Explicator

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
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An Arc of Larks2
Alice Staverton as Midwife in Henry James’s “The Jolly Corner”1
Claudia Rankine and Robert Lowell, Again1
Poetics of Touch and Female Fetishism in Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel (2003)1
Thomas Hardy’s Racialization of English Natives in The Return of the Native1
Exploring Therapeutic Dynamics in Anne Sexton’s Confessional Poetry: Self-expression, Healing, and Narrative Dialogue1
Paradise or Paralysis: Mary Shelley’s Ambivalence in Frankenstein1
Political Rumination and Imagination in Anna Burns’s Milkman1
Anne Elliot’s Blush: The Language of Feeling, and the Feeling of Language in Jane Austen’s Persuasion1
Modern punctuation of Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale: Line 9641
Correction1
On the Emendation of The Phoenix lines 164–65 and The Wife’s Lament line 421
Obligation’s Ghosts: MacIntyre, Beckett, and Metafictive Ends0
Religion and the Theology of Love in W. H. Auden’s “Stop all the clocks”0
The Image of the Stove in A Doll House0
Contemplating Stars and Solving Mysteries: Rationality in Mark Haddon’s the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime0
Queer Attachments in Tennessee Williams’ “Portrait of a Girl in Glass”0
‘Ac ic to þam grunde genge’: an analogue for Genesis B, line 834a0
Queer Desires in “The Daemon Lover” and “Trial by Combat”0
A third biblical foundation of James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”0
Reconsidering the Hūgas : ethnonymy and historical memory in Beowulf0
“Of a Thing Which Could not be Put Back”: The Symbolic and Ecological Implications of Morel Mushrooms in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road0
A Tale of Two Fools: Middleton, Shakespeare, and Co-Authorship in Timon of Athens and King Lear0
“He was not a Mozart”: irony in Aldous Huxley’s “Young Archimedes”0
Blood and Mud in Shelley’s “England in 1819.”0
“Spectral Gateways” and the “Horror of the City Road”: A Surreal Connection between The Great Gatsby and The Rainbow0
Suggested Sources for The Faithful Friends (ca 1613-1620)0
Sound, Ambiguity, and Subjectivity in Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
Victoria Chang’s poetic signature0
A reparative reading of Toni Morrison’s Beloved0
“The Vain Lustre of Imagined Crowns”: Light and Dark Imagery in Marriage a la Mode0
The fourfold in Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet0
Guthlac A line 475a: Textual Criticism and Metrical Deconstruction0
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
William James’s Metaphysical Revelation in Sherwood Anderson’s “Tandy”0
Rintrah’s Swagger: On not Understanding Blake’s Argument0
The Subaltern in the Ibis Trilogy0
Skilled at Delay: George Herbert’s “Justice (I)”0
“Hallow’d Mold”: Collins’s “Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746” (“How Sleep the Brave”)0
The Ambivalent Garden and Wordsworth’s Shadow in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Deserted Garden”0
Imagining Eternity in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Late Poetry0
The Epistolary Narrative in Atonement0
Body and perception reshaped by influenza pandemic in MRS DALLOWAY0
“A Striking Likeness”: Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent0
We Are All Cain: Thomas Wolfe’s Transformation of Biblical Myth in “The Lost Boy”0
The New England Work Ethic and Robert Frost’s “The Code”0
Thomas Lodge’s Life and Works: A Mutual Looking-Glass for the Elizabethan Age0
Rereading the Beast’s Clothing in “The Tiger’s Bride”0
Looking for Kevin: A Rereading of Rosaleen O’Toole’s Journey in Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Cracked Looking-Glass”0
Divinity and Decadence within Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
Geography and history in Waltharius0
A New Source for the Unnamed phisicien in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess0
The Power of “Felt Absence” in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion0
George Eliot’s Verse in Chapter 38 of Daniel Deronda0
Love Me or Else: Keats’s Impossible Desires in “I Cry Your Mercy”0
“Why Westward Turn?”: Keats’s Turn Away from the Dolphin’s Turn0
“A Hunger Artist”: As An Art Performance0
Symbolic Images of Butterflies in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek0
Lucan on Human Sacrifice and the God Esus0
Helplessness of Resistance: Thoreauvian Intellectuals in Paul Auster’s Sunset Park0
Mary Shelton’s Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript0
Singing Obedience, Speaking Violence: Desdemona’s “swansong” in Othello0
Diary of a bad week: the tedium of the Remains of the Day0
Tamburlaine’s Asiatic Style and Shakespeare’s First Plays0
The End of History in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections0
TWELFTH NIGHT: Malvolio and the Tudor Heresy Trials0
Thomas Nashe: Balladeer0
The Face of the Other in Home0
More Echoes of Geoffrey of Monmouth in St. Erkenwald0
Disability and the Scene of Learning in Shakespeare, Lope, Ariosto0
“Ma soul’s a Witness for de Waldorf-Astoria!” Langston Hughes’s Poetic Hotel Advertisement0
“That Death Has No Meaning”: The Imitation and Adaptation of Ernest Hemingway in Cormac McCarthy’s The Counselor0
Alchemical Decknamen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 330
The Deep Time of Local Color: Arctic Planetarity and Storytelling in The Country of the Pointed Firs0
Consent, rape and pollution: the context of Hrosvitha’s Dulcitius0
“Moses Was’nt Fairly Used—”: In the Footsteps of Harriet Tubman in Emily Dickinson’s “So I Pull My Stockings Off”0
Atheism vs Theism: Conflict and Ambiguity in Dylan Thomas’s “Poem on his Birthday”0
The Affective Agency of Objects: Alice’s Herbs in Mary Barton0
Tolkien, Shakespeare, Trees, and The Lord of the Rings0
The Phenomena of Nothingness in de la Mare’s “The Listeners”0
A Rite of Passage in Shakespeare’sLOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST:5.2.786-8060
Carving the I/Eye: The Chiasmus Structure in A. C. Swinburne’s “Hermaphroditus”0
“It Shall Be Set in Imperishable Crystal”: A Representation of Hair Memorabilia in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings0
“The spatial symbolism of Gregor’s room in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis0
Teeth as Metaphors in Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King0
Whose Slavery is it?: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad0
Work and Fraternity in Levine’s “What Work is”0
Bosola’s Envy in The Duchess of Malfi0
“Us He Devours”: Christianity and Its Use of Human Fear in T. S. Eliot’s “Gerontion”10
Introducing Shakespeare and His Contemporaries0
The Cheshire Cat in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland : Anthropomorphism and Childhood as Socialization0
Jonson’s Two Prologues to Epicœne : Libel, Print, and Play0
“Keep Chaos Out, Order In”: Grid and Architectural Space in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One0
Snodgrass’ (In-)conveniently selected memories: Reclaiming parental identity in “Heart’s Needle”0
Resisting Defense in Moore’s “Armor’s Undermining Modesty”0
Isabella’s Silence and Philocalia’s Absence0
Shelley’s Mont Blanc and the Voice of Manuscript0
Why Thoreau Spent a Night in Jail0
"The First Three Shots": A Subtle Warning in Richard Connell’s "The Most Dangerous Game"0
Botanical Symbolism and the Death of Ophelia in Hamlet0
William Wordsworth, Edward Rushton, and Toussaint L’Ouverture0
“O my prophetique soule”: Shakespeare’s influence on Fletcher and Massinger’s The Double Marriage0
The typewriter erased: Ecocritical silence in The Waste Land drafts0
Inherent advice: Pynchon’s earnest counsel in Slow Learner0
Speculative Fiction and Empathy: A Case Study of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower0
Lyric Space in Lorine Niedecker’s Poetry0
“Surprized by Joy”: William Wordsworth’s Elegiac Reverse0
Hamlet’s Problems0
Floods and the divine: a Blue Humanities case study using Their Eyes Were Watching God0
An Eye for an Eye: Dickinson’s Vision and Emerson’s Visuality0
“Weaves of Homely Stuff”: Ecological Formings in John Clare’s “Birds Nests”0
Out of Nothing: The Theory of Omission and Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”0
Dawn of Britain: A New Interpretation of “Dawn” in Martineau’s Dawn Island0
Whose Feathers were Borrowed? A Corpus Stylistic Approach to Richard Barnfield’s and William Shakespeare’s Poetry0
Language and Origin in John Ashbery’s “Myrtle”0
Kindness and Sympathy in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility0
“Born in the Wrong Body”: Fragmentation of the Self in Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis0
Capitalism as Religion in Bambara’s “The Lesson”0
The Language of Tyranny in The Cenci : Detached Similes, Vital Metaphors0
Unraveling the Yarn at the Center of Mary Wilkins Freeman’s “The Lost Ghost”0
Correction0
“Of coyotes and werewolves: Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero0
The Form of Evil in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”0
The Old English Fates of the Apostles : A Note on lēofe on līfe , l. 6a0
Poetry’s politics for the poor: Charlotte Smith and Anna Barbauld0
“Trivial yet serious”: Re-Reading the fan in Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s fan0
The Image of the Biblical Ruth in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”0
Elision and the Numbers in “We are seven”0
Metaphor and Architectural space in Emily Dickinson’s “I Dwell in Possibility”0
Tall Trees: A Proposed New Meaning for a Label on the Franks Casket0
Women and the Bicycle in D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and The Lost Girl0
Lyrical epiphanies in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun0
“This Leaving-Out Business”: Minimalist Techniques in John Ashbery’s Poetry0
Daisy Fay’s Maternity: A Revision to the Chronology of The Great Gatsby0
Middle English araten and Scenes of Condescension in Piers Plowman0
The Perils Of Being “Nice”: Stephen’s Dilemma in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man0
Ambiguity in Yeats’s “the Hosting of the Sidhe”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
Caesar’s Hands in Titus Andronicus0
Mirabai and the Ethic of Universal Suffering: Reading Bhajans in Indian Pedagogy0
“Careful Not to Bump her Head”: A Symbolic Meaning in Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman0
Translated China in Journey to a War0
Surprised by Sin: Medical Metaphors and Secular Eschatology in Ian McEwan’sSaturday0
Wordsworth’s relinquished delight0
“A Truly Carnivalesque Death”: On Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”0
MUCH MADNESS: The Horatian Conceit of the Mad Poet in Emily Dickinson0
The Lacanian subject in Robert Frost’s “the road not taken”0
Parameters of Outdoing Oneself: A Reconsideration of the Bipartite Structure of Early Romance Poetry0
Heathcliff as the masculine counterpart of androgynous Catherine in Wuthering Heights0
Intermedial Musicality in On Chesil Beach0
Seascape, Divine Power, and Megincraft in the Old Saxon Heliand0
The Native Christianity of Samson Occom’s “The Sufferings of Christ”0
“Quite Convivial”: A Butler’s Duty in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day0
A She-Wolf’s Counsel: Brunechildis and Her Grandsons in the Chronicle of Fredegar0
“Insensible Unrest”: William Wordsworth’s Revisions to Charlotte Smith’s “Written in the Church Yard at Middleton in Sussex”0
Levin’s hunting in Anna Karenina0
Madness as Resilience in Henry Chettle’s The Tragedy of Hoffman0
Double Sonnets in Keats’s “I Stood Tip-Toe upon a Little Hill”0
A literal reading of the shadow in “Ligeia:” Coleridge’s remarks on Ghosts and Poe’s poetics of misdirection0
The Parody of Holy Communion in John Donne’s TWICKENHAM GARDEN0
The Dragon’s Ecological Warning in John Gardner’s Grendel0
Auden, Carnival and “The Love Feast”0
Historiography in Richard Wilbur’s “Looking into History”0
Prince Prospero and the Art of Predestinated Destruction0
“Father,” “Son,” and Profane Ghost: an Unholy Trinity in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw0
The Tiger-Woman in “Tale of Hemetes the Heremyte” (1575)0
The Lack of Lovemaking in Roman Love Elegy: The Example of Ovid’s Amores I.50
“Let no Student… Take Anie Surfette of Cheries”: A Forgotten Early Modern Euphemism0
The Fantasy of Seduction in Kafka’s “The Silence of the Sirens”0
Hearing is Believing: Sounds in Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”0
Facing Autobiography in The Prelude0
A Resistant Reading of Emily Brontё’s “The Old Stoic”0
A Portrait of the Teacher as a Young Man: Stephen Dedalus in Nestor0
“Winter’s got to begin sometime”: Doctor Selgrove in Edith Wharton’s “All Souls’”0
“A Mind of Winter”: Affect in Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man”0
The Significance of a Single Letter and Word in Shakespeare0
A Highbury Street View0
Experiencing an Affective Shift: Bonding Unreliability in The Remains of the Day0
Reading Metrical Ambiguity in John Skelton’s a Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell0
“Reading the Baseball”: American Cultural Imperialism in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea0
Demogorgon’s “Spells” and Blackwood’s Magazine: The Last Stanza of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound0
The Nexus of Literacy and Morality in Edith Wharton’s “Bunner Sisters”0
Romantic-era explicating and The Explicator ’s romantic era0
The Choice of Hercules in Middlemarch0
Depicting the transgenerational transmission of trauma through photographic mediums in W.G. Sebald’s the emigrants0
Beowulfian Archetypes: The Case of Hrómundr Gripsson0
Love as Suffering (Passion) in Dryden’s All for Love0
Dickinson’s Click0
Moral Dogma and Ethical Relativity in Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly0
Vague Local Deities and the Franks Casket’s Erta0
Pleading with the King: The Representation of Sarah as Queen and Noblewoman in Genesis A0
Temporality in The Overstory by Richard Powers0
Sullen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 290
Seamus Heaney’s “Failed” Elegy and the Nonhuman Subject: A Reading of “Widgeon”0
A Weak Reading of Stephen Crane’s Maggie, A Girl of the Streets0
Irritable Lines: The Revision of Shakespeare’s Blank Verse in Robert Creeley’s “The Crisis”0
Revisiting Coleridge’s “Instead of the Cross, the Albatross About my Neck was Hung”0
Rereading Cynewulf’s Elene Line 140b: In Defense of the Manuscript0
Failed Seduction: Narratorial Authority in Katherine Mansfield’s “a Dill Pickle”0
Aragorn, Sovereignty, and Mortality in Tolkien’s Mythic Historiography0
Oriental Spice-Plants in an English Garden: Explaining a Natural Impossibility in Pearl0
Explaining explanation in S. T. Coleridge’s rime of the ancient mariner0
Through the Looking-Glass Cabinet: A (Very) Close Reading of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence0
“The Work Wisdom of ‘From Plane to Plane’”0
Winston’s Parallel Universe: On History in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four0
“A Joke in a German Paper”: Uncovering a Neglected Reference in D. H. Lawrence’s “Do Women Change”0
Crossing the Queensboro Bridge: Gatsby, Automobiles, and Immigrant Mobility in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker0
History and Fantasy in George Peele’s David and Bathsheba0
The economy of Paulina’s demand in the Winter’s Tale0
Trauma and the Holocaust in John Banville’s Shroud0
John Florio’s Second Fruits and the Theater of Life0
Byron’s Speed: The Giaour0
Wollstonecraft’s critical reviews on Gilpin’s picturesque0
Gender Performance in Jim Shepard’s “Minotaur”0
“Absent subjectivity in Poe’s THE MAN OF THE CROWD”0
Embedding the Unconscious in the Conscious: John Ashbery’s Sestina “The Painter” Revisited0
Rereading the Postscript in “Bartleby, the Scrivener”0
Crocodile Narratives and the Construction of African Natural Space in Tamburlaine the Great0
The Exile Within: An LGBTQ+ Reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Prodigal”0
She Is Not Only Tired but Also Sick: Illness and Inertia in James Joyce’s “Eveline”0
The Closet Scenes of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge0
Coleridge, Hamlet, and the Distortions of a Myriad Mind0
Body Narratives in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun0
The Jacqueminot Rose in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence0
The Underthought of John Milton’s Samson Agonistes in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “My own heart let me more have pity on.”0
“Ye Came for Gold, Ye Slaves”: Irony of Paragone in Timon of Athens0
Of Precarious Hospitality: George Meredith’s Sonnet XVII, “At Dinner She Is Hostess”0
The Wartime State and the Cigarette: Darkness and Temporality in Pale Horse, Pale Rider0
Operatic Elements in Eileen Chang’s The Rouge of the North0
Laughing Gas and Involuntary Laughter in The Chimes0
Journey of the Magi(strate): Reading J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians through T. S. Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi”0
“Forgyd Taylis”: A Gloss on line 43 of Thomas Wyatt or Pseudo-Wyatt’s “O Cruel Heart”0
Reading between the Stanzas of W. B. Yeats’s “Among School Children”0
Clues among the Clutter: Circling Back with Jane Austen’s Miss Bates0
Symbolic meanings of a caged parrot in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek0
Thoreau’s philosophy of work in frost’s “mowing”0
Extraordinary Countenance: An Examination of Gender and Sexual Identity Through Etymology in Nella Larsen’s Passing0
Ted Hughes’s “The Jaguar” and Animal Ethics0
Absalom, Absalom! And Acts Misreading0
Words as Readymade: Mina Loy’s Verbal Portraiture of “Gertrude Stein” and “Joyce’s Ulysses”0
Shakespeare and the Non-Jonsonian Court Masques0
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