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.
Humanesis By David Cecchetto,
2014
University of British Columbia
Humanesis By David Cecchetto, Max Ritts
The Goose
Review of Humanesis by David Cecchetto.
Stories In A New Skin: Approaches To Inuit Literature By Keavy Martin,
2014
University of California, Santa Cruz
Stories In A New Skin: Approaches To Inuit Literature By Keavy Martin, Allison K. Athens
The Goose
Review of Stories in a New Skin: Approaches to Inuit Literature by Keavy Martin.
X: Poems & Anti-Poems By Shane Rhodes,
2014
University of Calgary
X: Poems & Anti-Poems By Shane Rhodes, Tom Miller
The Goose
A review of Shane Rhodes' X: Poems & Anti-Poems. This review focuses on the link between language and landscape, and considers the ways in which that link, reflected in Rhodes' work, comments upon the use of language as an oppressive tool in the treatment of Native Americans and Canadians.
Rendering The Unthinkable: (Un)Knowable Animality, Compulsory Recovery, And Heterosexualized Trauma In The Hunger Games,
2014
CUNY Graduate Center
Rendering The Unthinkable: (Un)Knowable Animality, Compulsory Recovery, And Heterosexualized Trauma In The Hunger Games, Jennifer Polish
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Dystopian fiction is expected to reflect deeply on the interactions between identities, bodies, and state control. Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games Trilogy is no exception. The disturbing trilogy situated animality, disability, and trauma (both of non-humans and of humans) as being firmly controlled by the power of the state (the Capitol). Through its portrayal of hunting and genetic manipulation, the trilogy constructed a state-created animality which refused definitive labeling and insisted upon facing animal subjectivity while simultaneously disregarding the needs and desires of those considered to be non-human. Similarly, the state held sway over both the creation and elimination of …
"For The Voices": The Letters Of John Wieners,
2014
CUNY Graduate Center
"For The Voices": The Letters Of John Wieners, Michael Seth Stewart
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
American poet John Wieners is thoroughly disenfranchised from the modern poetic establishments because he is, to those institutions, practically illegible. He was a queer self-styled poete maudit in the fifties; a protege of political-historical poet Charles Olson who wrote audaciously personal verse; a lyric poet who eschewed the egoism of the confessional mode in order to pursue the Olsonian project of Projective (outward-looking) poetics; a Boston poet who was institutionalized at state hospitals. Wieners lived on the "other side" of Beacon Hill, not the Brahmin south slope, but the north side with its working-class apartments and underground gay bars. Though …
The Vastness Of Small Spaces: Self-Portraits Of The Artist As A Child Enclosed,
2014
CUNY Graduate Center
The Vastness Of Small Spaces: Self-Portraits Of The Artist As A Child Enclosed, Matthew John Burgess
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
A tent of bed sheets, a furniture fort, a corner of the closet surrounded by chosen objects--the child finds or fashions these spaces and within them daydreaming begins. What do small spaces signify for the child, and why do scenes of enclosure emerge in autobiographical self-portraits of the artist? Sigmund Freud's theory that the literary vocation can be traced to childhood experiences is at the heart of this project, especially his observation that "the child at play behaves like a writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or rather, re-arranges the things of this world in a …
Reading Cruft: A Cognitive Approach To The Mega-Novel,
2014
CUNY Graduate Center
Reading Cruft: A Cognitive Approach To The Mega-Novel, David J. Letzler
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Reading Cruft offers a new critical model in which to examine a genre vital to modern literature, the mega-novel. Building on theoretical work in both cognitive narratology and cognitive poetics, it argues that the mega-novel is primarily characterized by its inclusion of a substantial amount of pointless text ("cruft"), which it uses to challenge its readers' abilities to modulate their attention and rapidly shift their modes of text processing. Structured into five chapters respectively devoted to subgenres in which mega-novels have been grouped--the dictionary novel, the encyclopedic novel, the Menippean satire, the picaresque and frame-tale, and the epic and allegory--it …
Committing To The Waves: Emerson's Moving Assignments,
2014
CUNY Graduate Center
Committing To The Waves: Emerson's Moving Assignments, Karinne Keithley Syers
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Committing to the Waves: Emerson's Moving Assignments reads Ralph Waldo Emerson as a writer of assignments for living and working whose senses can be taken up across a wide array of creative and exploratory fields. Shifting between an interdisciplinary array of contexts ranging from philosophy and poetics to dance, performance, and somatic movement experiments, I join the practical sense of creative inquiry embodied in these fields to the abstract images of Emerson's assignments. I argue that Emerson's descriptions of intelligence and power, and so his approaches to navigating skepticism and loss, as well as the non-possessive sense of what "self" …
A Study On What Factors Influence Teachers To Remain In The Teaching Profession,
2014
Indiana State University
A Study On What Factors Influence Teachers To Remain In The Teaching Profession, Louis S. Jensen Jr.
All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to examine the employment factors that schools have control over and how teachers and administrators perceive these factors to have the most effect in influencing teachers to remain in the profession. This study was conducted by administering a survey to public school building administrators and public school teachers in Indiana. Teachers’ and administrators’ perceptions were measured on what reasons a teacher (hypothetically) might leave the profession. A total of 2,219 teachers and 208 building administrators submitted complete responses to the Teacher Retention Survey. The Teacher Retention Survey was developed by this researcher to quantitatively …
