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Niche By Basma Kavanagh, Vivian M. Hansen 2017 University of Calgary

Niche By Basma Kavanagh, Vivian M. Hansen

The Goose

Review of Basma Kavanagh's Niche.


Anthropocene Or Capitalocene? Nature, History, And The Crisis Of Capitalism Edited By Jason W. Moore, Robert M.W. Brown 2017 York University

Anthropocene Or Capitalocene? Nature, History, And The Crisis Of Capitalism Edited By Jason W. Moore, Robert M.W. Brown

The Goose

Review of Jason W. Moore's Capitalocene or Anthropocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism


Among Animals 2 Edited By John Yunker, Gina M. Granter 2017 Dawson College

Among Animals 2 Edited By John Yunker, Gina M. Granter

The Goose

Review of John Yunker's Among Animals 2.


Omnivore Perspectives Of Food And Cultural Identity In Digging To America, Alisha Salvador 2017 Wilfrid Laurier University

Omnivore Perspectives Of Food And Cultural Identity In Digging To America, Alisha Salvador

Laurier Undergraduate Journal of the Arts

No abstract provided.


Growing Up And Living In Shades Of Grey: Ambiguity, Carnival, And The Bildungsroman In Elizabeth Smart’S By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept, Matthew Benoit 2017 Wilfrid Laurier University

Growing Up And Living In Shades Of Grey: Ambiguity, Carnival, And The Bildungsroman In Elizabeth Smart’S By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept, Matthew Benoit

Laurier Undergraduate Journal of the Arts

No abstract provided.


Manifestly Haraway By Donna J. Haraway, Andrew Gordon Jeffrey 2017 Sheffield Hallam University

Manifestly Haraway By Donna J. Haraway, Andrew Gordon Jeffrey

The Goose

Review of Donna J. Haraway's Manifestly Haraway.


The Girls On Campus, Elizabeth S. Wurdak 2017 College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University

The Girls On Campus, Elizabeth S. Wurdak

Headwaters

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The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards A Greener Future By David R. Boyd, Janet Grafton 2017 University of Northern British Columbia

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


What Would Animals Say If We Asked The Right Questions? By Vinciane Despret, Nathan Tebokkel 2017 University of British Columbia

What Would Animals Say If We Asked The Right Questions? By Vinciane Despret, Nathan Tebokkel

The Goose

Review of Vinciane Despret's What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?


A Desolate Splendor By John Jantunen, Jeremy Luke Hill 2017 Vocamus Press

A Desolate Splendor By John Jantunen, Jeremy Luke Hill

The Goose

Review of John Jantunen's A Desolate Splendor.


Crow Never Dies By Larry Frolick, Kelly Shepherd 2017 Northern Alberta Institute of Technology

Crow Never Dies By Larry Frolick, Kelly Shepherd

The Goose

Review of Larry Frolick's Crow Never Dies.


The Duende Of Tetherball By Tim Bowling, Gillian Harding-Russell 2017 University of Saskatchewan

The Duende Of Tetherball By Tim Bowling, Gillian Harding-Russell

The Goose

Review of Tim Bowling's The Duende of Tetherball.


Literary Land Claims: The “Indian Land Question” From Pontiac’S War To Attawapiskat By Margery Fee, Cheryl Lousley 2017 Lakehead University Orillia

Literary Land Claims: The “Indian Land Question” From Pontiac’S War To Attawapiskat By Margery Fee, Cheryl Lousley

The Goose

Review of Margery Fee's Literary Land Claims: The “Indian Land Question” from Pontiac’s War to Attawapiskat.


Towards A Prairie Atonement By Trevor Herriot, Gillian Harding-Russell 2017 University of Saskatchewan

Towards A Prairie Atonement By Trevor Herriot, Gillian Harding-Russell

The Goose

Review of Trevor Herriot's Towards a Prairie Atonement.


Hill By Jean Giono, Jody L. Ballah 2017 University of Cincinnati - Blue Ash College

Hill By Jean Giono, Jody L. Ballah

The Goose

A review of Jean Giono's Hill.


Arnold Whitridge: Scholar And Veteran Of Two Armies And Two Wars, Keith J. Muchowski 2017 CUNY New York City College of Technology

Arnold Whitridge: Scholar And Veteran Of Two Armies And Two Wars, Keith J. Muchowski

Publications and Research

This is an invited blog post written for Roads to the Great War, a site dedicated to the study of the First World War edited by historian Mike Hanlon. The article discusses the life and career of Arnold Whitridge, a soldier, scholar and grandson of British poet Matthew Arnold.

This is the url:

http://roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com/2017/01/arnold-whitridge-scholar-and-veteran-of.html


Review Of Joyce Carol Oates's Soul At The White Heat, Eric K. Anderson 2017 LonesomeReader Blog

Review Of Joyce Carol Oates's Soul At The White Heat, Eric K. Anderson

Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies

A review of Joyce Carol Oates's anthology Soul at the White Heat considering the author's prolific nature, approach to criticism and inspiration for the writing life.


Celestial Timepiece: Randy Souther Interviewed By Caroline Marquette And Tanya Tromble-Giraud, Randy Souther 2017 University of San Francisco

Celestial Timepiece: Randy Souther Interviewed By Caroline Marquette And Tanya Tromble-Giraud, Randy Souther

Gleeson Library Faculty and Staff Research and Scholarship

An interview with the creator of the website Celestial Timepiece discussing Joyce Carol Oates's literary career and the web project documenting that career.

The interview was the basis for a chapter in the Joyce Carol Oates volume of the Cahiers de L’Herne—a French monographic series dedicated to the critical appraisal of world-renowned authors, and providing texts, letters, testimonies, and photographs as well as scholarly work by specialists in the subject. The aim of the series is to offer in-depth reference books on major authors and thus to contribute to a better understanding of the authors and their work in …


Seeing The God Of New Mexico: Mary Austin's Starry Adventure And The Optic Of Enchantment, Olivia Jayne Mann 2017 University of Denver

Seeing The God Of New Mexico: Mary Austin's Starry Adventure And The Optic Of Enchantment, Olivia Jayne Mann

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines 20th century American writer Mary Austin's last novel, Starry Adventure (1931), a work unjustly ignored by most Austin scholars, yet touted by the photographer Ansel Adams (in a letter to Austin) as "the greatest thing I have ever read." This thesis will be particularly concerned with the concept of vision in the novel and the connections between Austin's fiction and the New Mexican modernism/primitivism movement in the visual arts. I explore what I call Austin's "optic of enchantment," a visual experience of divinity that is uniquely tied to the New Mexican landscape. I break down this optic …


Catholic Literary Theory: The Conditional Existentialism Of Four Protagonists And Their Creators, Jacob Patrick Pride 2017 University of Denver

Catholic Literary Theory: The Conditional Existentialism Of Four Protagonists And Their Creators, Jacob Patrick Pride

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

According to Catholic literary theory, the novelist, like the Divine Mystery to a certain extent, creates her characters freely and free with the possibility and probability that they may speak against their creator and even finally rebel. This dissertation reflects upon the relative infiniteness of four literary authors - Flannery O'Connor, Mary McCarthy, Walker Percy, and Cormac McCarthy. In the three novels and one imaginative memoir considered in particular, these authors create their existentialist protagonists, who in their turn reflect the conditional existentialism of their creators. This dissertation, thus, seeks to resurrect, with modern sensibilities, the pre-renaissance and renaissance commonplace …


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