Literature and Literary Theory papers

Pofolia’s corpus holds 107 papers from Literature and Literary Theory (2012–2026), each with a short summary. Below, the 20 most-cited, then the most recently added.

At a glance

• Most cited: Childhood and Society (2026, 11,297 citations).
• The 20 papers listed have 51,027 citations between them.
• 4 of the 4 with a known journal quartile appeared in a Q1 journal.
• 1 have a free full text (open access).
• Most frequent journals: Multilingual Matters eBooks, Cambridge University Press eBooks, Journal of Consumer Psychology.
• Published between 2012 and 2026.

Most cited

Ranked by citation count. Because citations accumulate over time, this list naturally leans towards work published a few years ago; for where the field is now, see “recently added”. How to read the signals

• Childhood and Society

  Open MIND · 2026 · FWCI 288.94 · 11,297 citations

  Erik Erikson's "Childhood and Society" introduced a groundbreaking theory of psychosocial development, positing that identity is shaped by eight distinct stages of psychosocial crises throughout life.

• Translanguaging

  Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2013 · FWCI 140.66 · 3,533 citations

  The concept of 'Translanguaging' offers a new perspective on language, bilingualism, and education, with the potential to reshape semiotic systems, speaker identities, and social structures.

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• In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

  2016 · FWCI 874.91 · 3,265 citations

  Christina Sharpe introduces the concept of the 'orthography of the wake' to analyze how the afterlives of slavery shape Black existence, revealing both persistent violence and emergent possibilities.

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• Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence

  Multilingual Matters eBooks · 2020 · FWCI 615.05 · 3,251 citations

  This revised edition of Michael Byram's 1997 book offers an updated framework for understanding, teaching, and assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC). It incorporates recent research and critiques to guide educators and curriculum developers.

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• Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence

  Multilingual Matters eBooks · 2021 · FWCI 789.86 · 3,119 citations

  This revised edition of Michael Byram's 1997 book updates his framework for Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) based on new research and critiques.

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• Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious 1905

  2024 · FWCI 258.47 · 2,868 citations

  This abstract describes a newly updated translation of Sigmund Freud's complete psychological works, aiming to clarify ambiguities and incorporate previously excluded writings.

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• An Introduction to Second Language Acquisition Research

  2014 · FWCI 227.19 · 2,201 citations

  This book synthesizes empirical findings on second and foreign language learning in children and adults, focusing on research design and execution.

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• Teaching and Researching: Autonomy in Language Learning

  2013 · FWCI 202.25 · 2,073 citations

  This revised edition of 'Teaching and Researching Autonomy' offers a comprehensive critical account of autonomy in language learning, updated to include new technologies and teacher autonomy.

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• Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2014 · FWCI 102.17 · 1,849 citations

  This revised edition of a successful textbook surveys major and alternative language teaching approaches and methods, updating coverage of communicative approaches and introducing new material on CLIL, text/genre-based teaching, and outcomes-based initiatives.

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• The Colonizer and the Colonized

  2013 · FWCI 145.22 · 1,846 citations

  This abstract outlines the structure of a 1965 work, "The Colonizer and the Colonized," which explores the psychological and social dynamics between colonizers and the colonized.

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• Critical Discourse Analysis

  2013 · FWCI 41.28 · 1,795 citations

  This is a collection of 22 revised and enlarged papers by Norman Fairclough, spanning 25 years, offering a comprehensive contribution to the field of Critical Discourse Analysis.

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• Strategies in Learning and Using a Second Language

  2014 · FWCI 249.71 · 1,738 citations

  This revised edition of 'Strategies in Learning and Using a Second Language' clarifies the distinction between language learning and language use strategies, offering a framework to enhance second language performance.

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• The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language

  2017 · FWCI 189.44 · 1,657 citations

  Alastair Pennycook's influential book critically examines the globalization of English, challenging the idea that English can be separated from its social, cultural, economic, or political contexts.

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• From communicative competence to communicative language pedagogy

  Language & Communication · 2014 · Q1 · FWCI 1124.56 · 1,641 citations

  This chapter argues that effective second language learning requires not only grammar and vocabulary but also mastering the 'rules of speaking' – sociolinguistic behaviors of the target language.

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• Marxism and the Philosophy of Language

  2013 · FWCI 993.28 · 1,629 citations

  This poem dramatizes and extrapolates upon Mikhail Bakhtin's ideas, particularly his argument that experience exists only within signs and that inner speech is dialogical rather than monological.

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• A comparative analysis of international frameworks for 21stcentury competences: Implications for national curriculum policies

  Journal of Curriculum Studies · 2012 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 240.35 · 1,485 citations

  An analysis of eight international frameworks reveals broad agreement on what 21st-century competences are and why they matter, but a significant gap exists between these stated intentions and actual educational practice.

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• Learnability and Cognition

  The MIT Press eBooks · 2013 · FWCI 121.80 · 1,464 citations

  This book presents a theory on how children acquire verb meanings and uses, resolving the paradox of how they learn subtle linguistic distinctions without explicit correction.

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• A systematic review of English medium instruction in higher education

  Language Teaching · 2017 · Q1 · SJR 2.00 · FWCI 182.93 · 1,444 citations · Open access

  A review of 83 studies indicates that while English Medium Instruction (EMI) is growing in higher education, there's insufficient evidence to confirm benefits for language learning or detriments to content learning.

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• Methods of Critical Discourse Studies

  2016 · FWCI 115.77 · 1,438 citations

  This book offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), updated with new chapters on social media and online data analysis.

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• Word of mouth and interpersonal communication: A review and directions for future research

  Journal of Consumer Psychology · 2014 · Q1 · SJR 5.00 · FWCI 603.58 · 1,434 citations

  Word of mouth is driven by five self-serving psychological functions, including impression management, emotion regulation, information acquisition, social bonding, and persuasion, often operating unconsciously.

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Recently added

• Resource Scarcity, Script Constraints: Reevaluating AI for Urdu Digital Humanities

  South Asian Review · 2026 · Q1

  AI tools like ChatGPT are impractical for Urdu digital humanities due to resource scarcity and script constraints, necessitating specialized models.

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• EFL university students’ challenges in structuring argumentative texts: A systemic functional linguistics genre perspective

  Linguistics and Education · 2026 · Q1

  Vietnamese EFL university students struggle to structure argumentative texts, particularly in providing evidence, according to a Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) genre analysis of 18 student texts.

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• Global ambitions versus grounded realities: the shifting employability of English-medium instruction graduates in Japan

  Language and Education · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 1.00

  Japanese EMI graduates report modest vocational value from their degrees, contrary to current students' higher expectations of enhanced job opportunities.

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• Touch, trouble, trace: Found poetry and living literacies through material play

  Journal of Early Childhood Literacy · 2026 · Q1

  Early childhood literacy emerges through embodied, material interactions, not just reading/writing, with children aged 4-5 demonstrating meaning-making via touch, disruption, and object engagement with loose parts and PE equipment.

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• Rubbing and rewriting: Medievalism in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant

  postmedieval a journal of medieval cultural studies · 2026 · Q2

  Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant uses a 'palimpsestic medievalism' to rewrite Arthurian myth, revealing how enforced forgetting of the Saxon massacre underpins exclusionary 'Arthurian Britishness'.

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• “The Rio Grande Was Originally Known as Rio Bravo”: Multiliteracies in a 4th‐Grade ELA and Social Studies Project

  The Reading Teacher · 2026 · Q1

  A 4th-grade ELA and social studies project integrated subject areas by having students create multimedia videos about their favorite places, using co-written scripts and iMovie.

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• Cultural specificity and transnational coproduction: A case study of Irish/New Zealand crime drama, The Gone

  Critical Studies in Television The International Journal of Television Studies · 2026 · Q1

  The crime drama 'The Gone' exemplifies 'conspicuous localism' through cultural equality in its writing and filming, maximizing cultural specificity in the final product.

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• Emil Frederick “Dutch” Wurzbach’s Memoir as a New Historical Source for Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian

  ANQ A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews · 2026 · Q1

  Emil Frederick Wurzbach's previously unrecognized memoir provides a new historical source for Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, detailing adventures that parallel the novel's early episodes and immigrant anecdotes.

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