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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 ...
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...
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...
The graduate student novel: a new subgenre in university fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
of success in academia. The recognizable characteristics that illustrate the major differences, also provide helpful avenues toward examinations of the image of graduate scholarship produced by grad novels and different issues related to higher education...
Of the burning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University in October 2016....
Science frictions : science, folklore, and "the future"
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Folklore and science, along with the subject of the future which has slowly over time worked its way into the discourses of both, have a long, complicated ...
Rites of leaving
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The school of Stoic philosophy traces its roots back to 300 B.C.E and thrived until the 4th century C.E, when it fell into decline and was ultimately assimilated into other systems of philosophy. It experienced a limited revival during...
The wise avenue
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
My dissertation's creative portion is a short story cycle constructed around two organizing principles: a place and a protagonist group. The cycle's setting is Dundalk, Maryland, a predominately white, working-class suburb. ...
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 ...
Into the forest: reading trees in nineteenth-century American literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
-century commodity influenced many contemporary works of literary criticism. Immersion in these primary works helps to better situate ourselves in the world of nineteenth-century American nature writing, and to understand the myriad role that trees played...
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 ...
The first inch of a saguaro
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
and stepfather skip out. They travel the country in his van for several years--meeting other teenagers in need of help and eventually settling into a commune in California. All the while, Alejandra sends postcards to her father in prison. Paulina, the eldest...
Fathoming
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] Fathoming is a mixed-genre collection that uses personal essays, poems, and photographs to interrogate and meditate upon the concepts of home, responsibility to place, climate change and climate ...
Transnational spaces, transitional places : Muslimness in contemporary literary imaginations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
to the ways in which they create complex characters that represent the variety of Muslim discourses and practices. Rather than focusing on such over-asked questions as "Is the text Islamic or secular?" and "Western or Muslim?," Muslim diaspora space as a mode...
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...
The pagan's progress, or, the invention of pilgrimage
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
: how Pagans create sacred spaces, interact with ancient sites, and invent their own pilgrimage practices. The book is anchored in the author's account of his experiences as a second-generation Wiccan and practitioner of the Norse revivalist religion...
The freedoms of B. Kumasi
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
in American institutions. Cook and Dixson outline the aspects and potential for counter-storytelling: 1. Provides psychic preservation by not silencing the experiences of the oppressed and thus exposing neglected evidence. 2. Challenges normative reality...
Seeing through satire : how contemporary American fiction critiques the world
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In this dissertation, I argue some contemporary authors intermingle modes of satire and transparency to encourage a twenty-first century reading ...
Spatial politics and genre in the 21st century Arabic novel in English
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This dissertation is a study of four 21st century Arabic novels translated to English, each of which narrates a regionally specific process of state-sanctioned property theft. I argue that the authors of these novels use ...
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 ...