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Listen To Children: The Jack Prelutsky Antiquarian Children's Poetry Collection, Sylvia Tag, Michael Taylor
Listen To Children: The Jack Prelutsky Antiquarian Children's Poetry Collection, Sylvia Tag, Michael Taylor
Western Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
Western Libraries is pleased to present Listen to Children: The Jack Prelutsky Antiquarian Children’s Poetry Collection. This exhibition and the accompanying catalog are intended to honor nationally acclaimed children’s poet Jack Prelutsky, who, in 2019, donated a collection of nearly 1,200 rare books containing poetry for young readers to Special Collections at Western Washington University. The catalog is arranged by topical themes include didactic poetry, Mother Goose, nature, nonsense verse for children and adults, imaginary voyages, illustration, and moveable books. The catalog includes essays from contemporary poets, resources for teaching and learning, and selected images from the exhibit. In …
Queer Ecologies: A Final Syllabus/Zine Product Of Our Independent Study, Yeh Seo Jung, Ray Craig
Queer Ecologies: A Final Syllabus/Zine Product Of Our Independent Study, Yeh Seo Jung, Ray Craig
Crossings: Swarthmore Undergraduate Feminist Research Journal
This zine is the product of our independent study course Queer Ecologies, which is an exploration of bio-social systems using a queer and feminist theoretical lens. We aim to look critically at knowledge formation and construct alternative visions for more just and sustainable relationships between science, nature, and ourselves. While queer theory most directly interrogates the normative structure of heterosexuality both in humans and in biology more broadly, these studies include analyses of hierarchy, power, and value. Queer Ecology can be used to examine phenomena such as climate change, extinction, pollution, species hierarchies, agricultural practices, resource extraction, and human population …
A Perfect Escape: Fantasy, Place And Narrative In Adolescence, Cydney Cherepak
A Perfect Escape: Fantasy, Place And Narrative In Adolescence, Cydney Cherepak
MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture
This essay explores the realms of special places, the literary genre of fantasy, narrative, and comics. These topics are traversed alongside subjects of adolescence and the creation of stories for middle-grade readers. Framed with personal stories, as well as peaks into my process, I investigate these subjects through the lens of my own life and work, specifically my thesis project, a comic for middle-grade readers titled Beyond the Castle Walls. Beginning with adolescence in association with special places, I consider the work of developmental psychologists David Sobel and Edith Cobb as they pin-point the role of secret forts, nature, …
In Praise Of The Peaks: Science, Art, And Nature In Kojima Usui’S Mountain Literature, Aaron Paul Jasny
In Praise Of The Peaks: Science, Art, And Nature In Kojima Usui’S Mountain Literature, Aaron Paul Jasny
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
During the Meiji period (1868–1912), a newly constituted Japanese nation sought equal standing among the global powers it encountered with increasing frequency, by updating and modernizing in various fields of knowledge and cultural production. Science and technology were adopted and adapted from the nations of the West in order to bolster the economy, improve infrastructure, and ensure the health and well-being of the Japanese people. Meanwhile, literature and the arts were refashioned to make them more suitable for dealing with modernization, urbanization, empirical and rational thinking, and a regard for individual autonomy and subjectivity. Meiji Japan witnessed numerous innovations, which …
The Environmental Imaginations Of Moby-Dick: Technology And Vulnerability In Human/More-Than-Human Relationships, Jensen A. Lillquist
The Environmental Imaginations Of Moby-Dick: Technology And Vulnerability In Human/More-Than-Human Relationships, Jensen A. Lillquist
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
In the twenty-first century, the relationship between the human and the more-than-human is a problem of massive proportions, as we live in an age of climate change, mass-extinction, over-population, and resource depletion. Evaluating how we have arrived where we are and re-thinking the issues at play as we move forward is crucial for future adaptation of human/more-than-human relationships; this is the primary goal of my analysis of the environmental imaginations of Moby-Dick.
I argue that the four primary environmental imaginations—the providential, the utilitarian, the Romantic, and the ecological—that have influenced United States culture since European settlement are represented by Herman …
Permanent Weekend: Nature, Leisure, And Rural Gentrification By John Michels, Cameron M. Butler
Permanent Weekend: Nature, Leisure, And Rural Gentrification By John Michels, Cameron M. Butler
The Goose
Review of John Michels' Permanent Weekend: Nature, Leisure, and Rural Gentrification.
Better Nature By Fenn Stewart, Claire Caldwell
Better Nature By Fenn Stewart, Claire Caldwell
The Goose
Review of Fenn Stewart's Better Nature.
The Oxford Handbook Of Environmental History Edited By Andrew C. Isenberg, Lorelei L. Hanson
The Oxford Handbook Of Environmental History Edited By Andrew C. Isenberg, Lorelei L. Hanson
The Goose
Review of Andrew C. Isenberg's The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History.
Winter Wren By Theresa Kishkan, Vivian M. Hansen
Winter Wren By Theresa Kishkan, Vivian M. Hansen
The Goose
Review of Theresa Kishkan's Winter Wren.
Niche By Basma Kavanagh, Vivian M. Hansen
The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards A Greener Future By David R. Boyd, Janet Grafton
The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards A Greener Future By David R. Boyd, Janet Grafton
The Goose
Review of David R. Boyd's The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards a Greener Future
Hill By Jean Giono, Jody L. Ballah
Towards A Prairie Atonement By Trevor Herriot, Gillian Harding-Russell
Towards A Prairie Atonement By Trevor Herriot, Gillian Harding-Russell
The Goose
Review of Trevor Herriot's Towards a Prairie Atonement.
The Duende Of Tetherball By Tim Bowling, Gillian Harding-Russell
The Duende Of Tetherball By Tim Bowling, Gillian Harding-Russell
The Goose
Review of Tim Bowling's The Duende of Tetherball.
Searching Cézanne’S Provence, Robert M. Girvan
Searching Cézanne’S Provence, Robert M. Girvan
The Goose
This personal essay describes the author's visit to Provence to see the sites where Cézanne painted a number of well-known landscape paintings. He compares the paintings with the landscape as it existed when the paintings were painted, and as exist today, to trace the connections between landscape, and art, and in particular, Cézanne's artistic techniques. Finally, the author suggests that Cézanne's close observation of the natural world, and commitment to studying the old masters still has something important to teach us today in our digital age.
An Environmental History Of Medieval Europe By Richard C. Hoffman, Geneviève Pigeon Dr
An Environmental History Of Medieval Europe By Richard C. Hoffman, Geneviève Pigeon Dr
The Goose
Review of Richard C. Hoffman's An Environmental History of Medieval Europe.
Timing Canada: The Shifting Politics Of Time In Canadian Literary Culture By Paul Huebener, Cheryl Lousley
Timing Canada: The Shifting Politics Of Time In Canadian Literary Culture By Paul Huebener, Cheryl Lousley
The Goose
Review of Paul Huebener's Timing Canada: The Shifting Politics of Time in Canadian Literary Culture
Imitation, Kathryn M. Rogers
Two Poems, Andrew Taylor Dr
Three Poems, Pearl Pirie
Gooseworld, Marella Hoffman
Two Poems, Brook Wr Pearson Phd
Counteredpoint, Gary Barwin
Gory, Ariel Gordon
The Discreet Charm Of The Megafauna, Tanis Macdonald
The Discreet Charm Of The Megafauna, Tanis Macdonald
The Goose
Poetry by Tanis MacDonald
Bell In The Rain, Annabel Banks
Branches Over Ripples: A Waterside Journal, Brian Bartlett
Branches Over Ripples: A Waterside Journal, Brian Bartlett
The Goose
Branches Over Ripples: A Waterside Journal is a fifty-entry plein-air writing project drafted between April 2013 and October 2014 by various bodies of water—rivers, brooks, lakes, bays, marshes, waterfalls, a vernal pond, a Japanese koi pond. Most of the writing was done in Nova Scotia locations, but some entries were drafted in New Brunswick, Montreal, Missouri, Manhattan, and London, England. I often walked from an hour to four or five hours, then sat down on bare earth, grass, sand, stone, or wood, and wrote, keeping attuned to my surroundings but also letting my mind and memory wander.
Earth Joy Writing: Creating Harmony Through Journaling And Nature By Cassie Premo Steele, Anne Milne
Earth Joy Writing: Creating Harmony Through Journaling And Nature By Cassie Premo Steele, Anne Milne
The Goose
Review of Cassie Premo Steele's Earth Joy Writing.
Brushfire, Ariel Gordon
Brushfire, Ariel Gordon
The Goose
“Brushfire” concerns itself with how people use urban forests, from indecent exposure to poaching to teenage drinking party-bonfires that get out of control. Though it could be construed as a manifesto on walking-in-the-woods, it also touches on some of the conflicts inherent in urban/nature experiences.
Subduction Zone By Emily Mcgiffin, Kelly Shepherd
Subduction Zone By Emily Mcgiffin, Kelly Shepherd
The Goose
Kelly Shepherd's review of Subduction Zone by Emily McGiffin.