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Loudly Lydia: a look at the modern Lydia Bennet in “The Lizzie Bennet Diaries,” and what she implies about Austen in contemporary social debates
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
woman viewers are able to empathize and identify with. In this article, I use LBD's Lydia to explore topics of slut-shaming and victim-blaming language, relationship violence and shame-induced silence. Through these topics, Lydia's story warns modern...
Swipe right : college, dating, and the digital world
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
This thesis is about the modern process of “dating” or hooking up, the way technology is at the center of it, the exhaustion it creates, and the sadness for a loss of innocence/loss of simpler times/ loss of a better way ...
Under the Bell Jar and across the Wide Sargasso Sea : women's mental health and wellness in novels by Sylvia Plath and Jean Rhys
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
Many works of women's literature find their purpose by acting as ways to draw attention to what Maria Farland labels “the psychological implications of sexist stereotypes” (925). The 1960s saw an emerging trend of feminist ...
Time, prolepsis, & narrative voice in the construction of linked short fiction : an examination of Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
Prolepsis is a writing technique that reveals future events in the context of the present narrative. On its most basic level, it allows the reader a glimpse into the future without causing significant disruption to the ...