| Item | Title | Total requests | 2024-07 | 2024-06 | 2024-05 | 2024-04 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 886009wz | “I’ve Never Heard Silence Quite this Loud”: The Complexity of Taylor Swift’s Neutral Star Text | 804 | 105 | 119 | 240 | 340 |
| 9zk9d7sj | The Human Mecha: Titan, Technology, and Self in <em>Attack on Titan</em> | 702 | 127 | 120 | 191 | 264 |
| 9pb2g06w | Blood as Reference to Fear in <em>Dracula</em> | 426 | 53 | 69 | 123 | 181 |
| 46h0x4kp | Preliminary Materials for a Theory of <em>Gossip Girl</em> | 414 | 73 | 74 | 128 | 139 |
| 60c2h8p4 | Victims, Perpetrators, and Implicated Subjects: The Effects of Trauma in Sherman Alexie's <em>Indian Killer</em> and Toni Morrison's <em>Beloved</em> | 382 | 74 | 88 | 96 | 124 |
| 9qx5t9t2 | Gayme On! A Queer Game Thesis | 343 | 149 | 89 | 51 | 54 |
| 27d9x6f9 | Historical Retrospection and Ambivalence in <em>A Tale of Two Cities</em> | 289 | 34 | 50 | 89 | 116 |
| 4rt3t02n | Doomed Voyage: America's Evolving Relationship with <em>Moby-Dick</em> | 288 | 69 | 52 | 83 | 84 |
| 20f8k5fd | Heroism, Sensibility, and Gender: Mary Wollstonecraft's Feminist Politics in<em> A Vindication of the Rights of Woman</em> and <em>Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman</em> | 278 | 71 | 47 | 57 | 103 |
| 6v64v08r | Utopia by a Thousand Cuts: Melodrama and the Queer Art of Self-Harm in Hanya Yanagihara’s <em>A Little Life</em> | 264 | 73 | 67 | 58 | 66 |
| 2ks5v4hh | Immaterial Archives: An African Diaspora Poetics of Loss | 263 | 41 | 35 | 62 | 125 |
| 9hq000bg | Female Power and the Supernatural in Early Gothic Literature | 257 | 40 | 47 | 62 | 108 |
| 6f5989r0 | Sadomasochism in <em>Jane Eyre</em>: A Psychological Exchange of Power | 252 | 47 | 49 | 73 | 83 |
| 2s6478nm | Intertextuality within Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Structures and Stabilizes Language Countering Male Romantic-Era Writers’ Subjectification of the World | 234 | 49 | 59 | 66 | 60 |
| 807839r5 | (Mis)interpretations and (In)justice: The 1992 Los Angeles ‘Riots’ and ‘Black-Korean Conflict. | 234 | 35 | 32 | 88 | 79 |
| 47k1b3bk | Routes and roots | 183 | 18 | 39 | 53 | 73 |
| 1tm7x1rv | Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England | 179 | 32 | 16 | 70 | 61 |
| 6565977z | Troublesome Minorities: Questioning Assimilation in <em>The Reluctant Fundamentalist</em> and <em>Home Fire</em> | 175 | 25 | 28 | 65 | 57 |
| 2fs65978 | “The Lines of Influence”: The Occult Recontextualization of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Churches in <em>From Hell</em> and <em>Lud Heat</em> | 173 | 39 | 30 | 46 | 58 |
| 1h39r5ms | "Please Don't Stop Being My Mother!": Attachment Theory and Identity Formation in Kurt Vonnegut's <em>Slaughterhouse-Five</em> and Hideaki Anno's <em>Neon Genesis Evangelion</em> | 168 | 22 | 37 | 49 | 60 |
| 4hq0x82s | Liberate the Asian American Writer: Embracing the Flaws of Amy Tan's <em>The Joy Luck Club</em> | 162 | 17 | 27 | 54 | 64 |
| 6pf491k3 | Milton and Empire: Satanic and Edenic Colonization in Paradise Lost | 160 | 30 | 20 | 50 | 60 |
| 25s0d4pm | The Conqueror Dominated, the Conquered Seduced: Postcolonial Love in Three Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 154 | 22 | 20 | 65 | 47 |
| 70j061wc | Transpacific Poetics: Ideographic and Prosodic Transpositions in Li-Young Lee’s “Persimmons” and Marilyn Chin’s “Summer Sleep” | 146 | 27 | 18 | 38 | 63 |
| 3x15p833 | Queer Desire as Restoration: The Rejection of Phallic Exchange in Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” | 140 | 24 | 23 | 35 | 58 |
| 10s1v91k | A Social Disruption: The Decentering of the Individual in Contemporary Dystopian Fiction and its Challenges to Humanism, Posthumanism, and Neoliberal Individualism | 135 | 30 | 25 | 42 | 38 |
| 2rx3h75b | Changing the Unchangeable: The Transformative Power of Queerness in Magical Realism | 135 | 24 | 20 | 32 | 59 |
| 77n2q7qn | “Talk-Story: Counter-Memory in Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men.” | 128 | 25 | 13 | 29 | 61 |
| 69z944xs | “Don't Tell”: Imposed Silences in <i>The Color Purple</i> and <i>The Woman Warrior</i> | 123 | 33 | 35 | 19 | 36 |
| 7mh827nr | “Between Gloom and Laughter”: Female Longing, Unhappiness, and Structures of Absence in the Works of Virginia Woolf | 117 | 17 | 28 | 26 | 46 |
| 2mf9q3xx | The Archive and Affective Memory in M. Nourbese Philip's Zong! | 115 | 22 | 14 | 31 | 48 |
| 8tz2h3gc | A War of Roses: An Examination of Tudor Mythography in Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy of History and George R.R. Martin’s, <em>A Song of Ice and Fire</em> Series | 115 | 40 | 20 | 28 | 27 |
| 8057h30g | Can the Subaltern Speak?: The Ringing Feminine Silence at the center of Allende’s “And of Clay are we Created” | 105 | 14 | 34 | 13 | 44 |
| 6s48n8h0 | Thinking “Diaspora” with Stuart Hall | 103 | 26 | 14 | 35 | 28 |
| 7n01v6zc | Posthuman Time Beings | 102 | 22 | 20 | 29 | 31 |
| 26m2757s | Beyond the Other Hand: Self, Social, and Technology in Agnès Varda’s <em>The Gleaners and I</em> | 101 | 13 | 15 | 30 | 43 |
| 7568z540 | (Refugee) Children's Stories: Untold Truths from the San Fernando Valley Refugee Children Center | 98 | 39 | 21 | 12 | 26 |
| 88w223j9 | "Chinese American Literature in the New Century 新世纪的美国及海外华裔美国文学." Jiangnan Magazine [江南] 2018 No. 2: 146-159. | 98 | 27 | 18 | 17 | 36 |
| 0rq5q0sd | Sontag and Disability Studies: Chronic Illness, Impairment Effect, and Biomedical Metaphor | 97 | 31 | 15 | 19 | 32 |
| 17k1c130 | Mythic Pizza: Semiotic and Archetypal Significance in the Conspiracy Narrative Known as 'Pizzagate' | 97 | 16 | 18 | 26 | 37 |
| 0qb7k4h7 | ISLAND ECOLOGIES AND CARIBBEAN LITERATURES1 | 90 | 25 | 9 | 24 | 32 |
| 420996rx | Nob Hill | 84 | 12 | 22 | 26 | 24 |
| 6cg447s0 | When Spirits Talk: Reading Erna Brodber’s Louisiana for Affect | 84 | 32 | 26 | 6 | 20 |
| 568012r9 | The <em>Bildungsroman</em> Transformed Magic, Memories, and the Unpredictable Movements of Growth in Young Adult Speculative Fiction | 83 | 11 | 13 | 35 | 24 |
| 1pn3w3db | Thrice Muted Tale: Interplay of Art and Politics in Hisaye Yamamoto's "The Legend of Miss Sasagawara" | 79 | 14 | 16 | 21 | 28 |
| 9650s7k8 | Allegories of the Anthropocene | 79 | 22 | 13 | 16 | 28 |
| 0fd2t74d | “The Woman Warrior versus The Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critic Choose between Feminism and Heroism?” Conflicts in Feminism. Ed. Marianne Hirsch and Evelyn Fox Keller. New York: Routledge, 1990. 234-251 | 78 | 21 | 17 | 22 | 18 |
| 6rc3v76c | Consuming Raw: Cannibalistic Transformation in Julia Ducournau’s <em>Raw</em> (2016) | 78 | 26 | 13 | 23 | 16 |
| 98t6p25n | Life, Labor, and a Coolie Picturesque in Jamaica | 78 | 30 | 17 | 15 | 16 |
| 43w9q2p3 | Lividity in Pink | 77 | 14 | 24 | 25 | 14 |
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