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Environmental discourse and cultural identity on American waterways : regional folklore, folk practice, and natural responsibility
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This thesis project provides auto-ethnographic material that is analyzed from the perspective of folklore studies and is centered on the practices involved with whitewater river rafting. The specific context of the author's ...
My America
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
My dissertation, my America, is partly a series of poems written from the perspective of Modernist photographer Edward Weston. The first section, "Tina mia," is situated in the late 1920's, when he had left his lover and ...
Poetry of the American suburbs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Poetry of the American Suburbs is the first literary study to offer a broad discussion of the relationship between twentieth-century poetry and suburbia. ...
Lacan and the posthuman : prosthetic body in the works of Andy Warhol and David Cronenberg
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation examines the connection between the discourses of psychoanalysis and posthumanism. It focuses on the themes of humans' interaction ...
Fire pond and new poems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
The creative portion of this dissertation consists of one full-length manuscript of poems called Fire Pond, which won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry and was published by the University of Utah Press in 2009, plus a ...
Domesticating the Empire : women writers and colonial discourse in late eighteenth-century British literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This dissertation examines five late eighteenth-century British women writers to demonstrate the ways that domestic fiction negotiates the racial and sexual tensions of the colonial contact zone. Previous scholarship has ...
Rewriting a shared past : gender, genre, and Scotland's cultural memory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Scotland is well known for its contrived cultural history. The efforts of many in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century to manufacture its ...
The caul theme in Tina McElroy Ansa's novels
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This thesis examines Tina McElroy Ansa's cultural validation of the caul and its aesthetic application as literary device in her novels Baby of the Family (1989), The Hand I Fan With (1996), You Know Better (2002) and Ugly ...
Ancient yet new : William Blake's Milton -- a poem and the politics of antiquarianism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This study explores William Blake's engagement with eighteenth-century antiquarian discourse as a means of critiquing the political and religious institutions of his era. In his shorter epic, Milton--a poem, Blake suggests ...
The influence of Fyodor Dostoevsky on E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Dostoevsky's novels intrigued many English novelists when Constance Garnett's translation of The Brothers Karamazov introduced him to English readers in 1912. Both Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster wrote critically about ...