OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Texas Studies in Literature and Language 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Mischaracterizing the Environment: Hardy, Darwin, and the Art of Ecological Storytelling	2
The Critique of Reason and Biopolitics in William Blake’s The Four Zoas	1
Between Transgression and Conviviality: Everyday Urban Space and the Carnivalesque Strategies in The Lonely Londoners	1
Masculine Capital / Yuppie Patriarchy: Visualizing the Noir Commodity in American Psycho	1
Bleak Environmentalism: The Science of Dickens’s Weathered Bodies	1
Male Friendships and Betrayal in the Fiction of Graham Greene	0
Reading Post-slavery Subjectivities in Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth	0
Michael Field’s Shared Sublime and Post-Romantic Transcendence	0
The Daughter’s Paradox: Filial Piety and Rebellion in Three Chinese Mother-Daughter Narratives	0
Vampirism in the Ether: Radio’s Horrific Potential in Orson Welles’s “Dracula”	0
The Surprising Success of C. R. Maturin’s Bertram: A Collaboration with Scott, Byron, Kean, and Murray	0
Lord Byron in Colonial Korea: Korean Intellectuals Pursuing National Freedom in the Spirit of Byron	0
Compromised Men and Aspiring Women: The Fatality of Romance in James M. Cain’s Depression-Era Novels	0
Silence, Space, and Absence in Joseph Conrad’s African Fiction	0
“A Traveler in Little Things”: Nature, Nostalgia, and Nativism in W. H. Hudson’s English Country Books	0
A Schoolhouse of Their Own: Economic Erotics in The Children’s Hour	0
Owning a Sense of Perversity in Ellen Wood’s East Lynne	0
Robert Rodriguez: Teaching Creativity	0
The Latinx Fantastic: Robert Rodriguez and the Power of His Speculative Storytelling	0
Roles That Contain and Restrain: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, Klara and the Sun, and Living	0
Love as Subjectification in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go	0
Miserable Communions: Sentimentality in Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric	0
Emotional Repression in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun	0
“No Sorcery”: Chess, Artistic Sensibility, and Subjective Development in The Queen’s Gambit	0
Shakespeare the Formalist: Reading and Rewriting John Marston in the Poets’ War	0

End of the Road: Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, and True Crime in the Auto-Apocalyptic West	0
Charles d’Orléans’s “Fowle Langage”	0
“All the Country Looked Alike”: Pollution, Homogeneity, and a Natural World out of Balance in After London	0
Howard Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name and the Badiou-Agamben Debate on Paul the Apostle	0
Creative Creatures	0
Transnational Intimacy in Israel Potter	0
The South/Western Gothic: White Capitalist Zombies in Katherine Anne Porter’s Noon Wine	0
Introduction	0
“Understanding Each Other Perfectly”: The Desire for Unmediated Communion in Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss”	0
García Márquez’s Literary Smuggling in The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor	0
The Politics of the Poison Pen: Communism, Caricature, and Scapegoats in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man	0
Archive Notes: An Introduction to the Kazuo Ishiguro Papers	0
Ommateum and the Early Career of A. R. Ammons	0
The Other James: James Joyce, Henry James, and Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark	0
The Dialectics of Barbarous Civilization: Black Transnational Modernism in Claude McKay’s Banjo	0
The Ecologies of Choice in Trollope’s The Fixed Period	0
Race and National Identity in Modernist Anthropology and Jean Toomer’s “The Blue Meridian”	0
“The Surface on Which You Work”: Self-Alienation and the Culture of Narcissism in The Edible Woman	0
“The Moon Slides Down the Stair / To See Who’s There”: The Poetics of the Crossword and the Cross Words of Poetics	0
Post-9/11-Disaster Katrina: Reenacting American Innocence in Dave Eggers’s Zeitoun	0
“Observance of Civility”: Jewish Identity and Anxiety in Seinfeld and William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice	0
From Dawn Till Dusk: El Rey Network and the Evolution of Cable Television in the 2010s	0
The Roots and Routes of Black Emancipation in Sutton Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio	0
Reimagining Community at the Open Marshland: Ecocritical Anti-Bildung in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go	0
Between Land and Settler Subjectivity: The Modernist Animal’s Territory in Katherine Mansfield’s “Prelude”	0
Under the Sign of the Middle Passage: Black Solidarity Reimagined	0
Intratextual Ishiguro: Transitional Spaces and the Unmaking of Interpretative Communities	0
“Why Am I a Girl?”: Gender Variance and the Racial Ideal in Frank Bidart’s “Ellen West”	0
The Wizard of Awe: An Introduction in Three Parts	0
Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Naturalism/Dialect Poetry Divide	0
A Man in Search of Family: Kinship and Decline in Michel Houellebecq’s Submission	0
A Rite of Finitude: Richard Wilbur’s Hermeneutic Ontology	0
The Unfinishedness & Untimeliness of A Raisin in the Sun	0
Speculative-Real Ethnoracial Spaces and the Formation of a Nepantlera Warrior	0
Irony, Recusancy, and Repentance in Robert Southwell’s Saint Peter’s Complaint	0
Lautréamont, Anarchism, and the Origins of the Avant-Garde	0
Reopening the Dan White Trial in Emily Mann’s Execution of Justice	0
California Nerves: Health, Disability, and Whiteness in The Squatter and the Don	0
Out of the Closet and Into the Home: Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and the Affordances of the Domestic Interior	0
Narrative Closure in Kipling’s The Jungle Play	0
“You Are a Cortez!”: Robert Rodriguez’s Tejano Sensibility and Restorative Kinship in the Spy Kids Series	0
Nothing to See Here, Move On: A New Look at Humor in Aldous Huxley’s Mock-Dystopic Brave New World	0
The Reading Closet	0
Negotiating the Politics of Chinese Fiction: The Case of Yan Lianke’s “Child”	0
What Is Aggro? Situationist Aesthetics in the Plays of Howard Brenton	0
About Our Cover Art	0
The Importance of Being Earnest in The Importance of Being Earnest	0
Stevie as Revolutionary in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent	0
New Histories, Lost Causes, and “Alternative Facts”: Suzan-Lori Parks’s The America Play in the Age of Trump	0
Samuel Beckett’s Allusions to John Donne	0

Myth, Historical Metaphor, and Figuration: Aaron the Moor in Titus Andronicus	0
Evangelicalism, Adultery, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl	0
Romanticism and Consciousness, Revisited: A Roundtable Discussion	0
Plotting an Economic and Romantic Path Forward: Miss Matty’s Tea Shop and the Gendered Cycles of Cranford	0
Jiujitsu of the Spirit: Trueblood, His Audience, and Lyrical Subversion in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man	0
The Politics of Black Domesticity in Martin R. Delany’s Blake, or the Huts of America	0