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We Go Far Back In Time: The Letters Of Earle Birney And Al Purdy Edited By Nicholas Bradley, Matthew Zantingh 2016 Briercrest College

We Go Far Back In Time: The Letters Of Earle Birney And Al Purdy Edited By Nicholas Bradley, Matthew Zantingh

The Goose

Review of We Go Far Back in Time: The Letters of Earle Birney and Al Purdy, edited by Nicholas Bradley.


Endangered Hydrocarbons By Lesley Battler, Michael D. Sloane 2016 Fanshawe College

Endangered Hydrocarbons By Lesley Battler, Michael D. Sloane

The Goose

A review of Lesley Battler's Endangered Hydrocarbons.


Stowaways By Ariel Gordon, Gillian Harding-Russell 2016 University of Saskatchewan

Stowaways By Ariel Gordon, Gillian Harding-Russell

The Goose

Review of Ariel Gordon's Stowaways.


Sustaining The West: Cultural Responses To Canadian Environments Edited By Liza Piper & Lisa Szabo-Jones, Shelley L. McEuen 2016 College of Southern Idaho

Sustaining The West: Cultural Responses To Canadian Environments Edited By Liza Piper & Lisa Szabo-Jones, Shelley L. Mceuen

The Goose

Review of Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments.


Ground Truthing: Reimagining The Indigenous Rainforests Of Bc’S North Coast By Derrick Stacey Denholm, Carleigh Baker 2016 Writer

Ground Truthing: Reimagining The Indigenous Rainforests Of Bc’S North Coast By Derrick Stacey Denholm, Carleigh Baker

The Goose

Review of Derrick Stacey Denholm's Ground Truthing: Reimagining the Indigenous Rainforests of BC’s North Coast.


The Grey Islands By John Steffler, Robert M.W. Brown 2016 York University

The Grey Islands By John Steffler, Robert M.W. Brown

The Goose

Review of John Steffler's The Grey Islands.


On Voice In Poetry: The Work Of Animation By David Nowell Smith, Rebecca E. Varley-Winter 2016 University of Oxford

On Voice In Poetry: The Work Of Animation By David Nowell Smith, Rebecca E. Varley-Winter

The Goose

A review of On Voice In Poetry: The Work of Animation, by David Nowell Smith.


Earth Joy Writing: Creating Harmony Through Journaling And Nature By Cassie Premo Steele, Anne Milne 2016 University of Toronto Scarborough

Earth Joy Writing: Creating Harmony Through Journaling And Nature By Cassie Premo Steele, Anne Milne

The Goose

Review of Cassie Premo Steele's Earth Joy Writing.


Field Notes For The Alpine Tundra By Elena Johnson, Claire Caldwell 2016 Wilfrid Laurier University

Field Notes For The Alpine Tundra By Elena Johnson, Claire Caldwell

The Goose

Review of Elena Johnson's poetry collection, Field Notes for the Alpine Tundra.


Second Growth By Fabienne Calvert Filteau, Josephine M. Massarella 2016 Independent Scholar

Second Growth By Fabienne Calvert Filteau, Josephine M. Massarella

The Goose

Review of Second Growth by Fabienne Calvert Filteau.


Cabalcor: An Extracted History By Sun Belt, Alec Follett 2016 University of Guelph

Cabalcor: An Extracted History By Sun Belt, Alec Follett

The Goose

Review of Sun Belt's Cabalcor: An Extracted History.


Devil In Deerskins: My Life With Grey Owl By Anahareo, Patricia K. Mitton 2016 University of British Columbia Okanagan

Devil In Deerskins: My Life With Grey Owl By Anahareo, Patricia K. Mitton

The Goose

Review of Anaharea's Devil in Deerskins: My Life with Grey Owl.


As If A Raven By Yvonne Blomer, Kelly Shepherd 2016 UBC Okanagan

As If A Raven By Yvonne Blomer, Kelly Shepherd

The Goose

A review of As if a Raven by Yvonne Blomer.


Invasive Species By Claire Caldwell, Emily McGiffin 2016 York University

Invasive Species By Claire Caldwell, Emily Mcgiffin

The Goose

A review of Claire Caldwell's debut poetry collection, Invasive Species.


Frye As Forefather?: The Bush Garden And Canadian Ecocriticism, Matthew Zantingh 2016 Briercrest College

Frye As Forefather?: The Bush Garden And Canadian Ecocriticism, Matthew Zantingh

The Goose

This review considers the importance of Northrop Frye's collection of writings on Canada in The Bush Garden from an ecocritical perspective. It asks how Frye's thinking remains problematic but might also be re-engaged from a contemporary perspective.


Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? By Philip K. Dick, Joshua Schuster 2016 Western University

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? By Philip K. Dick, Joshua Schuster

The Goose

A retrospective review of Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?


Dead And Out Of Place? Revisiting Roughing It In The Bush, Elise J. Mitchell 2016 University of Quebec, Chicoutimi

Dead And Out Of Place? Revisiting Roughing It In The Bush, Elise J. Mitchell

The Goose

Review of Susanna Moodie's Roughing It in the Bush.


Honk If You Love Book Reviews! Looking Back At 10 Years Of Book Reviews In The Goose, Amanda M. Di Battista 2016 York University

Honk If You Love Book Reviews! Looking Back At 10 Years Of Book Reviews In The Goose, Amanda M. Di Battista

The Goose

This editorial looks back at 10 years of book reviews in The Goose to consider how book reviews have helped to shape the landscape of Canadian ecocriticism. It also looks forward to suggest how book reviews will continue to be an integral part of The Goose.


Summer Sunlight And A Blackness Ten Times Black: Nathaniel Hawthorne's Problem Of Sin, Kaitlyn Lindgren 2016 Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

Summer Sunlight And A Blackness Ten Times Black: Nathaniel Hawthorne's Problem Of Sin, Kaitlyn Lindgren

Religion: Student Scholarship & Creative Works

Nathaniel Hawthorne has typically been understood as an anti-Puritan. However, much of his work suggests that he was not rejecting Puritanism. Rather, Hawthorne was using narrative to deconstruct the doctrinal dichotomies of Puritanism and Unitarianism, which were prevalent during his lifetime.


Wandering In Contemporary Literature: A Narrative Theory Of Cognition, Hillel E. Broder 2016 CUNY Graduate Center

Wandering In Contemporary Literature: A Narrative Theory Of Cognition, Hillel E. Broder

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This study offers a theory of wandering cognition as an animating feature of western literature, in general, and of contemporary literature, in particular. Unlike existing theories of peripatetic bodies and minds in fiction that focus primarily on political critiques, cultural practices, or pleasures of digression, this theory of wandering offers an aesthetic philosophy and ethical critique of representing cognition, memory, and narrative identity that finds affinities in the political, phenomenological, and ethical thought of Walter Benjamin, Emmanuel Levinas, and Giorgio Agamben.

Unlike existing cognitive theories of literature that apply cognitive theory to literary study (or vice versa), this study develops …


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