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Policing the boundaries of whiteness : monsters made in the USA
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
that positionality and experience together are a key category of knowledge production. In this way, I aim to articulate a critical practice informed by people and their ideas instead of discrete, abstract schools of thought based on a universal human experience. As a...
Bury the key : a book of houses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
abundant evidence to the contrary. Through personal narrative, research, observation, and speculation, I tell the stories of houses and the people in them. I draw from my experience growing up in a family of homebuilders and consider subjects like history...
Katrina's other disaster : examining second disaster literature and placing post-Katrina New Orleans
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This thesis examines the literary treatment of the time period following major natural and manmade disasters known as the "second disaster," which this ...
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...
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 ...
Anti-Calvinist? : ceremonial conformity and Laudian writing, reconsidered (c. 1590-1640)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
and practices coexisting in practice and print. While a significant portion of work has been done exploring the various ranges of puritan thought, diminishing the restrictive stereotypes of the often-derogatory label, less work has been done on the Laudians, a...
Illustrated editions : depicting the eighteenth-century British novel
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This dissertation on illustrated British fiction from the 1740s to 1830s argues that a vital part of novelistic interpretation is omitted when illustrations are overlooked. Rather than viewing the novels of the eighteenth ...
Clyomon and Clamydes a critical edition
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1962)
"Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes (Greg, Bibliography, no. 157) was printed by Thomas Creede in 1599--the same year he printed the second quarto of Romeo and Juliet and Greene's Alphonsus, King of Aragon. Like Creede's other ...
Black skin matters : the significance of color in early modern England
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This book explores the impact of stereotypical concepts associated with black skin color in representations of black people during the English Renaissance, namely Shakespeare's Othello (Othello), Aaron (Titus Andronicus), ...
Magical safe spaces : the role of literature in Medieval and early modern magic
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
heretical practice increased, literature found safe ways to explore these ideas. In doing this, medieval and early modern romance became a safe space for the exploration of magic generally and female magic users specifically....
Linguistics peculiarities of contemporary feline narrative
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
"naturalization" of the narrative world. The objectives of this paper are to establish specificity of a feline focalization through "cats" thesaurus, angle of view and "cat" etymology (notion based on folk etymology). The methodology of analysis is based...
The Monstrous Ordinary : the erasure of the women of Weird Tales and the implications for monster theory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 12/1/2024] My dissertation offers a new approach to monstrosity, called the Monstrous Ordinary, which articulates monstrosity not as something new, different, or aberrant, but originating from the normal, ...
The graduate student novel: a new subgenre in university fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This study examines novels with graduate student protagonists, referred to as graduate student novels or grad novels, and argues that such novels should be considered distinct from others about university experiences. It ...
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 ...
Worried notes : poems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The creative portion of this dissertation, Worried Notes: Poems, is a collection that engages the American vernacular-song tradition and specifically ...
"Immortal Harps": Milton and musical morality in Handel's Samson
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
Concluding paragraphs: "If Handel's contemporary James Harris is correct in observing that music and poetry "can never be so powerful singly, as when they are properly united," (152) and that Handel's "Genius ... being ...
"One foot on the other side" : suicideality in contemporary African diaspora fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
. In some ways, this proved true; in particular, I believe this is evident and legible through the Ogbanje and abiku fiction discussed in chapter four of this dissertation. However, over time this project outgrew that framework, and efforts to link Black...
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 ...
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 ...
Sharp things, or the silver lines are not scars
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This novel is the story of Tianne, a twenty-eight-year-old stained glass artist. She works two part-time jobs as a clerk at a stained glass supply ...