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"And No Birds Sing": The Environmental Ethics Of Carson, Keats, Sagan, And Oliver, Savannah Bloom
"And No Birds Sing": The Environmental Ethics Of Carson, Keats, Sagan, And Oliver, Savannah Bloom
Undergraduate Theses
This project aims to create resonances and synchronicities between the works of science writers Rachel Carson and Carl Sagan and poets John Keats and Mary Oliver. It puts their environmental ethics in conversation with one another with a focus on shared literary practices and ecocritical and ecocentric sensibilities. Is the work of poetry, particularly poetry participating in the Romantic tradition, compatible with science writing? The ultimate goal is to demonstrate the symbiosis between science and literature and the necessity of bridging scientific and poetic discourse in regard to addressing climate and the environment. Each chapter pairs a science writer with …
Book Review: Ruin And Resilience: Southern Literature And The Environment, Kevin J. Reagan
Book Review: Ruin And Resilience: Southern Literature And The Environment, Kevin J. Reagan
Georgia Library Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Speculative Constitutions In Ursula K. Le Guin’S Hainish Cycle And The Rights Of Nature, Ted Hamilton
Speculative Constitutions In Ursula K. Le Guin’S Hainish Cycle And The Rights Of Nature, Ted Hamilton
Faculty Journal Articles
This paper examines two speculative examinations of humanity as a unified species and agent of ecological change: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle and the rights of nature movement. Le Guin’s Cycle imagines the slow interplanetary reintegration of human polities against a backdrop of cultural and environmental difference. I read the novels of the Cycle as an allegory for the rights of nature movement, which seeks to synthesize traditional and modern knowledge in a legal solution to ecological crisis. Both discourses, I argue, productively imagine a new historical understanding of humanity’s place on Earth, but they provide a weak theory …
Echoing Ecopoetics: Fantasy Literature's Background Sounds, Catherine Olver
Echoing Ecopoetics: Fantasy Literature's Background Sounds, Catherine Olver
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
Despite David Abram’s fear that reading disrupts people’s “attunement to environing nature,” fantasy literature can vibrantly convey how to hear our environments as it describes characters attuning their ears to particular places. Garth Nix’s Old Kingdom series (1995-2021) and Patrick Ness’s Chaos Walking trilogy (2008-10) develop an echoing ecopoetics of place through both world-building and style. Their fantasy worlds emphasize that characters must relearn to listen in unfamiliar environments: adjusting their expectations and interpretations of background sounds, recognising significant silences, adapting to new ways of communicating, and seeking meaning in nonhuman sounds rather than dismissing them as noise. Their stylistic …
Are Electric Cars The Future?, Nick Gable
Are Electric Cars The Future?, Nick Gable
English Department: Research for Change - Wicked Problems in Our World
My paper is about switching to electric cars for transportation. The end of fossil fuels is soon, and we must preserve them. We must cut down on fossil fuel use to save the environment from pollution. I use statistics on emissions and pollution from conventional cars and explain why we need to switch to electric cars sooner rather than later. I argue that there should be stipulations by the government regarding electric cars and conventional cars on the lot. I also say that we should start producing lots of electric cars as soon as possible.
The Environmental Imaginations Of Moby-Dick: Technology And Vulnerability In Human/More-Than-Human Relationships, Jensen A. Lillquist
The Environmental Imaginations Of Moby-Dick: Technology And Vulnerability In Human/More-Than-Human Relationships, Jensen A. Lillquist
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
In the twenty-first century, the relationship between the human and the more-than-human is a problem of massive proportions, as we live in an age of climate change, mass-extinction, over-population, and resource depletion. Evaluating how we have arrived where we are and re-thinking the issues at play as we move forward is crucial for future adaptation of human/more-than-human relationships; this is the primary goal of my analysis of the environmental imaginations of Moby-Dick.
I argue that the four primary environmental imaginations—the providential, the utilitarian, the Romantic, and the ecological—that have influenced United States culture since European settlement are represented by Herman …
Complete Issue
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
The complete issue 1 of volume 8, Landscapes Journal.
A Collaboration Of Poetry And Art: The Krill Kill Project, Diane Guichon, Sarah Melanie Harrill
A Collaboration Of Poetry And Art: The Krill Kill Project, Diane Guichon, Sarah Melanie Harrill
The Goose
Artist Sarah Melanie Harrill interrogates poet Diane Guichon's poem "Krill Kill" in this project of interwoven, creative representations and musings on the connectivity between nature and humanity. This project formed part of the Calgary People's Poetry Festival in the fall of 2017.
Cleaner, Greener, Healthier: A Prescription For Stronger Canadian Environmental Laws And Policies By David R. Boyd, Alex D. Ketchum
Cleaner, Greener, Healthier: A Prescription For Stronger Canadian Environmental Laws And Policies By David R. Boyd, Alex D. Ketchum
The Goose
Review of David R. Boyd's Cleaner, Greener, Healthier: A Prescription for Stronger Canadian Environmental Laws and Policies.
The Moth Snowstorm By Michael Mccarthy, Joanna Streetly
The Moth Snowstorm By Michael Mccarthy, Joanna Streetly
The Goose
Review of Michael McCarthy's The Moth Snowstorm.
The Oxford Handbook Of Environmental History Edited By Andrew C. Isenberg, Lorelei L. Hanson
The Oxford Handbook Of Environmental History Edited By Andrew C. Isenberg, Lorelei L. Hanson
The Goose
Review of Andrew C. Isenberg's The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History.
The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards A Greener Future By David R. Boyd, Janet Grafton
The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards A Greener Future By David R. Boyd, Janet Grafton
The Goose
Review of David R. Boyd's The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards a Greener Future
Hill By Jean Giono, Jody L. Ballah
Towards A Prairie Atonement By Trevor Herriot, Gillian Harding-Russell
Towards A Prairie Atonement By Trevor Herriot, Gillian Harding-Russell
The Goose
Review of Trevor Herriot's Towards a Prairie Atonement.
The Duende Of Tetherball By Tim Bowling, Gillian Harding-Russell
The Duende Of Tetherball By Tim Bowling, Gillian Harding-Russell
The Goose
Review of Tim Bowling's The Duende of Tetherball.
An Environmental History Of Medieval Europe By Richard C. Hoffman, Geneviève Pigeon Dr
An Environmental History Of Medieval Europe By Richard C. Hoffman, Geneviève Pigeon Dr
The Goose
Review of Richard C. Hoffman's An Environmental History of Medieval Europe.
The Book Of Feral Flora By Amanda Ackerman & Skeena By Sarah De Leeuw, Emily Mcgiffin
The Book Of Feral Flora By Amanda Ackerman & Skeena By Sarah De Leeuw, Emily Mcgiffin
The Goose
Review of Amanda Ackerman's The Book of Feral Flora. Review of Sarah de Leeuw's Skeena.
Stone: An Ecology Of The Inhuman By Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Joel Weishaus
Stone: An Ecology Of The Inhuman By Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Joel Weishaus
The Goose
Review of Jeffrey Jerome Cohen's Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman
Magnetic North, Pyramiden, Svalbard, Jenna Butler
Magnetic North, Pyramiden, Svalbard, Jenna Butler
The Goose
excerpts from Magnetic North Pyramiden, Svalbard
Imitation, Kathryn M. Rogers
Bee Work | Departure, Anne Simpson
Bee Work | Departure, Anne Simpson
The Goose
How do we get closer to the nature of the bee’s, or any non-human's, experience, mystery that it is? This essay is a lyrical meditation on the power (and challenges) of poetry and language to access non-human worlds.
Two Poems, Andrew Taylor Dr
Three Poems, Pearl Pirie
Gooseworld, Marella Hoffman
Two Poems, Brook Wr Pearson Phd
Counteredpoint, Gary Barwin
Gory, Ariel Gordon
The Discreet Charm Of The Megafauna, Tanis Macdonald
The Discreet Charm Of The Megafauna, Tanis Macdonald
The Goose
Poetry by Tanis MacDonald
Bell In The Rain, Annabel Banks
2 Poems, Ken Belford