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Crisis And Calamity: Reimagining Canadian Ecopoetics In Response To Anthropocenic Disaster, Dakota Samuel Jabbour-Ormsby

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This thesis examines contemporary Canadian ecopoetry in its merging of poetry and science, human and non-human, theory and practice. While the historical relationship between Canadian writing and nature grounds the exploration of present-day discourse, the arbitrariness and pervasiveness of borders and other human conceptions become a subject of criticism for the ecopoets studied in the thesis. Ecopoetry attempts to reframe the perspective of environment in literature, away from commodifying representation and towards a holistic appreciation. Understanding is a tenuous proposition for ecopoets. Learning is vital for ecopoetic exploration, both as an intrinsic product of engaging scientific thought and an ontological …

John Dee And Prospero: Alchemy, Angels, And Empire In The Tempest, Iovan Stefanov

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For John Dee (1527-1609), like many others in the sixteenth century, the divide between politics, science, and the occult was permeable. At the height of Dee’s career, he had assembled the largest private library in England and built bibliographic networks of likeminded intellectuals from lending and sales. His consultations varied from explanations of Euclidean geometry for sailors to providing magical advice for Elizabeth I and other European monarchs. Dee is simultaneously important to both early modern science and esoterica. The aim of this thesis is to illuminate the ways in which his politics, his colonial projects, and his occult thought …

Biblioasis: A Case Study Of A Small Canadian Press, Nikolina Blagic

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This thesis examines the precariousness of the Canadian literary marketplace while using Biblioasis’ bookshop and press as a case study of small, indie presses in Canada. Biblioasis primarily publishes short stories and poetry, but they are also known for their International Translation Series, among othergenres such as non-fiction. The press’ location in the border city of Windsor, Ontario forces them to consider the American literary market in conjunction with Canada’s literary scene. John Metcalf plays a critical role in the foundation of Biblioasis, bringing many ideas and authors from his former press, Porcupine’s Quill. Economic and historical contexts for Biblioasis’ …

Margaret Lawrence: Setting Her House In Order, Marion Elizabeth Markham

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Margaret Laurence orders the world around her through the telling of story, and she shows us, in The Stone Angel, A Bird in the House and The Diviners, strong women ordering the world around them. The thesis analyzes the tales Laurence tells through Hagar Shipley, Vanessa MacLeod, and Morag Gunn respectively, examining the freedom gathered in these tellings. Christian symbols It also considers the complementary Judeo-and names and allusions through which their captivities and freedoms are eventually seen.

Each of the main characters face discrimination as woman, but each is transformed from slave to free woman, and this development of …