Explicator

Papers
(The median citation count 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Exploring Therapeutic Dynamics in Anne Sexton’s Confessional Poetry: Self-expression, Healing, and Narrative Dialogue2
On the Emendation of The Phoenix lines 164–65 and The Wife’s Lament line 422
Alice Staverton as midwife in Henry James’s “the jolly corner”2
Claudia Rankine and Robert Lowell, Again1
Thomas Hardy’s Racialization of English Natives in The Return of the Native1
“Of a Thing Which Could not be Put Back”: The Symbolic and Ecological Implications of Morel Mushrooms in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road1
A Resistant Reading of Emily Brontё’s “The Old Stoic”1
Correction1
Botanical Symbolism and the Death of Ophelia in Hamlet1
Modern punctuation of Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale: Line 9641
Political Rumination and Imagination in Anna Burns’s Milkman1
Paradise or Paralysis: Mary Shelley’s Ambivalence in Frankenstein1
MUCH MADNESS: The Horatian Conceit of the Mad Poet in Emily Dickinson0
Imagining Eternity in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Late Poetry0
Poetics of Touch and Female Fetishism in Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel (2003)0
“Born in the Wrong Body”: Fragmentation of the Self in Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis0
“Ma soul’s a Witness for de Waldorf-Astoria!” Langston Hughes’s Poetic Hotel Advertisement0
Body and perception reshaped by influenza pandemic in MRS DALLOWAY0
Inherent advice: Pynchon’s earnest counsel in Slow Learner0
The Tiger-Woman in “Tale of Hemetes the Heremyte” (1575)0
Temporality in The Overstory by Richard Powers0
Thomas Nashe: Balladeer0
The Nexus of Literacy and Morality in Edith Wharton’s “Bunner Sisters”0
Intermedial musicality in On Chesil Beach0
A Window on One’s Identity: Cultural Identity In Chinua Achebe’s “The Sacrificial Egg”0
Pain and Gender in Hemingway’s “Indian Camp”0
The New England Work Ethic and Robert Frost’s “The Code”0
The Closet Scenes of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge0
Atheism vs Theism: Conflict and Ambiguity in Dylan Thomas’s “Poem on his Birthday”0
Metaphor and Architectural space in Emily Dickinson’s “I Dwell in Possibility”0
“Hallow’d Mold”: Collins’s “Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746” (“How Sleep the Brave”)0
Aragorn, Sovereignty, and Mortality in Tolkien’s Mythic Historiography0
Victoria Chang’s poetic signature0
Wallace Stevens’s “The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain”0
A Post-pastoral Reading of Ron Rash’s “Speckled Trout”0
‘Ac ic to þam grunde genge’: an analogue for Genesis B, line 834a0
We Are All Cain: Thomas Wolfe’s Transformation of Biblical Myth in “The Lost Boy”0
Lucan on Human Sacrifice and the God Esus0
The Image of the Biblical Ruth in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”0
Symbolic Images of Butterflies in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek0
John Florio’s Second Fruits and the Theater of Life0
Translated China in Journey to a War0
Vague Local Deities and the Franks Casket’s Erta0
Wollstonecraft’s critical reviews on Gilpin’s picturesque0
Resisting Defense in Moore’s “Armor’s Undermining Modesty”0
Blood and Mud in Shelley’s “England in 1819.”0
William James’s Metaphysical Revelation in Sherwood Anderson’s “Tandy”0
Carving the I/Eye: The Chiasmus Structure in A. C. Swinburne’s “Hermaphroditus”0
Failed Seduction: Narratorial Authority in Katherine Mansfield’s “a Dill Pickle”0
“Moses Was’nt Fairly Used—”: In the Footsteps of Harriet Tubman in Emily Dickinson’s “So I Pull My Stockings Off”0
“A Mind of Winter”: Affect in Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man”0
The Dragon’s Ecological Warning in John Gardner’s Grendel0
“Us He Devours”: Christianity and Its Use of Human Fear in T. S. Eliot’s “Gerontion”10
Madness as Resilience in Henry Chettle’s The Tragedy of Hoffman0
The End of History in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections0
Reading between the Stanzas of W. B. Yeats’s “Among School Children”0
Heathcliff as the masculine counterpart of androgynous Catherine in Wuthering Heights0
“Forgyd Taylis”: A Gloss on line 43 of Thomas Wyatt or Pseudo-Wyatt’s “O Cruel Heart”0
If As I Lay Dying is a mock-epic, what is being mocked?0
The Jacqueminot Rose in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence0
“Winter’s got to begin sometime”: doctor Selgrove in Edith Wharton’s “all souls’”0
Ted Hughes’s “The Jaguar” and Animal Ethics0
Jonson’s Two Prologues to Epicœne : Libel, Print, and Play0
Journey of the Magi(strate): Reading J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians through T. S. Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi”0
The Epistolary Narrative in Atonement0
The Parody of Holy Communion in John Donne’s TWICKENHAM GARDEN0
Auden, Carnival and “The Love Feast”0
Looking for Kevin: A Rereading of Rosaleen O’Toole’s Journey in Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Cracked Looking-Glass”0
Maggie’s death and Dorothea’s growth — the sublimation of passion in George Eliot’s novels0
“Father,” “Son,” and Profane Ghost: an Unholy Trinity in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw0
Isabella’s Silence and Philocalia’s Absence0
Carnivalesque Imagery in Stevens’ “THE EMPEROR OF ICE-CREAM”0
Trauma and the Holocaust in John Banville’s Shroud0
The Fantasy of Seduction in Kafka’s “The Silence of the Sirens”0
The Underthought of John Milton’s Samson Agonistes in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “My own heart let me more have pity on.”0
Thomas Lodge’s Life and Works: A Mutual Looking-Glass for the Elizabethan Age0
The Native Christianity of Samson Occom’s “The Sufferings of Christ”0
Moral Dogma and Ethical Relativity in Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly0
Why Thoreau Spent a Night in Jail0
Love as Suffering (Passion) in Dryden’s All for Love0
The Significance of a Single Letter and Word in Shakespeare0
Work and Fraternity in Levine’s “What Work is”0
Unraveling the Yarn at the Center of Mary Wilkins Freeman’s “The Lost Ghost”0
Tolkien, Shakespeare, Trees, and The Lord of the Rings0
From the Penile to the Pinnal: Anatomizing Louis Chu’s Eat a Bowl of Tea0
Operatic Elements in Eileen Chang’s The Rouge of the North0
“Of coyotes and werewolves: Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero0
Tamburlaine’s Asiatic Style and Shakespeare’s First Plays0
A Portrait of the Teacher as a Young Man: Stephen Dedalus in Nestor0
Winston’s Parallel Universe: On History in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four0
Queer Attachments in Tennessee Williams’ “Portrait of a Girl in Glass”0
The Subaltern in the Ibis Trilogy0
Symbolic meanings of a caged parrot in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek0
Oriental Spice-Plants in an English Garden: Explaining a Natural Impossibility in Pearl0
Capitalism as Religion in Bambara’s “The Lesson”0
“The Work Wisdom of ‘From Plane to Plane’”0
Dickinson’s click0
“Obligation’s Ghosts: MacIntyre, Beckett, and Metafictive Ends”0
The Perils Of Being “Nice”: Stephen’s Dilemma in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man0
Revisiting Coleridge’s “Instead of the Cross, the Albatross About my Neck was Hung”0
A Tale of Two Fools: Middleton, Shakespeare, and Co-Authorship in Timon of Athens and King Lear0
Crossing the Queensboro Bridge: Gatsby, Automobiles, and Immigrant Mobility in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker0
Tall Trees: A Proposed New Meaning for a Label on the Franks Casket0
Hearing is Believing: Sounds in Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”0
Gender Performance in Jim Shepard’s “Minotaur”0
The Old English Fates of the Apostles : A Note on lēofe on līfe , l. 6a0
Pleading with the King: The Representation of Sarah as Queen and Noblewoman in Genesis A0
Mary Shelton’s Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript0
“Absent subjectivity in Poe’s THE MAN OF THE CROWD”0
Levin’s hunting in Anna Karenina0
More echoes of Geoffrey of Monmouth in St. Erkenwald0
Body Narratives in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun0
Middle English araten and Scenes of Condescension in Piers Plowman0
The Exile Within: An LGBTQ+ Reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Prodigal”0
Rappaccini’s Queer Daughter: Gender Non-Conformity in “Rappaccini’s Daughter”0
Hamlet’s Problems0
Women and the Bicycle in D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and The Lost Girl0
Shakespeare’s Tempest Line 1786: “Wise” or “Wife”0
Seamus Heaney’s “Clearances: ‘III’”0
The economy of Paulina’s demand in the Winter’s Tale0
“He was not a Mozart”: irony in Aldous Huxley’s “young Archimedes”0
“Seascape, Divine Power, and Megincraft in the Old Saxon Heliand”0
“A Truly Carnivalesque Death”: On Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”0
Consent, rape and pollution: the context of Hrosvitha’s Dulcitius0
The Wartime State and the Cigarette: Darkness and Temporality in Pale Horse, Pale Rider0
The Phenomena of Nothingness in de la Mare’s “The Listeners”0
Prince Prospero and the Art of Predestinated Destruction0
Alchemical Decknamen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 330
A Rite of Passage in Shakespeare’sLOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST:5.2.786-8060
Religion and the Theology of Love in W. H. Auden’s “Stop all the clocks”0
Reading Metrical Ambiguity in John Skelton’s a Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell0
Silko’s Narrative Negotiation of the Rain Man’s Rites of the Passage0
Whose Feathers were Borrowed? A Corpus Stylistic Approach to Richard Barnfield’s and William Shakespeare’s Poetry0
Absalom, Absalom! And Acts Misreading0
“It Shall Be Set in Imperishable Crystal”: A Representation of Hair Memorabilia in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings0
“O my prophetique soule”: Shakespeare’s influence on Fletcher and Massinger’s The Double Marriage0
Sound, Ambiguity, and Subjectivity in Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
Extraordinary Countenance: An Examination of Gender and Sexual Identity Through Etymology in Nella Larsen’s Passing0
Samuel Beckett, Max Nordau, and the Worms of How It Is0
Flannery O’Connor’s “The Displaced Person” and the Legacy of Lynching0
The Deep Time of Local Color: Arctic Planetarity and Storytelling in The Country of the Pointed Firs0
Introducing Shakespeare and His Contemporaries0
Remnants of the Past and the Quest for Identity: Reading August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson in the Context of Collective Memory0
Experiencing an Affective Shift: Bonding Unreliability in The Remains of the Day0
“Keep Chaos Out, Order In”: Grid and Architectural Space in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One0
Skilled at Delay: George Herbert’s “Justice (I)”0
The romance of Tristan and Isolde in Kristin Lavransdatter0
Language and Origin in John Ashbery’s “Myrtle”0
“Spectral Gateways” and the “Horror of the City Road”: A Surreal Connection between The Great Gatsby and The Rainbow0
Contemplating Stars and Solving Mysteries: Rationality in Mark Haddon’s the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime0
“This Leaving-Out Business”: Minimalist Techniques in John Ashbery’s Poetry0
The Ambivalent Garden and Wordsworth’s Shadow in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Deserted Garden”0
An Eye for an Eye: Dickinson’s Vision and Emerson’s Visuality0
Seamus Heaney’s “Failed” Elegy and the Nonhuman Subject: A Reading of “Widgeon”0
Divinity and Decadence within Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
The Choice of Hercules in Middlemarch0
Rereading Cynewulf’s Elene Line 140b: In Defense of the Manuscript0
Irritable Lines: The Revision of Shakespeare’s Blank Verse in Robert Creeley’s “The Crisis”0
“The spatial symbolism of Gregor’s room in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis0
History and Fantasy in George Peele’s David and Bathsheba0
Embedding the Unconscious in the Conscious: John Ashbery’s Sestina “The Painter” Revisited0
A reparative reading of Toni Morrison’s Beloved0
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
A third biblical foundation of James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”0
On the cyclical movement in John Keats’s “to autumn”0
Marvell’s “the unfortunate lover”0
TWELFTH NIGHT: Malvolio and the Tudor Heresy Trials0
Dawn of Britain: A New Interpretation of “Dawn” in Martineau’s Dawn Island0
Ambiguity in Yeats’s “the Hosting of the Sidhe”0
The Cheshire Cat in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland : Anthropomorphism and Childhood as Socialization0
Singing Obedience, Speaking Violence: Desdemona’s “swansong” in Othello0
Revisiting the Tortoiseshell Cat: Subjectivity and Discursive Dilemma of the American wife in Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain”0
The Symbolic Fiction of Mr. Stevens: A Lacanian Reading of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day0
“Careful Not to Bump her Head”: A Symbolic Meaning in Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman0
Surprised by Sin: Medical Metaphors and Secular Eschatology in Ian McEwan’sSaturday0
Suggested Sources for The Faithful Friends (ca 1613-1620)0
She Is Not Only Tired but Also Sick: Illness and Inertia in James Joyce’s “Eveline”0
Shakespeare and the Non-Jonsonian Court Masques0
The Face of the Other in Home0
The Lacanian subject in Robert Frost’s “the road not taken”0
Kindness and Sympathy in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility0
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
Words as Readymade: Mina Loy’s Verbal Portraiture of “Gertrude Stein” and “Joyce’s Ulysses”0
Laughing Gas and Involuntary Laughter in The Chimes0
Caesar’s Hands in Titus Andronicus0
Disability and the Scene of Learning in Shakespeare, Lope, Ariosto0
“Quite Convivial”: A Butler’s Duty in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day0
Lyric Space in Lorine Niedecker’s Poetry0
Rereading the Postscript in “Bartleby, the Scrivener”0
“Trick or Treat!”: The Trickster Figure in Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr Rosewater and Slapstick0
Teeth as Metaphors in Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King0
A literal reading of the shadow in “Ligeia:” Coleridge’s remarks on Ghosts and Poe’s poetics of misdirection0
"The First Three Shots": A Subtle Warning in Richard Connell’s "The Most Dangerous Game"0
“Monsters Worse to Come”: A Reconsideration of the Influence of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Upon Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God0
Guthlac A line 475a: textual criticism and metrical decontraction0
“Ye Came for Gold, Ye Slaves”: Irony of Paragone in Timon of Athens0
Thoreau’s philosophy of work in frost’s “mowing”0
Whose Slavery is it?: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad0
Beowulf and Freawaru0
Correction0
“A Joke in a German Paper”: Uncovering a Neglected Reference in D. H. Lawrence’s “Do Women Change”0
Queer Desires in “The Daemon Lover” and “Trial by Combat”0
Beowulfian Archetypes: The Case of Hrómundr Gripsson0
George Eliot’s verse in Chapter 38 of Daniel Deronda0
The Image of the Stove in A Doll House0
“A Hunger Artist”: As An Art Performance0
Mirabai and the Ethic of Universal Suffering: Reading Bhajans in Indian Pedagogy0
A New Source for the Unnamed phisicien in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess0
Out of Nothing: The Theory of Omission and Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”0
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