Sonaranos Refractions, 2014 Wilfrid Laurier University
The Shell Of The Tortoise: Four Essays & An Assemblage By Don Mckay, 2014 Nassau Community College of the State University of New York
The Shell Of The Tortoise: Four Essays & An Assemblage By Don Mckay, Tonia L. Payne
The Goose
Review of The Shell of the Tortoise: Four Essays & an Assemblage by Don McKay.
Framing Identity: Repudiating The Ideal In Chicana Literature, 2014 Northern Michigan University
Framing Identity: Repudiating The Ideal In Chicana Literature, Michael A. Flores
All NMU Master's Theses
In the 1960s Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzalez penned his now canonical, epic poem “I Am Joaquin.” The poem chronicles the historic oppression of a transnational, Mexican people as well as revolutionary acts of their forefathers in resisting tyranny. Coinciding with a series of renewed, sociopolitical campaigns, collectively known as the Chicano Movement, Gonzales’ poem uses vivid imagery to present an idealized representation of Chicanos and encouraged his reader to engage in revolutionary action. Though the poem encourages strong leadership, upward mobility, and political engagement the representations of women in his text are misogynistic and limiting.
His presentation of the “black-shawled …
Facing The Wreck: Death, Optimism, And The Fragmented Form, 2014 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Facing The Wreck: Death, Optimism, And The Fragmented Form, Rachael Marie Schaffner
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Walter Benjamin described history as a winged angel who faces backwards, staring perpetually into the past as the violent winds of destiny carry him into the future (Illuminations). Despite a western, post-enlightenment myth of eternal progress, the wreckage of human contributions to history is clearly evident in our 21st-century understanding of anthropogenic impact on global ecology. In the context of these ecological crises (and the resulting political and economic questions), postmodern novels reveal a powerful ability to imagine different ways of living and interacting with the world. This thesis traces the relationship between fragmentation, death, and liminal experiences …
Supplying Salt And Light By Lorna Goodison, 2014 University of Texas at El Paso
Supplying Salt And Light By Lorna Goodison, Pamela Herron
The Goose
Review of Supplying Salt and Light by Lorna Goodison.
The Polymers By Adam Dickinson, 2014 Schumacher College, UK
The Polymers By Adam Dickinson, Camilla Nelson
The Goose
Review of The Polymers by Adam Dickinson.
The Forest Unseen: A Year’S Watch In Nature By David George Haskell, 2014 Wilfrid Laurier University
The Forest Unseen: A Year’S Watch In Nature By David George Haskell, Brigette Bernagozzi
The Goose
Review of The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature by David George Haskell.
Caraway & Pippins By Harold Rhenisch, 2014 Wilfrid Laurier University
Caraway & Pippins By Harold Rhenisch, Laura Castonguay
The Goose
Review of Caraway & Pippins by Harold Rhenisch.
Salman Rushdie In The Postmodern Current: New Venues, New Values, 2014 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Salman Rushdie In The Postmodern Current: New Venues, New Values, Aya Akkawi
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The aim of this study is to prove that Rushdie's recent novels are not postcolonial in the sense that they abandon the colonial/colonized binary, the embrace of hybridity, and the theme of undermining the coercion and domination of the colonial country assumed in postcolonial discourse. Instead, his recent fiction is labeled postmodern because it is filled with exuberant postmodern techniques such as historiographic metafiction, the hegemony of mode of productions, the postmodern fragmented self, and suspicions of grand narrative. Furthermore, I will argue that there is an association between Rushdie's postmodern narrative technique (his mixing of history and fantasy) and …
Human Dependence On Nature: How To Help Solve The Environmental Crisis By Haydn Washington, 2014 Athabasca University
Human Dependence On Nature: How To Help Solve The Environmental Crisis By Haydn Washington, Lorelei Hanson
The Goose
Review of Human Dependence on Nature: How to Help Solve the Environmental Crisis by Haydn Washington.
Growing Resistance: Canadian Farmers And The Politics Of Genetically Modified Wheat By Emily Eaton, 2014 University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Growing Resistance: Canadian Farmers And The Politics Of Genetically Modified Wheat By Emily Eaton, Aubrey R. Streit Krug
The Goose
Review of Growing Resistance: Canadian Farmers and the Politics of Genetically Modified Wheat by Emily Eaton.
Ornithologies Of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, And Don Mckay By Travis V. Mason, 2014 Wilfrid Laurier University
Ornithologies Of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, And Don Mckay By Travis V. Mason, Maureen Scott Harris
The Goose
Review of Ornithologies of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay by Travis V. Mason.
Fire Watcher By Vivian Demuth, 2014 University of Idaho
Fire Watcher By Vivian Demuth, Anna Banks
The Goose
Review of Fire Watcher by Vivian Demuth.
Late Moon By Pamela Porter And The Family China By Ann Shin, 2014 University of British Columbia, Okanagan
Late Moon By Pamela Porter And The Family China By Ann Shin, Lindsay Diehl
The Goose
Review of Late Moon by Pamela Porter and The Family China by Ann Shin.
Critical Animal Studies: An Introduction By Dawne Mccance, 2014 University of Toronto
Critical Animal Studies: An Introduction By Dawne Mccance, Rosemary-Claire Collard
The Goose
Review of Critical Animal Studies: An Introduction by Dawne McCance.
Animals And War: Studies Of Europe And North America Edited By Ryan Hediger, 2014 University of British Columbia
Animals And War: Studies Of Europe And North America Edited By Ryan Hediger, Rebecca Raglon
The Goose
Review of Animals and War: Studies of Europe and North America, edited by Ryan Hediger.
The Influence Of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick On Cormac Mccarthy's Blood Meridian, 2014 University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The Influence Of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick On Cormac Mccarthy's Blood Meridian, Ryan Joseph Tesar
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
While many works exert an influence on Cormac McCarthy's 1985 novel Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West, I argue in this thesis that Herman Melville's Moby-Dick stands above them all in importance. I examine some areas where Melville's influence on McCarthy's work can be most notably located. I argue that Melville's importance to McCarthy can be seen in the latter's use of several characters from Moby-Dick in his own novel. I also examine the parallels that arise when one examines the confluences between the two novels' structures, vocabularies, and settings. I also consider how Melville's violent aesthetics …
Agent Red: Fashioning Agency In Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, 2014 Oglethorpe University
Agent Red: Fashioning Agency In Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Christopher M. Yalen
Oglethorpe Journal of Undergraduate Research
In Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, we are introduced to a dystopian patriarchal society named Gilead, where women are relegated to the roles of wife, servant, and surrogate. Although the men of Gilead have built this society with men at the top, the women of the novel show a surprising amount of agency within their own spheres of influence. So the question remains: who is really in control of Gilead? While men are certainly remain the figureheads of power in The Handmaid's Tale, we find that the women of the novel have copious influence within their own realms, …
Expanding The Circle: New Poets To The Goose, 2014 University of British Columbia
Expanding The Circle: New Poets To The Goose, Sonnet L'Abbé
The Goose
An introduction to the poets whose work appears in The Goose for the first time in this issue.
Wild Life, 2014 Wilfrid Laurier University
Wild Life, Jordan Abel
The Goose
Poetry by Jordan Abel. This poem is composed from 91 public domain Western novels that are freely available on Project Gutenberg. In total, the source text is over 10,000 pages long and is authored by 20 different writers. When all of the novels were searched simultaneously, there were 41 instances of the phrase "wild life." The resulting poem provides a contextual space where the language of a single word or phrase can be read.