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This is not Dickens: fidelity, nostalgia, and adaption
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
fidelity discourse manifests itself in the reviews of both professional film critics and the "citizen critics" who post reviews on the Internet Movie Database. Despite adaptation scholars' designation of fidelity discourse as analytically unproductive, I...
The relevance and controversy of Dorothy Parker's works
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
life as well. In my thesis, I begin by providing biographical material surrounding Dorothy Parker and continue with information concerning the social setting. I examine Parker's works in anthologies and look to numerous journal articles that pertain...
Love, loss and what I wrote: an ethnographic study of personal writing in a textile and apparel management course
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This study reports the results of a semester-long ethnography of a writing-intensive textile and apparel management class that uses personal academic argument. Tracing the changing definition of the personal through the ...
The resurgence of the moral novel in the wake of 9-11
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
In this paper, I attempt to correlate the recent rise of the moral novel with the attacks of 9/11. In exploring the definition of moral fiction and briefly tracing its roots in recent history, I attempt to answer the ...
Losing sight of literature: the commodity of book packaging
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
In every young writer's heart there is a dream, a dream that one day all of their hard work will lead to a successful, published novel. And not just any novel, but the next Great American novel that will be taught in classes ...
Big gorgeous jazz machine
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This manuscript considers the influence of twentieth-century avant-garde literature and painting in contemporary art comics, particularly the growing ...
The creation of The four million : O. Henry's influences and working methods
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Though O. Henry's The Four Million was intended as an attack on Ward McAllister's idea of the Four Hundred, each man is mentioned only in passing in studies of the other. One chapter therefore contrasts the two men by ...
Policing the boundaries of whiteness : monsters made in the USA
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation explores institutionalized racism in American culture that signifies through the Reconstruction era Klansman, the folklore of the ...
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 ...
Katrina's other disaster : examining second disaster literature and placing post-Katrina New Orleans
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This thesis examines the literary treatment of the time period following major natural and manmade disasters known as the "second disaster," which this ...
Comically serious: trauma and shame in coming-of-age graphic narratives
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
The visually arresting nature of the graphic form has appealed to youth from its international emergence in the early twentieth century. Comics of the past, from Little Nemo to The Yellow Kid, were brief and insubstantial, ...
Making Pierre Menard author of the Quixote: critics, creators, and context in Borges
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
Though it has not always been so, it is now possible to conceptualize the act of reading as a process in which we necessarily form an interpretation of a piece of literature, and in so doing, create the work, or the meaning ...
Tools of a trade : guilt as a rhetorical device in conduct literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Guilt as a rhetorical device is an aspect of the study of rhetoric that is largely ignored by the academic community. It has been used effectively, as in the case of conduct literature, for a number of years and continues ...
The imaginary age : poetry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] My dissertation includes a critical introduction and a manuscript of poetry. The critical introduction, "There was no warm body in what you wrote": ...
The symbolic significance of vice in Raymond Carver's What we talk about when we talk about love: blue-collar despair transcending class distinction
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
Raymond Carver's literary reputation is often defined as a minimalist writer who is known for his ability to effectively chronicle blue-collar despair. Because of his affinity to focus on characters of a lower class ...
Sleeping toward Christianity : the form and function of the Seven sleepers legend in medieval British oral tradition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
The legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus is a fascinating part of medieval oral tradition, and eminently worthy of further consideration. The legend was obviously popular and widespread during the medieval period, yet ...
Racist elevator inspectors, consumer-driven zombies, and the sardonicism that mocks them both in Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist and Zone One
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
Concluding paragraph: "In finality, addressing The Intuitionist and Zone One's ultimate goals rely on one motivating factor: progressive justice. Incorporating genre elements into sardonic dialogue about the current racial ...
The humanity of inaction: a comparison of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go with Michael Bay's The island
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
One of the most common reader responses to Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go has been to question the passivity of the clones, claiming that this inaction reveals a lack of humanity in characters who are otherwise presented ...
Thinking locally : provincialism and cosmopolitanism in American literature since the Great Depression
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Thinking Locally produces an account of twentieth-century literary history that counters the literary-historical over-reliance on wars as framing events. Eschewing the standard break between pre-World War II and post-World ...
Race, class, gender and property in women's writing of the Harlem Renaissance
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
By the 1920s, although slavery had been abolished in America decades before, many social, economic and legal inequalities remained between whites and blacks. This is well-known United States history, although to many, it ...