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“O my prophetique soule”: Shakespeare’s influence on Fletcher and Massinger’s The Double Marriage	2
History and Fantasy in George Peele’s David and Bathsheba	2
A literal reading of the shadow in “Ligeia:” Coleridge’s remarks on Ghosts and Poe’s poetics of misdirection	1
MUCH MADNESS: The Horatian Conceit of the Mad Poet in Emily Dickinson	1
Experiencing an Affective Shift: Bonding Unreliability in The Remains of the Day	1
The Phenomena of Nothingness in de la Mare’s “The Listeners”	1
“Quite Convivial”: A Butler’s Duty in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day	1
Maggie’s death and Dorothea’s growth — the sublimation of passion in George Eliot’s novels	1
Thomas Lodge’s Life and Works: A Mutual Looking-Glass for the Elizabethan Age	1
Ted Hughes’s “The Jaguar” and Animal Ethics	1
Operatic Elements in Eileen Chang’s The Rouge of the North	1
Remnants of the Past and the Quest for Identity: Reading August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson in the Context of Collective Memory	1
Rereading Cynewulf’s Elene Line 140b: In Defense of the Manuscript	0
Rappaccini’s Queer Daughter: Gender Non-Conformity in “Rappaccini’s Daughter”	0
Body Narratives in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun	0
Jonson’s Two Prologues to Epicœne : Libel, Print, and Play	0
Silko’s Narrative Negotiation of the Rain Man’s Rites of the Passage	0
Kindness and Sympathy in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility	0
Translated China in Journey to a War	0
Extraordinary Countenance: An Examination of Gender and Sexual Identity Through Etymology in Nella Larsen’s Passing	0
“Born in the Wrong Body”: Fragmentation of the Self in Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis	0
Lyric Space in Lorine Niedecker’s Poetry	0
Babies in Bags: Dracula and The Importance of Being Earnest	0
Capitalism as Religion in Bambara’s “The Lesson”	0
Embedding the Unconscious in the Conscious: John Ashbery’s Sestina “The Painter” Revisited	0

George Eliot’s verse in Chapter 38 of Daniel Deronda	0
Queer Attachments in Tennessee Williams’ “Portrait of a Girl in Glass”	0
We Are All Cain: Thomas Wolfe’s Transformation of Biblical Myth in “The Lost Boy”	0
The romance of Tristan and Isolde in Kristin Lavransdatter	0
William James’s Metaphysical Revelation in Sherwood Anderson’s “Tandy”	0
Blood and Mud in Shelley’s “England in 1819.”	0
Pleading with the King: The Representation of Sarah as Queen and Noblewoman in Genesis A	0
Consent, rape and pollution: the context of Hrosvitha’s Dulcitius	0
Temporality in The Overstory by Richard Powers	0
An Outcast in an Alien Land: The Metaphor of Dogs in Cormac McCarthy’sThe Crossing	0
Religion and the Theology of Love in W. H. Auden’s “Stop all the clocks”	0
“The Work Wisdom of ‘From Plane to Plane’”	0
“A Mind of Winter”: Affect in Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man”	0
The Ambivalent Garden and Wordsworth’s Shadow in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Deserted Garden”	0
Looking for Kevin: A Rereading of Rosaleen O’Toole’s Journey in Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Cracked Looking-Glass”	0
The Subaltern in the Ibis Trilogy	0
Trauma and the Holocaust in John Banville’s Shroud	0
Paradise or Paralysis: Mary Shelley’s Ambivalence in Frankenstein	0
Queer Desires in “The Daemon Lover” and “Trial by Combat”	0
Middle English araten and Scenes of Condescension in Piers Plowman	0
A Window on One’s Identity: Cultural Identity In Chinua Achebe’s “The Sacrificial Egg”	0
Symbolic Images of Butterflies in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek	0
“A Joke in a German Paper”: Uncovering a Neglected Reference in D. H. Lawrence’s “Do Women Change”	0
“A Shared Passion”: Baseball as a Generational and Cultural Bridge in Monica Sone’s Nisei Daughter	0
The Symbolic Fiction of Mr. Stevens: A Lacanian Reading of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day	0
Introducing Shakespeare and His Contemporaries	0
The Underthought of John Milton’s Samson Agonistes in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “My own heart let me more have pity on.”	0
Ambiguity in Yeats’s “the Hosting of the Sidhe”	0
Mary Shelton’s Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript	0
“Forgyd Taylis”: A Gloss on line 43 of Thomas Wyatt or Pseudo-Wyatt’s “O Cruel Heart”	0
Caesar’s Hands in Titus Andronicus	0
Imagining Eternity in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Late Poetry	0
The Wartime State and the Cigarette: Darkness and Temporality in Pale Horse, Pale Rider	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
Botanical Symbolism and the Death of Ophelia in Hamlet	0
Helplessness of Resistance: Thoreauvian Intellectuals in Paul Auster’s Sunset Park	0
The Tiger-Woman in “Tale of Hemetes the Heremyte” (1575)	0
Hamlet’s Problems	0
Political Rumination and Imagination in Anna Burns’s Milkman	0
Whose Feathers were Borrowed? A Corpus Stylistic Approach to Richard Barnfield’s and William Shakespeare’s Poetry	0
Inherent advice: Pynchon’s earnest counsel in Slow Learner	0
Thomas Nashe: Balladeer	0
“The spatial symbolism of Gregor’s room in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis ”	0
Modern punctuation of Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale: Line 964	0
From the Penile to the Pinnal: Anatomizing Louis Chu’s Eat a Bowl of Tea	0
Victoria Chang’s poetic signature	0
“The Vain Lustre of Imagined Crowns”: Light and Dark Imagery in Marriage a la Mode	0
Dickinson’s daisy/sun(set), Daoism, and Emerson	0
Unraveling the Yarn at the Center of Mary Wilkins Freeman’s “The Lost Ghost”	0
“Monsters Worse to Come”: A Reconsideration of the Influence of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Upon Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God	0

“Spectral Gateways” and the “Horror of the City Road”: A Surreal Connection between The Great Gatsby and The Rainbow	0
“Moses Was’nt Fairly Used—”: In the Footsteps of Harriet Tubman in Emily Dickinson’s “So I Pull My Stockings Off”	0
The Old English Fates of the Apostles : A Note on lēofe on līfe , l. 6a	0
Teeth as Metaphors in Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King	0
A Rite of Passage in Shakespeare’sLOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST:5.2.786-806	0
Shakespeare’s Tempest Line 1786: “Wise” or “Wife”	0
Whose Slavery is it?: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad	0
Dickinson’s click	0
Marvell’s “the unfortunate lover”	0
Guthlac A line 475a: textual criticism and metrical decontraction	0
Wulf and Eadwacer, eddic verse, and aural aesthetics	0
The Epistolary Narrative in Atonement	0
Correction	0
The Closet Scenes of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge	0
Mirabai and the Ethic of Universal Suffering: Reading Bhajans in Indian Pedagogy	0
‘Ac ic to þam grunde genge’: an analogue for Genesis B, line 834a	0
Thoreau’s philosophy of work in frost’s “mowing”	0
Thomas Hardy’s Racialization of English Natives in The Return of the Native	0
Madness as Resilience in Henry Chettle’s The Tragedy of Hoffman	0
Dawn of Britain: A New Interpretation of “Dawn” in Martineau’s Dawn Island	0
Alice Staverton as midwife in Henry James’s “the jolly corner”	0
Moral Dogma and Ethical Relativity in Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly	0
Carnivalesque Imagery in Stevens’ “THE EMPEROR OF ICE-CREAM”	0
Claudia Rankine and Robert Lowell, Again	0
Crossing the Queensboro Bridge: Gatsby, Automobiles, and Immigrant Mobility in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker	0
“A Hunger Artist”: As An Art Performance	0
“It Shall Be Set in Imperishable Crystal”: A Representation of Hair Memorabilia in Tolkien’sThe Lord of the Rings	0
Intermedial musicality in On Chesil Beach	0
Skilled at Delay: George Herbert’s “Justice (I)”	0
"The First Three Shots": A Subtle Warning in Richard Connell’s "The Most Dangerous Game"	0
Symbolic meanings of a caged parrot in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek	0
Heathcliff as the masculine counterpart of androgynous Catherine in Wuthering Heights	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
Alchemical Decknamen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 33	0
The Deep Time of Local Color: Arctic Planetarity and Storytelling in The Country of the Pointed Firs	0
The New England Work Ethic and Robert Frost’s “The Code”	0
A Resistant Reading of Emily Brontё’s “The Old Stoic”	0
Lucan on Human Sacrifice and the God Esus	0
The Jacqueminot Rose in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence	0
Irritable Lines: The Revision of Shakespeare’s Blank Verse in Robert Creeley’s “The Crisis”	0
“Winter’s got to begin sometime”: doctor Selgrove in Edith Wharton’s “all souls’”	0
Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants”	0
“He was not a Mozart”: irony in Aldous Huxley’s “young Archimedes”	0
“Ye Came for Gold, Ye Slaves”: Irony of Paragone in Timon of Athens	0
Geography in Bret Harte’s “The Luck of Roaring Camp”	0
Auden, Carnival and “The Love Feast”	0
Winston’s Parallel Universe: On History in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four	0
“Us He Devours”: Christianity and Its Use of Human Fear in T. S. Eliot’s “Gerontion”1	0
A New Source for the Unnamed phisicien in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess	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 Casket	0
The Cheshire Cat in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland : Anthropomorphism and Childhood as Socialization	0
The Parody of Holy Communion in John Donne’s TWICKENHAM GARDEN	0
“Absent subjectivity in Poe’s THE MAN OF THE CROWD”	0
Why Thoreau Spent a Night in Jail	0
Tolkien, Shakespeare, Trees, and The Lord of the Rings	0
Pain and Gender in Hemingway’s “Indian Camp”	0
Suggested Sources for The Faithful Friends (ca 1613-1620)	0
Body and perception reshaped by influenza pandemic in MRS DALLOWAY	0
Contemplating Stars and Solving Mysteries: Rationality in Mark Haddon’s the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime	0
“A Truly Carnivalesque Death”: On Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”	0
On the cyclical movement in John Keats’s “to autumn”	0
John Florio’s Second Fruits and the Theater of Life	0
“This Leaving-Out Business”: Minimalist Techniques in John Ashbery’s Poetry	0
The End of History in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections	0
Revisiting the Tortoiseshell Cat: Subjectivity and Discursive Dilemma of the American wife in Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain”	0
A Post-pastoral Reading of Ron Rash’s “Speckled Trout”	0
A reparative reading of Toni Morrison’s Beloved	0
Laughing Gas and Involuntary Laughter in The Chimes	0
Failed Seduction: Narratorial Authority in Katherine Mansfield’s “a Dill Pickle”	0
TWELFTH NIGHT: Malvolio and the Tudor Heresy Trials	0
Wallace Stevens’s “The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain”	0
The Significance of a Single Letter and Word in Shakespeare	0
If As I Lay Dying is a mock-epic, what is being mocked?	0
A third biblical foundation of James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”	0
The Perils Of Being “Nice”: Stephen’s Dilemma in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	0
Seamus Heaney’s “Clearances: ‘III’”	0
“Father,” “Son,” and Profane Ghost: an Unholy Trinity in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw	0
She Is Not Only Tired but Also Sick: Illness and Inertia in James Joyce’s “Eveline”	0
Flannery O’Connor’s “The Displaced Person” and the Legacy of Lynching	0

Moderately and melodiously: Of music education in Marguerite Duras’s Moderato Cantabile	0
The Exile Within: An LGBTQ+ Reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Prodigal”	0
The Image of the Biblical Ruth in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”	0
Reading Metrical Ambiguity in John Skelton’s a Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell	0
The Dragon’s Ecological Warning in John Gardner’s Grendel	0
Resisting Defense in Moore’s “Armor’s Undermining Modesty”	0
Seamus Heaney’s “Failed” Elegy and the Nonhuman Subject: A Reading of “Widgeon”	0
Women and the Bicycle in D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and The Lost Girl	0
Isabella’s Silence and Philocalia’s Absence	0
Surprised by Sin: Medical Metaphors and Secular Eschatology in Ian McEwan’sSaturday	0
Shakespeare and the Non-Jonsonian Court Masques	0
Exploring Therapeutic Dynamics in Anne Sexton’s Confessional Poetry: Self-expression, Healing, and Narrative Dialogue	0
Beowulf and Freawaru	0
Tess Too? Revisiting the Chase Scene in Tess of the d'Urbervilles in the #MeToo Era	0
The Lacanian subject in Robert Frost’s “the road not taken”	0
The Choice of Hercules in Middlemarch	0
A Word on a Word in a Word in William Wordsworth’s THE SOLITARY REAPER	0
Carving the I/Eye: The Chiasmus Structure in A. C. Swinburne’s “Hermaphroditus”	0
Reading between the Stanzas of W. B. Yeats’s “Among School Children”	0
Work and Fraternity in Levine’s “What Work is”	0
Language and Origin in John Ashbery’s “Myrtle”	0
“Of coyotes and werewolves: Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero”	0
An Eye for an Eye: Dickinson’s Vision and Emerson’s Visuality	0
“Seascape, Divine Power, and Megincraft in the Old Saxon Heliand”	0
Divinity and Decadence within Oscar Wilde’s Salomé	0
The Face of the Other in Home	0
“Hallow’d Mold”: Collins’s “Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746” (“How Sleep the Brave”)	0
“Careful Not to Bump her Head”: A Symbolic Meaning in Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman	0
Wollstonecraft’s critical reviews on Gilpin’s picturesque	0
More echoes of Geoffrey of Monmouth in St. Erkenwald	0
Levin’s hunting in Anna Karenina	0
Rereading the Postscript in “Bartleby, the Scrivener”	0
Poetics of Touch and Female Fetishism in Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel (2003)	0
“Ma soul’s a Witness for de Waldorf-Astoria!” Langston Hughes’s Poetic Hotel Advertisement	0
Seven years in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment	0
Absalom, Absalom! And Acts Misreading	0
The Fantasy of Seduction in Kafka’s “The Silence of the Sirens”	0
Love as Suffering (Passion) in Dryden’s All for Love	0
On the Emendation of The Phoenix lines 164–65 and The Wife’s Lament line 42	0
Words as Readymade: Mina Loy’s Verbal Portraiture of “Gertrude Stein” and “Joyce’s Ulysses”	0
Gender Performance in Jim Shepard’s “Minotaur”	0
“Trick or Treat!”: The Trickster Figure in Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr Rosewater and Slapstick	0
Disability and the Scene of Learning in Shakespeare, Lope, Ariosto	0
Correction	0
Revisiting Coleridge’s “Instead of the Cross, the Albatross About my Neck was Hung”	0
The economy of Paulina’s demand in the Winter’s Tale	0
Tamburlaine’s Asiatic Style and Shakespeare’s First Plays	0
Prince Prospero and the Art of Predestinated Destruction	0
Public Gentility and Private Predation: German as a Linguistic Signal of Guilt in Lolita	0
Beowulfian Archetypes: The Case of Hrómundr Gripsson	0
The Image of the Stove in A Doll House	0
Hearing is Believing: Sounds in Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”	0
Atheism vs Theism: Conflict and Ambiguity in Dylan Thomas’s “Poem on his Birthday”	0
A Tale of Two Fools: Middleton, Shakespeare, and Co-Authorship in Timon of Athens and King Lear	0
Out of Nothing: The Theory of Omission and Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”	0
Vague Local Deities and the Franks Casket’s Erta	0
“Keep Chaos Out, Order In”: Grid and Architectural Space in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One	0
Singing Obedience, Speaking Violence: Desdemona’s “swansong” in Othello	0
Modernity and Mobility: Re-reading Wordsworth and De Quincey	0
“Ethical” or “Ethnical”?: Some Textual Errors in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird	0
Samuel Beckett, Max Nordau, and the Worms of How It Is	0