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From the body to language: life and mind in literature and film from the Modernist Era to the present
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
in Beckett, the drawing out of a world in Woolf, a dynamic, embodied socio-political subjectivity and resistance in Wright and Ellison, and the parallel emergence of art and life in the films of David Lynch. These works present a step-by-step reading...
"The back-and-forth form" : epistolarity in late medieval literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
and medieval authors. The messenger's excessively human faculties emerge as cites of potential failure. Chapter 3 centers the performative elements of the epistolary circuit, arguing that the epistolary present tense is especially momentous. The timing...
Perspective : cultural contexts, little magazines, and networks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
quarterlies has become much larger than the question. And even after this extensive demonstration of the complexity of Perspective, the kind of journal he so bluntly dismissed, his question, if refined and restated more subtly, remains open; however...
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...
Science frictions : science, folklore, and "the future"
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
that lives on in the present. (And one that might even prevail into the time to come). This work is not entirely that story. But it is a part of it, presented here as it is in the interest of opening new channels of discourse between two areas of research...
Players in control : narrative, new media, and Dungeons & dragons
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Scholars who study learning in video games draw direct parallels to tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) like Dungeons & Dragons in terms of the underlying principles that enhance learning. In fact, tabletop RPGs have formed ...
A banished Adam : Mark Twain and the father of the human race
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
were most important. This work examines Twain's religious and philosophical development over the course of his life and how these two elements affect his extensive treatment of the story of the Fall of Man. Particularly, Twain's use of Adam reflects...
The manuscript presentation volume of Jane Barker and her imaginative Catholic faith
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The manuscript presentation volume of Jane Barker is a book largely unstudied by critics. Barker prepared A Collection of Poems Refering to the times (1700) as a gift to James...
"We pay the devil rent for living in hell, 'cause the projects was built on the spot where Lucifer fell" : theorizing Richard Wright's Native son and Iceberg Slim's Pimp as urban neo-slave narratives
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
of "Post-traumatic slave syndrome" (PTSS). By undertaking such an analysis, I hope to encourage more scholarship within this genre. By expanding the genre to reflect the ever-present and growing body of work, which is not limited to discussions of chattel...
Monuments of human antiquity : William Blake's Milton, a poem as a topographical survey of human creativity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This study explores the influences of the eighteenth-century cultural interest in Antiquity on William Blake's illuminated book Milton, a Poem. Beginning with William Stukeley's guidebooks, Stonehenge, A Temple Restor'd ...
Ancient yet new : William Blake's Milton -- a poem and the politics of antiquarianism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
regeneration rooted in a view of British antiquity that is marked by an original liberty based on brotherhood and forgiveness. The first chapter demonstrates that Blake presents the Druids as Satanic missionaries spreading his message of submission to his moral...
Time-binding in African American verbal art as a salve for post-traumatic slave syndrome
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
and post slavery; and fusing the two separate entities of the past and present as a cathartic/coping mechanism to achieve four basic goals: 1) foster self-esteem, 2) to reflect/instill black consciousness/pride 3) to exhort political activism against...
Souvenirs of America: American gift books, 1825-1840
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
The Token and The Atlantic Souvenir, two of the most popular and successful American gift books between 1825 and 1840, balance claims about the merit and possibility of American literature and art while exploring Americans' ...
Ideologies of American oppression: tracing capitalist discourses in 20th century protest literature
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
present, past, and into the future. This dimension of time is likely the most critical to understanding any literature in a dialogic process, let alone 20th century protest literature: the context of identifiable social structures, evidenced as guilty...
Thoreau and eastern spiritual texts: the influence of sacred sound in the writings of Henry David Thoreau
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
to the present moment. The strongest avenue to that orientation for Thoreau was through the sense of sound....
Seeing through satire : how contemporary American fiction critiques the world
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
American novels, I demonstrate how these works present a self-conscious homage to the radical irony that defines many postmodernist novels while also providing clarity through direct address and the presence of the imagined author. By combining satire...
Selling you on flexibility : toward a flexible framework for reflexive administration of writing centers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
to the tutor training course offered each semester. As an outcome of those historical analyses of online needs, this dissertation presents a flexible framework for reflexive administration that can both respond to future local needs and provide transferable...
English social drama of 1600 and 1900
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
, the excellence of the play as a play and the significance of the socia1 problem for which it attempts a solution. Three plays from each period present problems connected with women....
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 as psychologically...
The dramas and prose works of John Rastell
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1976)
association with More's circle, his abortive expedition to the New World, his print shops, his interest in pageants and drama, his history, his involvement in the purgatory controversy, and his ever-present concern for the good of the English commonwealth...