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Interrogating transnational media representations of "harmful" bodylore
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
"harmful" traditional practices continue to persist" despite the funding, media-based initiatives and campaigns aimed at eradicating them? As one initiative that has been at the fore front of eradication campaigns, this study examined transnational visual...
Misinterpreted Perception: Defining the True Nature of Chivalry During the First Crusade
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2015)
. Nevertheless, the chivalric nature of the crusaders cannot be analyzed from a modern point of view. If the texts are viewed through the eyes of their authors, then it is clear that based on the evidence presented the knights are shown to be following the ideals...
A sociophonetic study of Cape Girardeau, Missouri English
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
such as the LOT-THOUGHT merger and the PIN-PEN merger and finds that this community is participating in back vowel fronting, however, evidence suggests the pattern of back vowel fronting is not a new or recent trend in the area. Additionally, although...
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...
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...
Selling you on flexibility : toward a flexible framework for reflexive administration of writing centers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Training tutors has historically been and continues to be one of the most important, as well as the most labor- and time-intensive needs that directors of writing centers are called to address. As technological advancements ...
Fundamentalist rhetorics of self-determination : a feminist conundrum
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
did these mothers deploy liberal rhetoric, which assume a free, rational agent, to defend a religious identity based on submission (17)? Furthermore, why was their rhetoric uncritically accepted by many U.S. Americans, and to what ends...
Monuments of human antiquity : William Blake's Milton, a poem as a topographical survey of human creativity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
reading. These practices, along with the highly resistant full-page designs, call for interaction on the part of the reader. The third chapter takes up the many garden-related images and plot points in Milton, examining these elements in regards...
Re/presenting traditions: identity, power, and politics in folklife programming
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Deliberately playing on the word "tradition," in Re/Presenting Traditions: Identity, Power, and Politics in Folklife Programming, my research interrogates both current practices of re/presenting traditional cultures to the public, as well...
Digital literacies and WAC/WID
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This thesis defines digital literacies for an audience of educators who want to integrate digital literacies into their existing curriculum. In this discussion, I examine how discipline-based faculty encourage and support digital literacies...
Like dancers following each other's steps : an analysis of lexical cues in student writing for differing audiences
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
for evidence of Audience-Sensitivity Traits and of lexical priming, i.e., phonological strings that can indicate awareness of audience, a theory based on work by Michael Hoey and David Kaufer and colleagues. Although some specific variables yielded inconclusive...
Social networks of friendship in the writings of early medieval english women
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Communities of women is a topic in Early Medieval English Studies that has largely been overlooked unless it's researched and discussed in the context of men, marriage, and religion. One obstacle that has prevented scholarship ...
Sleeping toward Christianity : the form and function of the Seven sleepers legend in medieval British oral tradition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
fully-stocked toolbox. The ubiquity, rate of variation, referentiality, and traces of oral poetics provide convincing evidence that the legend of the Seven Sleepers was a vibrant part of medieval English oral tradition. References to the Seven Sleepers...
Race, gender, and the limits of physicality in Ourika and Quicksand
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
A comparison of Claire de Duras's Ourika and Nella Larsen's Quicksand may at first seem puzzling to those familiar with the differing social and historical contexts of the two works. While it may be tempting to read Ourika ...
Wordsworth's theory of diction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1902)
With the questions, "What is Wordsworth's theory of diction?", "Did Wordsworth put his theory into practice?", and, indirectly, though necessarily, "Is Wordsworth's theory a correct one?" this paper purposes to deal. In our study of these questions...
The nature of nothingness in King Lear
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1974)
"The approach toward life in the sixteenth century was paradoxical. Writers and thinkers struggled with the questions and problems of life; they tried to determine if life had any value, and if it consisted of something. ...
The creation of The four million : O. Henry's influences and working methods
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Though O. Henry's The Four Million was intended as an attack on Ward McAllister's idea of the Four Hundred, each man is mentioned only in passing in studies of the other. One chapter therefore contrasts the two men by ...
Talking turkey : visual media and the unraveling of Thanksgiving
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Standing at the core of American culture, Thanksgiving is an invented tradition celebrated by millions of Americans. This dissertation examines contemporary representations of Thanksgiving in "the media of everyday life" ...
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 ...
The anatomy theater
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
, to meditations on paintings from different time periods, to poems imagining the death of Renaissance poet, John Donne. I found, nonetheless, that similar preoccupations rose through the poems, issues of how, through various practices, we glean information...