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The conditions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The critical introduction to this dissertation examines Jericho Brown's 2019 Pulitzer Prize winning collection The Tradition as a work of eco-justice poetry. In this essay, I argue that the tenets of eco-justice poetics ...
The imaginary age : poetry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] My dissertation includes a critical introduction and a manuscript of poetry. The critical introduction, "There was no warm body in what you wrote": ...
Summer of the Sabra Cactus: The Body, Landscape, and Numbed Tourism
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2015)
Representations of the violently displaced black female self in contemporary African literature: African and African Diaspora Studies scholarly dissertation, & House on a jade sea : creative writing, fiction, dissertation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Representations of the violently displaced black female self in contemporary African literature is a study of my broad interests in the peculiar ...
Still life with rooms people live in
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The following is a collection of poems about the transience of the human world, poems which combine an elegiac embracing of our own insignificance and ...
We must look a long time before we can see : the art and science of Thoreau's early works
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
By the mid-nineteenth century, American Romanticism had replaced the predominant idea of nature as an exploitable resource with a different vision of nature -- one steeped in beauty and reverence. Perhaps no writer has ...
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 ...
Refrain
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Refrain is set in 1950s Larissa, TX, where the disappearance of four local girls catapults the town into crisis, forcing them to confront their complicity and disregard for Native American life. Told from multiple points ...
Bottle fly : poems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
The critical introduction: "Improbable Florida" : Imperialism, Surrealist Tradition, and Gay and Lesbian Identity in Rimbaud's "Drunken Boat" and Bishop's "The Riverman" is a close-reading of those two poems through a ...
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' ...
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 ...
Fore ðære mærðe mod astige: two new perspectives on the Old English Gifts of men
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
The Old English poem The Gifts of Men has received little attention in contemporary scholarship, and when it has been referenced in recent decades, the primary trend has been to comment on its unique structure and position ...
Book of apparitions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Book of Apparitions is an account of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, narrated by one of the assassins, Vaso ...
Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916)
Text from page ii: The following discussion of the poet, Robert Bloomfield, is divided into four parts: first, a detailed account of the poet's life; second, an account of each of the poet's works, its contents and its ...
"This land is my land" : authority and landscape in American women's nonfiction, 1843-1903
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] "Thus, the arc of my dissertation—from a landscape that is local and familiar to one that is vast and often incomprehensible—suggests that women confront ...
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 ...
The other side of the window : an essay on structural iconography in English and American fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1978)
The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the structural and symbolic function of the window as a major motif in certain works of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English and American fiction. Within this body ...
The first inch of a saguaro
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The First Inch of a Saguaro follows three Mexican American teenagers after their father, Luis, is arrested for a drug-related murder in an Arizona border town. During Luis' trial, fourteenyear-old Javier takes to leaving ...
The public voice of Richard Crashaw : a study in the use of religious tradition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
"It is something of an understatement to say that of all the poets of the seventeenth century, Crashaw has been most subjected to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. He has suffered the fate of being labeled the ...
The Kissing party
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
The Kissing Party is a book of lyric poems that interrogate the tradition of love poetry and attempt to refigure and revivify the work of writers like Marvell, Donne, Carew, and the continental and English sonneteers. Some ...