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Science frictions : science, folklore, and "the future"
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
in a liminal wait for "the future." Both a widespread present-day phenomenon and subsequent set of narratives, expressions, beliefs, and actions that this work has chosen to call "science frictions."...
Digital literacies and WAC/WID
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This thesis defines digital literacies for an audience of educators who want to integrate digital literacies into their existing curriculum. In this discussion, I examine how discipline-based faculty encourage and support digital literacies...
Climate crisis: an exploration of climate fiction, magical realism, and intersectional trauma
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The genre of climate fiction has never been more relevant than in the current age. With climate change affecting all parts of life from rising seas to food supply, it is more important than ever that authors find a way to discuss the subject...
The conception of tragedy in recent English drama
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
at the beginning of the present activity in dramatic composition? 2. What plays of the period discussed embody tragic conceptions of life? 3. In what respects do these tragic conceptions differ from the previous conceptions of tragedy in English literature?...
Seeing through satire : how contemporary American fiction critiques the world
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
American novels, I demonstrate how these works present a self-conscious homage to the radical irony that defines many postmodernist novels while also providing clarity through direct address and the presence of the imagined author. By combining satire...
English social drama of 1600 and 1900
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
, the excellence of the play as a play and the significance of the socia1 problem for which it attempts a solution. Three plays from each period present problems connected with women....
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 are an essential part...
The Celtic legends and their use in the modern Celtic plays and poetry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
's heroic age is proving of inestimable value not only to those writers who are trying to strengthen Ireland's nationality, but also to those others who are seeking in a less direct way to make for Ireland a reputable place among the literatures of the world...
Players in control : narrative, new media, and Dungeons & dragons
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
, and sometimes creative, basis for many of the most popular role-playing video games to date, so why is it that tabletop RPGs have been largely neglected in favor of the video game variety? This study takes a close look at how one particular group of players...
"The back-and-forth form" : epistolarity in late medieval literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
of the epistolary performance, its ability to capture a momentous present tense, received special attention in dramas. Chapter 4 investigates the relationship between the first-person sender or author and the second-person addressee instantiates within the text...
Thinking locally : provincialism and cosmopolitanism in American literature since the Great Depression
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
, this dissertation identifies a debate over the relative merits of provincialism and cosmopolitanism running from James Agee's modernist regionalism through recent books by Maxine Hong Kingston, Russell Banks, and Jonathan Franzen. The writers examined here...
Of the burning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] "Of the Burning" is a hybrid collection of nonfiction essays and sermon-poems. The narrative threads weaved through the collection include original archival research...
Hiding in plain sight : anonymity across adaptations of Miklos Laszlo's Illatszertar (Parfumerie)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
silver screen. Importantly, the changes which reimagine Laszlo's chamber play as a romantic comedy fundamentally alter the function of anonymity within the narrative. Where anonymity is the central conceit of Laszlo's situational irony, the play...
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...
Studies in oral tradition: history and prospects for the future
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This thesis discusses the inauguration, development, and recent directions in studies in oral tradition. The first chapter focuses on the advancements of Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord, first examining briefly the history ...
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 there is a growing field...
Re/presenting traditions: identity, power, and politics in folklife programming
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
positive leadership within marginalized groups. This research project argues that the elaboration of cultural subjectivity is always a practice of presentation or performance; further, it posits that the re/presentation of cultures and traditions through...
Selling you on flexibility : toward a flexible framework for reflexive administration of writing centers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
to the tutor training course offered each semester. As an outcome of those historical analyses of online needs, this dissertation presents a flexible framework for reflexive administration that can both respond to future local needs and provide transferable...
The nature of nothingness in King Lear
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1974)
versus unbelief. The order of man's universe was in danger of being replaced with chaos. Permanence was giving way to flux, and the result was often a loss of certainty with an increase of uncertainty. Consequently, man's feeling of security gave way...
Inner meaning almost expressed : a return to agency in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
This essay focuses on both a response to a crisis of agency in the modern world. T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and Virginia Woolf's Mrs.Dalloway explore the relationship between a fractured relationship to meaning-making and a paralysis towards action...