Facing The Wreck: Death, Optimism, And The Fragmented Form,
2014
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Facing The Wreck: Death, Optimism, And The Fragmented Form, Rachael Marie Schaffner
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Walter Benjamin described history as a winged angel who faces backwards, staring perpetually into the past as the violent winds of destiny carry him into the future (Illuminations). Despite a western, post-enlightenment myth of eternal progress, the wreckage of human contributions to history is clearly evident in our 21st-century understanding of anthropogenic impact on global ecology. In the context of these ecological crises (and the resulting political and economic questions), postmodern novels reveal a powerful ability to imagine different ways of living and interacting with the world. This thesis traces the relationship between fragmentation, death, and liminal experiences …
Salman Rushdie In The Postmodern Current: New Venues, New Values,
2014
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Salman Rushdie In The Postmodern Current: New Venues, New Values, Aya Akkawi
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The aim of this study is to prove that Rushdie's recent novels are not postcolonial in the sense that they abandon the colonial/colonized binary, the embrace of hybridity, and the theme of undermining the coercion and domination of the colonial country assumed in postcolonial discourse. Instead, his recent fiction is labeled postmodern because it is filled with exuberant postmodern techniques such as historiographic metafiction, the hegemony of mode of productions, the postmodern fragmented self, and suspicions of grand narrative. Furthermore, I will argue that there is an association between Rushdie's postmodern narrative technique (his mixing of history and fantasy) and …
Agent Red: Fashioning Agency In Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale,
2014
Oglethorpe University
Agent Red: Fashioning Agency In Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Christopher M. Yalen
Oglethorpe Journal of Undergraduate Research
In Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, we are introduced to a dystopian patriarchal society named Gilead, where women are relegated to the roles of wife, servant, and surrogate. Although the men of Gilead have built this society with men at the top, the women of the novel show a surprising amount of agency within their own spheres of influence. So the question remains: who is really in control of Gilead? While men are certainly remain the figureheads of power in The Handmaid's Tale, we find that the women of the novel have copious influence within their own realms, …
Expanding The Circle: New Poets To The Goose,
2014
University of British Columbia
Expanding The Circle: New Poets To The Goose, Sonnet L'Abbé
The Goose
An introduction to the poets whose work appears in The Goose for the first time in this issue.
Wild Life,
2014
Wilfrid Laurier University
Wild Life, Jordan Abel
The Goose
Poetry by Jordan Abel. This poem is composed from 91 public domain Western novels that are freely available on Project Gutenberg. In total, the source text is over 10,000 pages long and is authored by 20 different writers. When all of the novels were searched simultaneously, there were 41 instances of the phrase "wild life." The resulting poem provides a contextual space where the language of a single word or phrase can be read.
Reading Nostalgia, Anger, And The Home In Joyce Carol Oates’S Foxfire,
2014
Lakehead University
Reading Nostalgia, Anger, And The Home In Joyce Carol Oates’S Foxfire, Heather A. Hillsburg
Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies
This article draws from Svetlana Boym’s concept of reflective nostalgia to explore the intersections between violence, memory, and the home in Joyce Carol Oates’s novel Foxfire. Through reflective nostalgia, Maddy is able to link the abuse she and her friends endure to various iterations of the home. Reflective nostalgia also allows Maddy to draw connections between anger and the domestic realm, and to write the members of FOXFIRE back into dominant narratives that largely exclude their lived experiences. Ultimately, this paper argues that because nostalgia often centers on the home, it is ideally suited to foreground the untenable nature …
Review Of Marya: A Life,
2014
LonesomeReader Blog
Review Of Marya: A Life, Eric K. Anderson
Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies
Review of Joyce Carol Oates' novel Marya: A Life considering the autobiographical content and exploration of self in the narrative.
Perdita By Hilary Scharper,
2014
Wilfrid Laurier University
Perdita By Hilary Scharper, Nicole Bartley
The Goose
Review of Perdita by Hilary Scharper.
The Resurrection Of Joseph Bourne: Or A Word Or Two On Those Port Annie Miracles By Jack Hodgins,
2014
University of British Columbia, Okanagan
The Resurrection Of Joseph Bourne: Or A Word Or Two On Those Port Annie Miracles By Jack Hodgins, Dania Tomlinson
The Goose
Review of The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne: Or a Word or Two on Those Port Annie Miracles by Jack Hodgins.
Brilliant Falls By John Terpstra And Placeholder By Charmaine Cadeau,
2014
McMaster University
Brilliant Falls By John Terpstra And Placeholder By Charmaine Cadeau, Matthew Zantingh
The Goose
Review of Brilliant Falls by John Terpstra and placeholder by Charmaine Cadeau.
Ocean By Sue Goyette And Timely Irreverence By Jay Millar,
2014
University College Roosevelt, Utrecht University
Ocean By Sue Goyette And Timely Irreverence By Jay Millar, Chad Weidner
The Goose
Review of Ocean by Sue Goyette and Timely Irreverence by Jay MillAr.
The Lease By Mathew Henderson,
2014
University of Alberta
The Lease By Mathew Henderson, Jon Gordon
The Goose
Review of The Lease by Mathew Henderson.
The Memory Of Water By Allen Smutylo And Traveling The 38th Parallel: A Water Line Around The World By David Carle And Janet Carle,
2014
University of Saskatchewan
The Memory Of Water By Allen Smutylo And Traveling The 38th Parallel: A Water Line Around The World By David Carle And Janet Carle, Sandy M. Bonny
The Goose
Review of The Memory of Water by Allen Smutylo and Traveling the 38th Parallel: A Water Line Around the World by David Carle and Janet Carle.
Feminism, The Left, And Postwar Literary Culture By Kathlene Mcdonald (Review),
2014
CUNY Graduate Center
Feminism, The Left, And Postwar Literary Culture By Kathlene Mcdonald (Review), Danica Savonick
Publications and Research
Reviews the book Feminism, the Left, and Postwar Literary Culture by Kathlene McDonald,University of Mississippi Press, 2012.
From Pastorals To Paterson: Ecology In The Poetry And Poetics Of William Carlos Williams,
2014
Marquette University
From Pastorals To Paterson: Ecology In The Poetry And Poetics Of William Carlos Williams, Daniel Edmund Burke
Dissertations (1934 -)
Modernist poet William Carlos Williams died in 1962 - a landmark year in the history of the modern environmentalist movement. He did not live to see contemporary culture come to the deeper appreciation of humanity's place in the world which we now know as ecology. This dissertation will argue, however, that supporting his entire oeuvre of poetry are philosophical and poetic underpinnings which resonate strongly with - and usefully anticipate - our modern understanding of the interpenetrative relationship between natural and culture, human and nonhuman. I begin by tracing the roots of Williams's "ecopoetics" back to the father of Williams's …
The Blindness Of An Invisible Man: An Exploration Of Ellison’S Female Characters,
2014
Maryville College
The Blindness Of An Invisible Man: An Exploration Of Ellison’S Female Characters, Madison Elkins
Pursuit - The Journal of Undergraduate Research at The University of Tennessee
Questions have long been raised about the female characters in Invisible Man who often appear to be objectified or stereotyped. Especially in light of Ellison’s professed opinions against the dangers of stereotyping as minority oppression, the depiction of his female characters seems to be fundamentally hypocritical. It is the dominant critical opinion among feminist scholars that Ellison’s treatment of female characters is not only hopelessly misogynistic, but, more importantly, undermines the telos of the novel and enervates its social claims. While it is a valid exercise to analyze Ellison’s female characters in this way, this opinion fails in two critical …
The Once And Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be By J.B. Mackinnon,
2014
University of Calgary
The Once And Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be By J.B. Mackinnon, Pamela Banting
The Goose
Review of The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be by J.B. MacKinnon.
Everything, Now By Jessica Moore And Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain By Russell Thornton,
2014
University of British Columbia, Okanagan
Everything, Now By Jessica Moore And Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain By Russell Thornton, Kelly Dean Shepherd
The Goose
Review of Everything, Now by Jessica Moore and Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain by Russell Thornton.
Living Through The End Of Nature: The Future Of American Environmentalism By Paul Wapner,
2014
Western University
Living Through The End Of Nature: The Future Of American Environmentalism By Paul Wapner, Taylor Kraayenbrink
The Goose
Review of Living Through The End of Nature: The Future of American Environmentalism by Paul Wapner.
Parks, Peace And Partnership: Global Initiatives In Transboundary Conservation Edited By Michael S. Quinn, Len Broberg, And Wayne Freimund,
2014
Wilfrid Laurier University
Parks, Peace And Partnership: Global Initiatives In Transboundary Conservation Edited By Michael S. Quinn, Len Broberg, And Wayne Freimund, Fenn Stewart
The Goose
Review of Parks, Peace and Partnership: Global Initiatives in Transboundary Conservation edited by Michael S. Quinn, Len Broberg, and Wayne Freimund.
