Repression in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun	0
Vampirism in the Ether: Radio’s Horrific Potential in Orson Welles’s “Dracula”	0
Between Land and Settler Subjectivity: The Modernist Animal’s Territory in Katherine Mansfield’s “Prelude”	0
Evangelicalism, Adultery, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl	0
The Politics of Black Domesticity in Martin R. Delany’s Blake, or the Huts of America	0
“Why Am I a Girl?”: Gender Variance and the Racial Ideal in Frank Bidart’s “Ellen West”	0
Jiujitsu of the Spirit: Trueblood, His Audience, and Lyrical Subversion in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man	0
Reading Post-slavery Subjectivities in Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth	0
The Unfinishedness & Untimeliness of A Raisin in the Sun	0
Under the Sign of the Middle Passage: Black Solidarity Reimagined	0
Howard Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name and the Badiou-Agamben Debate on Paul the Apostle	0
Lautréamont, Anarchism, and the Origins of the Avant-Garde	0
Speculative-Real Ethnoracial Spaces and the Formation of a Nepantlera Warrior	0
Lord Byron in Colonial Korea: Korean Intellectuals Pursuing National Freedom in the Spirit of Byron	0
California Nerves: Health, Disability, and Whiteness in The Squatter and the Don	0
Narrative Closure in Kipling’s The Jungle Play	0
Silence, Space, and Absence in Joseph Conrad’s African Fiction	0
Nothing to See Here, Move On: A New Look at Humor in Aldous Huxley’s Mock-Dystopic Brave New World	0
A Schoolhouse of Their Own: Economic Erotics in The Children’s Hour	0
Negotiating the Politics of Chinese Fiction: The Case of Yan Lianke’s “Child”	0
The Reading Closet	0
About Our Cover Art	0
What Is Aggro? Situationist Aesthetics in the Plays of Howard Brenton	0
Stevie as Revolutionary in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent	0
The Importance of Being Earnest in The Importance of Being Earnest	0
New Histories, Lost Causes, and “Alternative Facts”: Suzan-Lori Parks’s The America Play in the Age of Trump	0
A Man in Search of Family: Kinship and Decline in Michel Houellebecq’s Submission	0
Romanticism and Consciousness, Revisited: A Roundtable Discussion	0
Myth, Historical Metaphor, and Figuration: Aaron the Moor in Titus Andronicus	0
“All the Country Looked Alike”: Pollution, Homogeneity, and a Natural World out of Balance in After London	0
Transnational Intimacy in Israel Potter	0
Plotting an Economic and Romantic Path Forward: Miss Matty’s Tea Shop and the Gendered Cycles of Cranford	0
Creative Creatures	0
“Understanding Each Other Perfectly”: The Desire for Unmediated Communion in Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss”	0
Michael Field’s Shared Sublime and Post-Romantic Transcendence	0
Male Friendships and Betrayal in the Fiction of Graham Greene	0
Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Naturalism/Dialect Poetry Divide	0

The Surprising Success of C. R. Maturin’s Bertram: A Collaboration with Scott, Byron, Kean, and Murray	0
The Critique of Reason and Biopolitics in William Blake’s The Four Zoas	0
Ommateum and the Early Career of A. R. Ammons	0
Compromised Men and Aspiring Women: The Fatality of Romance in James M. Cain’s Depression-Era Novels	0
“A Traveler in Little Things”: Nature, Nostalgia, and Nativism in W. H. Hudson’s English Country Books	0
The Dialectics of Barbarous Civilization: Black Transnational Modernism in Claude McKay’s Banjo	0