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The structural quality of tone-color in Paradise lost
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
This paper attempts to show to what extent the various manifestations of tone-color in Paradise Lost have compensated for the absence of rhyme. A chapter is devoted to the assimilative office of tone-color in the poem, ...
Occupy, blockade, circulate : narrating community in 21st century crisis fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation looks at contemporary social movements and novels through the lenses of sociology and infrastructuralism. I argue that there is a growing field...
Canon
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
The Critical Introduction, titled "James Merrill's Queer Muse," uses Queer Theory to analyze Merrill's creative process when writing The Changing Light at Sandover. It argues that Merrill queers the heteronormative orientation ...
Interrogating transnational media representations of "harmful" bodylore
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The category of "harmful" cultural practices' has become a central and defining concept in global health and development policy. A key target of ...
From the body to language: life and mind in literature and film from the Modernist Era to the present
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
My dissertation focuses on the ways in which twentieth-century literature intersects with theories of living systems and biosemiotics, the biological capacity for meaning making. My critical readings highlight the process of subjective emergence...
English bourgeois tragedy from 1576 to 1642
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
What is English bourgeois tragedy? What forces produced it, and what is its significance in the first great period of English drama? It is the purpose of this dissertation to answer these questions by a detailed study of bourgeois tragedy...
Science frictions : science, folklore, and "the future"
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Folklore and science, along with the subject of the future which has slowly over time worked its way into the discourses of both, have a long, complicated ...
Democracy and the failure of liberalism? : globalization and the reemergence of Orientalist essentialism in Hindutva's construction of fundamentalist Hindu identity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This dissertation demonstrates the emergent character of nationalism in conjunction with economic liberalism and global capitalism. It demonstrates how globalization and right wing fundamentalist nationalisms are mutually dependent. The cultural...
Beautiful phantoms British literature, political economy, and biopolitics from 1780-1855
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This dissertation explores the literary engagement with economics from 1780-1855. These years are critical to the development of both the novel and the discipline of political economy. This dissertation builds on previous work in Romanticism...
John Horne Burns : Toward a Critical Biography
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1985)
The dissertation traces John Horne Burns's life and career as a novelist and English teacher, from his origins in Andover through his literary success with The Gallery (1947), Lucifer with a Book (1949), and A Cry of Children (1952). An Epilogue...
Fathoming
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] Fathoming is a mixed-genre collection that uses personal essays, poems, and photographs to interrogate and meditate upon the concepts of home, responsibility to place, climate change and climate ...
Hiding in plain sight : anonymity across adaptations of Miklos Laszlo's Illatszertar (Parfumerie)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Director Ernst Lubitsch's romantic comedy film The Shop Around the Corner has inspired multiple adaptations since its release in 1940. In it, two shop clerks fall in love through anonymous letters while detesting each other ...
Of the burning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] "Of the Burning" is a hybrid collection of nonfiction essays and sermon-poems. The narrative threads weaved through the collection include original ...
Transnational spaces, transitional places : Muslimness in contemporary literary imaginations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
This dissertation focuses on contemporary literature in English produced by writers of Muslim origin. My study analyzes Laila Lalami's The Moor's Account (2014), Leila Abuela's The Kindness of Enemies (2015), Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent (2003), Elif...
Leavetakings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation is a collection of lyric essays about northern sorrows and friendships. These are preceded by a Critical Introduction which offers a new theory of narration...
On poetry : the emergence and function of meaning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] On Poetry: The Emergence and Function of Meaning is intended to contribute to the scholarship of poetics and literary theory. The work is ...
Sifting the Feminine Bones: essays
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Sifting the Feminine Bones: Essays is a two-part project of critical analysis and creative nonfiction that examines how literary, cultural, and social constructions of femininity and the ways in which they influence our ...
Anti-Calvinist? : ceremonial conformity and Laudian writing, reconsidered (c. 1590-1640)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
group of English churchmen known for their ceremonial worship practices, often considered to be uniformly anti-Calvinist or anti-puritan, marked partially by their (exclusive) emphasis on external markers of worship. This dissertation examines a wide...
The pagan's progress, or, the invention of pilgrimage
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This book examines religious travel in contemporary Paganism in three long-form creative essays. It looks at space, place, and travel within the modern ...
A lacanian reply to Marx : the necessity of topology in the formation of the social
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study addresses Lacan's comments on Marx. While much has been done towards reading Marx with psychoanalysis generally, little had has been done ...