OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Style 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Phraseology and Style in Subgenres of the Novel: A Synthesis of Corpus and Literary Perspectives	2
Dis/Appearance for Appeal: On Marianne Moore’s “Performing” Archive	2
Navigating Women’s Friendships in American Literature and Culture	1
The Reading, Translation, and Rewriting of Shakespeare’s Sonnets in China	1
Between Science and Society: Charting the Space of Science Fiction	1
Three Conceptions of Culture	1
Falling Movements in Free Verse: Turning Back in Poems by William Carlos Williams and Sylvia Plath	1
One Focalization, Dual Progression, and Twofold Irony	1
Extended Remembering: Georges Perec and Writing as Thinking	1
British Formalist Aesthetics and Its Literary Writing Practice	1
Toward Embodied Defamiliarization: Immersion, Predictive Processing, and Anna Kavan’s Ice	0
Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon	0
A Graveyard Smash: Analyzing Embodied Memories in Lincoln in the Bardo	0
Literary Universals and Their Implications for Literary Theory	0
Spatial Literary Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space, Geography, and the Imagination	0
Fictional Worlds Theory Problematized: Global Logical Impossibilities in Vladimir Nabokov’s Novels	0
1948: A Critical and Creative Prequel to George Orwell’s 1984	0
Conversations avec / with Dean Tavoularis	0
Making Poetry from Prose: Robert Herrick’s Exercises in Paraphrase	0
Mediating a Western Classic in China: Woodcuts, Iconic Narrative, and the 1903 Chinese Translation of J. D. Wyss’s The Swiss Family Robinson	0
Essays in Narrative and Fictionality: Reassessing Nine Central Concepts	0
Dual Narrative Dynamics	0
The Essay at the Limits: Poetics, Politics and Form	0
Eighteenth-Century Illustration and Literary Material Culture: Richardson, Thomson, Defoe	0
Response to Patrick Colm Hogan’s Article on Literary Universals and Culture	0

Some Versions of Pastoral and Related Writings	0
Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies: An Aesthetics in All Things	0
The Polysemic Comedy of Too Busy to Work	0
New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style	0
Narrative Theory and Neuroscience: Why Human Nature Matters	0
The Evasion of Literary History	0
W. B. Yeats: An Unpublished Letter	0
Aubrey de Vere’s Political Passions in His Sonnet on Milton Annotated by Landor	0
Emily Dickinson’s Poetic Art: A Cognitive Reading	0
Widespread Stories, Moral Shows	0
Yu Yan or Fable: The Earliest Introductions to The Canterbury Tales in China	0
Old Wine in a New Bottle? Literary Universal, Poetics, and Hermeneutics	0
On the Verge of Verse: Charles Reznikoff’s Lineations in Holocaust	0
Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies	0
Truths Universally Acknowledged: Memorable Opening Sentences in the Novel	0
Thirty-Six Unpublished Letters from William Henry Davies to Edward Thomas	0
Philip Roth	0
Language, Social Media and Ideologies: Translingual Englishes, Facebook and Authenticities	0
The Pragmatics of Fiction: Literature, Stage and Screen Discourse	0
Stylistic Approaches to Pop Culture	0
Representational Intelligibility and the Confines of Framing the Self: Carmen Maria Machado’sIn the Dream House	0
Literary Universals and Eco-Cosmopolitan Ethics	0
From Theory to Data and Back Again: Authors’ Intentions, Characters’ Agency, and the Phenomenology of Writing Narrative	0
99 Ways to Retell a Story: The Styles and Functions of Narrator Reconstrual	0
Style and Reader Response. Minds, Media, Method	0
The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet	0
Ford Madox Ford	0
Shakespearean Genre: A Practice of Historical Poetics	0
Conrad’s Son	0
Chinese Narrotologies	0
Nonnegligible Literary/Cultural Differences Beside Literary/Cultural Universals	0
The Face of the Future: An Affective Mental Time Traveler in Saul Bellow’s “A Father-to-Be”	0
A New Paradigm of Home-Mapping for Literary Cartography	0
The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare: Bardology in the Nineteenth Century	0
The Contextual Model for Poem Translations and Criticisms: An Enlightenment from Wang Guowei’s Realm of Poetic World	0
Structuralist Pedagogy, Style, and Composition Studies: Past Paradigms’ Unfinished Possibilities	0
The Renaissance Revisited	0
Response to Hogan	0
Laissez-Faire Storytelling: Fictionality, Post-Factuality, and the Filmic Voice in Joshua Oppenheimer’s Documentary The Act of Killing (2012)	0
Retelling Cinderella: Cultural and Creative Transformations	0
The Undernarrated and the Overnarrated	0
Listen to What the Body Says: Reading Unnatural Narratives in Light of Readers’ Affective Responses	0
Fruitless Search for Coherence: A Transcultural Perspective on Netflix’s Adaptation of Empresses in the Palace	0
“What came is gone forever every time”: Embedded Pentameter and Loss in Allen Ginsberg’s “Kaddish”	0
Creepiness and the Uncanny	0
Experiencing Poetry. A Guidebook to Psychopoetics	0
The Case of Literary Journalism: Rethinking Fictionality, Narrativity, and Imagination	0
Response to Hogan	0
Excavating Stephen King: A Darwinist Hermeneutic Study of the Fiction	0
“Popping into Your Mind’s Eye”: Covert Multimodality in David Foster Wallace’s “The Soul Is Not a Smithy”	0

Poetry Lies: Poststructuralism and Robert Lowell’s Idea of Literary Representation	0
Linked Words, Linked Worlds: Metaphor(ic) Transformation as Intertextual Narrative Strategy in Rewrites of Shakespeare’s Plays	0
Arts of Healing: Cultural Narratives of Trauma	0
Beowulf: Translation and Commentary	0
The Problems of “Culture,” and the Future of Universals: A Rejoinder	0
REtrying: The Genre of Romance from the Round Table to Around the Pool	0
Comparative/Historical Poetics in an Age of Cultural Studies	0
Philip Roth, Mikhail Bakhtin, and the Dialogic Didactic	0
Rewriting the Quixotic Novel in Charlotte Lennox’sThe Female Quixote	0
Stylistics, Narratology, and Point of View: Partiality, Complementarity, and a New Definition	0
A Review of Intimate Eating: Racialized Spaces and Radical Futures	0
Contemporary Narrative and the Spectrum of Materiality	0
Metalepsis and Stevens’ Abstraction	0
Poetical Siblings: Thomson’s Vignette of Celadon and Amelia Transformed	0
What Literary Universals Are and What Culture Is Not: The Example of Descriptive Ethics	0
Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany: Cross-Cultural Freedoms and Female Opportunity	0
Milton in China	0
A Life with Poetry: The Development of Poetic Literacy	0
Fail Better, Fail Worse	0
Othered Temporalities and Possibilities: The Question of Narrative Synthesis in Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics and Anthony Doerr’sAbout Grace	0
The Rhetoric of Solecisms	0
Simulation, the Paradox of Fiction, and Rhetorical Reading: Saying “Yes, and” to Patrick Hogan	0
EDITORS’ NOTE	0
The Art of Being Philip Roth	0
Extending the Frontiers of Story Universals: The Spiritual Dimension	0
“Life in death”: Decolonizing Trauma in Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer	0
Surprised by Sound: Rhyme’s Inner Workings	0
Plotting Against Plausibility: Toward a Poetics of the Improbable	0
Establishing Time Criticism	0
Stage Directions and the Insistent Narrator in Brian Friel	0
Human Evolution and Fantastic Victorian Fiction	0
A Tale of Two Theories	0
Poet as Literary Cartographer: Literary Cartography in Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Map”	0
Narrative Retellings: Stylistic Approaches	0
Diaphanous Bodies: Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature	0
What’s in a Name: Can “Universality” Be Resuscitated?	0
Partial Universals in Literature	0
Jackass, Ritual Clowning, and the Comic Themes of Universal Occurrence	0
Why Cognitive Literary Studies Cannot Do Without Culture	0
Metagenre in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained: Its Relevance to Milton’s Presentation of the Son’s Self-Sacrificial Epic Heroism	0
Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty: Narrating Unstable Futures	0
Virginia Woolf’s Mythical Method	0
Diegetic Narrators and Narrations in Proust’s Recherche	0
The Fascination of Imitation: What Social Neuroscience Reveals about Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	0
Trauma, Mind Style, and Unreliable Narration in Toni Morrison’sHome	0
A Response to Hogan’s “What Literary Universals Are and What Culture Is Not: The Example of Descriptive Ethics”	0