Parks, Peace And Partnership: Global Initiatives In Transboundary Conservation Edited By Michael S. Quinn, Len Broberg, And Wayne Freimund,
2014
Wilfrid Laurier University
Parks, Peace And Partnership: Global Initiatives In Transboundary Conservation Edited By Michael S. Quinn, Len Broberg, And Wayne Freimund, Fenn Stewart
The Goose
Review of Parks, Peace and Partnership: Global Initiatives in Transboundary Conservation edited by Michael S. Quinn, Len Broberg, and Wayne Freimund.
Everything, Now By Jessica Moore And Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain By Russell Thornton,
2014
University of British Columbia, Okanagan
Everything, Now By Jessica Moore And Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain By Russell Thornton, Kelly Dean Shepherd
The Goose
Review of Everything, Now by Jessica Moore and Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain by Russell Thornton.
Humanesis By David Cecchetto,
2014
University of British Columbia
Humanesis By David Cecchetto, Max Ritts
The Goose
Review of Humanesis by David Cecchetto.
X: Poems & Anti-Poems By Shane Rhodes,
2014
University of Calgary
X: Poems & Anti-Poems By Shane Rhodes, Tom Miller
The Goose
A review of Shane Rhodes' X: Poems & Anti-Poems. This review focuses on the link between language and landscape, and considers the ways in which that link, reflected in Rhodes' work, comments upon the use of language as an oppressive tool in the treatment of Native Americans and Canadians.
Reading Cruft: A Cognitive Approach To The Mega-Novel,
2014
Graduate Center, City University of New York
Reading Cruft: A Cognitive Approach To The Mega-Novel, David J. Letzler
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Reading Cruft offers a new critical model in which to examine a genre vital to modern literature, the mega-novel. Building on theoretical work in both cognitive narratology and cognitive poetics, it argues that the mega-novel is primarily characterized by its inclusion of a substantial amount of pointless text ("cruft"), which it uses to challenge its readers' abilities to modulate their attention and rapidly shift their modes of text processing. Structured into five chapters respectively devoted to subgenres in which mega-novels have been grouped--the dictionary novel, the encyclopedic novel, the Menippean satire, the picaresque and frame-tale, and the epic and allegory--it …
Rendering The Unthinkable: (Un)Knowable Animality, Compulsory Recovery, And Heterosexualized Trauma In The Hunger Games,
2014
Graduate Center, City University of New York
Rendering The Unthinkable: (Un)Knowable Animality, Compulsory Recovery, And Heterosexualized Trauma In The Hunger Games, Jennifer Polish
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Dystopian fiction is expected to reflect deeply on the interactions between identities, bodies, and state control. Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games Trilogy is no exception. The disturbing trilogy situated animality, disability, and trauma (both of non-humans and of humans) as being firmly controlled by the power of the state (the Capitol). Through its portrayal of hunting and genetic manipulation, the trilogy constructed a state-created animality which refused definitive labeling and insisted upon facing animal subjectivity while simultaneously disregarding the needs and desires of those considered to be non-human. Similarly, the state held sway over both the creation and elimination of …
The Vastness Of Small Spaces: Self-Portraits Of The Artist As A Child Enclosed,
2014
Graduate Center, City University of New York
The Vastness Of Small Spaces: Self-Portraits Of The Artist As A Child Enclosed, Matthew John Burgess
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
A tent of bed sheets, a furniture fort, a corner of the closet surrounded by chosen objects--the child finds or fashions these spaces and within them daydreaming begins. What do small spaces signify for the child, and why do scenes of enclosure emerge in autobiographical self-portraits of the artist? Sigmund Freud's theory that the literary vocation can be traced to childhood experiences is at the heart of this project, especially his observation that "the child at play behaves like a writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or rather, re-arranges the things of this world in a …
Committing To The Waves: Emerson's Moving Assignments,
2014
Graduate Center, City University of New York
Committing To The Waves: Emerson's Moving Assignments, Karinne Keithley Syers
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Committing to the Waves: Emerson's Moving Assignments reads Ralph Waldo Emerson as a writer of assignments for living and working whose senses can be taken up across a wide array of creative and exploratory fields. Shifting between an interdisciplinary array of contexts ranging from philosophy and poetics to dance, performance, and somatic movement experiments, I join the practical sense of creative inquiry embodied in these fields to the abstract images of Emerson's assignments. I argue that Emerson's descriptions of intelligence and power, and so his approaches to navigating skepticism and loss, as well as the non-possessive sense of what "self" …
"For The Voices": The Letters Of John Wieners,
2014
Graduate Center, City University of New York
"For The Voices": The Letters Of John Wieners, Michael Seth Stewart
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
American poet John Wieners is thoroughly disenfranchised from the modern poetic establishments because he is, to those institutions, practically illegible. He was a queer self-styled poete maudit in the fifties; a protege of political-historical poet Charles Olson who wrote audaciously personal verse; a lyric poet who eschewed the egoism of the confessional mode in order to pursue the Olsonian project of Projective (outward-looking) poetics; a Boston poet who was institutionalized at state hospitals. Wieners lived on the "other side" of Beacon Hill, not the Brahmin south slope, but the north side with its working-class apartments and underground gay bars. Though …
A Chant Of Dilation: Walt Whitman, Phrenology, And The Language Of The Mind,
2014
Graduate Center, City University of New York
A Chant Of Dilation: Walt Whitman, Phrenology, And The Language Of The Mind, Anton Borst
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
A Chant of Dilation analyzes Walt Whitman's poetic engagement with two very modern ideas: the materiality of the mind and the discursive nature of science. During the antebellum period these ideas found expression in the popular science of phrenology, the theory that the mind was divided into various faculties physically located in different parts of the brain. This theory would find a ready audience in Whitman, a poet preoccupied with the body, the soul, and their connection. The writings and publications of premier American phrenologists Orson and Lorenzo Fowler, surveyed in this project, rhetorically mediated emerging conceptions of the brain-embodied …
The Over-Education Of The Negro: Academic Novels, Higher Education And The Black Intellectual,
2014
Graduate Center, City University of New York
The Over-Education Of The Negro: Academic Novels, Higher Education And The Black Intellectual, Archie Lavelle Porter
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation focuses on the academic novel - a literary genre which fictionalizes the lives of students and professors in institutions of higher education. In particular this project focuses on academic novels written by black writers and which address issues in black higher education. This dissertation has two concurrent objectives: 1) to examine the academic novel as a particular genre of literature, and to highlight some specific novels on black American identity within this genre, and 2) to illustrate the pedagogical value of academic fiction. Through the ancient practice of storytelling, academic novels link the travails of the individual student …
Rejecting Shadow For Substance: Marriageable Love Within The Novels Of Louisa May Alcott,
2014
University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Rejecting Shadow For Substance: Marriageable Love Within The Novels Of Louisa May Alcott, Megan Gentry
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
A Transnational Novel In Disguise: The Influence Of Brazil In Nella Larsen's Passing,
2014
University of Tennessee - Knoxville
A Transnational Novel In Disguise: The Influence Of Brazil In Nella Larsen's Passing, Grant M. Andersen
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
Infinite Islands: The Seatrees,
2014
University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Infinite Islands: The Seatrees, Colin Christian Alan Mort
Doctoral Dissertations
Infinite Islands: The Seatrees investigates on the subject of infinity as it relates to storytelling and the novel. The critical introduction lays out the relation between reality, fantasy, the imagination and the history of the novel as a source of inspiration for the fictional portion of the dissertation. It considers the similarities between canonical literary novels and fantasy genre novels. Through this consideration, aspects of reality and fantasy in the novel are considered in both theoretical and primary texts. In the fictional portion, an unnamed narrator is retelling the story of his life from beginning to end. Although he works …
The Contemporary Encyclopedic Novel,
2014
University of Tennessee - Knoxville
The Contemporary Encyclopedic Novel, Matthew Warren Raese
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation will define the contemporary American encyclopedic novel and the significant role that irony plays in shaping meaning. The dissertation constructs a model of the encyclopedic novel based upon the history of the encyclopedia – from Denis Diderot's Enlightenment influenced Encyclopédie – and Northrop Frye's conception of the encyclopedic form. It claims (1) that the contemporary encyclopedic novel continues in the cycle of modal progression toward mythic integration that Frye proposes in Anatomy of Criticism; and (2) that the encyclopedic novel utilizes different forms of irony to challenge authoritative discourse and elevate marginal discourse.
The first chapter defines …
The "Vast And Terrible" Trauma: American Literary Naturalism, Ethics, And Levinas,
2014
University of Tennessee - Knoxville
The "Vast And Terrible" Trauma: American Literary Naturalism, Ethics, And Levinas, Tyler Joseph Efird
Doctoral Dissertations
In an 1896 essay, Frank Norris wrote that the reading world should abandon those “teacup tragedies” to which it had grown accustomed and embrace a new literature that would depict a “vast and terrible drama.” Realism, Norris claimed, could not be used to achieve an earnest portrait of the conditions that mark individual lives under capitalism. Instead, the world needed a romantic wrestling with the forces of existential inscrutability. Also, the perceived need for literature to depict a clear ethical system needed revising from the perspective of American literary naturalism, a school long denigrated for apparent moral vacuity. Through excruciating …
Alice Munro: An Appreciation,
2014
Bridgewater State University
Gender And Self-Representation In Maya Angelou's Autobiography I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings 2014,
2014
SUNY College Cortland
Gender And Self-Representation In Maya Angelou's Autobiography I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings 2014, Jay-Nel Steitz
Master's Theses
A voice that has been silenced for so long has much to say. Whether still confined or set free, the statement applies equally to both. The silenced voice wants not only to tell his or her story, but to share the life experiences which in turn reveal the identities of these individuals. These silenced voices then are not those of the oppressors, but the oppressed; and when an oppressor wants to share his or her story, the oppressed wants to tell their side of it as well. How can those labeled the marginalized outcasts of society express their feelings and …
Queer Tastes: An Exploration Of Food And Sexuality In Southern Lesbian Literature,
2014
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Queer Tastes: An Exploration Of Food And Sexuality In Southern Lesbian Literature, Jacqueline Kristine Lawrence
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Southern identities are undoubtedly influenced by the region's foodways. However, the South tends to neglect and even to negate certain peoples and their identities. Women, especially lesbians, are often silenced within southern literature. Where Tennessee Williams used literature to bridge gaps between gay men and the South, southern lesbian literature severely lacks a traceable history of such connections. The principal objective of this thesis is to explore the ways in which southern lesbians manipulate food metaphors to describe their sexual desires and identities. This thesis only begins to lay out a history of southern lesbian literature as many lesbian writers …
Shelterbelt: Land That Speaks,
2014
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Shelterbelt: Land That Speaks, Ryan Oberhelman
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This thesis is a collection of short stories drafted in between 2012 and 2014. The stories in this collection have been selected for their common themes of masculinity, work, fractured families, and rural decline. Many stories offer fragmented, non-linear approaches to narrative.
Note: This thesis deposited as hard copy only. There is no digital document associated with this record. beyond the title page and abstract.
