Brian McHale

4.8k total citations
66 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Brian McHale is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian McHale has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 5 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Brian McHale's work include Contemporary Literature and Criticism (20 papers), Narrative Theory and Analysis (12 papers) and Digital Humanities and Scholarship (6 papers). Brian McHale is often cited by papers focused on Contemporary Literature and Criticism (20 papers), Narrative Theory and Analysis (12 papers) and Digital Humanities and Scholarship (6 papers). Brian McHale collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Denmark. Brian McHale's co-authors include Clem Robyns, Chris Baldick, Meir Sternberg, Robert Polzin, Gérard Genette, Gisèle Sapiro, Pierre Bourdıeu, Nitsa Ben-Ari, Kathryn Hume and Cristina Bacchilega and has published in prestigious journals such as The Canadian Journal of Sociology, Poetics Today and SubStance.

In The Last Decade

Brian McHale

55 papers receiving 768 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Brian McHale United States 16 650 312 178 100 96 66 1.2k
Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan Israel 10 585 0.9× 289 0.9× 176 1.0× 47 0.5× 220 2.3× 25 1.1k
Jerome McGann United States 20 1.0k 1.6× 325 1.0× 182 1.0× 41 0.4× 59 0.6× 130 1.7k
Hans Robert Jauß Canada 13 466 0.7× 383 1.2× 226 1.3× 51 0.5× 120 1.3× 56 1.4k
Theodore Ziolkowski United States 15 424 0.7× 356 1.1× 222 1.2× 30 0.3× 69 0.7× 217 1.2k
Erich Auerbach United States 12 548 0.8× 435 1.4× 302 1.7× 131 1.3× 83 0.9× 42 1.7k
Derek Attridge United Kingdom 19 827 1.3× 618 2.0× 299 1.7× 33 0.3× 150 1.6× 94 1.7k
T. S. Eliot 18 1.0k 1.6× 389 1.2× 230 1.3× 28 0.3× 87 0.9× 86 1.8k
M. H. Abrams United States 17 465 0.7× 232 0.7× 220 1.2× 43 0.4× 124 1.3× 33 1.2k
Frank Lentricchia United States 13 412 0.6× 300 1.0× 242 1.4× 26 0.3× 48 0.5× 52 1.0k
Steven Ungar United States 7 402 0.6× 215 0.7× 103 0.6× 27 0.3× 101 1.1× 43 902

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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McHale, Brian. (2018). Against Nature. Partial Answers Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas. 16(2). 251–261.
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McHale, Brian. (2014). Thinking Some More about Narrative in Poetry: A Brief Reply to Bruce Heiden. Narrative. 22(2). 284–287. 2 indexed citations
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McHale, Brian. (2013). Afterword: Reconstructing Postmodernism. Narrative. 21(3). 357–364. 4 indexed citations
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McHale, Brian. (2011). An Introduction to Narratology. Style. 45(1). 161–165. 2 indexed citations
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McHale, Brian. (2011). Break, Period, Interregnum. Twentieth Century Literature. 57(3-4). 328–340. 2 indexed citations
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Hume, Kathryn, et al.. (2011). Pynchon's Against the Day: A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 13 indexed citations
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Baetens, Jan, Michael Joyce, Jerome Klinkowitz, et al.. (2009). Remembering Raymond Federman. American book review/˜The œAmerican book review. 31(1). 13–17.
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McHale, Brian & Randall Stevenson. (2006). The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English. Edinburgh University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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McHale, Brian. (2000). Brit-Pop, or, Bringing It All Back Home: On Andrew Greig's Western Swing. Yale journal of criticism/˜The œYale journal of criticism. 13(1). 195–205. 2 indexed citations
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Sternberg, Meir & Brian McHale. (1999). Introduction: Poetics of Avant-Garde Poetries. Poetics Today. 20(4). 545–547. 1 indexed citations
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McHale, Brian. (1998). Gravity's Angels in America, or, Pynchon's Angelology Revisited. 0(0). 3 indexed citations
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Genette, Gérard, Nitsa Ben-Ari, & Brian McHale. (1990). Fictional Narrative, Factual Narrative. Poetics Today. 11(4). 755–755. 74 indexed citations
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Robyns, Clem & Brian McHale. (1988). Postmodernist Fiction. Poetics Today. 9(3). 677–677. 166 indexed citations
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McHale, Brian. (1987). Postmodernist Lyric and the Ontology of Poetry. Poetics Today. 8(1). 19–19. 5 indexed citations
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McHale, Brian, Meir Sternberg, & Robert Polzin. (1986). The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading. Poetics Today. 7(1). 173–173. 150 indexed citations
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McHale, Brian, et al.. (1985). In Form: Digressions on the Act of Fiction. Poetics Today. 6(4). 801–801. 8 indexed citations
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McHale, Brian & Chris Baldick. (1983). The Social Mission of English Criticism 1848-1932. Poetics Today. 4(4). 803–803. 117 indexed citations
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McHale, Brian. (1983). Unspeakable Sentences, Unnatural Acts: Linguistics and Poetics Revisited. Poetics Today. 4(1). 17–17. 31 indexed citations
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McHale, Brian, Christine Brooke‐Rose, Christopher Butler, Ann Jefferson, & Alan Wilde. (1982). Writing about Postmodern Writing. Poetics Today. 3(3). 211–211. 1 indexed citations

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