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Medieval death trip
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
Medieval Death Trip. These episodes provide commentary on selected medieval texts drawn primarily from monastic chronicles but including other genres as well, each of which is presented as a featured performative reading in the middle of the episode...
Courtly anger, beastly violence, and the animal-affective prosthetic
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
This project is an examination of four medieval romances that feature human-animal contact: Marie de France's Lai of Bisclavret, the Latin Narratio de Arthuro Rege Britanniae et Rege Gorlagon lycanthropo, Chretien de Troyes' Yvain, le Chevalier au...
Environmental discourse and cultural identity on American waterways : regional folklore, folk practice, and natural responsibility
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
beliefs of whitewater river rafters. The embodied experience of whitewater rafting is proposed as both the central context of this particular folk group and the organizing feature of these beliefs....
Pleasure reading: Playboy's literary fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
features, politically progressive opinion writing and short stories from a staggering list of established fiction writers. This project confronts the central question of how literary fiction functioned in the context of Playboy culture and Hefner's agenda...
Magic for unlucky girls : stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
to resurrect his dead wife while struggling with his inability to understand the needs of his preteen daughter and her obsession with a famous pop star. "Put Back Together Again” features a depressed pharmacist who struggles to reconcile the medical horrors she...
Triptych : essays of place and travel
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
as in the physical terrain she or he attempts to write about. I then explain the structure and organization of the collection, as well as the rationale for the title, Triptych. I discuss several modes featured prominently in the essays, particularly narration...
Shooting a mule (and other stories)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
equestrian culture during the late 19th century through the mid 20th century. It includes stories featuring P.T. Barnum, Roy Rogers, Lucille Mulhall, Eben Byers, Fred W. Loring, and other notable historical figures. The fiction is preceded by a critical...
The poetics of the medium : aesthetic forms and technologies of the word in the English Middle Ages
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
oral tradition, epigraphy, dramatic performance, and finally print. In each chapter I identify a key poetic feature and interpret it through the lens of the medium....
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 ...
Young adult novels and their film adaptations
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
When novels first originated in the mid eighteenth century, they were seen as lowbrow and unworthy of serious study. Now, the study of novels is a staple to academia, but certain types of novels are still considered with ...
Judgments on witness reliability from written transcripts
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
A myriad of research has been done on the ways in which different linguistic features can affect perceptions made about the speaker. The judgments made about a speaker can be particularly important in legal settings, like trials. The purpose...
Linguistics peculiarities of contemporary feline narrative
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The focus of this work is linguistic peculiarities of a feline point of view in textual narratives. Non-human/animalistic narration is barely studied, if it all, in Russian scientific discourse. In western linguonarratology ...
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, ...
Occupy, blockade, circulate : narrating community in 21st century crisis fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
transportation structures to show migration delinked from the need or demand for labor and resources. Each chapter features a social movement that emphasizes infrastructure and two novels that represent that social movement's concern in distinct ways....
Untangling the knot: the theory generation, irony, and neoliberalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
interventions made by authors writing at a specific mid-aughts moment of potential torch-passing. These works help not to strike down this or that form as complicit nor make sweeping claims as to the features of the current moment, but to critique more deeply...
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 ...
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 ...
The Monstrous Ordinary : the erasure of the women of Weird Tales and the implications for monster theory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 12/1/2024] My dissertation offers a new approach to monstrosity, called the Monstrous Ordinary, which articulates monstrosity not as something new, different, or aberrant, but originating from the normal, ...
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 ...
Spatial politics and genre in the 21st century Arabic novel in English
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This dissertation is a study of four 21st century Arabic novels translated to English, each of which narrates a regionally specific process of state-sanctioned property theft. I argue that the authors of these novels use ...