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A Headless Polar Bear Walks into a Bar | arcticisms
https://arcticisms.com/2012/08/09/421
The boundaries one has to break are no longer geographical, but literary. A Headless Polar Bear Walks into a Bar. August 9, 2012. Part one, part two. While looking for more information about Gary Hume’s painting, Hermaphrodite Polar Bear, I came across a blog that I knew, right away, I should not visit. But I’ve never been able to back down once curiosity is engaged despite the possibility of inflicted damage (what one might call the masochistic addiction of research, maybe? Last time I checked we were a...
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Is it enough to be set in the North, | arcticisms
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The boundaries one has to break are no longer geographical, but literary. Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name. Is it enough to be set in the North,. February 17, 2014. For a novel to be Northern? Last summer, I was lucky enough to finally travel to Norway, a country I have wanted to visit since I don’t even know when. The home of such intrepid northern explorers as Fridtjof Nansen. And the literary giants Knut Hamsun. Not to say the birthplace of cross-country skiing. She has a writing style that is ...
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Films | arcticisms
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The boundaries one has to break are no longer geographical, but literary. Posts from the ‘Films’ Category. Sexual Violence in Northern Literatures on. February 24, 2015. March 15, 2013. April 13, 2012. Swimming against the current on. April 5, 2012. Help a new film from the Arctic! August 31, 2011. On Thin Ice, a new film on. April 23, 2011. A Bridge to Somewhere. My Will is as Strong as Yours. To Breathe is to Create. Sexual Violence in Northern Literatures. The Genre of the Bear. Big Read Santa Clara.
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Poems | arcticisms
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The boundaries one has to break are no longer geographical, but literary. Posts from the ‘Poems’ Category. A Bridge to Somewhere on. April 22, 2015. April 30, 2012. February 23, 2012. Riddle me this… on. January 30, 2012. When the Great Day Dawns: Inuit and True Blood (part 7) on. September 19, 2011. When the Great Day Dawns: Inuit and True Blood (part 6) on. September 7, 2011. When the Great Day Dawns: Inuit and True Blood (part 5) on. August 19, 2011. July 25, 2011. July 15, 2011. July 4, 2011. Searchi...
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Pictures | arcticisms
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The boundaries one has to break are no longer geographical, but literary. Posts from the ‘Pictures’ Category. March 15, 2013. Just in time for the holidaze on. November 10, 2012. A Headless Polar Bear Walks into a Bar on. August 9, 2012. July 27, 2012. John Muir and Alaska on. June 25, 2012. What’s wrong with this picture? May 31, 2012. Subhankar Banerjee to speak at Stanford on. May 3, 2012. Aurora on my mind on. April 15, 2012. October 30, 2011. Greenland’s Ice: Beauty and Threat on. August 17, 2011.
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A Bridge to Somewhere | arcticisms
https://arcticisms.com/2015/04/22/a-bridge-to-somewhere
The boundaries one has to break are no longer geographical, but literary. A Bridge to Somewhere. April 22, 2015. Take William Blake’s The Tyger. All of the poet’s work is considered heavily symbolic and this poem, in particular, has been used in discussions of the interrelated symbolic-real animal discussion before (see J.M. Coetzee’s. Tyger Tyger, burning bright,. In the forests of the night;. What immortal hand or eye,. Could frame thy fearful symmetry? Through the dew’s mist, the oak’s mass. And her p...
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Upcoming Events | arcticisms
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The boundaries one has to break are no longer geographical, but literary. Posts from the ‘Upcoming Events’ Category. Just in time for the holidaze on. November 10, 2012. Subhankar Banerjee to speak at Stanford on. May 3, 2012. Music of the North, cont’d on. January 16, 2012. December 14, 2011. Get thee to a museum! November 13, 2011. Help a new film from the Arctic! August 31, 2011. 8220;Yes I could live in this town/ Before I head for home” on. July 26, 2011. World Eskimo-Indian Olympics on. July 2, 2011.
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Summer reading | arcticisms
https://arcticisms.com/2012/07/27/summer-reading
The boundaries one has to break are no longer geographical, but literary. July 27, 2012. While I have obviously not been around the blog lately, I have not been idle. Several rainy days have even kept me inside! When I have not been here:. And most recently, here:. I have been slowly moving through my summer reading list. So far I’ve read Leslie Thomas’ novel,. Flight of the Goose. Ernestine Hayes’ memoir,. Two collections of Yup’ik oratory (. When I Became Aware. Stories for Future Generations. And the ...
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Bibliography | arcticisms
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The boundaries one has to break are no longer geographical, but literary. Journey in progress; for a biblio. of Inuit art and Canadian northern studies visit here. For a focus in anthropology, here. Aslen Balikci. The Netsilik Eskimo. Rick Bass. Caribou Rising: Defending the Porcupine Herd, Gwich’in Culture, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Thomas R. Berger. Village Journey: The Report of the Alaska Native Review Commission. Lisa Bloom. Gender on ice: American ideologies of polar expeditions.
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