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Love laws : trauma and transgression in Morrison and Roy
(2022)
One of the prizes for the 2022 Undergraduate Research Project Contest was awarded for this paper by Zoe Korte....
Toni Morrison's "Love" and Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things" both use achronological and polyphonic prose to demonstrate the damaging effects of abusive power dynamics on the vulnerable psyches of children....
Toni Morrison's "Love" and Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things" both use achronological and polyphonic prose to demonstrate the damaging effects of abusive power dynamics on the vulnerable psyches of children....
Saratoga spells British defeat
(2019)
One of the prizes for the 2020 Undergraduate Research Project Contest was awarded for this paper by Abby West....
"After Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga, the colonists began to believe that their 'independence [was] undoubtedly secured,' even though the conflict was far from over. This certainty that eventually the colonists would prevail resulted from the clear notion that this one victory was indicative of what was to come. After this battle, the colonists' correspondence and publications read as if they were trying to set up a self-fulfilling prophesy and will triumph into existence, which they achieved by using this one success as an encouraging weapon to wield when the people got listless. Moreover, the French entrance into war proved absolutely crucial to the colonial war effort, giving them both a much-needed boost in morale and the legitimacy sufficient for other countries to take up arms alongside them and take them seriously as a nation. This was in stark contrast to Britain's sudden isolation and need to preserve their other imperial holdings, which forced them to take a much more reserved tactical approach that led to their eventual downfall."--Page 8-9...
"After Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga, the colonists began to believe that their 'independence [was] undoubtedly secured,' even though the conflict was far from over. This certainty that eventually the colonists would prevail resulted from the clear notion that this one victory was indicative of what was to come. After this battle, the colonists' correspondence and publications read as if they were trying to set up a self-fulfilling prophesy and will triumph into existence, which they achieved by using this one success as an encouraging weapon to wield when the people got listless. Moreover, the French entrance into war proved absolutely crucial to the colonial war effort, giving them both a much-needed boost in morale and the legitimacy sufficient for other countries to take up arms alongside them and take them seriously as a nation. This was in stark contrast to Britain's sudden isolation and need to preserve their other imperial holdings, which forced them to take a much more reserved tactical approach that led to their eventual downfall."--Page 8-9...
"...In view of impending conflict..." : the role of Southern Christianity in sectionalism, secession, and Southern defeat
(2012)
The second place price for the 2012 Undergraduate Research Paper Contest was awarded for this paper by Donald Glen Cole which examines the role of religion prior to and during the Civil War....
"Throughout the antebellum period and into the Civil War, Southern Christianity played a pivotal but poorly explored role in driving the South to secession and shaping the national identity of the Confederacy. It was instrumental in creating the consensus and drive that led the South to leave the Union in an attempt to preserve their "peculiar institution" of slavery. The commonly-held beliefs of the southern church, that Christ was resurrected and that the South were a people chosen by God, formed much of the foundation of nascent Confederate nationalism. However, the South's Christian character was not enough to hold together a nation fracturing under the strain of defeat, let alone lead the Confederacy to victory and independence."--Page 1....
"Throughout the antebellum period and into the Civil War, Southern Christianity played a pivotal but poorly explored role in driving the South to secession and shaping the national identity of the Confederacy. It was instrumental in creating the consensus and drive that led the South to leave the Union in an attempt to preserve their "peculiar institution" of slavery. The commonly-held beliefs of the southern church, that Christ was resurrected and that the South were a people chosen by God, formed much of the foundation of nascent Confederate nationalism. However, the South's Christian character was not enough to hold together a nation fracturing under the strain of defeat, let alone lead the Confederacy to victory and independence."--Page 1....
The sand castle : an extended family of inspiration
(2015)
The first place prize for the 2015 Undergraduate Research Paper Contest was awarded for this paper by Lelise Howard. From the first paragraph: "You never know who is going to walk in and change your life. Sometimes there is a onetime interaction...
Hamlet and his solution: "How all occasions" as objective correlative on page and screen
(2022)
One of the prizes for the 2022 Undergraduate Research Project Contest was awarded for this paper by Kathryn Colvin....
According to T.S. Eliot's well-known critical essay "Hamlet and His Problems," Hamlet crucially lacks what Eliot calls the "objective correlative" for his emotions: the "equivalence" of an emotion to that which precedes and produces it. Despite Eliot's disapproval, Hamlet is widely praised as a great artistic success in spite of, or even because of, the supposed impossibility of confining what Harold Bloom praises as Hamlet’s "enigmatic malaise" to the formulaic, the mechanistic, the linear. If Eliot and Bloom disagree profoundly on the artistic merit of Hamlet, they agree on the absence of equivalence, the lack of an adequate Hamlet equation, with Bloom passionately embracing the supposed mystery of the "sea-change" in Hamlet's characterization between Acts 4 and 5....
A convincing objective correlative for the sea-change can be found, however, in Hamlet's Act 4 "How all occasions" soliloquy from the Second Quarto--yet its textual authority is debated, and it is often omitted from performances. Rodney Bennett's 1980 BBC television production of Hamlet and Kenneth Branagh's 1996 feature film both include "How all occasions," framing it as a pivotal moment (Bennett) or even the grand, emotional climax of the film (Branagh), yet explicated Hamlets tend to be received poorly by academic critics, and Branagh's production inspired a particularly vitriolic reception. The question, thus, becomes whether we ultimately prefer Hamlet's cultural afterlife as unfathomable enigma to the Second Quarto Hamlet of Shakespeare: not whether the objective correlative can be found, but whether we want for it to be....
According to T.S. Eliot's well-known critical essay "Hamlet and His Problems," Hamlet crucially lacks what Eliot calls the "objective correlative" for his emotions: the "equivalence" of an emotion to that which precedes and produces it. Despite Eliot's disapproval, Hamlet is widely praised as a great artistic success in spite of, or even because of, the supposed impossibility of confining what Harold Bloom praises as Hamlet’s "enigmatic malaise" to the formulaic, the mechanistic, the linear. If Eliot and Bloom disagree profoundly on the artistic merit of Hamlet, they agree on the absence of equivalence, the lack of an adequate Hamlet equation, with Bloom passionately embracing the supposed mystery of the "sea-change" in Hamlet's characterization between Acts 4 and 5....
A convincing objective correlative for the sea-change can be found, however, in Hamlet's Act 4 "How all occasions" soliloquy from the Second Quarto--yet its textual authority is debated, and it is often omitted from performances. Rodney Bennett's 1980 BBC television production of Hamlet and Kenneth Branagh's 1996 feature film both include "How all occasions," framing it as a pivotal moment (Bennett) or even the grand, emotional climax of the film (Branagh), yet explicated Hamlets tend to be received poorly by academic critics, and Branagh's production inspired a particularly vitriolic reception. The question, thus, becomes whether we ultimately prefer Hamlet's cultural afterlife as unfathomable enigma to the Second Quarto Hamlet of Shakespeare: not whether the objective correlative can be found, but whether we want for it to be....
The patriarchal gentleman : gender roles of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century American women through the mind of Thomas Jefferson
(2011)
The second place price for the 2011 Undergraduate Research Paper Contest was awarded for this paper by David Lamble which examines Thomas Jefferson's beliefs about the importance of a woman's domestic role in American society by establishing a set...
Library connections, 2017 Spring
(University of Missouri--Columbia, MU Libraries, 2017)
Library connections, 2018 Spring (June)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, MU Libraries, 2018)
2015-2016 University of Missouri Libraries Annual Report
(University Libraries Communications, 2017)
The University Libraries have had another year of growth and change! This was also a year of transition as Jim Cogswell, director of libraries, retired in July after fourteen years of service, and I assumed the duties as interim director...
Mizzou weekly (online version), volume 32, number 19
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Division of Marketing and Publications., 2011)
Mizzou weekly, volume 31, number 29 (April 29, 2010)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. University Affairs. Publications and Alumni Communication., 2010)
Mizzou weekly (online version), volume 31, number 29
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Division of Marketing and Publications., 2010)
Library news notes, 1982-1983
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Libraries, 1983)
Newsletter for the personnel of the University of Missouri--Columbia Libraries....
Outsourcing the public library : a critical discourse analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
While the majority of public libraries operate under a traditional model - they are publicly funded entities, locally controlled, and managed and employed by public employees, some municipalities have taken a different approach where public library...
Mizzou weekly, volume 29, number 01 (August 23, 2007)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. University Affairs. Publications and Alumni Communication., 2007)
Mizzou weekly, volume 18, number 21 (February 20, 1997)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. University Affairs. Publications and Alumni Communication., 1997)
Undergraduate catalog, general information, 1972-1973
(University of Missouri, 1972)
Undergraduate Catalog-General Information, containing information on administration, facilities, regulations, requirements for admission, and the degree programs of the various schools and colleges.--Foreword....
Veterinary Medical Review, no. 036 (1970)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. College of Veterinary Medicine, 1970)
Library news notes, 1991-1992
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Libraries, 1991)
Newsletter for the personnel of the University of Missouri--Columbia Libraries....
Handbook of the libraries (1910)
(University of Missouri, 1910)