The Politics Of The Pantry: Stories, Food, And Social Change By Michael Mikulak,
2015
McGill University
The Politics Of The Pantry: Stories, Food, And Social Change By Michael Mikulak, Mariève Isabel
The Goose
Review of Michael Mikulak's Politics of the Pantry: Stories, Food, and Social Change.
Thinking With Water Edited By Cecilia Ming Si Chen, Janine Macleod And Astrida Neimanis,
2015
Uppsala Universitet
Thinking With Water Edited By Cecilia Ming Si Chen, Janine Macleod And Astrida Neimanis, Ryan Palmer
The Goose
A review of the edited collection Thinking with Water (Chen, MacLeod, Neimanis) which addresses the place of water in our daily lives, cultural imagination, and ecological systems.
Born Naked By Farley Mowat,
2015
University of California, Davis
Born Naked By Farley Mowat, Ted Geier
The Goose
Farley Mowat's charming childhood memoir covers the usual Mowat terrain: riotous humour, humble reverence, and a meticulous accounting of the little things that make life--all life--dear to us. Mowat's work deserves regular attention in animal studies and environmental literary studies. His autobiographical techniques, as this review suggests, can be both assets and occasional impediments. But there is no replacing or replicating a Farley Mowat, and Born Naked deserves to be read immediately and repeatedly as one of the lasting legacies of a long life, well-lived.
Grains. Monsanto Contre Schmeiser D'Annabel Soutar,
2015
McGill University
Grains. Monsanto Contre Schmeiser D'Annabel Soutar, Mariève Isabel
The Goose
Compte-rendu de Grains. Monsanto contre Schmeiser d'Annabel Soutar.
High Clear Bell Of Morning By Ann Eriksson,
2015
Saint Francis University
High Clear Bell Of Morning By Ann Eriksson, Lauri Chose
The Goose
Review of Ann Eriksson's High Clear Bell of Morning.
The Fragility Of Things: Self-Organizing Processes, Neoliberal Fantasies, And Democratic Activism By William E. Connolly,
2015
York University
The Fragility Of Things: Self-Organizing Processes, Neoliberal Fantasies, And Democratic Activism By William E. Connolly, Brian Mccormack
The Goose
Review of William E. Connolly's The Fragility of Things: Self-Organizing Processes, Neoliberal Fantasies, and Democratic Activism.
Animals Among Us: The Lives Of Humans And Animals In Contemporary American Fiction Edited By John Yunker,
2015
University of North Texas
Animals Among Us: The Lives Of Humans And Animals In Contemporary American Fiction Edited By John Yunker, Ashley E. Reis
The Goose
Review of Animals Among Us: The Lives of Humans and Animals in Contemporary American Fiction, edited by John Yunker.
Masculindians: Conversations About Indigenous Manhood By Sam Mckegney,
2015
University of British Columbia, Okangan
Masculindians: Conversations About Indigenous Manhood By Sam Mckegney, P. Kelly Mitton
The Goose
Review of Sam McKegney’s Masculindians: Conversations About Indigenous Manhood.
Notes On How To Rework A Ph.D. Dissertation For Publication As A Book,
2015
Purdue University
Notes On How To Rework A Ph.D. Dissertation For Publication As A Book, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek
CLCWeb Library
No abstract provided.
A Lost Collection Of Robert Burns Manuscripts: Sir Alfred Law, Davidson Cook, And The Honresfield Collection,
2015
University of South Carolina - Columbia
A Lost Collection Of Robert Burns Manuscripts: Sir Alfred Law, Davidson Cook, And The Honresfield Collection, Patrick G. Scott
Faculty Publications
This essay traces the formation by William Law of Littlesborough, Lancashire, of a major collection of literary manuscripts and books, including works by Robert Burns, the Brontes, and Walter Scott; recounts the unlikely role in the 1920s of Davidson Cook, a cooperative society manager from Barnsley, in encouraging the then-owner Sir Alfred Law, M.P., of Honresfield House, to make the collections available for scholarly use; summarizes available information on the partial dispersal of the collection in the late 20s and early 1930s, and the disappearance after Sir Alfred's death in 1939 of much of the collection, including major items; and …
Dark Matter: Susan Howe, Muriel Rukeyser, And The Scholar's Art,
2015
CUNY Graduate Center
Dark Matter: Susan Howe, Muriel Rukeyser, And The Scholar's Art, Stefania Heim
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Instead of describing poetry as a set of constraints or history of practices, Muriel Rukeyser calls it "one kind of knowledge." Dark Matter heeds Rukeyser's call, theorizing a poetics of the "scholar's art," in which documentary investigation, autobiographical exploration, and formal innovation are mutual, interwoven concerns. The dissertation pairs American poets Susan Howe (b. 1937) and Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980), reading their hybrid works not through the received categories of American poetry, or through common generic and disciplinary divisions, but using an inductive methodology that takes its lead from the poets. Understanding Howe and Rukeyser's literary experiments as serious interventions in …
Loosening The Critical Corset: New Approaches To The Short Fiction Of Kate Chopin And Ruth Stuart,
2015
CUNY Graduate Center
Loosening The Critical Corset: New Approaches To The Short Fiction Of Kate Chopin And Ruth Stuart, Kathryn Erin O'Donoghue
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
My dissertation uses the works and lives of two popular late-nineteenth-century writers, Ruth McEnery Stuart and Kate Chopin, as a heuristic to solve the literary mystery of how "fiction by women" became "women's fiction." While feminist scholars resuscitated Chopin, Stuart remains ignored. The realism and irony of Chopin's novel The Awakening resonate with modern readers, but the sentimental aspects of Stuart's work and Chopin's short fiction remain problematic. The aesthetic movements of realism and naturalism influenced literary taste to the extent that sentimentalism is anathema to contemporary critics. I participate in recent scholarship that explores how sentimentalism has been used …
The American Aspasia: The Woman Lecturer In American Women's Rights Fiction, 1839-1915,
2015
CUNY Graduate Center
The American Aspasia: The Woman Lecturer In American Women's Rights Fiction, 1839-1915, Angela Ridinger-Dotterman
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation is the first comprehensive study of the figure of the woman lecturer/speaker that appeared in American women's rights fiction in the period between 1839 and 1915. I argue that examining the figure of the woman lecturer/ speaker in a wide variety of texts and over an extended period of history reveals that the figure served as a dynamic vehicle for women writers to advance a broad range of social and political interests; writing in a social and historical context that discouraged women's participation in public speech, women authors used fiction as a rhetorical space to articulate different visions …
The Literary Legacy Of The Federal Writers' Project,
2015
CUNY Graduate Center
The Literary Legacy Of The Federal Writers' Project, Sara Rendene Rutkowski
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Established by President Roosevelt in 1935 as part of the New Deal, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) put thousands of unemployed professionals to work documenting American life during the Depression. Federal writers--many of whom would become famous, including Ralph Ellison, Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Margaret Walker, and Dorothy West--collected reams of oral histories and folklore, and produced hundreds of guides to cities and states across the country. Yet, despite both the Project's extraordinary volume of writing and its unprecedented support for writers, few critics have examined it from a literary perspective. Instead, the FWP has …
Fiction In Fact And Fact In Fiction In The Writing Of Joyce Carol Oates,
2015
Aix Marseille Université, LERMA EA 853
Fiction In Fact And Fact In Fiction In The Writing Of Joyce Carol Oates, Tanya L. Tromble
Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies
Joyce Carol Oates draws extensively on news stories, as well as on elements of her own family’s past, to find inspiration for her works of fiction. She has written about the Chappaquiddick incident involving Ted Kennedy and the JonBenet Ramsay murder case. She has worked the Niagara Falls Love Canal environmental scandal into the framework of The Falls and taken inspiration from sordid events from her own family’s past in the beginning of The Gravedigger’s Daughter. However, in none of these examples does Oates purport to relate the precise real-life “facts” of the historical events. Indeed, for an author …
Review Of The Sacrifice,
2015
LonesomeReader Blog
Review Of The Sacrifice, Eric K. Anderson
Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies
Review of Joyce Carol Oates's novel The Sacrifice focusing on how racial politics in America can transform individuals into symbols, erasing their human complexity.
The Oil Man And The Sea: Navigating The Northern Gateway By Arno Kopecky,
2015
Concordia University, Montreal
The Oil Man And The Sea: Navigating The Northern Gateway By Arno Kopecky, Patricia H. Audette-Longo
The Goose
Review of Arno Kopecky's The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway.
Imperiling Our Children: An Interview With Fred Stenson About Who By Fire,
2015
University of Alberta
Imperiling Our Children: An Interview With Fred Stenson About Who By Fire, Jon Gordon
The Goose
This interview with Alberta novelist Fred Stenson focuses on his most recent novel, Who By Fire. The discussion examines the role of environmentalists and the legal system in responding to the oil and gas industry in Alberta, as well as other issues connected to Stenson's work.
The Dove In Bathurst Station By Patricia Westerhof,
2015
Briercrest College
The Dove In Bathurst Station By Patricia Westerhof, Matthew Zantingh
The Goose
Review of Patricia Westerhof's The Dove in Bathurst Station.
Invisible Dogs By Barry Dempster,
2015
Western University
Invisible Dogs By Barry Dempster, David Huebert
The Goose
Review of Barry Dempster's Invisible Dogs.
