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Papers

(The median citation count of Zeitschrift fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik 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
From Charlotte Smith to Jane Austen: The Evolution of the English Novel	3
Franziska Quabeck: Not I – Kazuo Ishiguro and the Politics of Misrecognition	2
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Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and the Aesthetics of Serial Narration in The Sopranos (1999–2007)	1
Authorial Lives and Deaths: Revisiting Perumal Murugan’s Literary Death and Afterlives	1
Decadence Today: Volutes, Unfurling Flowers, and Decolonial Excesses in Shola von Reinhold’s LOTE and Thuy On’s Decadence	1
Barbara Buchenau, Jens Martin Gurr, and Maria Sulimma: City Scripts: Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures	1
Marzia Milazzo: Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power.	1
Revisiting the Decadence of Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776–1787)	1
Searching for the Broad Present: The Chronotope in Teju Cole’s Open City	1
Wotan’s Biopunk: The Grim(m) German God and His English Bloodsport in Sarban’s The Sound of His Horn	1
“To this Silent Paper I May Confess it”: Diary Writing and Trauma in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall	0
Haunted by Homes: A Short Introduction	0
Frontmatter	0
Editorial	0
Towards a Poetics of Trauma and Healing: Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life (2015) and Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk (2014)	0
Homes: A Quartet	0
Modes of Social Closure in Morten Tyldum’s Film The Imitation Game	0
Books Received	0
Saul Noam Zaritt: Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody	0
Bracketing Ephemera: Robert Paltock’s The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins and Eighteenth-Century Book Culture	0
“Organised Clairvoyance”: Supranational Surveillance and Controlled Borderlessness in H. G. Wells’sA Modern Utopia	0
Books Received	0
Stefanie Mueller: The Corporation in the Nineteenth-Century American Imagination	0
Mary Ashraf and the “Research Group on Working Class Literature”: The Programmatic Pursuit of a New Research Field in the GDR Anglistik	0

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Personal Pronouns: Variation and Ambiguity	0
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On Multiple Paths and Change in the Language Network	0
Julia Leyda: Anthroposcreens: Mediating the Climate Unconscious	0
A Persistent Borderland: Glasgow, the Anglo-Scottish Border, and the Making of (North) British Identity, 1700–1730	0
Therapy-as-Theatre: Porosity and Circulations of Feeling in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s An Octoroon (2014) and Duncan Macmillan’s Every Brilliant Thing (2013)	0
Editorial	0
Introduction	0
Measured Life: Making Live, the “Modern System of Science,” and the Animated Bodies of Frankenstein	0
Between Causative and Passive: Agentivity in the Affactive Construction	0
The Unredeemable Sin: Inheritance, Gothicism, and the Possibility of Salvation in The House of the Seven Gables	0
Decadence and Euphuism: Walter Pater, John Lyly, and ‘New English’ Style	0
The Role of Gender in the Realisation of Apologies in Local Council Meetings: A Variational Pragmatic Approach in British and New Zealand English	0
Horror and the Holocaust: ‘Prestige Horror’ and Frank Pierson’sConspiracy(2001)	0
Heterotopic Spaces as Pathways to Discovering Transcultural Self in Brian Castro’s Shanghai Dancing and Birds of Passage	0
Regina Schober: Spider Web, Labyrinth, Tightrope Walk: Networks in US American Literature and Culture	0
F. Hollis Griffin: Television Studies in Queer Times	0
Frontmatter	0
Transcendental Homelessness, Planetary Homes (In a Time of War): Perspectives From North and South	0
The Danger of Counter-Transference and Need for Patient Voice in A. M. Homes’s In a Country of Mothers (1993) and Lidia Yuknavitch’s Dora: A Headcase (2012): “Story It”	0
Editorial	0
Frontmatter	0
María J. Lopez and Pilar Villar-Argáiz: Secrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction	0
Thresholds of In/Visibility and the Scopic Power of Literature	0
“Tall, Dark and Tasty”: Masculinity in Food and Beverage Advertising	0
The Curious Case of Ditransitive Pity, or the Productivity of an Unproductive Pattern	0
Editorial	0
ZAA at 70	0
Homes Unbound: Flight, Displacement, and Homing Desire in Exile Persian Poetry	0
Crossing the Walls: Reading Doris Lessing’s The Memoirs of a Survivor as a Hopeful Dystopia	0
‘Nostalgia is the English Disease’ – Or is it? Jonathan Coe’s Middle England (2018)	0
Books Received	0
Introduction to the Special Issue	0
Editorial	0
Hawaiki According to Tupaia: Glimpses of Knowing Home in Precolonial Remote Oceania	0
The Poetics of (Un)Mournability: Emma Donoghue’s Hood (1995) as an Elegy in Invisible Ink	0
Desiring Walls: Fantasies of Containment and Reimagined British Pasts	0
Novel Didactics? Defoe’s Legacy in the Contemporary Children’s Robinsonade	0
John B. Thompson: Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing	0
Half-Witted or Hard-Working-Fun-Loving Women? – A Corpus-Assisted Study of Gendered Collocation in the New Zealand Alpine Club Journal Corpus	0
Ambiguity Avoidance by Means of Function Words in English? Providing Additional Corpus-based Counterevidence	0
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Haunting Homes and Emerging Dilemmas of Being in the World: A Commentary	0
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“Good Things Don’t Last Forever”: A Dalliance with Disco?	0
Kylie Crane: Concrete and Plastic: Thinking Through Materiality	0
Stefanie Schäfer: Yankee Yarns: Storytelling and the Invention of the National Body in Nineteenth-Century American Culture	0
Ingo Berensmeyer: Author Fictions. Narrative Representations of Literary Authorship since 1800	0

Contemporary Literature and Social Invisibility: Introduction	0
Constructional Transfer in L2 Learning: The Role of Entrenchment	0
Frontmatter	0
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Authors of Slender Means? Female Authorship in Mid-Twentieth-Century British Fiction	0
Ina Bergmann: The Nineteenth Century Revis(it)ed: The New Historical Fiction	0
Becoming (In)Visible: Self-Assertion and Disappearance of the Self in Contemporary Surveillance Narratives	0
Sukla Chatterjee, Joanna Chojnicka, Anna-Katharina Hornidge, and Kerstin Knopf: Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions, Heterogeneities, Knowledges, Materialities	0
Daniela Keller and Ina Habermann: Brexit and beyond: Nation and identity	0
Editorial	0
Open Borders – Open Wounds: The Ambivalence of Pain and Narration in Salvador Plascencia’s The People of Paper	0
Diachronic Construction Grammar – Introductory Remarks to This Special Issue	0
Introduction	0
British Borders and/in East Africa: World War II and Multidirectional Memory in Nadifa Mohamed’s Black Mamba Boy	0
Resisting (through) the Elements of Race: A Fugitive Humanist Reading of Colson Whitehead’sThe Underground Railroad	0
Marlon Lieber: Reading Race Relationally: Embodied Dispositions and Social Structures in Colson Whitehead’s Novels	0
The Aesthetics and Politics of Psychotherapy: Literary, Cultural, and Media Perspectives on ‘Healing the Soul’	0
Frontmatter	0
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Wiegandt, Kai. J. M: Coetzee’s Revisions of the Human. Posthumanism and Narrative Form	0
Sara Ahmed: The Feminist Killjoy Handbook	0
Willie van Peer and Anna Chesnokova: Experiencing Poetry: A Guidebook to Psychopoetics	0
What Depression Feels Like: A Collostructional Analysis of Patient and Caregiver Perspectives	0
Positionality in a Contemptuous Time: Ethical Considerations and Discussions on Researching Language, Gender, and Sexuality	0
Decadent Artwork in the Sixties Counterculture Magazines International Times and Oz	0
Editorial	0
Collostructional Analysis Meets Construction Semantics: Revisiting the English Way-Construction and Its German Equivalents	0
Home Is where the Bees Are! Beekeeping as Homing in Christy Lefteri’s The Beekeeper of Aleppo and Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov’s Honeyland	0
Theatre and Communal Movement as Forms of Trauma Therapy in Gregory Burke’s Black Watch (2007)	0
The Aesthetics and Politics of Elemental Agency	0
How Collostructional Analysis Contributes to the Description of Argument Structure Constructions with Slots for that- and Infinitive Clauses	0
Editorial	0
Alexandra Hartmann: The Black Humanist Tradition in Anti-Racist Literature: A Fragile Hope	0
‘Perced to the Roote’: Refugee Tales and the Poetics of In/Visibility	0
Arvind Thomas: Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages	0
‘Wonder’ Nouns and the Development of a Mirative Constructional Network: An Exercise in Semiotic Diachronic Construction Grammar	0
Sounds Like America: The Elemental Politics of Walt Whitman and John Luther Adams	0
Sōþes ne wanda. The Avoidance is Separation Metaphor in West-Germanic Argument Structure	0
Alongside – The Novel: New Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Fiction	0
British-American Contrasts in the Use of the Past Perfect: Negotiating Ambiguity versus Redundancy?	0
Gender-Marking -ess: The Suffix that Failed	0
Representations of Pro-Choice Protesters in US News Media	0
Frontmatter	0
Editorial	0
Irmtraud Huber: Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry	0
“England Prevails?” Contemporary UK Politics and Alan Moore’s Border-Challenging Comics	0
Afterword: Running with the Metaphor of Social Invisibility	0
The Slimic Imagination and Elemental Eco-Horror	0
Experience(s) of Decorporation: The Invisibilisation of Care in John Lanchester’s Capital (2012)	0
György Lukács and the Eighteenth-Century Novel	0
Inspector Gowda’s Divided City: Space, Inequality, and Crime in Anita Nair’s Bangalore Novels	0
Robinson Crusoe – But on Mars: Investigating Intertextuality in Andy Weir’sThe Martian(2014)	0
Exploring the Effect of Conversion on the Distribution of Inflectional Suffixes: A Multivariate Corpus Study	0
Books Received	0
Filmic Gold: The Elemental Aesthetics of the Klondike Gold Rush in Bill Morrison’s Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016)	0
Modern Novel Writing in the Eighteenth Century: ‘Classic’ and Later Perspectives	0
“Tired Hedonists” in Los Angeles: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Last Tycoon	0
Books Received	0
Editorial	0
(Dis)Enchanting the City: Charles de Lint’s Urban Fantasy Fiction	0
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Unravelling Possible Worlds in Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale: Examining Rhetorical Devices	0
Surfacing Ecological Disaster:Poets for Living Watersand the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill	0
London and Cloisterham as an Imperial ‘Heart of Darkness’ in Dickens’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood	0
Hashtags and Environmental Literacy in the EFL Classroom	0
Revisiting Gradience in Diachronic Construction Grammar: PPs and the Complement-Adjunct Distinction in the History of English	0
Sherronda J. Brown: Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture	0
Spreading the Work: Introducing Eighteenth-Century ‘Derivatives’ in the Classroom	0
Ulla Haselstein: Gertrude Steins literarische Porträts	0
Editorial Note	0
Editorial	0
“All Things Go to Decay”: Decadence in the Early Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson	0
Books Received	0
Of Whales and Mushrooms: Anna Tsing’s and John Ironmonger’s Polyphonic Storytelling	0
Yasna Bozhkova: Between Worlds: Mina Loy’s Aesthetic Itineraries	0