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Falling Down The Rabbit Hole: World Building In Ya Literature, Claire Webb 2023 East Tennessee State University

Falling Down The Rabbit Hole: World Building In Ya Literature, Claire Webb

Undergraduate Honors Theses

World building is a key component to many young adult novels, but what is world building and what are some different styles and techniques that authors use when constructing fictional universes? In this thesis, Falling Down the Rabbit Hole: World Building Techniques in YA Literature, I will examine Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865), The Princess Bride by William Goldman (1973), and my own unpublished novel, The Sun Kingdom, to compare different techniques and styles of world building. These works will be explored through the aspect of world building, focusing specifically on the importance of the geography, language, …


When The Moon Rises And You Want To Sing, Frances Boyle 2023 Wilfrid Laurier University

When The Moon Rises And You Want To Sing, Frances Boyle

The Goose

Poetry by Frances Boyle.


Because The Muddiness Of Mud Must Be Uttered: A Personal Essay, Dorothy Ellen Palmer 2023 n/a

Because The Muddiness Of Mud Must Be Uttered: A Personal Essay, Dorothy Ellen Palmer

The Goose

"Because the Muddiness of Mud Must Be Uttered," by disabled senior writer Dorothy Ellen Palmer, is a personal, braided, nonfiction essay tracing how her access to and understanding of moving on land has been shaped by ableism, ageism, and the pandemic.


Tetrapod: Adapted For Locomotion Across Land, Amy Wang 2023 University of British Columbia, Okanagan

Tetrapod: Adapted For Locomotion Across Land, Amy Wang

The Goose

Poetry by Amy Wang.


Reflections From A Maternity Leave: The Complex History Of Beaver Dam Flats And Refinery Park, Emily Ursuliak 2023 N/A

Reflections From A Maternity Leave: The Complex History Of Beaver Dam Flats And Refinery Park, Emily Ursuliak

The Goose

A personal essay reflecting on my relationship with Refinery Park and Beaver Dam Flats in light of its complex history.


Falling Into Action, Kent Hoffman 2023 n/a

Falling Into Action, Kent Hoffman

The Goose

Kent Hoffman explores human movement, his own mobility, and how it influences the way he moves on land. This personal essay, told through the lens of disability and accessibility, outlines his experience of living with Becker muscular dystrophy. Hoffman's approach to walking and mobility is heavily influenced by a fear of falling. As his mobility is changing, he's adapting and seeking out new ways to move on land. Different modes of mobility determine the way we experience personal movement, but accessibility determines who is welcome in spaces in the first place. Accessibility in the form of providing equal access is …


Surface Tension, Kerry Ryan 2023 University of Winnipeg

Surface Tension, Kerry Ryan

The Goose

"Surface Tension" is a piece of creative nonfiction by Kerry Ryan.


When A Saunter Starts To Taunt Her: Exploring The Outdoors With Disabilities, Jessica Cory 2023 Western Carolina University

When A Saunter Starts To Taunt Her: Exploring The Outdoors With Disabilities, Jessica Cory

The Goose

This first-person creative nonfiction piece examines engaging with the outdoors, primarily through walking and hiking, while struggling with diagnoses of Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos (hEDS) and Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS). The author also considers how growing up with a parent whose disabilities made it more difficult to enjoy hikes impacted her own perception of the ableism inherent in the design, architecture, and infrastructure of many state and local parks. The author discusses the importance and struggle of teaching environmental literature through the lens of Disability Studies and advocates both for visibility as well as concrete changes to make hiking and sauntering …


Two Poems, Nicholas Bradley 2023 University of Victoria

Two Poems, Nicholas Bradley

The Goose

Poetry by Nicholas Bradley


Fungi Moves, Night Crawler, Tree Futures, Petra Kuppers 2023 University of Michigan

Fungi Moves, Night Crawler, Tree Futures, Petra Kuppers

The Goose

Three Gothic Eco-Poems by Petra Kuppers.


On Foot, dee Hobsbawn-Smith 2023 alumna, University of Saskatchewan

On Foot, Dee Hobsbawn-Smith

The Goose

“On Foot” is an interdisciplinary examination of the importance of walking and running to the creative life. It is primarily a personal essay braided together with free verse poetry and a small proportion of inquiry into a few famous thinkers and writers who walked regularly. The essay traces a serious foot injury and the effects of that trauma, coupled with the threat of loss of sight, on a writer with a long history of walking and running as part of their creative process. The five poems unspool the sights and sounds of the natural rural world where they walk daily, …


Co-Editors Notes: Moving On Land? Choose Your Instrument, Tanis MacDonald, Ariel Gordon 2023 Wilfrid Laurier University

Co-Editors Notes: Moving On Land? Choose Your Instrument, Tanis Macdonald, Ariel Gordon

The Goose

Editorial Introduction to The Goose Volume 20, Issue 1 (2023).


Sun In Eponymous Glasses: Two Poems, Angela Hibbs 2023 Trent University

Sun In Eponymous Glasses: Two Poems, Angela Hibbs

The Goose

Scintillating nature imagery captured in nouns.


Bindweed, Leanne M.R. Charette 2023 University of Waterloo, Waterloo

Bindweed, Leanne M.R. Charette

The Goose

Poetry by Leanne Charette.


Baby Steps, Amy Neufeld 2023 Wilfrid Laurier University

Baby Steps, Amy Neufeld

The Goose

A creative non-fiction piece about childbirth and walking, situating the self and the new child, and climate anxiety and fear for the future.


Pink Telephone, Gary Barwin 2023 Niagara Regional Rhyme Gland Laboratory

Pink Telephone, Gary Barwin

The Goose

"Pink Telephone" is a psychogeographical exploration of walking in woods considering ideas of communication and internal monologues and situating oneself and one's place in community.


Before Showtime, Amy Kaler 2023 University of Alberta

Before Showtime, Amy Kaler

The Goose

In this piece of creative nonfiction, I reflect on the experience of having time on my hands in peri-urban spaces that are characterized by transience, liminality, and contingency, while waiting for performance time at youth cheerleading competitions. I describe walking around these places, specifically Las Vegas and Abbotsford (BC). I connect my experience to other accounts of aimless wandering, such as the "derive" of psychogeography, and note the ways in which the exercises of power and potential world-ending catastrophe are present, but latent, in these landscapes. In particular, I consider the historic cold-war threat of a nuclear bomb as well …


Memories Of Hope And Loss: “Kerhi Maa Ne Bhagat Singh Jameya”, Sheher Bano 2023 University of Massachusetts Amherst

Memories Of Hope And Loss: “Kerhi Maa Ne Bhagat Singh Jameya”, Sheher Bano

Masters Theses

My Masters thesis focuses on socialist Indian freedom fighter Bhagat Singh’s memory in contemporary Pakistani Punjab. I use the analytical category of memory to argue that Bhagat Singh is invoked by various groups and individuals, specifically those who identify as leftists or Marxists, in contemporary Pakistan to serve a range of political purposes. My analysis particularly sheds light on how activists and writers use the figure of Bhagat Singh to highlight the erasure of regional and lingual identities in Pakistan. Their remembrances underline a perceived historical injustice; the imposition of a national identity based on Urdu language and Sunni Muslim-ness, …


Inclement, Susan Wismer 2023 University of Waterloo (retired)

Inclement, Susan Wismer

The Goose

"Inclement," by Susan Wismer, is from Hageography:

Hagios, a Greek word for holy.

Hag, an old woman. Hag, an overhang at the edge of a cliff

Rough notes. Foot notes. Choreographies of happenstance.


Elegy For The Fall(En), Nicole Warchol 2023 David Brearley Middle / High School

Elegy For The Fall(En), Nicole Warchol

New Jersey English Journal

No abstract provided.


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