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Rewriting the story : videogames within the Post-Gamergate Society
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2017)
Staring through the scope in Call of Duty Modern Warfare (2007), as you navigate through the boggy swamps of some exotic jungle, there is never any doubt that you are in control. The operator's thumbs roll over the toggles ...
Pulled out of the land: the poetry of Seamus Heaney and its usage of the past
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
The culture someone grows up in helps to define that person, for better or for worse. This culture steeps itself into the writer's work, and helps make the writer into who he or she is. For Seamus Heaney, this steeping was ...
Posthumanism and science fiction : the case of Alex Garland's Ex Machina and Annihilation
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2019)
My honors thesis explores two films written and directed by Alex Garland, Ex Machina (2014) and Annihilation (2018), through the lens of posthumanist theory. Posthumanism is a broad umbrella term, which can be separated ...
Making Pierre Menard author of the Quixote: critics, creators, and context in Borges
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
Though it has not always been so, it is now possible to conceptualize the act of reading as a process in which we necessarily form an interpretation of a piece of literature, and in so doing, create the work, or the meaning ...
Losing sight of literature: the commodity of book packaging
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
In every young writer's heart there is a dream, a dream that one day all of their hard work will lead to a successful, published novel. And not just any novel, but the next Great American novel that will be taught in classes ...
Two works in creative non-fiction: The Marine wife and Novosibirsk
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
The two memoirs in my thesis universalize personal experience by linking it to larger historical events (war or the fall of the Soviet Union), and illuminate the historical through the lens of intimate life. The first piece ...
Comically serious: trauma and shame in coming-of-age graphic narratives
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
The visually arresting nature of the graphic form has appealed to youth from its international emergence in the early twentieth century. Comics of the past, from Little Nemo to The Yellow Kid, were brief and insubstantial, ...
Talking back: the role of poets and poems in literary conversation
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
Concluding paragraph: "In discovering the expansive history of poetic conversation and poetic influence, the question of authenticity now seems irrelevant. Authenticity may now be described as the extent to which a poem ...
Filling in the blanks : ambiguity, genre, and reader participation as anti-dictatorial forces in Junot Diaz's The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
Not a comeback : the persistence of decadence in film noir
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
In this thesis, I will argue that the decadent movement survives in twentieth-century America through noir films, or what I refer to as "noir decadence." However, noir films make decadence more accessible to a wider audience ...
The effects of politically manipulated borders : Atwood, Lepucki and St. John Mandel
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
From the Bible to Harry Potter : Updating an ancient myth into modern fantasy
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
Evening edition: trauma, journalism and the post-9/11 novel
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
This study will help shape our understanding of the boundaries between journalism and the novel, the ways in which the journalist problematizes our understanding of 9/11 and subverts the traditional trauma narrative ...
The Personal Essay and the Memoir: A Comparison
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2015)
This thesis will attempt to put into perspective the various differences between the personal essay and the memoir. Furthermore, it will discuss why the personal essay is more useful for the creative portion of the thesis. ...
All quiet on the disillusioned front : the effects of World War II on American literature
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
World War II created a noticeable cultural shift across the globe, the effects of which are still being felt today. What needs to be addressed is that an entire ocean separated one of the major contributors to the war—the ...
After the final page : food transformation narratives and the call to individual action
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2019)
In this paper I examine and define the concept of transformation literature through three different books engaging in a conversation with food politics, and the intersection of ethics and morality. The first of the three ...
The humanity of inaction: a comparison of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go with Michael Bay's The island
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
One of the most common reader responses to Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go has been to question the passivity of the clones, claiming that this inaction reveals a lack of humanity in characters who are otherwise presented ...
Reimagining history : writing poems about early exploration
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2017)
Historical poetry is a valuable way to engage with the past. It not only allows readers to gain a better understanding of a prior time period, but it also gives them the opportunity to connect with historical figures, ...
From Humayun Khan to Kamala Khan : ambivalence towards the Muslim super hero
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2017)
The 2016 Democratic National Convention saw the emergence of an unlikely national hero: Humayun Khan. Khan had passed away long before the Democratic National Convention while on duty as an American soldier in Iraq, but ...
Deadbeat dad: Victor Frankenstein as the failed father
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
In Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein (1831), protagonist Victor Frankenstein and his relationship to the creature have often been characterized in terms of creator and creation, with Victor trying to usurp women's procreative ...