William V. Spanos

978 total citations
76 papers, 306 citations indexed

About

William V. Spanos is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science and Philosophy. According to data from OpenAlex, William V. Spanos has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 306 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 15 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 15 papers in Philosophy. Recurrent topics in William V. Spanos's work include Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (10 papers), Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (6 papers) and Literature: history, themes, analysis (6 papers). William V. Spanos is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (10 papers), Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (6 papers) and Literature: history, themes, analysis (6 papers). William V. Spanos collaborates with scholars based in United States. William V. Spanos's co-authors include Paul A. Bové, Brenda Murphy, Clark Davis, Donald E. Pease, Robert C. Holub and Jerome Rothenberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, The Modern Language Review and SubStance.

In The Last Decade

William V. Spanos

44 papers receiving 141 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William V. Spanos United States 9 144 104 55 44 30 76 306
M. Keith Booker United States 9 129 0.9× 66 0.6× 45 0.8× 24 0.5× 32 1.1× 60 244
James Hardin United States 5 231 1.6× 122 1.2× 58 1.1× 38 0.9× 37 1.2× 27 409
Paul Jay United States 9 150 1.0× 108 1.0× 43 0.8× 26 0.6× 40 1.3× 27 293
Charles Bernheimer United States 9 176 1.2× 115 1.1× 42 0.8× 35 0.8× 34 1.1× 27 457
Thomas Pfau United States 9 144 1.0× 79 0.8× 88 1.6× 42 1.0× 15 0.5× 36 342
Susan H. Swetnam United States 4 114 0.8× 101 1.0× 35 0.6× 19 0.4× 21 0.7× 14 274
Evan Watkins United States 5 70 0.5× 106 1.0× 42 0.8× 42 1.0× 17 0.6× 32 248
Betsy Wing 5 73 0.5× 69 0.7× 27 0.5× 36 0.8× 22 0.7× 13 240
Sanford Budick 8 70 0.5× 109 1.0× 107 1.9× 39 0.9× 13 0.4× 22 322
Ellen Rooney United States 8 72 0.5× 81 0.8× 45 0.8× 18 0.4× 30 1.0× 22 237

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Fields of papers citing papers by William V. Spanos

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William V. Spanos

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Spanos, William V., et al.. (2017). Bill Spanos In Conversation. Mosaic. 50(1). 59–76. 1 indexed citations
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Spanos, William V.. (2017). Against Distant Reading: Retrieving Close Reading in the Interregnum. symplokē. 25(1-2). 247–247. 2 indexed citations
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Spanos, William V. & Donald E. Pease. (2016). Redeemer Nation In the Interregnum. Fordham University Press eBooks.
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Spanos, William V.. (2010). Edward W. Said and Zionism: Rethinking the Exodus Story. boundary 2. 37(1). 127–166. 1 indexed citations
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Spanos, William V.. (2010). In the Neighborhood of Zero: A World War II Memoir. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 1 indexed citations
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Spanos, William V.. (2009). Disclosing Enclosure. symplokē. 17(1-2). 307–315. 1 indexed citations
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Spanos, William V.. (2008). Herman Melville and the American Calling. SUNY Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Spanos, William V.. (2005). Humanism and the Studia Humanitatis after 9/11/01: Rethinking the Anthropologos. symplokē. 13(1). 219–262. 2 indexed citations
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Spanos, William V.. (2001). Heidegger's Parmenides: Greek Modernity and the Classical Legacy. Journal of modern Greek studies. 19(1). 89–115. 3 indexed citations
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Spanos, William V., et al.. (1997). The Errant Art of 'Moby-Dick': The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies. The Modern Language Review. 92(3). 707–707.
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Spanos, William V., et al.. (1996). The Errant Art of "Moby-Dick": The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies.. American Literature. 68(3). 644–644. 4 indexed citations
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Spanos, William V.. (1992). End Of Education: Toward Posthumanism. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 34 indexed citations
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Spanos, William V.. (1990). Heidegger, Nazism, and the Repressive Hypothesis: The American Appropriation of the Question. boundary 2. 17(2). 199–199. 1 indexed citations
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Spanos, William V., et al.. (1990). What Was Postmodernism?. Contemporary Literature. 31(1). 108–108. 10 indexed citations
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Spanos, William V.. (1980). Charles Olson and Negative Capability: A Phenomenological Interpretation. Contemporary Literature. 21(1). 38–38. 2 indexed citations
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Spanos, William V.. (1978). "The Fact of Firstness": A Preface. boundary 2. 6(3). 1–1. 1 indexed citations
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Spanos, William V., et al.. (1975). A Correspondence with the Editors, William V. Spanos and Robert Kroetsch. boundary 2. 3(3). 595–595.
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Spanos, William V.. (1971). Modern Drama and the Aristotelian Tradition: The Formal Imperatives of Absurd Time. Contemporary Literature. 12(3). 345–345. 1 indexed citations
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Spanos, William V.. (1967). The Christian tradition in modern British verse drama : the poetics of sacramental time. Rutgers University Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations

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