OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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
Julia Leyda: Anthroposcreens: Mediating the Climate Unconscious	0
Frontmatter	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
Modes of Social Closure in Morten Tyldum’s Film The Imitation Game	0
Books Received	0
Decadence and Euphuism: Walter Pater, John Lyly, and ‘New English’ Style	0
Heterotopic Spaces as Pathways to Discovering Transcultural Self in Brian Castro’s Shanghai Dancing and Birds of Passage	0
Books Received	0
Stefanie Mueller: The Corporation in the Nineteenth-Century American Imagination	0
Horror and the Holocaust: ‘Prestige Horror’ and Frank Pierson’sConspiracy(2001)	0
Transcendental Homelessness, Planetary Homes (In a Time of War): Perspectives From North and South	0

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Editorial	0
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A Persistent Borderland: Glasgow, the Anglo-Scottish Border, and the Making of (North) British Identity, 1700–1730	0
María J. Lopez and Pilar Villar-Argáiz: Secrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction	0
The Curious Case of Ditransitive Pity, or the Productivity of an Unproductive Pattern	0
Between Causative and Passive: Agentivity in the Affactive Construction	0
Editorial	0
The Unredeemable Sin: Inheritance, Gothicism, and the Possibility of Salvation in The House of the Seven Gables	0
Homes Unbound: Flight, Displacement, and Homing Desire in Exile Persian Poetry	0
Regina Schober: Spider Web, Labyrinth, Tightrope Walk: Networks in US American Literature and Culture	0
Crossing the Walls: Reading Doris Lessing’s The Memoirs of a Survivor as a Hopeful Dystopia	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
Introduction to the Special Issue	0
Editorial	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
Hawaiki According to Tupaia: Glimpses of Knowing Home in Precolonial Remote Oceania	0
F. Hollis Griffin: Television Studies in Queer Times	0
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Novel Didactics? Defoe’s Legacy in the Contemporary Children’s Robinsonade	0
Thresholds of In/Visibility and the Scopic Power of Literature	0
John B. Thompson: Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing	0
Editorial	0
Kylie Crane: Concrete and Plastic: Thinking Through Materiality	0
Frontmatter	0
ZAA at 70	0
Haunting Homes and Emerging Dilemmas of Being in the World: A Commentary	0
“Tall, Dark and Tasty”: Masculinity in Food and Beverage Advertising	0
Stefanie Schäfer: Yankee Yarns: Storytelling and the Invention of the National Body in Nineteenth-Century American Culture	0
‘Nostalgia is the English Disease’ – Or is it? Jonathan Coe’s Middle England (2018)	0
Contemporary Literature and Social Invisibility: Introduction	0
Books Received	0
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The Poetics of (Un)Mournability: Emma Donoghue’s Hood (1995) as an Elegy in Invisible Ink	0
Authors of Slender Means? Female Authorship in Mid-Twentieth-Century British Fiction	0
Desiring Walls: Fantasies of Containment and Reimagined British Pasts	0
Becoming (In)Visible: Self-Assertion and Disappearance of the Self in Contemporary Surveillance Narratives	0
Editorial	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
Daniela Keller and Ina Habermann: Brexit and beyond: Nation and identity	0
British Borders and/in East Africa: World War II and Multidirectional Memory in Nadifa Mohamed’s Black Mamba Boy	0
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“Good Things Don’t Last Forever”: A Dalliance with Disco?	0
Introduction	0
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Constructional Transfer in L2 Learning: The Role of Entrenchment	0
The Aesthetics and Politics of Psychotherapy: Literary, Cultural, and Media Perspectives on ‘Healing the Soul’	0

Ingo Berensmeyer: Author Fictions. Narrative Representations of Literary Authorship since 1800	0
Ina Bergmann: The Nineteenth Century Revis(it)ed: The New Historical Fiction	0
Sara Ahmed: The Feminist Killjoy Handbook	0
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Willie van Peer and Anna Chesnokova: Experiencing Poetry: A Guidebook to Psychopoetics	0
Decadent Artwork in the Sixties Counterculture Magazines International Times and Oz	0
Open Borders – Open Wounds: The Ambivalence of Pain and Narration in Salvador Plascencia’s The People of Paper	0
Editorial	0
Sukla Chatterjee, Joanna Chojnicka, Anna-Katharina Hornidge, and Kerstin Knopf: Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions, Heterogeneities, Knowledges, Materialities	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
Resisting (through) the Elements of Race: A Fugitive Humanist Reading of Colson Whitehead’sThe Underground Railroad	0
Theatre and Communal Movement as Forms of Trauma Therapy in Gregory Burke’s Black Watch (2007)	0
Diachronic Construction Grammar – Introductory Remarks to This Special Issue	0
‘Wonder’ Nouns and the Development of a Mirative Constructional Network: An Exercise in Semiotic Diachronic Construction Grammar	0
Editorial	0
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Alexandra Hartmann: The Black Humanist Tradition in Anti-Racist Literature: A Fragile Hope	0
Marlon Lieber: Reading Race Relationally: Embodied Dispositions and Social Structures in Colson Whitehead’s Novels	0
Gender-Marking -ess: The Suffix that Failed	0
Sounds Like America: The Elemental Politics of Walt Whitman and John Luther Adams	0
What Depression Feels Like: A Collostructional Analysis of Patient and Caregiver Perspectives	0
Sōþes ne wanda. The Avoidance is Separation Metaphor in West-Germanic Argument Structure	0
Wiegandt, Kai. J. M: Coetzee’s Revisions of the Human. Posthumanism and Narrative Form	0
“England Prevails?” Contemporary UK Politics and Alan Moore’s Border-Challenging Comics	0
Representations of Pro-Choice Protesters in US News Media	0
Collostructional Analysis Meets Construction Semantics: Revisiting the English Way-Construction and Its German Equivalents	0
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Positionality in a Contemptuous Time: Ethical Considerations and Discussions on Researching Language, Gender, and Sexuality	0
Afterword: Running with the Metaphor of Social Invisibility	0
The Aesthetics and Politics of Elemental Agency	0
Experience(s) of Decorporation: The Invisibilisation of Care in John Lanchester’s Capital (2012)	0
How Collostructional Analysis Contributes to the Description of Argument Structure Constructions with Slots for that- and Infinitive Clauses	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
‘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
Filmic Gold: The Elemental Aesthetics of the Klondike Gold Rush in Bill Morrison’s Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016)	0
Books Received	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
“Tired Hedonists” in Los Angeles: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Last Tycoon	0
Unravelling Possible Worlds in Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale: Examining Rhetorical Devices	0
Editorial	0
Irmtraud Huber: Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry	0
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György Lukács and the Eighteenth-Century Novel	0
Hashtags and Environmental Literacy in the EFL Classroom	0
The Slimic Imagination and Elemental Eco-Horror	0
Revisiting Gradience in Diachronic Construction Grammar: PPs and the Complement-Adjunct Distinction in the History of English	0
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Ulla Haselstein: Gertrude Steins literarische Porträts	0
Exploring the Effect of Conversion on the Distribution of Inflectional Suffixes: A Multivariate Corpus Study	0
Editorial Note	0
“All Things Go to Decay”: Decadence in the Early Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson	0
Editorial	0
Books Received	0
Modern Novel Writing in the Eighteenth Century: ‘Classic’ and Later Perspectives	0
“To this Silent Paper I May Confess it”: Diary Writing and Trauma in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall	0
Surfacing Ecological Disaster:Poets for Living Watersand the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill	0
Haunted by Homes: A Short Introduction	0
(Dis)Enchanting the City: Charles de Lint’s Urban Fantasy Fiction	0
Saul Noam Zaritt: Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody	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
Sherronda J. Brown: Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture	0
Homes: A Quartet	0
London and Cloisterham as an Imperial ‘Heart of Darkness’ in Dickens’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood	0
Mary Ashraf and the “Research Group on Working Class Literature”: The Programmatic Pursuit of a New Research Field in the GDR Anglistik	0
Bracketing Ephemera: Robert Paltock’s The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins and Eighteenth-Century Book Culture	0
Editorial	0
“Organised Clairvoyance”: Supranational Surveillance and Controlled Borderlessness in H. G. Wells’sA Modern Utopia	0
Spreading the Work: Introducing Eighteenth-Century ‘Derivatives’ in the Classroom	0
On Multiple Paths and Change in the Language Network	0
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Of Whales and Mushrooms: Anna Tsing’s and John Ironmonger’s Polyphonic Storytelling	0
Personal Pronouns: Variation and Ambiguity	0
Yasna Bozhkova: Between Worlds: Mina Loy’s Aesthetic Itineraries	0