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Dreaming of love's elysium : the prodigal beauty of John Keats's Endymion
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
How death in young adult literature can teach us to live
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
According to scholar Roberta Seelinger Trites, death is “the defining factor that distinguishes [young adult literature] both from children's and adult literature.” Death is pertinent to all young adult readers, not just ...
Into the darkness : the erosion of empathy in the age of connectivity
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
“In an age of images and entertainment, in an age of instant emotional gratification, we neither seek nor want honesty or reality. Reality is complicated. Reality is boring. We are incapable or unwilling to handle its ...
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)
Pride and Prejudice has captivated audiences for nearly two centuries and its adaptations have given insight to Austen's social commentary in each generation. When The Lizzie Bennet Diaries premiered in 2012, the Bennet ...
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 ...
Theatrical flattery : Macbeth and King James I of England
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
The world has come to regard William Shakespeare as a literary genius who used the stage as a tool for not only the performance of his masterfully constructed plays, but often as a platform for commentary on what occurred ...
All quiet on the disillusioned front : the effects of World War II on American literature
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
World War II created a noticeable cultural shift across the globe, the effects of which are still being felt today. What needs to be addressed is that an entire ocean separated one of the major contributors to the war—the ...
A soldier's world
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
Historical fiction as a genre inherently contains both truth and falsities. While the falsities are a natural consequence of any piece of fiction, the truth held within a novel can exhibit the values of the writer and the ...
The end of Cape Town : neoliberal deception in K. Sello Duiker's Thirteen Cents
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
Centuries ago, white settlers arrived at the area that would become modern day Cape Town, making their first contact with Southern Africa. Today, the city emulates its past role by continuing to host foreigners. Cape Town ...
Becoming majestic : theater and the paradox of individuality in the House of the Seven Gables
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
Most of the criticism on the writings of Hawthorne focus on his family, religion, and class. Each of these themes has a direct connection to Hawthorne's life: his ancestors were involved in the Salem Witch Trials, something ...
Mustache memoir
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
2019-01-23: This paper is temporarily unavailable.
Love. a full-length play about firsts, faith, and pornography
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
A full-length play about firsts, faith, and pornography.
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 ...
In my own mode : intersections of identity in Frankenstein
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
The outer narrative frame of Frankenstein consists of Robert Walton's letters sent from Russia to his sister who lives in his native England. He laments his friendlessness and confesses his apprehensions for his future: ...
Bats in the high culture belfry : presentations of madness in Euripidean and Shakespearean tragedy
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
Crazy is a word that is taken lightly and tossed around in everyday conversation. You call a parent breaking out in screaming fits over a youth soccer game crazy. You call the elderly woman single-handedly causing a ...
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 ...
The yanks are coming
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
As a young middle schooler growing up in Jefferson City, Missouri I had the opportunity to watch a performer whose specialty was keeping several china plates spinning on poles simultaneously. The performer would rush to ...