| Discipline | literary criticism |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1942 to present |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (United States) |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Explicator |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0014-4940 (print) 1939-926X (web) |
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The Explicator is a peer-reviewed, quarterly journal of literary criticism. It began publication in October 1942 and is now both printed and available in an electronic version. Routledge acquired the journal from Heldref Publications in 2009, and now it is owned by Taylor & Francis. Issues often include between 25 and 30 articles on works of literature, "ranging from ancient Greek and Roman times to our own, from throughout the world."[1] According to a library guide, "As the title of the journal suggests, the focus is on explication, or close readings, of the works. As such, the articles tend to use less jargon and are easier to understand than some other articles in literature studies."[2]
Executive Editors:
Calley Hornbuckle, Dalton State College
Kirk Curnutt, Troy University
Catherine Loomis, University of New Orleans
Managing Editor:
Matthew Smith, University of Alabama [3]
The Explicator is abstracted/indexed in: Clarivate Analytics: Arts & Humanities Citation Index® and Current Contents/Arts & Humanities®Dietrich's Index Philosophicus; EBSCOhost Online Research Databases; Elsevier: Scopus; Gale Cengage: Academic ASAP, Academic OneFile, Expanded Academic ASAP, General OneFile, General Reference Center, General Reference Center Gold, General Reference Centre International, InfoTrac Custom, InfoTrac Student Edition, Shakespeare Collection, Student Resource Center: College Edition; H.W. Wilson: Book Review Digest Plus, Humanities Abstracts, Humanities Full Text, Humanities Index, Humanities Index Retrospective, Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition; Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Select; International Bibliography of Periodical Literature (IBZ); MLA International Bibliography; OCLC: ArticleFirst, Arts and Humanities Search, Periodical Abstracts; ProQuest: Humanities Module, ProQuest Central, ProQuest Research Library, ProQuest Research Library Core.[4]