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Papers

(The median citation count of Lit-Literature Interpretation Theory 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
Introduction	2
The Operating Theater of Consent: Freedom and Interpretive Labor in George Saunders’s “Liberation Day”	1
Gastropods, Viruses, and Deep Time in The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating	1
Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Prestige Horror	1
“Nothing Shall Tempt Me”: Sentimental Rhetoric in Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Iola Leroy	1
The Ghosts in the Machine: Screened Reality and the Desktop Film	1
Collecting Clout: Wharton’s The House of Mirth in the Digital Age	1
Barack Obama’s “Drone Speech” and the Meaning of “Just War” After 9/11	0
At the Intersections of Gender, Language, and Class: Early Chinese Women Translators’ Challenges in Nü To Pao in the Process of Chinese Feminism from 1915 to 1925	0
W.G. Sebald’s Unfinished Holocaust Text: Rethinking The Emigrants and the Ongoing Project of Bearing Witness	0
Contemporary Basque Horror:Legado en los huesos(2019) and the Value of Regional Readings within National Traumas	0
“Live in Fragments No Longer. Only Connect.”: The Alienation and Self-Restoration of the Subject in Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights	0
LIT Special Issue I Introduction: Intersectional Feminism and Barriers to Representation at the Turn of the Century	0
Wartime for Duz and Grape-Nut Flakes: Nostalgia, Capital, and War in Don DeLillo’s “Human Moments in World War III”	0
Complex Slasher Characters in American Basic Cable Television	0
The Secret History of HB-2: Bathroom Safety in the Eighteenth Century and Beyond	0
Considering the Intersections of Class and Gender Through Utopia: Lena Jane Fry’s Other Worlds	0
Vietnam Vet Noir After 9/11: Quarry,Dog Soldiers, and the Anti-Ethical Appeal of a Contemporary Subgenre	0
Processes of Abjection: Toward a Marxist Theory of Horror	0
Contemporary Gothic Horror Cinema: The Imagined Pasts and Traumatic Ghosts of Crimson Peak (2015) and The Woman in Black (2012)	0
Metafiction, Lexical Ostentation, and Censorship in Umezaki Haruo’s “B-tō fūbutsushi”	0
Einfühlung Als Gemeinschaft : Edith Stein, Emotional Numbing, and Anhedonia—A Way Forward	0
Friendship and Art in Valerie Martin’s I Give It to You	0
Roads, Misogyny, and the Rape Culture in Joyce Carol Oates’ Rape: A Love Story and Cara Hoffman’s So Much Pretty	0
Declarations of In-Dependence: Incomplete Love Stories, Insecure Adulthood, and Alternative Narratives of Citizenship in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies	0

Agency, Mobility, and Constraint in Neoliberal Fiction of Female Labor	0
Innocence, Provocation, and Moral Injury: The Problem of Discrimination in Phil Klay’s Redeployment	0
“Breaking the Frame:” The Role of Artmaking in Narratives of Migration and Diaspora	0
Emerging Trends in Horror Film and Television: Part 2	0
Reading Contemporary American Warfare with Just War Theory	0
The Objects of Jane Gardam	0
Hierarchies of Identity and Non-Belonging: The Unimagined Community in K. H. Lim’s Written in Black	0
The Book, Meaning, and Densities of Essential Forms in J.M. Coetzee’sFoe	0
Reeducating The Sympathizer : Refugee Aesthetics and Intertextuality Recode the Western Canon	0
“Maimed and Naked Monks in the Bloodslaked Dust”: Augustine, Aquinas, and Cormac McCarthy on Just War	0
Undoing brahminism/casteism: Toward a Post-brahmin Philology, Literature, and History	0
Alex as the Product, Producer, and Consumer of Art in the Dilapidated State, in Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange	0
The Developmental Dilemmas of New Women in Toshiko Tamura’s Miira no Kuchibeni	0
Poetics and Politics of Seclusion : Approaching Purdah Through Intersectionality in Select Works of Indian Female Authors	0
TOWARD A THIRD POETRY: Notes on Juan Gelman’s Counterpoetry of Liberation and Anticolonial Resistance	0
Emerging Trends in Horror Film and Television: Part 1	0
Moments of Being, Moments of Nonbeing: Humanism and Posthumanism in Virginia Woolf’s “A Sketch of the Past” andTo the Lighthouse	0
Inoperativity and Forgiveness in Paul Muldoon’s “Dirty Data”¹	0
Between Neoliberalism and Postmodernism: Image, Rock and Roll, and Authenticity in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad	0
Between Science and Poetry in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome	0
After Peele: Get Out’s Influence on the Horror Genre and Beyond	0
Reading As Conversation with the Overarching Blended Author (Or Roberto Bolaño): Joint Attention, Immersion, and Interaction	0
Defects of (Human) Nature? Cognitive Biases in Golding’s Lord of the Flies	0
Structural Racism and Just War Theory in Post-World War II America: Susan Choi and Toni Morrison on Violence, Imagination, and Human Flourishing	0
Severe Pain and Good Faith: Just War Theory’s Right Intention in the Bush-Era Torture Memos	0
“The True India is an Idea”: Beyond Rabindranath Tagore’s Prescience on Nationalism	0
The Impossibility of (Not) Serving: Sovereignty and Subjectivity throughInfernoIX	0
Critical Approaches to Decolonization: Introduction	0
“You Can’t Stop Picturing that Beautiful Handset”: The Found Phone Trope in Twenty-First-Century Media	0
“The Comrades are Sweet, but They Never Chat, They Make Speeches All the Time”: On Laughter and Linearity in Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love	0
On the Edge of Oblivion: Transatlantic Women’s Poetry, First World War and Pacifism at the Turn of the Century	0
Decolonizing Decolonization: Undoing Ethno-Nationalist Conceptions of “Indigeneity”	0
Fiction Passing for Non-Fiction: (Un)Real Identity and Fake News in The Human Stain	0
Sense and Sensibilityand Psychoanalysis: Jane Austen and the Kristevan Semiotic	0
“Prior Justification”: Neo-World War II Films as Rhetorical Appeals for “Just War” in the New Millennium	0
“The Spirit of Martyrdom is Over”: Irony, Communication, and Indifference in Daniel Defoe’sThe Shortest Way with the Dissenters(1702)	0
“See I Know How to Grab It”: Capturing Money in the Neoliberal Heist Film	0
LIT Special Issue II Introduction: Intersectional Feminism and Barriers to Representation at the Turn of the Century	0
“Woman [and] Artist”: Margaret Fuller on Bettine Brentano-von Arnim and Friendship	0