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Papers

(The median citation count of Partial Answers-Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Towards Pataphysical Surrationalism: Jorge Luis Borges and the Crevices of Unreason	2
Secularist Implications in the Satirical Poetry of 19th-Century Greece: The Case of Andreas Laskaratos and His Criticism of the Orthodox Christian Establishment	2
Towards a Model of Conversion in Modern Self Life Writing	2
Literary Representations of Pandemics, Epidemics and Pestilence ed. by Nishi Pulugurtha (review)	1
Taboo Revisited in Dystopia: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World	1
Chekhov's "A Boring Story" as an Illness Narrative	1
“The world’s wildest and loveliest populated places”: Visions of the Tropic Imaginary in Tennessee Williams, John Huston, and Herman Melville	1
Defining Commitments and Self-Becoming in Nicole Krauss’s The History of Love and Forest Dark	1
Abraham Ibn Ezra's "Way of Peshat " in Light of Shifting Christian Conceptions of the Literal Sense	1
Modernism after Postcolonialism by Mara de Gennaro (review)	1
Strange Tools and Dark Materials: Speculating Beyond Narratives with Philosophical Instruments	1
Narrative, Perception and the Embodied Mind: Towards a Neuronarratology by Lilla Farmasi (review)	1
Beckett in the Posthuman Technocene	1
Kafka’s Unfinished Metamorphoses	1
Interpretations of Literality: Muslim Legal Hermeneutics and Whitman's Five Questions	1
"My hand I place over my mouth": Interpreting Gestures in the Poetry of Job	0
Sociability and Society: Literature and the Symposium by K. Ludwig Pfeiffer (review)	0
Russian Archaism: Nationalism and the Quest for a Modern Aesthetic by Irina Shevelenko (review)	0
Why Did "The Letter that Never Reached Russia" Never Reach Russia? Nabokov's Émigré Flâneur Makes Axiological Distinctions	0
After Auto/Biography: The Rise of New Autofiction and Rachel Cusk’s “Delegated Performances”	0
Rashi, Honorius Augustodunensis, and the Shulamite: The Nexus of Exegesis and Interreligious Confrontation Early in the 12th Century	0
Nature and Medieval Literature by Stephen Knight (review)	0
Saul Bellow’s Gothic Ontology: The Victim and More Die of Heartbreak	0
How to Do Things with Rabbits: Generative Speech-Acts and Illocutionary Force in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men	0
“Here-and-Now” the Time-Life is Recorded / Played Back: Kenneth Goldsmith Performs Living through Writing	0

Creative Work Ethic and Autofiction: Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be?	0
Dancing with the Posthumans: Readerly Choreographies and More-than-Human Figures	0
Much Obliged: Beckett, MacIntyre, and the Emotivist Endgame	0
Seed-Time and Harvest: Problems of Joy and Suffering in the Early George Eliot	0
Time is out of Joint: Narrative Temporalities and Cognitive Blending in Beowulf	0
The Bo/ald Woman in Auschwitz: From Abjection to Writing	0
Memory Spaces: Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women’s Graphic Narratives by Victoria Aarons (review)	0
Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II by James A. W. Heffernan (review)	0
Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday by Ksenia Chizhova (review)	0
Hardy, Conrad and the Senses by Hugh Epstein	0
James Joyce and the Matter of Paris by Catherine Flynn	0
Contemporary Narrative and the Spectrum of Materiality by Marco Caracciolo (review)	0
Archival Earth: Endangered Testimony at the Limits of Narrative	0
"I Always Protest Against Being Referred to the Bees": Bee Analogies in Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend	0
“Who Knows What We’d Make of It, If We Ever Got Our Hands on It?” The Bible and Margaret Atwood ed. by Rhiannon Graybill and Peter J. Sabo	0
Strangers, Scapegoats and State Failures: Migration Anxieties in Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta	0
The Ethical Vision of George Eliot by Thomas Albrecht	0
The Blossom Which We Are: The Novel and the Transience of Cultural Worlds by Nir Evron (review)	0
The Mirror and the Icon: A Theological Perspective on Nabokov’s Pale Fire	0
Contemporary French and Francophone Narratology ed. by John Pier	0
Echo by Amit Pinchevski (review)	0
Toni Morrison and the Natural World: An Ecology of Color by Anissa Janine Wardi (review)	0
“A false dance”: Rules and Freedom in the Ludic World of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian	0
The raison d'être of "The New Colossus"	0
The Bible in American Poetic Culture: Community, Conflict, War by Shira Wolosky (review)	0
Limits of Narrative Science: Unnarratability and Neonarrative in Evolutionary Biology	0
The Banality of Power in the Postcolony: Grifters, Tricksters, and Charlatans in Wole Soyinka’s Jero Plays	0
Ontologies of Alterity: Free Gift, Social Reproduction, and Affect in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King	0
Cremation Poetry: Probing Secularism in Verse	0
Arts of Healing: Cultural Narratives of Trauma ed. by Arleen Ionescu and Maria Margaroni (review)	0
Phantasmatic Metamorphosis of a Woman: Three Short Stories by Algirdas Landsbergis	0
The Many Lives in Ota Filip’s Autobiographies	0
Ambiguity and Intention in Ancient and Medieval Rhetorical Thought	0
Roth’s Wars: A Career in Conflict by James D. Bloom (review)	0
Mordecai Richler’s Imperfect Search for Moral Values by Shana Rosenblatt Mauer (review)	0
A Durkheimian Reading of Suicide in Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther and Foscolo’s The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis	0
Misreadings, Self-Misprisions, and Fabricated Resolutions in Joyce’s “The Dead”	0
Klaus Mann and the Biofictional Journey from Moral Truth to Mental Health	0
Autofictional Books in Times of Digital Self-Performance and Post-Truth Sentiments	0
The Changing Ways of Writing and Reading Autobiography and Autofiction: Self as Performance in Jan Němec’s Ways of Writing about Love	0
Depressing Goings-on in the House of Actuality: The Philosophical Legacy of Larkin’s “Aubade”	0
Science Fiction and the Limits of Narrativizing Environmental Digital Technologies	0
Handbook of Narrative Analysis by Luc Herman and Bart Vervaeck	0
The (Not-So-)Private Mind: Why Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury Is and Is Not a Failure	0
Material Spirituality in Modernist Women's Writing by Elizabeth Anderson (review)	0
The Immigrant’s Turn: Weiser, Shaftesbury, and the “German Day,” 1911–1919	0
19th -Century Secularist Poetry: Form and Formation of a New Worldview: Forum Introduction	0
Dialectic of Two Cultures: Edward Albee, C. P. Snow, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as Dramatized Epistemology	0
Excluding the Rural Girl Student: Rural-Urban Divide, Knowledge Transmission, and Female Homosociality in Xiao Hong’s “Hands”	0
Venus's Palace: Shakespeare and the Antitheatricalists by Reut Barzilai (review)	0

Limits of Narrative: Introduction	0
Narratives on the Large Scale: Historical Narrative Explanations in Popular Science Writing	0
Gender Performance and Transitivity in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve	0
(Re)directing Literature to Justice: Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”	0
What One Is Worth: Leftovers of Identity and Value in V.S. Naipaul’s Late Fiction	0
Narrative and Its Nonevents: The Unwritten Plots That Shaped Victorian Realism by Carra Glatt (review)	0
Governmentality and Abuse in the Book of Esther	0
Dispersing the Devil’s Stench: Shifting Perceptions of Sulfuric Miasma in Early Modern English Literatures	0
Rachel Cusk: Contemporary Critical Perspectives ed. by Roberta Garrett and Liam Harrison (review)	0
The Book of Esther: Notes for a Traditional Reading	0
New Russian Modernist Studies	0
Secular Community and Identity in the Poetry of British Freethought Periodicals	0
Creativity — Narrativity — Fictionality: A Critical Genealogy	0
Secularism and its Discontents: Forms of Freethought in Mathilde Blind's Periodical Poetry	0
The Maugham Paradigm: Commitment, Conflict, and Nationality in Early Espionage Fiction	0
A Partial “Answer to Orwell?”: Philosophies of History in Anthony Burgess’s The Wanting Seed	0
The Painter and the Muse: On Archetypes, Complexes and the Anti-Jungian Quest for Mother in Kurt Vonnegut’s Bluebeard	0
Satan's Luckless Harp: Antebellum Freethought Poetry in The Boston Investigator	0
Love, Subjectivity, and Truth in Proust	0
Re-envisioning Jewish Identities: Reflections on Contemporary Culture in Israel and the Diaspora by Efraim Sicher	0
Towards Unity: Diamond as Consciousness in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone	0
The “Magical” New Materiality of the World in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children	0
Performing Selves in the 21st Century: Introduction	0
Four Moments of Aesthetic Experience: Reading Huysmans, Proust, McCarthy, and Cusk by Bryan Counter (review)	0
The Literal Sense: A Prefatory Postscript	0
On Listening and Failure: Roger Laporte with Marcel Proust	0
Recounting and Forgetting: The Epistemological and Ethical Limits of Narrative	0
Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Later Middle Ages by Arvind Thomas	0
Struggling Self, Embattled Things in Mariette Kalinowski's "The Train"	0
Chekhov’s Time Is Coming: On Steppe ’s Moving Image	0
Partial Answers is 20 Years Old!	0
A "landlocked Crusoe, bearded and wild of eye": Male Isolation in John Banville's Eclipse and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe	0
Telling Oneself through Someone Else’s Life: Jeannette Walls’s Half Broke Horses	0