Stephen Best

2.6k citations
9 papers · 645 indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 6

Impact in

    • Contemporary Literature and Criticism
    • Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
    • Poetry Analysis and Criticism
    • Literature: history, themes, analysis
    • Digital Humanities and Scholarship
    • American and British Literature Analysis
    • Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

Papers in

Stephen Best

8 papers receiving 324 citations

Hit Papers

Surface Reading: An Introduction 2009 · 488 citations
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Peers

Stephen Best
Comparison fields: 5 of 62
  • Literature and Literary Theory 353
  • Cultural Studies 110
  • Visual Arts and Performing Arts 58
  • Anthropology 66
  • History 64
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All Works

9 of 9 papers shown
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2 201816
3 20173
4 201652
5 20152
6 201237
7 201118
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Surface Reading: An Introduction
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About Stephen Best

Stephen Best is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Anthropology, Human-Computer Interaction, Cultural Studies and Language and Linguistics, having authored 9 papers that have together received 645 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 papers), French Literature and Poetry (2 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (1 paper), Latin American and Latino Studies (1 paper), Lexicography and Language Studies (1 paper), Digital Humanities and Scholarship (1 paper), African history and culture studies (1 paper) and Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Literature and Literary Theory (353 citations), Cultural Studies (110 citations), Visual Arts and Performing Arts (58 citations), Anthropology (66 citations) and History (64 citations). Frequent co-authors include Sharon Marcus, Heather Love and Damon Young. Their work appears in journals such as Representations, Modern Language Quarterly, PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism and Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University).

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