Most cited papers in Samuel Beckett and Modernism

Samuel Beckett and Modernism

What are the most cited papers in Samuel Beckett and Modernism?

The most cited paper in Samuel Beckett and Modernism is "The Empty Fortress" (M BETTELHEI, Donna M. Gelfand, 1967), with 477 citations. Next come "AN INFLUENZA EPICENTRE?" (415) and "Time's arrow and archimedes' point" (346).

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Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 27 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#	Paper
1	The Empty Fortress M BETTELHEI, Donna M. Gelfand · The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease	Apr 1967	477
2	AN INFLUENZA EPICENTRE? K. F. Shortridge, Charles H. Stuart-Harris · The Lancet	Oct 1982	415
3	Time's arrow and archimedes' point Joel L. Lebowitz · Journal of Statistical Physics	Apr 1997	346
4	Here and Now James W. Garson · The Monist	1969	283
5	Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays Stanley Cavell	1976	230
6	Samuel Beckett's library André Furlani · Irish Studies Review	3 Apr 2014	183
7	How Beckett Fails, Once More with Music H. Porter Abbott, Daniel Albright · Contemporary Literature	2004	145
8	VERMILION AND CINNABAR Rutherford John Gettens, Robert L. Feller, W. Thomas Chase · Studies in Conservation	May 1972	141
9	The Psychoanalytic Mind: from Freud to Philosophy. John Cottingham, Marcia Cavell · The Philosophical Quarterly	1996	122
10	The dead man is alive Sten Ebbesen · Synthese	1979	120
11	The Waterfall Illusion Tim Crane · Analysis	Jun 1988	118
12	I.—THE POSSIBLY-TRUE AND THE POSSIBLE Arthur N. Prior · Mind	1969	117
13	Ulysses and the Sirens: A theory of imperfect rationality Jon Elster · Social Science Information	Aug 1977	106
14	AUTHENTIC OR NOT, IT'S ORIGINAL Meredith E. Abarca · Food and Foodways	2004	102
15	Review Article: Review Article Paulette D. Kilmer · Journalism	18 May 2010	93
16	Vessels of Death or Life Rakesh K. Jain, Peter Carmeliet · Scientific American	Dec 2001	93
17	‘Ought’ and ‘can’ Michael A. G. Stocker · Australasian Journal of Philosophy	Dec 1971	90
18	MEN AT WORK/ART AND LABOUR IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN Marjorie Corner · The Art Book	Aug 2005	87
19	Humanitarian accountability and performance in the Théâtre de l’Absurde Jeff Everett, Constance Friesen · Critical Perspectives on Accounting	26 Feb 2010	86
20	PARADOXICAL RESPIRATION AND “PENDELLUFT” James V. Maloney, Karl J. Schmutzer, Ekkehart Raschke · Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Open access	Mar 1961	84
21	Starving to Death in a Sea of Objects Carole K. Edelstein · The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease	Jun 1984	78
22	The Bird’s Head as Sprachbund Ger P. Reesink Book chapter	1998	77
23	The Fate of Reading and Other Essays Wimal Dissanayake, Geoffrey H. Hartman · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism	1976	74
24	Things Merely Are: Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens Simon Critchley	18 Feb 2005	72
25	Testimony: Knowing Through Being Told Elizabeth Fricker Book chapter	2004	71
26	Toward a Rhizomatic Model of Disability: Poetry, Performance, and Touch Petra Küppers · Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies	22 Nov 2009	69
27	A CLOSER LOOK AT LEIBNIZ'S ALLEGED REDUCTION OF RELATIONS* Mark A. Kulstad · The Southern Journal of Philosophy	Dec 1980	67
28	Deconstruction and Translation Paulo Roberto Ottoni · Tradterm Open access	18 Apr 2002	66
29	Crisscrossing James Joyce’s Ulysses Christina Ljungberg · Iconicity in language and literature Book chapter	17 Apr 2020	65
30	Objective Image and Act of Mind in Modern Poetry Charles F. Altieri · PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America	1976	65
31	McDougall revisited Margaret A. Boden · Journal of Personality	Mar 1965	63
32	Modernist prose Aníbal González · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter	13 Sep 1996	62
33	IV.—‘OUGHT’ AND ‘BETTER’ Aaron Sloman · Mind	1970	61
34	Fading memory Jean‐Claude Saut, D. D. Joseph · Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis	1983	60
35	The Recantation of Daniel Scargill Dorothea Krook · Notes and Queries	Apr 1953	57
36	Orwell, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust John Newsinger · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter	21 Jun 2007	57
37	The Anatomy of Mutiny Elihu Rose · Armed Forces & Society	Jul 1982	57
38	Some properties of umbral flashes Axel D. Wittmann · Solar Physics	Jun 1969	54
39	Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism Joshua Gunn · Quarterly Journal of Speech	2003	53
40	On self characterization Vincent Crapanzano · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter	26 Jan 1990	51
41	Silences and Worlds: Wittgenstein and Pynchon Sascha Pöhlmann · Pynchon Notes Open access	22 Sep 2011	50
42	Gifts And Simony Timothy Reuter Book chapter	2001	48
43	The Adventure of Reading: Literature and Philosophy, Cavell and Beauvoir Toril Moi · Literature and Theology	10 Apr 2011	48
44	Toward a Phenomenology of Freewriting Peter H. Elbow · Journal of Basic Writing	1989	48
45	Introduction Christopher Fox · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter	11 Sep 2003	47
46	The Grotesque: First Principles Geoffrey Galt Harpham · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism	1976	47
47	. Literature on the Eve of Revolution Leo Ou-fan Lee · Modern China	Jul 1976	47
48	Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett Claire Furlong · Interdisciplinary Science Reviews	Oct 2016	46
49	BLAKE AND CHAUCER: ‘Infinite variety of character’ Claire Pace · Art History	Dec 1980	44
50	For T. H. Marshall David E. Lockwood · Sociology	Sep 1974	44

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