The Unpardonable Reader,
2018
Western Michigan University
The Unpardonable Reader, Ariel Berry
The Hilltop Review
Hawthorne’s prefaces to his romances, though largely ignored as a composite body of work, contain key insights into reading his fiction. Each preface is a sort of instruction manual directed toward the reader. He expects empathy from his readers and openness to his version of magical realism. A study of Hawthorne’s concept of the “Unpardonable Sin” as presented in “Ethan Brand” reveals that these reading instructions warn against a similar crime, that of a cold lack of empathy and tendency toward disbelief. On a much smaller scale, then, it becomes clear that a reader who does not follow ...
Finding The Modernist Archive: Why Ux Matters,
2018
University of Iowa
Finding The Modernist Archive: Why Ux Matters, Amy H. Chen
University of Iowa Libraries Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
Agnotologies Of Modernism: Knowing The Unknown In Lewis, Woolf, Pound, And Joyce,
2018
The University of Western Ontario
Agnotologies Of Modernism: Knowing The Unknown In Lewis, Woolf, Pound, And Joyce, Jeremy Colangelo
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Agnotologies of Modernism examines the productive role of ignorance in the work of several key modernist authors. Borrowing concepts from speculative realist philosophers like Quentin Meillassoux, Graham Harman, and Jane Bennett, as well as such thinkers as Gilles Deleuze, and Jacques Derrida, the dissertation endeavors to read modernism epistemologically, and treats ignorance as an active and creative force that often plays a key structuring role in the imaginative world of the text. Drawing from Bruno Latour’s notion of a “black box,” the study shows how ignorance can be transposed into an ontological entity which can then be attributed positive ...
Species Panic: Interspecies Erotics In Post-1900 American Literature,
2018
The University of Western Ontario
Species Panic: Interspecies Erotics In Post-1900 American Literature, David Huebert
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
This project elaborates a concept of “species panic,” a severe and often violently-charged reaction to the notion that one’s privileged species status as a human being is under threat. In this project’s post-1900 American literary archive, species panic is often provoked by nonhuman eros, which provokes and threatens the fantasy of human exceptionalism. Theoretically, this project yokes animal studies and posthumanism (Donna Haraway, Dominic Pettman, Kathy Rudy) with queer theory and critical race studies (Mel Y. Chen, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Alexander Weheliye) as its central driving forces. This theoretical backdrop informs my reading of American authors Jack London ...
Welcome To The Anthropocene By Alice Major,
2018
University of Saskatchewan
Welcome To The Anthropocene By Alice Major, Gillian Harding-Russell
The Goose
Review of Alice Major's Welcome to the Anthropocene.
The History Of Bees By Maja Lunde,
2018
University of Victoria
The History Of Bees By Maja Lunde, Kirsten Schuhmacher
The Goose
Book review of Maja Lunde's The History of Bees.
Thinking Continental: Writing The Planet One Place At A Time By Tom Lynch, Susan Naramore Maher, Drucilla Wall, And O. Alan Weltzien,
2018
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Thinking Continental: Writing The Planet One Place At A Time By Tom Lynch, Susan Naramore Maher, Drucilla Wall, And O. Alan Weltzien, Cory Willard
The Goose
Review of Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time by Tom Lynch, Susan Naramore Maher, Drucilla Wall, and O. Alan Weltzien, eds.
Tar Swan By David Martin,
2018
University of Manitoba
Tar Swan By David Martin, Melanie Dennis Unrau
The Goose
Review of David Martin's Tar Swan.
Perma/Culture: Imagining Alternatives In An Age Of Crisis By Molly Wallace And David Carruthers,
2018
University of Miami
Perma/Culture: Imagining Alternatives In An Age Of Crisis By Molly Wallace And David Carruthers, Bryant Scott
The Goose
Review of Molly Wallace and David Carruthers' Perma/Culture: Imagining Alternatives in an Age of Crisis.
Refusing To Be Made Whole: Disability In Contemporary Black Women's Writing,
2018
Southern Methodist University
Refusing To Be Made Whole: Disability In Contemporary Black Women's Writing, Anna Hinton
English Theses and Dissertations
My dissertation argues that disability profoundly shapes the thematic and aesthetic choices of black women writing in the post-Brown era, despite arguments that suggest the contrary. For instance, Gayl Jone’s Corregidora is told from the first-person perspective of a black woman diagnosed as insane and incarcerated in a psychiatric prison for murder. The use of the first-person results in what I argue, building on Michael Berube’s work, is a disabled text. Moreover, a through the protagonist’s story, a stark critique of misogynoir and ableism emerges. Thus, while taking seriously disability studies scholars’ arguments that African American ...
No Tv For Woodpeckers By Gary Barwin, If Pressed By Andrew Mcewan, And Ecology Without Culture: Aesthetics For A Toxic World By Christine L. Marran,
2018
Fanshawe College of Applied Arts and Technology
No Tv For Woodpeckers By Gary Barwin, If Pressed By Andrew Mcewan, And Ecology Without Culture: Aesthetics For A Toxic World By Christine L. Marran, Michael D. Sloane
The Goose
Review of Gary Barwin's No TV for Woodpeckers, Andrew McEwan's If Pressed, and Christine L. Marran's Ecology without Culture: Aesthetics for a Toxic World.
Rain Shadow By Nicholas Bradley And Cloud Physics By Karen Enns,
2018
Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
Rain Shadow By Nicholas Bradley And Cloud Physics By Karen Enns, Kelly Shepherd
The Goose
Review of Nicholas Bradley's Rain Shadow and Karen Enns' Cloud Physics.
Final Ma Portfolio,
2018
Bowling Green State University
Final Ma Portfolio, Brian Champlin
Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects
MA Portfolio, English
Ephemera: Copy Of Friends Of Cross Creek Pamphlet.,
2018
University of North Florida
Ephemera: Copy Of Friends Of Cross Creek Pamphlet.
Saffy Collection Textual
Found in a book titled "Color Purple." Circa 1965-1985. Box 4, Folder 11
Review Of Joyce Carol Oates's Dis Mem Ber And Other Stories Of Mystery And Suspense,
2018
LonesomeReader Blog
Review Of Joyce Carol Oates's Dis Mem Ber And Other Stories Of Mystery And Suspense, Eric K. Anderson
Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies
Review of Joyce Carol Oates's short story collection DIS MEM BER, considering the author's attention to psychological detail and experimental forms of narrative.
Review Of Joyce Carol Oates's Night-Gaunts And Other Tales Of Suspense,
2018
LonesomeReader Blog
Review Of Joyce Carol Oates's Night-Gaunts And Other Tales Of Suspense, Eric K. Anderson
Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies
A review of Joyce Carol Oates's short story collection Night-Gaunts focusing on the influence of H.P. Lovecraft and gothic fiction.
Review Of Joyce Carol Oates's Beautiful Days,
2018
LonesomeReader Blog
Review Of Joyce Carol Oates's Beautiful Days, Eric K. Anderson
Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies
A review of Joyce Carol Oates's short story collection Beautiful Days considering how this fiction dramatizes confrontations with the "other."
Letters From Olive Fremstad To Willa Cather: A View Beyond The Song Of The Lark,
2018
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Letters From Olive Fremstad To Willa Cather: A View Beyond The Song Of The Lark, Jessica Tebo
Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research: Department of English
In 1913, Willa Cather met opera-diva Olive Fremstad and the two formed a friendship that would span at least a decade. Fremstad has long been recognized as an inspiration for the character Thea Kronborg of Cather’s Song of the Lark (1915) but has not been portrayed as influential in any other aspects to Cather’s career. Letters sent by Fremstad to Cather have recently been located, and they reveal an ongoing and interdisciplinary dialogue between the two women that negotiates issues surrounding art and professionalism. I locate these letters within the broader context of Cather’s public and fictional ...
Double/Cross: Erasure In Theory And Poetry,
2018
The University of Western Ontario
Double/Cross: Erasure In Theory And Poetry, John Nyman
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
This dissertation investigates the implications of overt textual erasure on literary and philosophical meaning, especially with reference to the poststructuralist phenomenological tradition culminating in the work of Jacques Derrida. Responding both to the emergence of “erasure poetry” as a recognizable genre of experimental literature and to the relative paucity of serious scholarship on Derrida’s “writing under erasure,” I focus on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary and philosophical works in which visible evidence of erasure is an intended component of the finished (i.e., printed and disseminated) document. Erasure, I argue, performs a complex doubling or double/crossing of meaning according ...
Where Woman Is Her Center: Interrogating Morality And Spatiality In The Works Of Joan Didion,
2018
Seattle Pacific University
Where Woman Is Her Center: Interrogating Morality And Spatiality In The Works Of Joan Didion, Hannah Nicole Martin
Honors Projects
This project outlines new and expansive critical categories for discussing Joan Didion’s work through an interrogation of Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking and earlier personal essays using an interplay of close reading and affect theory. This paper seeks to help move the critical conversation in new directions by shifting the focus towards an analysis of Didion’s unique spatialization of memory, articulated through her use of particular details. Divided in two parts, the first section of this paper discusses The Year of Magical Thinking while the second engages in a dialogue with the critical voices surrounding Didion ...
