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Disruptive soldiers : literary responses to the standing army controversy (1688-1846)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] "The aim of this thesis is to provide a sustained consideration of literary engagements with the Standing Army Controversy in Britain and America from ...
Democracy and the failure of liberalism? : globalization and the reemergence of Orientalist essentialism in Hindutva's construction of fundamentalist Hindu identity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
-colonial nation of India, the discourse of cultural unity and chauvinism takes particular forms that trace their lineages to the practices of colonial subordination and anti-colonial resistance. The Indian state's relatively recent open markets and the rise...
World reclamation in Shelley's Prometheus Unbound
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Myth has a fluid function within culture, literature, and time. How myth is interpreted depends upon which element of it inspires or interests a person. The mythical figure of Prometheus has become embedded in the cultural ...
Dee-jay drop that deadbeat : hip-hop's remix of fatherhood narratives
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This dissertation examines hip-hop fatherhood narratives from 2010-2015 influenced by drug addiction, mass incarceration, underground economies, trauma, and dysfunctional co-parenting. Explicitly, the paper explores how ...
Of the burning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University in October 2016....
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...
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 ...
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 ...