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Thomas Hardy’s Racialization of English Natives in The Return of the Native The Explicator Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Sungmey Lee
Published in The Explicator (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Alchemical Decknamen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 33 The Explicator Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Dominic Klyve
Published in The Explicator (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Kindness and Sympathy in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility The Explicator Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Zhongliang Shen
Published in The Explicator (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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“The spatial symbolism of Gregor’s room in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis” The Explicator Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Charlie Wesley
Published in The Explicator (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Wollstonecraft’s critical reviews on Gilpin’s picturesque The Explicator Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Chang He, Changwen Sun
Published in The Explicator (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The End of History in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections The Explicator Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Sunyoung Ahn
Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections can be many things to many readers—a domestic fiction, a campus novel, a neuronovel, a novel about mental illness, and a novel of globalization. A rereading of th...
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“Ma soul’s a Witness for de Waldorf-Astoria!” Langston Hughes’s Poetic Hotel Advertisement The Explicator Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Athanasios Dimakis
Published in The Explicator (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Inherent advice: Pynchon’s earnest counsel in Slow Learner The Explicator Pub Date : 2024-03-10 R. Mac Jones
Published in The Explicator (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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“This Leaving-Out Business”: Minimalist Techniques in John Ashbery’s Poetry The Explicator Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Huixin Zhang
Published in The Explicator (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Revisiting Coleridge’s “Instead of the Cross, the Albatross About my Neck was Hung” The Explicator Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Malek J. Zuraikat
This paper scrutinizes the cultural strangeness of Coleridge’s line “Instead of the cross, the Albatross about my neck was hung”, arguing that the image of the bird hung around the Mariner’s neck i...
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“A Truly Carnivalesque Death”: On Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” The Explicator Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Weina Fan
Published in The Explicator (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Perils Of Being “Nice”: Stephen’s Dilemma in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The Explicator Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Xiaoshan Hou, Fuying Shen
Published in The Explicator (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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William James’s Metaphysical Revelation in Sherwood Anderson’s “Tandy” The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-11-28 David McCracken
In “Tandy,” Sherwood Anderson illustrates the process through which the young man visiting Winesburg experiences William James’s “metaphysical revelation,” the spiritual awakening necessary for the...
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TWELFTH NIGHT: Malvolio and the Tudor Heresy Trials The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Barbara L. Parker
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 81, No. 2, 2023)
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“Hallow’d Mold”: Collins’s “Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746” (“How Sleep the Brave”) The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Joseph P. Jordan
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 81, No. 2, 2023)
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“The Work Wisdom of ‘From Plane to Plane’” The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-09-04 David B. Raymond
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 81, No. 2, 2023)
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Skilled at Delay: George Herbert’s “Justice (I)” The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Jennifer A. Newton
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 81, No. 2, 2023)
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Irritable Lines: The Revision of Shakespeare’s Blank Verse in Robert Creeley’s “The Crisis” The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Alessandro Porco
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 81, No. 2, 2023)
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Modern punctuation of Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale: Line 964 The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Daniel Kempton
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 81, No. 2, 2023)
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Thoreau’s philosophy of work in frost’s “mowing” The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Amy Gaden
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 81, No. 2, 2023)
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The Underthought of John Milton’s Samson Agonistes in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “My own heart let me more have pity on.” The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Russell M. Hillier
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 81, No. 2, 2023)
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Consent, rape and pollution: the context of Hrosvitha’s Dulcitius The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Lisa Verner
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 81, No. 2, 2023)
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Levin’s hunting in Anna Karenina The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Saera Yoon
Through analysis of the depictions of Levin’s hunts in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, this article argues that hunting scenes and allusions help develop the novel’s theme of marriage and family happiness...
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Body and perception reshaped by influenza pandemic in MRS DALLOWAY The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Qianqian Xu, Baojie Li
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 81, No. 2, 2023)
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Crossing the Queensboro Bridge: Gatsby, Automobiles, and Immigrant Mobility in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Seung Ah Oh
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 81, No. 2, 2023)
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The Fantasy of Seduction in Kafka’s “The Silence of the Sirens” The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Bilal Hamamra
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 81, No. 1, 2023)
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Why Thoreau Spent a Night in Jail The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-06-23 John C. Hirsh
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 81, No. 1, 2023)
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Blood and Mud in Shelley’s “England in 1819.” The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Francesca Cauchi
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 81, No. 1, 2023)
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“A Mind of Winter”: Affect in Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man” The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Hossein Pirnajmuddin
Abstract This article offers a reading of Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man” in terms of its affective affordances. It is argued that the poem rhetorically imagines the possibility of having “a mind of winter” as being incapable of affect, that is, being inhuman. Thus, the central theme of the relation between mind and world is cast as a double encounter between the human and non-human as well as the
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Gender Performance in Jim Shepard’s “Minotaur” The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-06-14 David McCracken
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 81, No. 1, 2023)
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A third biblical foundation of James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-05-27 Isaac James Richards
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 81, No. 1, 2023)
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Queer Desires in “The Daemon Lover” and “Trial by Combat” The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Kewei Chen
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 81, No. 1, 2023)
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A Rite of Passage in Shakespeare’s LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST: 5.2.786-806 The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Kübra Vural Özbey
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 81, No. 1, 2023)
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“A Hunger Artist”: As An Art Performance The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Zahra Taheri
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 81, No. 1, 2023)
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“Born in the Wrong Body”: Fragmentation of the Self in Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Bilal Hamamra
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 80, No. 3-4, 2022)
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Heathcliff as the masculine counterpart of androgynous Catherine in Wuthering Heights The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Xihua Meng
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 80, No. 3-4, 2022)
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Rereading the Postscript in “Bartleby, the Scrivener” The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Douglas Schaak
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 80, No. 3-4, 2022)
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Queer Attachments in Tennessee Williams’ “Portrait of a Girl in Glass” The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Kewei Chen
Published in The Explicator (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The Exile Within: An LGBTQ+ Reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Prodigal” The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Jocelyn Heath
Abstract This essay proposes a new reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “The Prodigal”—traditionally read as a parable of the poet’s own alcoholism—as a deeply veiled account of the multiple exiles faced by LGBTQ+ individuals in Bishop’s era: geographic through ostracism and psychological through internalized homophobia. Using evidence established by Bethany Hicok of embedded “code” language for homosexuality
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Ted Hughes’s “The Jaguar” and Animal Ethics The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Toshiaki Komura
Abstract In the twenty-first century, particularly post-2019, we are compelled to reexamine the ethical and philosophical grounds of human-centered thinking and to ponder earnestly about the moral dimensions of engaging with nonhuman animals. This essay explicates Ted Hughes’s “The Jaguar” as presenting a double-vision of human perspectives and animal perspectives in its portrayal of a jaguar in a
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Moral Dogma and Ethical Relativity in Joseph Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Subhadeep Ray, Goutam Karmakar
Abstract This paper studies the intricate treatment of the abstract and dogmatic order of imperial, racial, and religious morality, and the issue of ethical commitment in the concrete and fleeting relationships between individual subjects in Joseph Conrad’s debut novel, Almayer’s Folly (1895). The novel is set in the Malay Archipelago, where the fading years of the imperial absolutism of Europe give
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MUCH MADNESS: The Horatian Conceit of the Mad Poet in Emily Dickinson The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Aaron Lee Moore
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 80, No. 3-4, 2022)
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The Phenomena of Nothingness in de la Mare’s “The Listeners” The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Biswarup Das
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 80, No. 3-4, 2022)
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Ambiguity in Yeats’s “the Hosting of the Sidhe” The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Thomas Dilworh
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 80, No. 3-4, 2022)
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Resisting Defense in Moore’s “Armor’s Undermining Modesty” The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Dawid W. de Villiers
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 80, No. 3-4, 2022)
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Claudia Rankine and Robert Lowell, Again The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Eric Weiskott
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 80, No. 3-4, 2022)
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Symbolic Images of Butterflies in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Wook-Dong Kim
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 80, No. 3-4, 2022)
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‘Ac ic to þam grunde genge’: an analogue for Genesis B, line 834a The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Joseph St. John
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 80, No. 3-4, 2022)
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“Of coyotes and werewolves: Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero” The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Todd Giles
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 80, No. 3-4, 2022)
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A literal reading of the shadow in “Ligeia:” Coleridge’s remarks on Ghosts and Poe’s poetics of misdirection The Explicator Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Pedro Madeira
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 80, No. 3-4, 2022)
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The Lacanian subject in Robert Frost’s “the road not taken” The Explicator Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Weina Fan
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 80, No. 3-4, 2022)
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Temporality in The Overstory by Richard Powers The Explicator Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Laura DeLuca
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 80, No. 3-4, 2022)
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Middle English araten and Scenes of Condescension in Piers Plowman The Explicator Pub Date : 2022-07-23 Joon Park, Eric Weiskott
Abstract Among the English words first recorded in William Langland’s Piers Plowman is araten “reprove.” This new, or newly literary, word encapsulates a peculiar quality of Piers Plowman, its cyclical depiction of verbal combat between opponents with unequal cultural authority. The word araten is perfect for Piers Plowman and plausibly was coined to purpose. This note suggests that araten cuts both
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Religion and the Theology of Love in W. H. Auden’s “Stop all the clocks” The Explicator Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Cicero Bruce
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 80, No. 3-4, 2022)
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The Subaltern in the Ibis Trilogy The Explicator Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Sindhu Sekar
Abstract Are the stories of the subaltern just as important as those of our national heroes and leaders, who are considered architects of our nation? How does one define the subaltern? What is the Subaltern Studies project? Does the charge of elitism in the historiography of Indian nationalism hold water? How does the Ibis Trilogy by Amitav Ghosh tackle these issues surrounding the subaltern and their
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Seamus Heaney’s “Failed” Elegy and the Nonhuman Subject: A Reading of “Widgeon” The Explicator Pub Date : 2022-05-28 Huiwen Shi
Abstract In addition to linguistic and cultural mediations, Seamus Heaney’s work also situates itself between life and death. Often his poetry is perceived as elegiac, with the loss of rural life and agricultural crafts, the end of innocence and childhood, memories of late family members, and the deaths in the conflicts in Northern Ireland, all becoming subjects of his mourning. This paper examines
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“Absent subjectivity in Poe’s THE MAN OF THE CROWD” The Explicator Pub Date : 2022-05-28 Xiaoli Li
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 80, No. 1-2, 2022)
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Winston’s Parallel Universe: On History in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four The Explicator Pub Date : 2022-05-27 Jan-Boje Frauen
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 80, No. 1-2, 2022)
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Absalom, Absalom! And Acts Misreading The Explicator Pub Date : 2022-05-27 Sunggyung Jo
Published in The Explicator (Vol. 80, No. 1-2, 2022)
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Words as Readymade: Mina Loy’s Verbal Portraiture of “Gertrude Stein” and “Joyce’s Ulysses” The Explicator Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Bowen Wang
Abstract Between 1919 and 1930, Mina Loy created a series of pictorial and poetic portraits of her artistic contemporaries: from pen-ink sketches such as Constantin Brancusi, Carl Van Vechten, Jules Pascin, Marianne Moore, to linguistically innovative verses like “‘Joyce’s Ulysses,” “Gertrude Stein,” “Nancy Cunard,” and a note “William Carlos Williams.” In interacting with avant-gardists of her time