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History as a predicament vs. history as a venue : a comparative study of Robert Coover's The public burning and 'Abdul Khaaliq al-Rikaabi's Saabi' Ayaam al-Khalq
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In this comparative study, I examine the two novelists' approach to history, against the background of their respective cultures' understanding of history and historiography. My...
Assembling comics : the house style and legacy of RAW books and graphics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The purpose of this study is to construct a narrative history of the founding and development of RAW Books and Graphics while providing a critical evaluation of the revolutionary...
Modalities of literacy and Anglo-Saxon interpretive cultures
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation focuses on the reception of Anglo-Saxon texts in both Anglo-Saxon and Reformation England. Its four case studies span developments in media history, and begins...
The miniature room
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
to the fine arts miniature. The poems also seek to record aspects of human-specifically female-experience through the voice of a speaker not very distant from the poet herself, as well as through the use of personas from throughout history. Preceding...
Pleasure reading: Playboy's literary fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
of consumerism, and this study reveals that these stories relied on an enduring emphasis on individualism to connect to emerging social impulses in the postwar period. After an introduction of the magazine's history and the Playboy philosophy of consumerism...
The American dream and the margins in twentieth century fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
While the American Dream is an oft trod, even clich'ed, terrain in literary criticism, discourse around the topic tends to rely on a dichotomized discourse of celebration or critique. This tendency is a result of understanding ...
Rewriting a shared past : gender, genre, and Scotland's cultural memory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Scotland is well known for its contrived cultural history. The efforts of many in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century to manufacture its imaginary past have been...
Border crossings : contemporary transnational literature across media and genre and Remind me again what happened : a novel
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
collective history, my novel investigates the ways in which memory is narrated, archived, and validated. Remind Me Again What Happened is narrated in the first person by three characters - Claire, a journalist who has recently lost pieces of her memory after...
Manufacturing a personage: photography and American literary celebrity, 1839-1860
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
to America in the midst of the printing revolution that took place in the second quarter of the 19th century. Advancements in printing technology, transportation, and public education created a mass readership that made literary celebrity possible...
Songs of republic : envisioning democracy in the American long poem
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
and Ammons for how they incorporate both history and philosophy into their works as tools for representing both what democracy was at the time of their works' publication as well as what it might develop into....
Ecclesiastical advice literature in Anglo-Saxon England
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
such as monks and bishops were the primary authors during the period and wrote many types of works, such as histories and sermons. My research seeks to explore how a work such as a history was in fact designed to shape the role of government, especially...
The poetics of the medium : aesthetic forms and technologies of the word in the English Middle Ages
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
, and aesthetics--I reconceive literary history as the history of the relationship between language and technology. This thesis is developed over four chapters, each a case study examining the relationship between a poetic form and its verbal medium, moving from...
We are all dealers in used furniture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Klux Klansman; these objects animate the book with influences of their own. I attend not only to my experience but also to the legal, political and literary histories of inheritance. The book thus includes, among other things, a brief history of estate...
When the evening comes : a novel, and And it begins like this : essays
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
, but revisits long-lasting questions pertaining to race that are embedded in our history. And It Begins Like This, weaves together personal anecdote, history, genealogy records, passages from the Bible, literary theory and criticism, and recollections to examine...
British women novelists and the review periodical, 1790-1820 /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
moment in literary history. Literary historians continually trivialize the quality of these novels by women, and ignore contemporaneous critical conversation recognizing women's dominance of novel writing during this period. Using a database that I have...
Midnight's grandchildren : adolescence in contemporary global literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
, which has a long history of works on adolescence, such as the bildungsroman. Unfortunately, most narratives look specifically at how the adolescent grows up, or what happens while they are looking forward towards adulthood. These types of literature play...
Toward a new critical materialist rhetorical methodology : ideographic tracking of family values from eugenics to neoliberalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
world. That is, by demonstrating how <family values> emerged from a pre-history that was economically invested in the impoverishment of minorities and women, the moralistic, legacy narrative to which <family values> appeals is exploded. This study shows...
Writing-to-serve : an ethnographic study of a writing-across-the-curriculum approach in a service-learning course
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Though Service-Learning and Writing-Across-the-Curriculum are two educational reform movements with similar histories and objectives, the two have for the most part remained separate in higher education. This thesis presents an ethnographic study...
Spectatorship in the crowd in American literature, 1880-1920
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
links my research and teaching. I outline three courses which draw upon some of the themes explored in the previous chapters. Since the majority of the students I teach come from semi-rural or suburban backgrounds, they are unfamiliar with the history...
"It is Deirdre you mourn for" : the third-person narration of Deirdre McCloskey's Crossing : a memoir
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
(autobiographical) subjectivity in which transformation hinges on the recognition of continuity among past and present selves. In Crossing, McCloskey situates her narrative as an historical and political document of the 1990s, an important decade for trans history...