In the following essay, Solomon notes the lack of parodic elements in “The Open Boat” and situates it within the context of Crane's other sea pieces.

In the following essay, Billingslea investigates the question of whether perception can alter what is seen and its importance to “The Open Boat.”

In the following essay, Walhout utilizes a structuralist method to analyze “The Open Boat,” particularly exploring the implications of the last sentence of the story.

In the following essay, Schulman traces Crane's growing sense of community in his fiction, which culminates in his story “The Open Boat.”

In the following essay, Wolford asserts that “The Open Boat” illustrates Crane's shifting interest from cultural to individual aspects of the literary epic form.

In the following essay, Cady surveys Crane's fiction after The Red Badge of Courage and regards “The Open Boat” as one of his best literary achievements.

In the following essay, Hagemann provides an interpretation of the epigraph to “The Open Boat” and analyzes the ways in which the characters in the story perceive their situation.

In the following essay, Rath and Shaw use Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of the dialogic to analyze “The Open Boat.”

In the following essay, Eye questions the prevailing critical opinion of “The Open Boat” as a work of fiction, viewing it as a prime example of literary nonfiction.

In the following essay, Ditsky delineates the musical qualities of “The Open Boat.”

In the following essay, Nagel elucidates impressionistic elements in “The Open Boat” and “A Man and Some Others.”

In the following essay, Schirmer explores the tension between the varying tones of “The Open Boat.”

In the following essay, Bender investigates the religious overtones of the concept of personal experience in “The Open Boat.”

In the following essay, Benfey traces Crane's interest in shipwrecks, which culminated in his personal experience on the Commodore and his story “The Open Boat.”

In the following essay, Ross, Berryman, and Tate investigate whether “The Open Boat” is based on a true story and provides an analysis of the first paragraph and the cast of characters in the piece.

In the following essay, Nagel explores Crane's narrative method in “The Open Boat,” particularly the shifting perspective of the story.

In the following essay, Buitenhuis discusses “The Open Boat” as existentialist fiction, contending that “no story of Crane more profoundly embodies within its structure, style, and symbolism the meaning of experience.”

In the following essay, Frederick considers a few different critical approaches to “The Open Boat” and perceives the story to be “an intense paradigm of the human situation as a whole.”

In the following essay, Kent analyzes the ways Crane creates epistemological uncertainty in “The Open Boat” and “The Blue Hotel.”

In the following essay, Autry examines Stephen Crane's use of the sea in his "The Open Boat" to demonstrate the weakness of man and the futility of human struggle against nature.

In the following essay, Autrey contends that the death of Billie in “The Open Boat” demonstrates the futility of man's struggle for independence and freedom.

In the following essay, Monteiro argues that “The Open Boat” is an exploration of the fragility of human existence and the fickle nature of fate.

In the following essay, Munson outlines the plot of “The Open Boat” and provides a stylistic analysis of the story.

In the following essay, Spofford argues that an examination of “The Open Boat” “in relation to Crane's earlier fiction, poetry, journalism, and letters reveals that Crane had articulated his themes and formulated his motifs and images long before the incident, and his recounting of the thirty hours in an open boat merely provided the vehicle for these materials to come together.”

In the following essay, Iheakaram investigates the influence of “The Open Boat” on J. P. Clark's short play The Raft.

In the following essay, Metress examines how the structure of “The Open Boat” creates an epistemological dilemma that directs the reader from indifference to anxiety.

In the following essay, Metzger examines the realistic elements in “The Open Boat.”

In the following essay, Gerstenberger views “The Open Boat” as “a story with an emphasis on the epistemological aspect of the existential crisis.”

In the following essay, Randel investigates discrepancies in the real-life incident that inspired Crane's story “The Open Boat.”

In the following essay, Monteiro considers three possible sources for “The Open Boat.”

In the following essay, Marcus delineates Crane's changing view of nature in “The Open Boat” as“malevolently hostile, then as thoughtlessly hostile, and finally as wholly indifferent.”

In the following essay, Going traces the treatment of William Higgins's death in newspaper accounts and in “The Open Boat.”

In the following essay, Jackson offers insight into Crane's use of Caroline Norton's poem “Bingen on the Rhine” in his story “The Open Boat.”

In the following essay, Meyers argues that critical studies of “The Open Boat” have overlooked “the degree to which the tale seems to invert conventional Christian motifs and rituals while it traces the development of a new religion.”

In the following essay, Stappenbeck explores the link between “The Open Boat” and Caroline Norton's poem “Bingen on the Rhine.”