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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
On the Emendation of The Phoenix lines 164–65 and The Wife’s Lament line 423
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
Alice Staverton as Midwife in Henry James’s “The Jolly Corner”2
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
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
Bildung , snow, Mann: Memory and forgetting in The Magic Mountain0
Tamburlaine’s Asiatic Style and Shakespeare’s First Plays0
The Perils Of Being “Nice”: Stephen’s Dilemma in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man0
Wollstonecraft’s critical reviews on Gilpin’s picturesque0
Skilled at Delay: George Herbert’s “Justice (I)”0
Out of Nothing: The Theory of Omission and Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”0
Victoria Chang’s poetic signature0
Laughing Gas and Involuntary Laughter in The Chimes0
A literal reading of the shadow in “Ligeia:” Coleridge’s remarks on Ghosts and Poe’s poetics of misdirection0
‘Ac ic to þam grunde genge’: an analogue for Genesis B, line 834a0
Alchemical Decknamen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 330
Irritable Lines: The Revision of Shakespeare’s Blank Verse in Robert Creeley’s “The Crisis”0
Introducing Shakespeare and His Contemporaries0
Sullen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 290
Wealhtheow’s Revenge and the Germanic Heroic Tradition: Failed Conflict Resolution in Beowulf0
Families and Romantic Theology in Charles Williams’ War in Heaven0
Trauma and the Holocaust in John Banville’s Shroud0
“What fires run, what craving wakes”: devouring desire and the poetics of incorporation in Sylvia Plath’s love poetry0
Weaponizing the Womb: Militarized Maternity and Corrupted Virtue in Coriolanus0
Disability and the Scene of Learning in Shakespeare, Lope, Ariosto0
Dawn of Britain: A New Interpretation of “Dawn” in Martineau’s Dawn Island0
A She-Wolf’s Counsel: Brunechildis and Her Grandsons in the Chronicle of Fredegar0
Seascape, Divine Power, and Megincraft in the Old Saxon Heliand0
The Tiger-Woman in “Tale of Hemetes the Heremyte” (1575)0
“Insensible Unrest”: William Wordsworth’s Revisions to Charlotte Smith’s “Written in the Church Yard at Middleton in Sussex”0
Queer Attachments in Tennessee Williams’ “Portrait of a Girl in Glass”0
Explaining explanation in S. T. Coleridge’s rime of the ancient mariner0
Vague Local Deities and the Franks Casket’s Erta0
Romancing Epic Poetry: Love, War, and Global Sway in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s “ Willehalm”0
Bosola’s Envy in The Duchess of Malfi0
Unreliable Narration and Moral Culpability in Agatha Christie’s “Motive vs. Opportunity”0
The formal mechanism of the boat in William Wordsworth’s The Prelude (1850) and in Winslow Homer’s The fog Warning 0
Heathcliff as the masculine counterpart of androgynous Catherine in Wuthering Heights0
“Moses Was’nt Fairly Used—”: In the Footsteps of Harriet Tubman in Emily Dickinson’s “So I Pull My Stockings Off”0
Tall Trees: A Proposed New Meaning for a Label on the Franks Casket0
Inherent advice: Pynchon’s earnest counsel in Slow Learner0
Lucan on Human Sacrifice and the God Esus0
Prince Prospero and the Art of Predestinated Destruction0
Chaucer, Maps, and the Mongols: A Cartographic Approach to the Squire’s Tale0
The Jacqueminot Rose in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence0
Diary of a bad week: the tedium of the Remains of the Day0
Reading the Runes in Beowulf0
“Stretchers” in Flux: Reconsidering Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ’s Evasion Controversy through Percival Everett’s James0
“Trivial yet serious”: Re-Reading the fan in Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s fan0
William Wordsworth, Edward Rushton, and Toussaint L’Ouverture0
Double Sonnets in Keats’s “I Stood Tip-Toe upon a Little Hill”0
“Hallow’d Mold”: Collins’s “Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746” (“How Sleep the Brave”)0
“Of coyotes and werewolves: Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero0
Facing Autobiography in The Prelude0
Inheritance of Paradoxes: The Characterization of Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of England, in More and Shakespeare0
“A Striking Likeness”: Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent0
Verbal Corruptions in Q1 and Q2 Romeo and Juliet0
The Old English Fates of the Apostles : A Note on lēofe on līfe , l. 6a0
Divinity and Decadence within Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
Failed Seduction: Narratorial Authority in Katherine Mansfield’s “a Dill Pickle”0
A reparative reading of Toni Morrison’s Beloved0
Wartonian echoes: the reclamation of Gondibert through Headley’s sonnet to Anna Laetitia Barbauld0
Whose Slavery is it?: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad0
“He was not a Mozart”: irony in Aldous Huxley’s “Young Archimedes”0
A Weak Reading of Stephen Crane’s Maggie, A Girl of the Streets0
Unraveling the Yarn at the Center of Mary Wilkins Freeman’s “The Lost Ghost”0
Coleridge’s “Lines to Charlotte Brent,” Punning, and the Tyrant Pain: Interpreting a Lost Poem0
Rhyming times0
Rereading the Postscript in “Bartleby, the Scrivener”0
Beyond Sovereignty: Reconsidering the Sea in Iris Murdoch’s the Sea, the Sea0
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
“The Vain Lustre of Imagined Crowns”: Light and Dark Imagery in Marriage a la Mode0
Thomas Lodge’s Life and Works: A Mutual Looking-Glass for the Elizabethan Age0
Elision and the Numbers in “We are seven”0
Guthlac A line 475a: Textual Criticism and Metrical Decontraction0
An Eye for an Eye: Dickinson’s Vision and Emerson’s Visuality0
“Careful Not to Bump her Head”: A Symbolic Meaning in Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman0
“It Shall Be Set in Imperishable Crystal”: A Representation of Hair Memorabilia in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings0
“A Mind of Winter”: Affect in Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man”0
George Eliot’s Verse in Chapter 38 of Daniel Deronda0
A Place of Forgetting: Examining the Littoral in Dionne Brand’s a Map to the Door of No Return0
Coleridge, Hamlet, and the Distortions of a Myriad Mind0
The Fantasy of Seduction in Kafka’s “The Silence of the Sirens”0
The Lack of Lovemaking in Roman Love Elegy: The Example of Ovid’s Amores I.50
“Winter’s got to begin sometime”: Doctor Selgrove in Edith Wharton’s “All Souls’”0
“Let no Student… Take Anie Surfette of Cheries”: A Forgotten Early Modern Euphemism0
“Forgyd Taylis”: A Gloss on line 43 of Thomas Wyatt or Pseudo-Wyatt’s “O Cruel Heart”0
“No Place for Us”: The Embodied Atmosphere of Displacement and Despair in W. H. Auden’s “Refugee Blues”0
Middle English araten and Scenes of Condescension in Piers Plowman0
Blood and Mud in Shelley’s “England in 1819.”0
Auden, Carnival and “The Love Feast”0
Crossing the Queensboro Bridge: Gatsby, Automobiles, and Immigrant Mobility in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker0
Narrative Repair and Spatial Ethics in Richard Selzer’s “Imelda”0
Ted Hughes’s “The Jaguar” and Animal Ethics0
Singing Obedience, Speaking Violence: Desdemona’s “swansong” in Othello0
“Why Westward Turn?”: Keats’s Turn Away from the Dolphin’s Turn0
The Closet Scenes of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge0
Queer Desires in “The Daemon Lover” and “Trial by Combat”0
Mapping Postwar Englishness: Urban Pastoral in Philip Larkin’s “Here” and “The Whitsun Weddings”0
The Influence of Jacob Boehme’s Aurora on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian0
Work and Fraternity in Levine’s “What Work is”0
More Echoes of Geoffrey of Monmouth in St. Erkenwald0
Thomas Nashe: Balladeer0
Invisible burdens: Financial strain, social expectation, and clerical life in George Eliot’s “the sad fortunes of the reverend Amos Barton”0
“Hoarded Passion” and the Reversal of Erotic Authority in Hong’s “Not Henry Miller but Mother”0
The Image of the Biblical Ruth in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”0
Reading between the Stanzas of W. B. Yeats’s “Among School Children”0
“If thy right eye offend thee”: the economy of redemptive sacrifice in Jane Eyre0
Apples, Editorial Errors, and Pronouns: Some Thoughts on the Textual Traditions of the Eckenot Scene0
Clues among the Clutter: Circling Back with Jane Austen’s Miss Bates0
“Surprized by Joy”: William Wordsworth’s Elegiac Reverse0
The Form of Evil in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”0
The Choice of Hercules in Middlemarch0
Love Me or Else: Keats’s Impossible Desires in “I Cry Your Mercy”0
Depicting the transgenerational transmission of trauma through photographic mediums in W.G. Sebald’s the emigrants0
The Hand of “Benedictions” in Henry James’s “The Jolly Corner”0
A Portrait of the Teacher as a Young Man: Stephen Dedalus in Nestor0
“It” Can Kill a Man: Existential Clauses in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens0
The End of History in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections0
The economy of Paulina’s demand in the Winter’s Tale0
Shelley’s Mont Blanc and the Voice of Manuscript0
“Quite Convivial”: A Butler’s Duty in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day0
Religion and the Theology of Love in W. H. Auden’s “Stop all the clocks”0
Kindness and Sympathy in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility0
Beyond Orientalist Orthodoxy: Historical Evidence and The Painted Veil0
Gender and Sexuality in _Dukus Horant_ and Early Yiddish Epic0
This House Is Too Large for a Man to Live in Alone: the Haunted House and Spatial Absence in Ishiguro’s A Family Supper0
Oriental Spice-Plants in an English Garden: Explaining a Natural Impossibility in Pearl0
Madness as Resilience in Henry Chettle’s The Tragedy of Hoffman0
Reflections on the Muddled Modern Mind in Allen Tate’s “Ode” and “Last Days of Alice”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
Capitalism as Religion in Bambara’s “The Lesson”0
Body and perception reshaped by influenza pandemic in MRS DALLOWAY0
Teeth as Metaphors in Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King0
Metaphor and meaning in Hart Crane’s “Voyages II”0
Distraction and “Playful” Reading in Agatha Christie’s “Mr Eastwood’s Adventure”0
The Native Christianity of Samson Occom’s “The Sufferings of Christ”0
The fall of the Rebel Angels in Genesis B , Lines 306b-08a0
Love as Suffering (Passion) in Dryden’s All for Love0
Temporality in The Overstory by Richard Powers0
Hamlet’s Problems0
The fourfold in Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet0
“Father,” “Son,” and Profane Ghost: an Unholy Trinity in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw0
Byron’s Speed: The Giaour0
The Dragon’s Ecological Warning in John Gardner’s Grendel0
Floods and the divine: a Blue Humanities case study using Their Eyes Were Watching God0
Lyric Space in Lorine Niedecker’s Poetry0
Looking for Kevin: A Rereading of Rosaleen O’Toole’s Journey in Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Cracked Looking-Glass”0
“Born in the Wrong Body”: Fragmentation of the Self in Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis0
Terror, obscurity, and the Burkean sublime in Gloucester’s blinding0
A New Source for the Unnamed phisicien in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess0
“A Hunger Artist”: As An Art Performance0
Reconsidering the Hūgas : ethnonymy and historical memory in Beowulf0
Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters as a resource for Black Time Studies0
“Weaves of Homely Stuff”: Ecological Formings in John Clare’s “Birds Nests”0
Isabella’s Silence and Philocalia’s Absence0
Helplessness of Resistance: Thoreauvian Intellectuals in Paul Auster’s Sunset Park0
The Lacanian subject in Robert Frost’s “the road not taken”0
“Spectral Gateways” and the “Horror of the City Road”: A Surreal Connection between The Great Gatsby and The Rainbow0
Metaphor and Architectural space in Emily Dickinson’s “I Dwell in Possibility”0
Experiencing an Affective Shift: Bonding Unreliability in The Remains of the Day0
Caesar’s Hands in Titus Andronicus0
The typewriter erased: Ecocritical silence in The Waste Land drafts0
Wordsworth’s relinquished delight0
The powerful female protagonist in medieval German heroic poetry: Nibelungenlied and Kudrun0
“Ye Came for Gold, Ye Slaves”: Irony of Paragone in Timon of Athens0
The Affective Agency of Objects: Alice’s Herbs in Mary Barton0
The Phenomena of Nothingness in de la Mare’s “The Listeners”0
Gender Performance in Jim Shepard’s “Minotaur”0
Parameters of Outdoing Oneself: A Reconsideration of the Bipartite Structure of Early Romance Poetry0
The Nexus of Literacy and Morality in Edith Wharton’s “Bunner Sisters”0
Shakespeare and the Non-Jonsonian Court Masques0
Rereading the Beast’s Clothing in “The Tiger’s Bride”0
Correction0
Translated China in Journey to a War0
Unsympathetic victim and conditional sympathy in Agatha Christie’s “The Blue Geranium”0
Instrumental Belonging and Bureaucratic Usefulness in Timothy Mo’s The Monkey King0
The Significance of a Single Letter and Word in Shakespeare0
The Self, the Body and the World in Wallace Stevens’s “Tea at the Palaz of Hoon”0
Consent, rape and pollution: the context of Hrosvitha’s Dulcitius0
“That Death Has No Meaning”: The Imitation and Adaptation of Ernest Hemingway in Cormac McCarthy’s The Counselor0
Snodgrass’ (In-)conveniently selected memories: Reclaiming parental identity in “Heart’s Needle”0
Windows as partitions: Class, gender, and transcendence in Oliver Twist0
Resisting Defense in Moore’s “Armor’s Undermining Modesty”0
Ambiguity in Yeats’s “the Hosting of the Sidhe”0
Pain and Gender in Hemingway’s “Indian Camp”0
Daisy Fay’s Maternity: A Revision to the Chronology of The Great Gatsby0
A Rite of Passage in Shakespeare’sLOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST:5.2.786-8060
Thoreau’s philosophy of work in frost’s “mowing”0
The duke’s self-unfolding in Act 1, scene 1 of Measure for Measure0
Carving the I/Eye: The Chiasmus Structure in A. C. Swinburne’s “Hermaphroditus”0
Rehearing Nature: Soundscape, Ecological Listening and the Critique of Sensory Hierarchy in Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall0
Geography and history in Waltharius0
Allegorical cartographies and the Road to Success in The Great Gatsby0
The Exile Within: An LGBTQ+ Reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Prodigal”0
"The First Three Shots": A Subtle Warning in Richard Connell’s "The Most Dangerous Game"0
“Reading the Baseball”: American Cultural Imperialism in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea0
History and Fantasy in George Peele’s David and Bathsheba0
“A Truly Carnivalesque Death”: On Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”0
Symbolic Images of Butterflies in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek0
Hawthorne as Melville’s guide to hell in Clarel0
Women and the Bicycle in D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and The Lost Girl0
Jonson’s Two Prologues to Epicœne : Libel, Print, and Play0
Tolkien, Shakespeare, Trees, and The Lord of the Rings0
Embedding the Unconscious in the Conscious: John Ashbery’s Sestina “The Painter” Revisited0
On the Edge of Sound: Sensation and Memory in Seamus Heaney’s “Wordsworth’s Skates”0
Robinson’s Lost anchors0
Aragorn, Sovereignty, and Mortality in Tolkien’s Mythic Historiography0
Dietrich von Bern’s captivity among monsters: a heroic motif and its variations in Waldere , Virginal, Sigenot, 0
Reading Metrical Ambiguity in John Skelton’s a Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell0
Revisiting Coleridge’s “Instead of the Cross, the Albatross About my Neck was Hung”0
Language and Origin in John Ashbery’s “Myrtle”0
Body Narratives in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun0
A Tale of Two Fools: Middleton, Shakespeare, and Co-Authorship in Timon of Athens and King Lear0
Dickinson’s Click0
Extraordinary Countenance: An Examination of Gender and Sexual Identity Through Etymology in Nella Larsen’s Passing0
Through the Looking-Glass Cabinet: A (Very) Close Reading of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence0
Lexical Transubstantiation in the Old Saxon Hêliand0
The stylistic distancing of Montresor’s guilt in “the Cask of Amontillado”0
Beowulfian Archetypes: The Case of Hrómundr Gripsson0
Horror and Remembrance in Ambrose Bierce’s “The Coup de Grâce”0
The Image of the Stove in A Doll House0
“A Joke in a German Paper”: Uncovering a Neglected Reference in D. H. Lawrence’s “Do Women Change”0
Demogorgon’s “Spells” and Blackwood’s Magazine: The Last Stanza of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound0
Burning Hamlet : Fire and tragic inheritance in Iris Murdoch’s The Black Prince0
“This Leaving-Out Business”: Minimalist Techniques in John Ashbery’s Poetry0
Lyrical epiphanies in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun0
Moral Dogma and Ethical Relativity in Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly0
Mary Shelton’s Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript0
The generative nature of diasporic spaces in Samuel Selvon’s “Come Back to Grenada” and Moyez G. Vassanji’s “Refugee”0
Rintrah’s Swagger: On not Understanding Blake’s Argument0
Sound, Ambiguity, and Subjectivity in Oscar Wilde’s Salomé0
Of Precarious Hospitality: George Meredith’s Sonnet XVII, “At Dinner She Is Hostess”0
Romantic-era explicating and The Explicator ’s romantic era0
She Is Not Only Tired but Also Sick: Illness and Inertia in James Joyce’s “Eveline”0
Was the Middle High German Lanzelet known in medieval Iceland?0
0.38396096229553