James Olney

2.8k total citations
37 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

James Olney is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science and Cultural Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, James Olney has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 3 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 2 papers in Cultural Studies. Recurrent topics in James Olney's work include Autobiographical and Biographical Writing (5 papers), Modernist Literature and Criticism (3 papers) and Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 papers). James Olney is often cited by papers focused on Autobiographical and Biographical Writing (5 papers), Modernist Literature and Criticism (3 papers) and Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 papers). James Olney collaborates with scholars based in . James Olney's co-authors include Dagmar Barnouw, Manfred Jurgensen, Tom Lewis, Albert E. Stone, Paul John Eakin, Lilian R. Fürst, Crispin Sartwell, William C. Spengemann, John Pilling and Jewel Spears Brooker and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, The Journal of Southern History and The Modern Language Review.

In The Last Decade

James Olney

31 papers receiving 546 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James Olney 12 503 353 204 157 98 37 1.0k
Paul John Eakin United States 14 554 1.1× 395 1.1× 187 0.9× 205 1.3× 77 0.8× 41 1.2k
T. S. Eliot 18 1.0k 2.1× 389 1.1× 192 0.9× 230 1.5× 83 0.8× 86 1.8k
Frank Lentricchia United States 13 412 0.8× 300 0.8× 113 0.6× 242 1.5× 58 0.6× 52 1.0k
Virginia Woolf India 18 1.1k 2.1× 344 1.0× 231 1.1× 200 1.3× 45 0.5× 127 1.7k
Jonathan Dollimore United Kingdom 11 370 0.7× 328 0.9× 170 0.8× 92 0.6× 107 1.1× 29 949
E. Ann Kaplan United States 16 285 0.6× 431 1.2× 129 0.6× 140 0.9× 60 0.6× 39 1.3k
Mary Orr United Kingdom 8 307 0.6× 290 0.8× 115 0.6× 117 0.7× 58 0.6× 52 813
Sharon Marcus United States 12 501 1.0× 301 0.9× 161 0.8× 91 0.6× 68 0.7× 38 1.0k
Shoshana Felman United States 20 431 0.9× 395 1.1× 110 0.5× 235 1.5× 70 0.7× 60 1.3k
Julia Watson United States 11 411 0.8× 468 1.3× 157 0.8× 148 0.9× 92 0.9× 48 1.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by James Olney

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Olney

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Olney, James. (2008). The Sons of Maxwell Perkins: Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and Their Editor. Common Knowledge. 14(1). 174–175. 1 indexed citations
2.
Pilling, John & James Olney. (2001). Memory & Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing. The Modern Language Review. 96(1). 149–149. 5 indexed citations
3.
Olney, James, et al.. (2000). Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life Writing. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. 54(2). 105–105. 73 indexed citations
4.
Olney, James. (1998). Memory and Narrative. 6 indexed citations
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Olney, James, et al.. (1994). The Language(s) of Poetry: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins.. American Literature. 66(1). 167–167. 1 indexed citations
6.
Early, Gerald, Blyden Jackson, & James Olney. (1992). A History of Afro-American Literature, Volume I: The Long Beginning, 1746-1895. South Central Review. 9(1). 117–117. 4 indexed citations
7.
Olney, James. (1991). Algunas versiones de la memoria/Algunas versiones del bios: la ontología de la autobiografía. Anthropos: Boletín de información y documentación. 33–47. 1 indexed citations
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Olney, James. (1986). Autobiography: An anatomy and a taxonomy. Neohelicon. 13(1). 57–82. 6 indexed citations
9.
Olney, James & Paul John Eakin. (1986). Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention.. American Literature. 58(4). 621–621. 35 indexed citations
10.
Olney, James. (1984). Psychology, Memory, and Autobiography: William and Henry James. ˜The œHenry James review. 6(1). 46–51. 2 indexed citations
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Olney, James, et al.. (1982). Autobiography in the Aftermath of Romanticism. diacritics. 12(4). 2–2. 9 indexed citations
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Olney, James. (1981). Metaphors of Self. Princeton University Press eBooks. 4 indexed citations
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Barnouw, Dagmar, James Olney, & Manfred Jurgensen. (1981). Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical. The German Quarterly. 54(3). 392–392. 248 indexed citations
14.
Olney, James, et al.. (1981). Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical. World Literature Today. 55(1). 188–188. 58 indexed citations
15.
Smith, Thomas, et al.. (1981). Writing on Written Lives. The Hudson Review. 34(2). 290–290. 1 indexed citations
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Olney, James. (1980). The rhizome and the flower : the perennial philosophy, Yeats and Jung. University of California Press eBooks. 5 indexed citations
17.
Olney, James. (1980). Autobiography. Princeton University Press eBooks. 127 indexed citations
18.
Olney, James. (1978). Autos • Bios • Graphem: The Study of Autobiographical Literature. South Atlantic Quarterly. 77(1). 113–123. 3 indexed citations
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Olney, James, et al.. (1974). Tell Me Africa: An Approach to African Literature. Books Abroad. 48(4). 831–831. 19 indexed citations
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Olney, James, et al.. (1974). Metaphors of Self: The Meaning of Autobiography. The Modern Language Review. 69(3). 603–603. 51 indexed citations

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