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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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On the Emendation of The Phoenix lines 164–65 and The Wife’s Lament line 423
Alice Staverton as Midwife in Henry James’s “The Jolly Corner”2
Exploring Therapeutic Dynamics in Anne Sexton’s Confessional Poetry: Self-expression, Healing, and Narrative Dialogue2
“Who dealt these cards?”: the dealer’s choice in Faulkner’s “was”2
Anne Elliot’s Blush: The Language of Feeling, and the Feeling of Language in Jane Austen’s Persuasion1
Thomas Hardy’s Racialization of English Natives in The Return of the Native1
Correction1
“Of a Thing Which Could not be Put Back”: The Symbolic and Ecological Implications of Morel Mushrooms in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road1
Political Rumination and Imagination in Anna Burns’s Milkman1
Paradise or Paralysis: Mary Shelley’s Ambivalence in Frankenstein1
Modern punctuation of Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale: Line 9641
Bloom as Unprofessional Reader: Readerly Forgetting and Misremembering in Joyce’s Ulysses1
“Demaine” and the Illusion of Legitimacy in The Great Gatsby1
A Resistant Reading of Emily Brontё’s “The Old Stoic”1
An Arc of Larks1
Claudia Rankine and Robert Lowell, Again1
Poetics of Touch and Female Fetishism in Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel (2003)1
Botanical Symbolism and the Death of Ophelia in Hamlet1
“Keep Chaos Out, Order In”: Grid and Architectural Space in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One1
Language and Origin in John Ashbery’s “Myrtle”0
Reflections on the Muddled Modern Mind in Allen Tate’s “Ode” and “Last Days of Alice”0
Dickinson’s Click0
Beyond Orientalist Orthodoxy: Historical Evidence and The Painted Veil0
The fall of the Rebel Angels in Genesis B , Lines 306b-08a0
Temporality in The Overstory by Richard Powers0
Lexical Transubstantiation in the Old Saxon Hêliand0
Metaphor and meaning in Hart Crane’s “Voyages II”0
Horror and Remembrance in Ambrose Bierce’s “The Coup de Grâce”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
The Dragon’s Ecological Warning in John Gardner’s Grendel0
Lyric Space in Lorine Niedecker’s Poetry0
Burning Hamlet : Fire and tragic inheritance in Iris Murdoch’s The Black Prince0
Hamlet’s Problems0
Isabella’s Silence and Philocalia’s Absence0
Moral Dogma and Ethical Relativity in Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly0
The Native Christianity of Samson Occom’s “The Sufferings of Christ”0
A New Source for the Unnamed phisicien in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess0
“A Joke in a German Paper”: Uncovering a Neglected Reference in D. H. Lawrence’s “Do Women Change”0
Reconsidering the Hūgas : ethnonymy and historical memory in Beowulf0
Wordsworth’s relinquished delight0
Romantic-era explicating and The Explicator ’s romantic era0
“Father,” “Son,” and Profane Ghost: an Unholy Trinity in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw0
“Spectral Gateways” and the “Horror of the City Road”: A Surreal Connection between The Great Gatsby and The Rainbow0
Mary Shelton’s Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript0
Experiencing an Affective Shift: Bonding Unreliability in The Remains of the Day0
Rintrah’s Swagger: On not Understanding Blake’s Argument0
Looking for Kevin: A Rereading of Rosaleen O’Toole’s Journey in Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Cracked Looking-Glass”0
Shakespeare and the Non-Jonsonian Court Masques0
Skilled at Delay: George Herbert’s “Justice (I)”0
Helplessness of Resistance: Thoreauvian Intellectuals in Paul Auster’s Sunset Park0
The Affective Agency of Objects: Alice’s Herbs in Mary Barton0
Bildung , snow, Mann: Memory and forgetting in The Magic Mountain0
The Perils Of Being “Nice”: Stephen’s Dilemma in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man0
Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters as a resource for Black Time Studies0
The Significance of a Single Letter and Word in Shakespeare0
Irritable Lines: The Revision of Shakespeare’s Blank Verse in Robert Creeley’s “The Crisis”0
The powerful female protagonist in medieval German heroic poetry: Nibelungenlied and Kudrun0
“That Death Has No Meaning”: The Imitation and Adaptation of Ernest Hemingway in Cormac McCarthy’s The Counselor0
Wealhtheow’s Revenge and the Germanic Heroic Tradition: Failed Conflict Resolution in Beowulf0
‘Ac ic to þam grunde genge’: an analogue for Genesis B, line 834a0
Caesar’s Hands in Titus Andronicus0
Weaponizing the Womb: Militarized Maternity and Corrupted Virtue in Coriolanus0
Rereading the Beast’s Clothing in “The Tiger’s Bride”0
Thoreau’s philosophy of work in frost’s “mowing”0
A She-Wolf’s Counsel: Brunechildis and Her Grandsons in the Chronicle of Fredegar0
The Phenomena of Nothingness in de la Mare’s “The Listeners”0
Trauma and the Holocaust in John Banville’s Shroud0
Parameters of Outdoing Oneself: A Reconsideration of the Bipartite Structure of Early Romance Poetry0
Pain and Gender in Hemingway’s “Indian Camp”0
The Self, the Body and the World in Wallace Stevens’s “Tea at the Palaz of Hoon”0
"The First Three Shots": A Subtle Warning in Richard Connell’s "The Most Dangerous Game"0
Bosola’s Envy in The Duchess of Malfi0
Correction0
“Insensible Unrest”: William Wordsworth’s Revisions to Charlotte Smith’s “Written in the Church Yard at Middleton in Sussex”0
Unsympathetic victim and conditional sympathy in Agatha Christie’s “The Blue Geranium”0
Allegorical cartographies and the Road to Success in The Great Gatsby0
Explaining explanation in S. T. Coleridge’s rime of the ancient mariner0
Jonson’s Two Prologues to Epicœne : Libel, Print, and Play0
Lucan on Human Sacrifice and the God Esus0
Snodgrass’ (In-)conveniently selected memories: Reclaiming parental identity in “Heart’s Needle”0
Heathcliff as the masculine counterpart of androgynous Catherine in Wuthering Heights0
Resisting Defense in Moore’s “Armor’s Undermining Modesty”0
Hawthorne as Melville’s guide to hell in Clarel0
Tall Trees: A Proposed New Meaning for a Label on the Franks Casket0
Daisy Fay’s Maternity: A Revision to the Chronology of The Great Gatsby0
Robinson’s Lost anchors0
“Stretchers” in Flux: Reconsidering Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ’s Evasion Controversy through Percival Everett’s James0
The duke’s self-unfolding in Act 1, scene 1 of Measure for Measure0
Chaucer, Maps, and the Mongols: A Cartographic Approach to the Squire’s Tale0
Rehearing Nature: Soundscape, Ecological Listening and the Critique of Sensory Hierarchy in Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall0
Embedding the Unconscious in the Conscious: John Ashbery’s Sestina “The Painter” Revisited0
Diary of a bad week: the tedium of the Remains of the Day0
Body Narratives in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun0
“Of coyotes and werewolves: Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero0
“Reading the Baseball”: American Cultural Imperialism in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea0
“A Striking Likeness”: Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent0
“A Truly Carnivalesque Death”: On Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”0
Revisiting Coleridge’s “Instead of the Cross, the Albatross About my Neck was Hung”0
Divinity and Decadence within Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
Aragorn, Sovereignty, and Mortality in Tolkien’s Mythic Historiography0
Wartonian echoes: the reclamation of Gondibert through Headley’s sonnet to Anna Laetitia Barbauld0
Tolkien, Shakespeare, Trees, and The Lord of the Rings0
Through the Looking-Glass Cabinet: A (Very) Close Reading of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence0
The stylistic distancing of Montresor’s guilt in “the Cask of Amontillado”0
A Weak Reading of Stephen Crane’s Maggie, A Girl of the Streets0
A Tale of Two Fools: Middleton, Shakespeare, and Co-Authorship in Timon of Athens and King Lear0
Rhyming times0
Reading Metrical Ambiguity in John Skelton’s a Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell0
Demogorgon’s “Spells” and Blackwood’s Magazine: The Last Stanza of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound0
“This Leaving-Out Business”: Minimalist Techniques in John Ashbery’s Poetry0
Beowulfian Archetypes: The Case of Hrómundr Gripsson0
She Is Not Only Tired but Also Sick: Illness and Inertia in James Joyce’s “Eveline”0
Guthlac A line 475a: Textual Criticism and Metrical Decontraction0
Extraordinary Countenance: An Examination of Gender and Sexual Identity Through Etymology in Nella Larsen’s Passing0
The generative nature of diasporic spaces in Samuel Selvon’s “Come Back to Grenada” and Moyez G. Vassanji’s “Refugee”0
Beyond Sovereignty: Reconsidering the Sea in Iris Murdoch’s the Sea, the Sea0
Sound, Ambiguity, and Subjectivity in Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
“The Vain Lustre of Imagined Crowns”: Light and Dark Imagery in Marriage a la Mode0
Out of Nothing: The Theory of Omission and Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”0
Coleridge, Hamlet, and the Distortions of a Myriad Mind0
The Image of the Stove in A Doll House0
Tamburlaine’s Asiatic Style and Shakespeare’s First Plays0
“Careful Not to Bump her Head”: A Symbolic Meaning in Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman0
“A Mind of Winter”: Affect in Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man”0
Lyrical epiphanies in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun0
Introducing Shakespeare and His Contemporaries0
Blood and Mud in Shelley’s “England in 1819.”0
Was the Middle High German Lanzelet known in medieval Iceland?0
Laughing Gas and Involuntary Laughter in The Chimes0
“Winter’s got to begin sometime”: Doctor Selgrove in Edith Wharton’s “All Souls’”0
“No Place for Us”: The Embodied Atmosphere of Displacement and Despair in W. H. Auden’s “Refugee Blues”0
Of Precarious Hospitality: George Meredith’s Sonnet XVII, “At Dinner She Is Hostess”0
Disability and the Scene of Learning in Shakespeare, Lope, Ariosto0
The Closet Scenes of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge0
Victoria Chang’s poetic signature0
Seascape, Divine Power, and Megincraft in the Old Saxon Heliand0
The Influence of Jacob Boehme’s Aurora on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian0
Singing Obedience, Speaking Violence: Desdemona’s “swansong” in Othello0
Wollstonecraft’s critical reviews on Gilpin’s picturesque0
Invisible burdens: Financial strain, social expectation, and clerical life in George Eliot’s “the sad fortunes of the reverend Amos Barton”0
Sullen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 290
Unreliable Narration and Moral Culpability in Agatha Christie’s “Motive vs. Opportunity”0
Reading between the Stanzas of W. B. Yeats’s “Among School Children”0
A literal reading of the shadow in “Ligeia:” Coleridge’s remarks on Ghosts and Poe’s poetics of misdirection0
More Echoes of Geoffrey of Monmouth in St. Erkenwald0
Alchemical Decknamen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 330
Vague Local Deities and the Franks Casket’s Erta0
Prince Prospero and the Art of Predestinated Destruction0
Depicting the transgenerational transmission of trauma through photographic mediums in W.G. Sebald’s the emigrants0
Families and Romantic Theology in Charles Williams’ War in Heaven0
Clues among the Clutter: Circling Back with Jane Austen’s Miss Bates0
“What fires run, what craving wakes”: devouring desire and the poetics of incorporation in Sylvia Plath’s love poetry0
Inherent advice: Pynchon’s earnest counsel in Slow Learner0
The Form of Evil in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”0
Dawn of Britain: A New Interpretation of “Dawn” in Martineau’s Dawn Island0
“Trivial yet serious”: Re-Reading the fan in Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s fan0
“Quite Convivial”: A Butler’s Duty in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day0
The Tiger-Woman in “Tale of Hemetes the Heremyte” (1575)0
“It” Can Kill a Man: Existential Clauses in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens0
Queer Attachments in Tennessee Williams’ “Portrait of a Girl in Glass”0
Reading the Runes in Beowulf0
The economy of Paulina’s demand in the Winter’s Tale0
Romancing Epic Poetry: Love, War, and Global Sway in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s “ Willehalm”0
Facing Autobiography in The Prelude0
Oriental Spice-Plants in an English Garden: Explaining a Natural Impossibility in Pearl0
The formal mechanism of the boat in William Wordsworth’s The Prelude (1850) and in Winslow Homer’s The fog Warning 0
Kindness and Sympathy in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility0
“Moses Was’nt Fairly Used—”: In the Footsteps of Harriet Tubman in Emily Dickinson’s “So I Pull My Stockings Off”0
“Hallow’d Mold”: Collins’s “Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746” (“How Sleep the Brave”)0
Gender and Sexuality in _Dukus Horant_ and Early Yiddish Epic0
Body and perception reshaped by influenza pandemic in MRS DALLOWAY0
William Wordsworth, Edward Rushton, and Toussaint L’Ouverture0
Distraction and “Playful” Reading in Agatha Christie’s “Mr Eastwood’s Adventure”0
The Jacqueminot Rose in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence0
The Old English Fates of the Apostles : A Note on lēofe on līfe , l. 6a0
Failed Seduction: Narratorial Authority in Katherine Mansfield’s “a Dill Pickle”0
Love as Suffering (Passion) in Dryden’s All for Love0
Inheritance of Paradoxes: The Characterization of Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of England, in More and Shakespeare0
The fourfold in Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet0
Double Sonnets in Keats’s “I Stood Tip-Toe upon a Little Hill”0
“He was not a Mozart”: irony in Aldous Huxley’s “Young Archimedes”0
Unraveling the Yarn at the Center of Mary Wilkins Freeman’s “The Lost Ghost”0
Floods and the divine: a Blue Humanities case study using Their Eyes Were Watching God0
A reparative reading of Toni Morrison’s Beloved0
An Eye for an Eye: Dickinson’s Vision and Emerson’s Visuality0
“Born in the Wrong Body”: Fragmentation of the Self in Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis0
Verbal Corruptions in Q1 and Q2 Romeo and Juliet0
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
Byron’s Speed: The Giaour0
Thomas Lodge’s Life and Works: A Mutual Looking-Glass for the Elizabethan Age0
Coleridge’s “Lines to Charlotte Brent,” Punning, and the Tyrant Pain: Interpreting a Lost Poem0
The Fantasy of Seduction in Kafka’s “The Silence of the Sirens”0
“Weaves of Homely Stuff”: Ecological Formings in John Clare’s “Birds Nests”0
Whose Slavery is it?: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad0
“It Shall Be Set in Imperishable Crystal”: A Representation of Hair Memorabilia in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings0
Terror, obscurity, and the Burkean sublime in Gloucester’s blinding0
George Eliot’s Verse in Chapter 38 of Daniel Deronda0
“A Hunger Artist”: As An Art Performance0
Auden, Carnival and “The Love Feast”0
The typewriter erased: Ecocritical silence in The Waste Land drafts0
Rereading the Postscript in “Bartleby, the Scrivener”0
“Let no Student… Take Anie Surfette of Cheries”: A Forgotten Early Modern Euphemism0
The Lacanian subject in Robert Frost’s “the road not taken”0
Metaphor and Architectural space in Emily Dickinson’s “I Dwell in Possibility”0
Elision and the Numbers in “We are seven”0
Queer Desires in “The Daemon Lover” and “Trial by Combat”0
The Nexus of Literacy and Morality in Edith Wharton’s “Bunner Sisters”0
The Lack of Lovemaking in Roman Love Elegy: The Example of Ovid’s Amores I.50
Narrative Repair and Spatial Ethics in Richard Selzer’s “Imelda”0
“Ye Came for Gold, Ye Slaves”: Irony of Paragone in Timon of Athens0
Gender Performance in Jim Shepard’s “Minotaur”0
A Place of Forgetting: Examining the Littoral in Dionne Brand’s a Map to the Door of No Return0
Instrumental Belonging and Bureaucratic Usefulness in Timothy Mo’s The Monkey King0
Crossing the Queensboro Bridge: Gatsby, Automobiles, and Immigrant Mobility in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker0
“If thy right eye offend thee”: the economy of redemptive sacrifice in Jane Eyre0
Consent, rape and pollution: the context of Hrosvitha’s Dulcitius0
“Forgyd Taylis”: A Gloss on line 43 of Thomas Wyatt or Pseudo-Wyatt’s “O Cruel Heart”0
Translated China in Journey to a War0
Middle English araten and Scenes of Condescension in Piers Plowman0
“Hoarded Passion” and the Reversal of Erotic Authority in Hong’s “Not Henry Miller but Mother”0
Mapping Postwar Englishness: Urban Pastoral in Philip Larkin’s “Here” and “The Whitsun Weddings”0
The Hand of “Benedictions” in Henry James’s “The Jolly Corner”0
A Rite of Passage in Shakespeare’sLOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST:5.2.786-8060
Ted Hughes’s “The Jaguar” and Animal Ethics0
Windows as partitions: Class, gender, and transcendence in Oliver Twist0
“Why Westward Turn?”: Keats’s Turn Away from the Dolphin’s Turn0
The Choice of Hercules in Middlemarch0
Ambiguity in Yeats’s “the Hosting of the Sidhe”0
Religion and the Theology of Love in W. H. Auden’s “Stop all the clocks”0
The Exile Within: An LGBTQ+ Reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Prodigal”0
Work and Fraternity in Levine’s “What Work is”0
Carving the I/Eye: The Chiasmus Structure in A. C. Swinburne’s “Hermaphroditus”0
Thomas Nashe: Balladeer0
Shelley’s Mont Blanc and the Voice of Manuscript0
Geography and history in Waltharius0
The Image of the Biblical Ruth in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”0
Madness as Resilience in Henry Chettle’s The Tragedy of Hoffman0
Women and the Bicycle in D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and The Lost Girl0
Apples, Editorial Errors, and Pronouns: Some Thoughts on the Textual Traditions of the Eckenot Scene0
History and Fantasy in George Peele’s David and Bathsheba0
“Surprized by Joy”: William Wordsworth’s Elegiac Reverse0
This House Is Too Large for a Man to Live in Alone: the Haunted House and Spatial Absence in Ishiguro’s A Family Supper0
Symbolic Images of Butterflies in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek0
Love Me or Else: Keats’s Impossible Desires in “I Cry Your Mercy”0
Teeth as Metaphors in Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King0
On the Edge of Sound: Sensation and Memory in Seamus Heaney’s “Wordsworth’s Skates”0
A Portrait of the Teacher as a Young Man: Stephen Dedalus in Nestor0
Dietrich von Bern’s captivity among monsters: a heroic motif and its variations in Waldere , Virginal, Sigenot, 0
The End of History in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections0
Capitalism as Religion in Bambara’s “The Lesson”0
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