Most cited papers in Contemporary Literature and Criticism
What are the most cited papers in Contemporary Literature and Criticism?
The most cited paper in Contemporary Literature and Criticism is "Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism" (James D. Sidaway, 1995), with 1,981 citations. Next come "Time, Narrative and History" (1,177) and "Fertile Obsession: Validity After Poststructuralism" (937).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 57 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism James D. Sidaway · Journal of Rural Studies | 1995 | 1,981 |
| 2 | Time, Narrative and History SUSAN COTTS WATKINS · Palgrave studies in contemporary women's writing | 2020 | 1,177 |
| 3 | Fertile Obsession: Validity After Poststructuralism Patti A. Lather · Sociological Quarterly | Nov 1993 | 937 |
| 4 | INTERFACIAL PHENOMENA Bruno Jirgensons, M. E. Straumanis · Elsevier eBooks | 1962 | 735 |
| 5 | Marketing in a postmodern world A. Fuat Fırat, Nikhilesh Dholakia, Alladi Venkatesh · European Journal of Marketing | 1995 | 568 |
| 6 | The Daily Show: Discursive Integration and the Reinvention of Political Journalism Geoffrey Baym · Political Communication | Jul 2005 | 563 |
| 7 | A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late 20th Century Donna Haraway | 23 Nov 2007 | 470 |
| 8 | A poetics of postmodernism: History, theory, fiction Diane Long Hoeveler · History of European Ideas | 1991 | 458 |
| 9 | The posts continue: becoming Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre · International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education | 6 Jun 2013 | 368 |
| 10 | From segmentation to fragmentation A. Fuat Fırat, Clifford J. Shultz · European Journal of Marketing | Apr 1997 | 362 |
| 11 | Documents of Life 2: An Invitation to a Critical Humanism Raymond Mark Lee · Field Methods | Aug 2001 | 277 |
| 12 | Lost in Transition Mitja Velikonja · East European Politics and Societies and Cultures | 2 Oct 2009 | 267 |
| 13 | The Rhetoric of Self-Change: Illness Experience as Narrative Arthur W. Frank · Sociological Quarterly | Mar 1993 | 237 |
| 14 | Ten Theses about Fictionality Henrik Skov Nielsen, James Blackwell Phelan, Richard Walsh · Narrative | 21 Dec 2014 | 232 |
| 15 | Historical Fantasy, Speculative Realism, and Postrace Aesthetics in Contemporary American Fiction Ramón Saldívar · American Literary History | 2 Aug 2011 | 227 |
| 16 | The Cultural Public Sphere Jim McGuigan · European Journal of Cultural Studies | Nov 2005 | 224 |
| 17 | Ideological fantasy at work Jason Glynos · Journal of Political Ideologies | Oct 2008 | 197 |
| 18 | The Theatricality of Humanitarianism: A Critique of Celebrity Advocacy Lilie Chouliaraki · Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies | 21 Dec 2011 | 195 |
| 19 | The Widening Gyre. Crisis and Mastery in Modern Literature Donald Weeks, Joseph Frank · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1965 | 191 |
| 20 | On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life Adam Phillips | 1993 | 184 |
| 21 | “I feel your pain”: cosmopolitan charity and the public fashioning of the celebrity soul Jo Littler · Social Semiotics | Jun 2008 | 165 |
| 22 | Disability as Masquerade Tobin Siebers · Literature and medicine | Mar 2004 | 164 |
| 23 | Publishing American identity: popular geopolitics, myth and The Reader's Digest Joanne P. Sharp · Political Geography | Nov 1993 | 153 |
| 24 | Why a paradigm shift of ‘more than human ontologies’ is needed: putting to work poststructural and posthuman theories in writers’ studio Candace R. Kuby · International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education | 13 Jun 2017 | 141 |
| 25 | Selfhood at risk: Postmodern perils and the perils of postmodernism. M. Brewster Smith · American Psychologist | May 1994 | 138 |
| 26 | The Rise of the “Yummy Mummy”: Popular Conservatism and the Neoliberal Maternal in Contemporary British Culture Jo Littler · Communication Culture and Critique | 10 May 2013 | 136 |
| 27 | Definitional Excursions: The Meanings of Modern/ Modernity/Modernism Susan Stanford Friedman · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks | 2009 | 133 |
| 28 | Border Pedagogy in the Age of Postmodernism Henry Armand Giroux · Journal of Education | Oct 1988 | 132 |
| 29 | Space Stories Dvora Yanow · Journal of Management Inquiry | Sep 1998 | 127 |
| 30 | Rewriting The Romance Rosalind Gill, Elena Herdieckerhoff · Feminist Media Studies | Dec 2006 | 124 |
| 31 | The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order Geoffrey E. Schneider, Winston H. Griffith, Janet T. Knoedler · Journal of Economic Issues | Dec 2000 | 122 |
| 32 | Persona studies: Mapping the proliferation of the public self P. David Marshall · Journalism | 2 Jun 2013 | 119 |
| 33 | Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel: The Gothic, Scott, Dickens Miranda J. Burgess, Ian Duncan · Studies in Romanticism | 1996 | 119 |
| 34 | The Self in a World of Going Concerns Jaber F. Gubrium, James A. Holstein · Symbolic Interaction | Aug 2000 | 118 |
| 35 | Structure and Motif in "Finnegans Wake." David Hayman, Clive Hart · Books Abroad | 1964 | 118 |
| 36 | Postmodernism and the Discourse of Educational Criticism Henry Armand Giroux · Journal of Education | Oct 1988 | 117 |
| 37 | Illusion and Reality: A Study of the Sources of Poetry Van Meter Ames, Christopher Caudwell · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1964 | 115 |
| 38 | The Metaphysics of Crackle: Afrofuturism and Hauntology Mark Fisher · Dancecult | 2013 | 114 |
| 39 | Modernist Studies and the Bildungsroman : A Historical Survey of Critical Trends Tobias Boes · Literature Compass | 17 Jan 2006 | 113 |
| 40 | `The Unspoken - Said' Tony Harcup · Journalism | Aug 2003 | 112 |
| 41 | “After the End Times”: Postcrisis African Science Fiction Matthew Omelsky · The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry | 12 Feb 2014 | 111 |
| 42 | An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz: Geopower, Inhumanism and the Biopolitical Elizabeth Grosz, Kathryn Yusoff, Nigel Clark · Theory Culture & Society | 7 Feb 2017 | 110 |
| 43 | The Sense of an Ending Charles F. Schroder, Frank Kermode · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1970 | 109 |
| 44 | Pandemic and its metaphors: Sontag revisited in the COVID-19 era David R. Craig · European Journal of Cultural Studies | 7 Jul 2020 | 108 |
| 45 | Worst Cases: Terror and Catastrophe in the Popular Imagination Victoria Lichterman · The Journal of Popular Culture | 16 Nov 2007 | 107 |
| 46 | Reviewing as social practice: Institutional constraints on critics' attention for contemporary fiction Susanne Janssen · Poetics | Feb 1997 | 106 |
| 47 | “The Wounds of Class”: A Historiographical Reflection on the Study of Deindustrialization, 1973–2013 Steven High · History Compass | Nov 2013 | 104 |
| 48 | „Love conquers all“? Homosexualität und Formwandler in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine und Star Trek: Discovery Uta Scheer | 25 Jul 2018 | 100 |
| 49 | Migrating from terror: The postcolonial novel after September 11 Margaret Scanlan · Journal of Postcolonial Writing | Jul 2010 | 99 |
| 50 | “The rules of the game have changed”: Mohsin Hamid’sThe Reluctant Fundamentalistand post‐9/11 fiction Peter John Morey · Journal of Postcolonial Writing | 22 Apr 2011 | 98 |
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