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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
“Observance of Civility”: Jewish Identity and Anxiety in Seinfeld and William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice	1
The Daughter’s Paradox: Filial Piety and Rebellion in Three Chinese Mother-Daughter Narratives	1
Under the Sign of the Middle Passage: Black Solidarity Reimagined	1
Between Land and Settler Subjectivity: The Modernist Animal’s Territory in Katherine Mansfield’s “Prelude”	1
Reading Pilgrim at Tinker Creek in the Digital Age: On Corpus Stylistics and “Intricacy”	1
“Why Am I a Girl?”: Gender Variance and the Racial Ideal in Frank Bidart’s “Ellen West”	1
Archive Notes: An Introduction to the Kazuo Ishiguro Papers	1
Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Naturalism/Dialect Poetry Divide	0
The Other James: James Joyce, Henry James, and Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark	0
Infinite Storms of Beauty: Hopkins, Dillard, and the Epistemology of Downturn, 1870s/1970s	0
End of the Road: Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, and True Crime in the Auto-Apocalyptic West	0
“The Moon Slides Down the Stair / To See Who’s There”: The Poetics of the Crossword and the Cross Words of Poetics	0
An Extremist’s Exercise: What We Can and Cannot Think and Say with Wallace Stevens	0
Howard Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name and the Badiou-Agamben Debate on Paul the Apostle	0
Love as Subjectification in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go	0
The Reading Closet	0
Paradise Lost and the Genre of Disaster Films	0
The Politics of the Poison Pen: Communism, Caricature, and Scapegoats in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man	0
Compromised Men and Aspiring Women: The Fatality of Romance in James M. Cain’s Depression-Era Novels	0
The Roots and Routes of Black Emancipation in Sutton Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio	0
Where Is HERE, When Is NOW? Literary “Presentism” after Romanticism	0
Stevie as Revolutionary in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent	0
Jiujitsu of the Spirit: Trueblood, His Audience, and Lyrical Subversion in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man	0
Teaching Pilgrim at Tinker Creek in Beijing	0
Reimagining Community at the Open Marshland: Ecocritical Anti-Bildung in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go	0

The Surprising Success of C. R. Maturin’s Bertram: A Collaboration with Scott, Byron, Kean, and Murray	0
“Understanding Each Other Perfectly”: The Desire for Unmediated Communion in Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss”	0
Reading Post-slavery Subjectivities in Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth	0
Owning a Sense of Perversity in Ellen Wood’s East Lynne	0
Lord Byron in Colonial Korea: Korean Intellectuals Pursuing National Freedom in the Spirit of Byron	0
The Dialectics of Barbarous Civilization: Black Transnational Modernism in Claude McKay’s Banjo	0
Pilgrim Guide: Coming to Our Senses amid the Climate Crisis	0
Transnational Intimacy in Israel Potter	0
Introduction: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek at Fifty	0
Ommateum and the Early Career of A. R. Ammons	0
What Is Aggro? Situationist Aesthetics in the Plays of Howard Brenton	0
Opium Smoking, Religion, and Commodity Culture in The Mystery of Edwin Drood	0
“To Get a Feel for What This Means”: Annie Dillard’s Thought Experiments and the Quest to Understand Compassion	0
Out of the Closet and Into the Home: Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and the Affordances of the Domestic Interior	0
Nothing to See Here, Move On: A New Look at Humor in Aldous Huxley’s Mock-Dystopic Brave New World	0
Samuel Beckett’s Allusions to John Donne	0
Roles That Contain and Restrain: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, Klara and the Sun, and Living	0
The Politics of Black Domesticity in Martin R. Delany’s Blake, or the Huts of America	0
About Our Cover Art	0
Romanticism and Consciousness, Revisited: A Roundtable Discussion	0
Vampirism in the Ether: Radio’s Horrific Potential in Orson Welles’s “Dracula”	0
Irony, Recusancy, and Repentance in Robert Southwell’s Saint Peter’s Complaint	0
García Márquez’s Literary Smuggling in The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor	0
Performing Race: Heterotopias in David Henry Hwang’s FOB and Bondage	0
Reopening the Dan White Trial in Emily Mann’s Execution of Justice	0
A Rite of Finitude: Richard Wilbur’s Hermeneutic Ontology	0
The Unfinishedness & Untimeliness of A Raisin in the Sun	0
Intratextual Ishiguro: Transitional Spaces and the Unmaking of Interpretative Communities	0
Between Transgression and Conviviality: Everyday Urban Space and the Carnivalesque Strategies in The Lonely Londoners	0
A Melting Glossary of Water: Seeping into Separations	0
Silence, Space, and Absence in Joseph Conrad’s African Fiction	0
Negotiating the Politics of Chinese Fiction: The Case of Yan Lianke’s “Child”	0
The Importance of Being Earnest in The Importance of Being Earnest	0
“No Sorcery”: Chess, Artistic Sensibility, and Subjective Development in The Queen’s Gambit	0
Emotional Repression in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun	0
The South/Western Gothic: White Capitalist Zombies in Katherine Anne Porter’s Noon Wine	0