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Full-Text Articles in Literature in English, North America
Contents, Douglas Higbee
Contents, Douglas Higbee
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
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Desert Pool {If Every Desert Was Once A Sea}, Karen Miranda Abel
Desert Pool {If Every Desert Was Once A Sea}, Karen Miranda Abel
The Goose
Desert Pool {If every desert was once a sea} is a site-specific art project by Canadian artist Karen Miranda Abel completed in 2016 while artist-in-residence at Joya: arte + ecología, an arts-led research centre situated in an alpine desert within a national park in southern Spain. The elemental installation represents an envisioning of the ancient sea that occupied the Sierra de María-Los Vélez Natural Park millions of years before the current desert ecology, a time when its highest mountain peaks may have been islands.
Wilderness On The Page, John Steffler
Wilderness On The Page, John Steffler
The Goose
This essay explores the role that literature can play in a rethinking of Western culture's relationship with the natural environment.
The Sin Of Pride In Dressing Bodies In Spanish And Anglo-American Ballads, Ana Belén Martínez García
The Sin Of Pride In Dressing Bodies In Spanish And Anglo-American Ballads, Ana Belén Martínez García
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "The Sin of Pride in Dressing Bodies in Spanish and Anglo-American Ballads" Ana Belén Martínez García argues that trying to decipher the reasons for characters to dress in a certain way may help discover the underlying sociocultural mechanisms that prevail. The author aims to reveal the gender divide associated to clothing through a comparative approach towards popular literature in Spanish and English. She uses Judith Butler's theory of performative acts in order to conduct the text analysis. Clothes-related acts feature prominently in the case of popular balladry. Spanish "romances" and Anglo-American ballads are poems that were and …
Muriel Rukeyser's "The Book Of The Dead": An Analytical Appreciation, Emily Cogan
Muriel Rukeyser's "The Book Of The Dead": An Analytical Appreciation, Emily Cogan
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Muriel Rukeyser’s poetry has always focused around a particular event be it something of global proportions such as the Spanish Civil War (Mediterranean) or the Japanese occupation of Korea (The Gates) or, as with The Book of the Dead, a specific disaster closer to her home, America. Her poetry, however, never exists purely in the realm of politics; she never aligned herself with any particular political party and consequently her poetry is never simply a call to arms or a manifesto in verse. Throughout the body of Rukeyser’s work there are echoes and allusions to …
Literary Exposures For An Ecological Age, Christy Call
Literary Exposures For An Ecological Age, Christy Call
The Goose
This paper argues that exposures through literature to human fragility and vulnerability, which are default modes of life within the relational collective on-page, rehearse critical engagements for life off-page during a time of climate change.
Responding To A Racist Climate: An Editorial, Paul Huebener, Amanda M. Di Battista
Responding To A Racist Climate: An Editorial, Paul Huebener, Amanda M. Di Battista
The Goose
Editorial introduction to The Goose Volume 16, Issue 1 (2017).
No Time To Defend The Pre-Post-Truth World, Richard Pickard
No Time To Defend The Pre-Post-Truth World, Richard Pickard
The Goose
As much as the "post-truth" needs to be challenged and countered, the humanities can play a crucial role in keeping alive the understanding that the pre-post-truth world ought not to be conserved, but transformed positively. After all, this was a world marked by accelerating anthropogenic climate change, by ongoing and transforming colonialism, by racism as a structural pillar, by misogyny and sexism. The environmental humanities must retain their historic radical mission, and they will founder if they surrender such a potential.
Defending Truths, Restoring Worlds, Bart H. Welling
Defending Truths, Restoring Worlds, Bart H. Welling
The Goose
The "post" in "post-truth" is premature, and also assigns too much importance to Brexit and the victory of Donald Trump in the US. Worst of all, it can foster the impression that people like Brexit voters and Trump supporters are irredeemably exiled in "alternative fact" bubbles beyond the reach of science, rational thought, and common decency. We have to find ways to work productively with these kinds of citizens, instead of merely condemning them, if we want to trigger both a worldwide alternative energy revolution and the revolution in politics and economics that a truly just and sustainable energy transition …
Heroes Vs. Villains, Evan A. Poole
Heroes Vs. Villains, Evan A. Poole
Sierpinski’s Square
This article questions the use of heroes and villains in literature, whether our perceptions of these characters as good and evil is proper, and what literature should do beyond this dichotomy.
What Rises Above The White Noise: The Possibility Of Hearing Truth In A Post-Truth World, Harriet Fraser, Rob Fraser
What Rises Above The White Noise: The Possibility Of Hearing Truth In A Post-Truth World, Harriet Fraser, Rob Fraser
The Goose
This installation in a valley in the UK’s Lake District National Park taps into the idea of communication, the problem of apparent fact and post-truth, and which voices are being heard when it comes to standing up for the environment. In consideration of post-truth and the confusion between fact and fiction, particularly with regard to issues about environment, this art installation explores the possibility of clarity in voices that are heard above the white noise of facts, partial truths and information overload. It is a site-specific installation, created around a single tree and a rapidly flowing river in the Lake …
(Another) Battle In The Clouds, Mél Hogan
(Another) Battle In The Clouds, Mél Hogan
The Goose
At age ten, in 1918, Rachel Carson entered a writing contest and won. In "Battle in the Clouds", Carson wrote about the sky as a battlefield, where a soldier’s life is momentarily spared because of an act of bravery undeniable even by his enemies. They watch in awe and admiration rather than shoot. For my reimagining of the present as womb rather than grave, I reflect on the current use of the cloud in “cloud computing” to discuss the role of the internet and its material infrastructures in shaping earthly possibilities. I imagine the pace and place of awe rather …
Reading Speculative Futures In A Post-Truth World, Rachel Webb Jekanowski
Reading Speculative Futures In A Post-Truth World, Rachel Webb Jekanowski
The Goose
Faced with the threat of a “post-truth” world and a widening chasm of exchange between climate change deniers and environmentalists, I argue that future-orientated literary and media speculative fictions—which I term “speculative futures”—offer a means of building lines of communication across social and political divisions. This thought piece on “The Environmental Humanities in a Post-Truth World” mediates upon the potentiality of speculative futures as theory, social bridge-building, and pedagogical tool. Speculative fictions (especially those that address environmental justice, and anti-colonial and feminist politics) use storytelling and future imaginaries to challenge political falsehoods and imagine more ecological, de-colonized futures.
The Child To Come: Life After The Human Catastrophe By Rebekah Sheldon, Nathan Tebokkel
The Child To Come: Life After The Human Catastrophe By Rebekah Sheldon, Nathan Tebokkel
The Goose
Review of Rebekah Sheldon's The Child to Come: Life after the Human Catastrophe.
From The Tundra To The Trenches By Eddy Weetaltuk, Vivian M. Hansen
From The Tundra To The Trenches By Eddy Weetaltuk, Vivian M. Hansen
The Goose
Review of Eddy Weetaltuk's From the Tundra to the Trenches.
Boundary Layer: Exploring The Genius Between Worlds By Kem Luther, Mary H. Scriver Rev.
Boundary Layer: Exploring The Genius Between Worlds By Kem Luther, Mary H. Scriver Rev.
The Goose
Review of Kem Luther's Boundary Layer: Exploring the Genius Between Worlds.
Littoral, Robie Liscomb
Three Poems, Maureen Scott Harris
Qigong Dancer, Andrea L. Nicki
Escargatoire, Simon Orpana
Singing Meadow: The Adventure Of Creating A Country Home By Peri Phillips Mcquay, Randy Lee Cutler
Singing Meadow: The Adventure Of Creating A Country Home By Peri Phillips Mcquay, Randy Lee Cutler
The Goose
Review of Peri Phillips McQuay's Singing Meadow: The Adventure of Creating a Country Home.
Creaturely Love: How Desire Makes Us More And Less Than Human By Dominic Pettman, Gina M. Granter
Creaturely Love: How Desire Makes Us More And Less Than Human By Dominic Pettman, Gina M. Granter
The Goose
Review of Dominic Pettman's Creaturely Love: How Desire Makes Us More and Less than Human.
Otolith By Emily Nilsen, Christine Lowther
Otolith By Emily Nilsen, Christine Lowther
The Goose
Review of Emily Nilsen's Otolith.
Deep Salt Water By Marianne Apostolides, Jenna Gersie
Deep Salt Water By Marianne Apostolides, Jenna Gersie
The Goose
Review of Marianne Apostolide's Deep Salt Water.
The Moth Snowstorm By Michael Mccarthy, Joanna Streetly
The Moth Snowstorm By Michael Mccarthy, Joanna Streetly
The Goose
Review of Michael McCarthy's The Moth Snowstorm.
Ice Bear: The Cultural History Of An Arctic Icon By Michael Engelhard, Geneviève Pigeon
Ice Bear: The Cultural History Of An Arctic Icon By Michael Engelhard, Geneviève Pigeon
The Goose
Review of Michael Engelhard's Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon.
Barking & Biting: The Poetry Of Sina Queyras Selected By Erin Wunker, Jenny Kerber
Barking & Biting: The Poetry Of Sina Queyras Selected By Erin Wunker, Jenny Kerber
The Goose
Review of Erin Wunker's (ed.) Barking & Biting: The Poetry of Sina Queyras.
Believing Is Not The Same As Being Saved By Lisa Martin, Gillian Harding-Russell
Believing Is Not The Same As Being Saved By Lisa Martin, Gillian Harding-Russell
The Goose
Review of Lisa Martin's Believing is not the same as Being Saved.
Emergent Ecologies By Eben Kirksey, Cheryl Lousley
Emergent Ecologies By Eben Kirksey, Cheryl Lousley
The Goose
Review of Emergent Ecologies by Eben Kirksey.
Exploitation Of Land And Labor In Appalachia: The Manipulation Of Men In Ann Pancake's Strange As This Weather Has Been, Britani W. Baker
Exploitation Of Land And Labor In Appalachia: The Manipulation Of Men In Ann Pancake's Strange As This Weather Has Been, Britani W. Baker
Master's Theses
Ecofeminism is traditionally interested in the relationship between patriarchal domination of women and nature. Ann Pancake’s novel Strange As this Weather Has Been critiques the way the coal mining industry has affected the Appalachian people and land. The novel reflects natural ecofeminism, which views the connection between women and nature in essentialist terms. This outdated mode of ecofeminism leads to a reinforcement of gender stereotypes and a misrepresentation of the relationship between gender, nature, and culture. This study of Pancake’s novel employs a material ecofeminist approach to both critique and develop the novel’s gender politics. Material ecofeminism, even as it …