Explicator

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On the Emendation of The Phoenix lines 164–65 and The Wife’s Lament line 42	3
Exploring Therapeutic Dynamics in Anne Sexton’s Confessional Poetry: Self-expression, Healing, and Narrative Dialogue	2
“Who dealt these cards?”: the dealer’s choice in Faulkner’s “was”	2
Alice Staverton as Midwife in Henry James’s “The Jolly Corner”	2
Thomas Hardy’s Racialization of English Natives in The Return of the Native	1
“Demaine” and the Illusion of Legitimacy in The Great Gatsby	1
A Resistant Reading of Emily Brontё’s “The Old Stoic”	1
Paradise or Paralysis: Mary Shelley’s Ambivalence in Frankenstein	1
Modern punctuation of Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale: Line 964	1
Poetics of Touch and Female Fetishism in Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel (2003)	1
Botanical Symbolism and the Death of Ophelia in Hamlet	1
“Keep Chaos Out, Order In”: Grid and Architectural Space in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One	1
An Arc of Larks	1
Claudia Rankine and Robert Lowell, Again	1
Correction	1
“Of a Thing Which Could not be Put Back”: The Symbolic and Ecological Implications of Morel Mushrooms in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road	1
Political Rumination and Imagination in Anna Burns’s Milkman	1
Bloom as Unprofessional Reader: Readerly Forgetting and Misremembering in Joyce’s Ulysses	1
Anne Elliot’s Blush: The Language of Feeling, and the Feeling of Language in Jane Austen’s Persuasion	1
Victoria Chang’s poetic signature	0
Auden, Carnival and “The Love Feast”	0
The Fantasy of Seduction in Kafka’s “The Silence of the Sirens”	0
The Hand of “Benedictions” in Henry James’s “The Jolly Corner”	0
Ambiguity in Yeats’s “the Hosting of the Sidhe”	0
The Lack of Lovemaking in Roman Love Elegy: The Example of Ovid’s Amores I.5	0

On the Edge of Sound: Sensation and Memory in Seamus Heaney’s “Wordsworth’s Skates”	0
Wartonian echoes: the reclamation of Gondibert through Headley’s sonnet to Anna Laetitia Barbauld	0
Seascape, Divine Power, and Megincraft in the Old Saxon Heliand	0
Weaponizing the Womb: Militarized Maternity and Corrupted Virtue in Coriolanus	0
Reflections on the Muddled Modern Mind in Allen Tate’s “Ode” and “Last Days of Alice”	0
The Image of the Stove in A Doll House	0
“Stretchers” in Flux: Reconsidering Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ’s Evasion Controversy through Percival Everett’s James	0
Helplessness of Resistance: Thoreauvian Intellectuals in Paul Auster’s Sunset Park	0
The Significance of a Single Letter and Word in Shakespeare	0
Narrative Repair and Spatial Ethics in Richard Selzer’s “Imelda”	0
Carving the I/Eye: The Chiasmus Structure in A. C. Swinburne’s “Hermaphroditus”	0
Aragorn, Sovereignty, and Mortality in Tolkien’s Mythic Historiography	0
Extraordinary Countenance: An Examination of Gender and Sexual Identity Through Etymology in Nella Larsen’s Passing	0
Body and perception reshaped by influenza pandemic in MRS DALLOWAY	0
Byron’s Speed: The Giaour	0
The generative nature of diasporic spaces in Samuel Selvon’s “Come Back to Grenada” and Moyez G. Vassanji’s “Refugee”	0
“A Striking Likeness”: Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent	0
Unreliable Narration and Moral Culpability in Agatha Christie’s “Motive vs. Opportunity”	0
William Wordsworth, Edward Rushton, and Toussaint L’Ouverture	0
“Moses Was’nt Fairly Used—”: In the Footsteps of Harriet Tubman in Emily Dickinson’s “So I Pull My Stockings Off”	0
Lexical Transubstantiation in the Old Saxon Hêliand	0
“Winter’s got to begin sometime”: Doctor Selgrove in Edith Wharton’s “All Souls’”	0
Demogorgon’s “Spells” and Blackwood’s Magazine: The Last Stanza of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound	0
The fourfold in Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet	0
Aquatic Memories in Richard Powers’ Playground	0
Between Silence and Confession: Korede’s Double Bind in My Sister, the Serial Killer	0
Tolkien, Shakespeare, Trees, and The Lord of the Rings	0
Burning Hamlet : Fire and tragic inheritance in Iris Murdoch’s The Black Prince	0
Consent, rape and pollution: the context of Hrosvitha’s Dulcitius	0
The fall of the Rebel Angels in Genesis B , Lines 306b-08a	0
Moral Dogma and Ethical Relativity in Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly	0
Body Narratives in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun	0
Lyrical epiphanies in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun	0
“A Truly Carnivalesque Death”: On Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”	0
“No Place for Us”: The Embodied Atmosphere of Displacement and Despair in W. H. Auden’s “Refugee Blues”	0
The Old English Fates of the Apostles : A Note on lēofe on līfe , l. 6a	0
Romantic-era explicating and The Explicator ’s romantic era	0
Caesar’s Hands in Titus Andronicus	0
Terror, obscurity, and the Burkean sublime in Gloucester’s blinding	0
The Power of “Felt Absence” in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion	0
Isabella’s Silence and Philocalia’s Absence	0
Embedding the Unconscious in the Conscious: John Ashbery’s Sestina “The Painter” Revisited	0
Skilled at Delay: George Herbert’s “Justice (I)”	0
Failed Seduction: Narratorial Authority in Katherine Mansfield’s “a Dill Pickle”	0
Advertising Nobody: Publicity and Recognition in Dickinson’s “I’m Nobody! Who are you?”	0
Romancing Epic Poetry: Love, War, and Global Sway in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s “ Willehalm”	0
The Choice of Hercules in Middlemarch	0
Failed Translation: Memory, Language and Identity in Siang Lu’s Ghost Cities	0
The scent that invades: olfactory agency and via negativa in Louise Glück’s “Mock Orange”	0
The Closet Scenes of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge	0

“This Leaving-Out Business”: Minimalist Techniques in John Ashbery’s Poetry	0
“What fires run, what craving wakes”: devouring desire and the poetics of incorporation in Sylvia Plath’s love poetry	0
Dawn of Britain: A New Interpretation of “Dawn” in Martineau’s Dawn Island	0
Inherent advice: Pynchon’s earnest counsel in Slow Learner	0
Trauma and the Holocaust in John Banville’s Shroud	0
Exilic travel and traveling memory: Rereading Bertolt Brecht’s poem on Laozi	0
Dietrich von Bern’s captivity among monsters: a heroic motif and its variations in Waldere , Virginal, Sigenot,	0
“Intruders from the Triassic past”: memory and J.G. Ballard’s The Drowned World	0
“Surprized by Joy”: William Wordsworth’s Elegiac Reverse	0
The Exile Within: An LGBTQ+ Reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Prodigal”	0
Rereading the Beast’s Clothing in “The Tiger’s Bride”	0
Beyond Human Memory: Arboreal Memory and the Limits of the Human in Richard Powers’ The Overstory	0
More Echoes of Geoffrey of Monmouth in St. Erkenwald	0
The body beyond time: Celtic temporality and imperial logic in Oscar Wilde’s the Picture of Dorian Gray	0
The economy of Paulina’s demand in the Winter’s Tale	0
Resisting Defense in Moore’s “Armor’s Undermining Modesty”	0
Lucan on Human Sacrifice and the God Esus	0
The spatial bildungsroman: Displacing the cultural center in Julian Barnes’s Metroland	0
Introducing Shakespeare and His Contemporaries	0
Singing Obedience, Speaking Violence: Desdemona’s “swansong” in Othello	0
"The First Three Shots": A Subtle Warning in Richard Connell’s "The Most Dangerous Game"	0
The Form of Evil in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”	0
Beyond Sovereignty: Reconsidering the Sea in Iris Murdoch’s the Sea, the Sea	0
History and Fantasy in George Peele’s David and Bathsheba	0
The powerful female protagonist in medieval German heroic poetry: Nibelungenlied and Kudrun	0
Out of Nothing: The Theory of Omission and Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”	0
“A Hunger Artist”: As An Art Performance	0
Thoreau’s philosophy of work in frost’s “mowing”	0
Instrumental Belonging and Bureaucratic Usefulness in Timothy Mo’s The Monkey King	0
Parameters of Outdoing Oneself: A Reconsideration of the Bipartite Structure of Early Romance Poetry	0
Divinity and Decadence within Oscar Wilde’s Salomé	0
The Nexus of Literacy and Morality in Edith Wharton’s “Bunner Sisters”	0
“That Death Has No Meaning”: The Imitation and Adaptation of Ernest Hemingway in Cormac McCarthy’s The Counselor	0
Geography and history in Waltharius	0
The formal mechanism of the boat in William Wordsworth’s The Prelude (1850) and in Winslow Homer’s The fog Warning	0
“Father,” “Son,” and Profane Ghost: an Unholy Trinity in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw	0
“Of coyotes and werewolves: Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero”	0
“No More Noise It Hears”: Acoustic Disturbance and Nesting Risk in John Clare’s Summer Evening	0
Wordsworth’s relinquished delight	0
“It Shall Be Set in Imperishable Crystal”: A Representation of Hair Memorabilia in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings	0
Laughing Gas and Involuntary Laughter in The Chimes	0
Metaphor and meaning in Hart Crane’s “Voyages II”	0
The Native Christianity of Samson Occom’s “The Sufferings of Christ”	0
Love as Suffering (Passion) in Dryden’s All for Love	0
Mary Shelton’s Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript	0
A New Source for the Unnamed phisicien in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess	0
Distraction and “Playful” Reading in Agatha Christie’s “Mr Eastwood’s Adventure”	0
Reconsidering the Hūgas : ethnonymy and historical memory in Beowulf	0
“Reading the Baseball”: American Cultural Imperialism in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea	0
Reading Metrical Ambiguity in John Skelton’s a Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell	0
A Weak Reading of Stephen Crane’s Maggie, A Girl of the Streets	0
Reading between the Stanzas of W. B. Yeats’s “Among School Children”	0
The Dragon’s Ecological Warning in John Gardner’s Grendel	0
Dickinson’s Click	0
Tamburlaine’s Asiatic Style and Shakespeare’s First Plays	0
TWELFTH NIGHT: Malvolio and the Tudor Heresy Trials	0
Beyond Orientalist Orthodoxy: Historical Evidence and The Painted Veil	0
Language and Origin in John Ashbery’s “Myrtle”	0
Hawthorne as Melville’s guide to hell in Clarel	0
Guthlac A line 475a: Textual Criticism and Metrical Decontraction	0
Of Precarious Hospitality: George Meredith’s Sonnet XVII, “At Dinner She Is Hostess”	0
The End of History in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections	0
‘Ac ic to þam grunde genge’: an analogue for Genesis B, line 834a	0
Capitalism as Religion in Bambara’s “The Lesson”	0
Coleridge, Hamlet, and the Distortions of a Myriad Mind	0
Lyric Space in Lorine Niedecker’s Poetry	0
Wollstonecraft’s critical reviews on Gilpin’s picturesque	0
Wealhtheow’s Revenge and the Germanic Heroic Tradition: Failed Conflict Resolution in Beowulf	0
Depicting the transgenerational transmission of trauma through photographic mediums in W.G. Sebald’s the emigrants	0
Chaucer, Maps, and the Mongols: A Cartographic Approach to the Squire’s Tale	0
This House Is Too Large for a Man to Live in Alone: the Haunted House and Spatial Absence in Ishiguro’s A Family Supper	0
“A Mind of Winter”: Affect in Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man”	0
The stylistic distancing of Montresor’s guilt in “the Cask of Amontillado”	0
The Lacanian subject in Robert Frost’s “the road not taken”	0
Daisy Fay’s Maternity: A Revision to the Chronology of The Great Gatsby	0
Vague Local Deities and the Franks Casket’s Erta	0
Heathcliff as the masculine counterpart of androgynous Catherine in Wuthering Heights	0
Shelley’s Mont Blanc and the Voice of Manuscript	0
Blood and Mud in Shelley’s “England in 1819.”	0
Thomas Lodge’s Life and Works: A Mutual Looking-Glass for the Elizabethan Age	0

Alchemical Decknamen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 33	0
The Self, the Body and the World in Wallace Stevens’s “Tea at the Palaz of Hoon”	0
“Hoarded Passion” and the Reversal of Erotic Authority in Hong’s “Not Henry Miller but Mother”	0
“Insensible Unrest”: William Wordsworth’s Revisions to Charlotte Smith’s “Written in the Church Yard at Middleton in Sussex”	0
Sound, Ambiguity, and Subjectivity in Oscar Wilde’s Salomé	0
Gender and Sexuality in _Dukus Horant_ and Early Yiddish Epic	0
Vertical Travel in James Dickey’s “Falling”	0
Thomas Nashe: Balladeer	0
“Careful Not to Bump her Head”: A Symbolic Meaning in Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman	0
Love Me or Else: Keats’s Impossible Desires in “I Cry Your Mercy”	0
Doubling Shakespeare: Louisa May Alcott’s National Tragedy	0
She Is Not Only Tired but Also Sick: Illness and Inertia in James Joyce’s “Eveline”	0
Jonson’s Two Prologues to Epicœne : Libel, Print, and Play	0
Irritable Lines: The Revision of Shakespeare’s Blank Verse in Robert Creeley’s “The Crisis”	0
Queer Attachments in Tennessee Williams’ “Portrait of a Girl in Glass”	0
“Quite Convivial”: A Butler’s Duty in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day	0
Crossing the Queensboro Bridge: Gatsby, Automobiles, and Immigrant Mobility in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker	0
Shakespeare and the Non-Jonsonian Court Masques	0
Clues among the Clutter: Circling Back with Jane Austen’s Miss Bates	0
Experiencing an Affective Shift: Bonding Unreliability in The Remains of the Day	0
Explaining explanation in S. T. Coleridge’s rime of the ancient mariner	0
“Why Westward Turn?”: Keats’s Turn Away from the Dolphin’s Turn	0
Metaphor and Architectural space in Emily Dickinson’s “I Dwell in Possibility”	0
Kindness and Sympathy in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility	0
Madness as Resilience in Henry Chettle’s The Tragedy of Hoffman	0
Invisible burdens: Financial strain, social expectation, and clerical life in George Eliot’s “the sad fortunes of the reverend Amos Barton”	0
Rereading the Postscript in “Bartleby, the Scrivener”	0
Oriental Spice-Plants in an English Garden: Explaining a Natural Impossibility in Pearl	0
Elision and the Numbers in “We are seven”	0
“If thy right eye offend thee”: the economy of redemptive sacrifice in Jane Eyre	0
Rhyming times	0
The Affective Agency of Objects: Alice’s Herbs in Mary Barton	0
“Let no Student… Take Anie Surfette of Cheries”: A Forgotten Early Modern Euphemism	0
Portrait of Economic Women: Virginia Woolf’s The London Scene and Keynesian Economics	0
Whose Slavery is it?: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad	0
The Perils Of Being “Nice”: Stephen’s Dilemma in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	0
Bosola’s Envy in The Duchess of Malfi	0
Revisiting Coleridge’s “Instead of the Cross, the Albatross About my Neck was Hung”	0
George Eliot’s Verse in Chapter 38 of Daniel Deronda	0
Allegorical cartographies and the Road to Success in The Great Gatsby	0
“Ontological Surplus in Krasznahorkai’s Seiobo There Below ”	0
Verbal Corruptions in Q1 and Q2 Romeo and Juliet	0
Rintrah’s Swagger: On not Understanding Blake’s Argument	0
“Ye Came for Gold, Ye Slaves”: Irony of Paragone in Timon of Athens	0
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
Horror and Remembrance in Ambrose Bierce’s “The Coup de Grâce”	0
Robinson’s Lost anchors	0
The duke’s self-unfolding in Act 1, scene 1 of Measure for Measure	0
Double Sonnets in Keats’s “I Stood Tip-Toe upon a Little Hill”	0
Floods and the divine: a Blue Humanities case study using Their Eyes Were Watching God	0
A She-Wolf’s Counsel: Brunechildis and Her Grandsons in the Chronicle of Fredegar	0
“He was not a Mozart”: irony in Aldous Huxley’s “Young Archimedes”	0
“Born in the Wrong Body”: Fragmentation of the Self in Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis	0
Teeth as Metaphors in Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King	0
The Changeling and A Midsummer Night’s Dream	0
The Jacqueminot Rose in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence	0
“The Vain Lustre of Imagined Crowns”: Light and Dark Imagery in Marriage a la Mode	0
Through the Looking-Glass Cabinet: A (Very) Close Reading of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence	0
“Weaves of Homely Stuff”: Ecological Formings in John Clare’s “Birds Nests”	0
A Place of Forgetting: Examining the Littoral in Dionne Brand’s a Map to the Door of No Return	0
The Influence of Jacob Boehme’s Aurora on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian	0
Journey of the Magi(strate): Reading J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians through T. S. Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi”	0
Disability and the Scene of Learning in Shakespeare, Lope, Ariosto	0
“Hallow’d Mold”: Collins’s “Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746” (“How Sleep the Brave”)	0
The typewriter erased: Ecocritical silence in The Waste Land drafts	0
Temporality in The Overstory by Richard Powers	0
Unsympathetic victim and conditional sympathy in Agatha Christie’s “The Blue Geranium”	0
From Platonic cave to Bachelardian cellar: the verticality of Gaze castle in Iris Murdoch’s the Unicorn	0
A Rite of Passage in Shakespeare’sLOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST:5.2.786-806	0
“It” Can Kill a Man: Existential Clauses in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens	0
Reading the Runes in Beowulf	0
An Eye for an Eye: Dickinson’s Vision and Emerson’s Visuality	0
Unraveling the Yarn at the Center of Mary Wilkins Freeman’s “The Lost Ghost”	0
“A Joke in a German Paper”: Uncovering a Neglected Reference in D. H. Lawrence’s “Do Women Change”	0
The Image of the Biblical Ruth in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”	0
Pain and Gender in Hemingway’s “Indian Camp”	0
Gender Performance in Jim Shepard’s “Minotaur”	0
“Spectral Gateways” and the “Horror of the City Road”: A Surreal Connection between The Great Gatsby and The Rainbow	0
Diary of a bad week: the tedium of the Remains of the Day	0
Facing Autobiography in The Prelude	0
Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters as a resource for Black Time Studies	0
Sullen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29	0
Had the Rose Theater shut down by 1606? New evidence from The Travels of the Three English Brothers	0
Windows as partitions: Class, gender, and transcendence in Oliver Twist	0
“Trivial yet serious”: Re-Reading the fan in Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s fan	0
Symbolic Images of Butterflies in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek	0
Rehearing Nature: Soundscape, Ecological Listening and the Critique of Sensory Hierarchy in Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall	0
Bildung , snow, Mann: Memory and forgetting in The Magic Mountain	0
Mapping Postwar Englishness: Urban Pastoral in Philip Larkin’s “Here” and “The Whitsun Weddings”	0
Queer Desires in “The Daemon Lover” and “Trial by Combat”	0
Translated China in Journey to a War	0
Prince Prospero and the Art of Predestinated Destruction	0
Tall Trees: A Proposed New Meaning for a Label on the Franks Casket	0
Was the Middle High German Lanzelet known in medieval Iceland?	0
Women and the Bicycle in D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and The Lost Girl	0