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Interpreters of Chicago : a study in American regionalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1932)
The second discovery of America came when the writers discovered the interesting elements in the varied communities which made each of them unique. A like discovery had been made in England years before by George Eliot, ...
"The back-and-forth form" : epistolarity in late medieval literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
The project explores medieval epistolarity as a medium and genre. I examine the body of rhetorical theory that described the purpose and form of the letter, the ars dictaminis. I apply contemporary media theory to medieval ...
Merchants and the medieval mirror
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] My dissertation examines the representation of merchants in late medieval poems inspired by mirrors for princes. The mirror was a genre that had an explicitly stated purpose...
Hiding in plain sight : anonymity across adaptations of Miklos Laszlo's Illatszertar (Parfumerie)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Director Ernst Lubitsch's romantic comedy film The Shop Around the Corner has inspired multiple adaptations since its release in 1940. In it, two shop clerks fall in love through anonymous letters while detesting each other ...
Let your conscience be your guide : or else Shakespeare and questions of the conscience in Richard, Duke of York and Richard III
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This master's thesis investigates William Shakespeare's development and treatment of the conscience in his plays Richard, Duke of York and Richard III. This study and investigation derive from a point of academic contention ...
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 ...
The January party
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The January Party is an original volume of poems accompanied by a critical essay entitled Graphs of Totality. The poems engage and revise historical genres of poems...
The centrique part : John Donne's Elegies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1987)
"An extended study of the Elegies of John Donne is long overdue. Beyond such notable exceptions as "Going to Bed," "The Perfume," and "The Bracelet," the Elegies, overall, constitute a neglected area of Donne's canon. In ...
Broadening the scope: female authors are for more than the 'F-word'
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
Though contemporary fiction has evolved significantly alongside the social and political revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there remains the tendency to return to the stigmatized classifications of ...
Still life with rooms people live in
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The following is a collection of poems about the transience of the human world, poems which combine an elegiac embracing of our own insignificance and an existentialist panic...
Anti-Calvinist? : ceremonial conformity and Laudian writing, reconsidered (c. 1590-1640)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
In recent studies of religion in early modern England, scholars have come to the consensus that the religious identity of the Church of England was never quite as stable or uniform as commonly perceived, with a wide variety ...
The anatomy theater
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] During the Renaissance, anatomical theaters cropped up in cities all over Europe, anatomists performed dissections open to the general public, and they circulated illustrations...
Tudor prose satire : the dynamics of a visual mode
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1975)
"Peter Bruegel’s Dulle Griet (”Mad Meg”) is a collage of feverish movement replete with monstrous figures, absurd concoctions, and soberly aggressive peasant women. A besieged village forms the lower half of the setting ...
Illustrated editions : depicting the eighteenth-century British novel
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This dissertation on illustrated British fiction from the 1740s to 1830s argues that a vital part of novelistic interpretation is omitted when illustrations are overlooked. Rather than viewing the novels of the eighteenth ...
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 ...
Medieval romance, fanfiction, and the erotics of shame
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
My dissertation uses fan studies theories of fanfiction to reframe later medieval romances as works that were not only reread and rewritten, but transformed through affective reading and rewriting strategies, especially ...
Magical safe spaces : the role of literature in Medieval and early modern magic
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] My dissertation argues that medieval and early modern English romances provided magic a safe space where authors and audiences engaged with the ideas of magic and superstition...
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 ...
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)
This dissertation demonstrates the emergent character of nationalism in conjunction with economic liberalism and global capitalism. It demonstrates how globalization and right wing fundamentalist nationalisms are mutually ...
The manuscript presentation volume of Jane Barker and her imaginative Catholic faith
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The manuscript presentation volume of Jane Barker is a book largely unstudied by critics. Barker prepared A Collection of Poems Refering to the times (1700) as a gift to James...