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"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 a range of different...
The end of Tennessee : a collection of essays
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
structured essays, landscape and lyrical language often guide the narrative arc....
Triptych : essays of place and travel
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
by an earlier writer and attempts to evoke both the actual landscape and the landscape within the earlier writer's texts. I conclude that a writer of nonfiction place narratives must locate herself or himself in the terrain of the material as well...
Summer of the Sabra Cactus: The Body, Landscape, and Numbed Tourism
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2015)
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 ...
Scriptorium: Poems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
introduction to my dissertation, I examine John Greenleaf Whittier's portrayal of northern and southern landscapes of labor in his antislavery poems. I argue that in this middle period of Whittier's poetic career, he makes a key generic move from pastoral...
Famous last words
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
distorts American regions (the West) and concepts (small-town life, the countryside). One of the central goals of the manuscript is to explore the disconnect between the American landscape and our perceptions of it, as well as the ways that the mythologies...
When the evening comes : a novel, and And it begins like this : essays
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
looking for Mary at her college where he navigates between roles as both a black and white-passing man, and becomes involved in the racial unrest on the campus. When the Evening Comes not only reconfigures the passing trope in a contemporary landscape...
Interrogating transnational media representations of "harmful" bodylore
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The category of "harmful" cultural practices' has become a central and defining concept in global health and development policy. A key target of ...
Pulled out of the land: the poetry of Seamus Heaney and its usage of the past
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
The culture someone grows up in helps to define that person, for better or for worse. This culture steeps itself into the writer's work, and helps make the writer into who he or she is. For Seamus Heaney, this steeping was ...
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 ...
Into the forest: reading trees in nineteenth-century American literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Nineteenth-century American nature writing considers nature from the multiple perspectives of the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction landscapes. The use of nature...
Still life with rooms people live in
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
and landscapes are more interested in presenting a world than in constructing a narrative argument. The central theme of the poems is the unabated search for the sanctuaries of the absolute, the ideal, the true and the real, and finally the realization...
The pagan's progress, or, the invention of pilgrimage
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
and environmental needs. This essay uses the Gaea landscape to question whether Paganism can address concepts of freedom and wilderness. The second essay, "Utpra," takes place in Iceland, describing a pilgrimage made by the Icelandic Pagan organization called...
Ruin nation : antiquarian objects and political narratives in the long eighteenth century
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] "Ruin Nation: Antiquarian Objects and Political Narratives in the Long Eighteenth Century" examines representations of architectural ruins and ...
Evening edition: trauma, journalism and the post-9/11 novel
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
This study will help shape our understanding of the boundaries between journalism and the novel, the ways in which the journalist problematizes our understanding of 9/11 and subverts the traditional trauma narrative ...
Time, the river, and the mountain : ecology and technology in Finnegans Wake
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This paper broadly investigates Finnegans Wake's resonance with ecological and environmental themes. It reads the motif of recirculation in ...
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 ...
Through a red place : poetry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This creative manuscript is grounded in archival research, used to fuel a collection of poems based on land use in the place we now call ...
Noble virtues and rich chaines : patronage in the poetry of Amilia Lanyer
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Dues Rex Judaeorum has been primarily discussed by literary scholars as a protofeminist text, one that celebrates and defends female community. While such readings have illuminated Lanyer's radical ...