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Ideal gender roles and individual self-expression in the novels Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
The wide range of scholarship centered on Jane Austen is full of contention. Some put forth that she was ahead of her time in regards to feminist ideology. Others say she did not go far enough, at least in comparison to ...
Fact to fiction: how the Tuatha de Danaan of history became the fairies of contemporary fantasy
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
Throughout the past twenty years, the fantasy genre has expanded and taken the literary world by storm. This is seen by the emergence of such famous fantasy literature as the Harry Potter series and the Twilight Saga. Yet ...
From the boulevard to the boudoir: the prose poem's evolution from Baudelaire's scenes of French daily life to Nin Andrew's contemporary portrayal of the individual
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
Compared to many forms of poetry, the prose poem is one of the most experimental and understated. It is a "genre of poetry, self consciously written, and characterized by the intense use of virtually all devices of verse" ...
Beneath, before and beyond: how characters achieve a true identity through alternative education in Song of Solomon, The bear, and Things fall apart.
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
Dear Reader, let me tell you a story. In Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, a black man named Milkman goes in search of his true identity. He had grown up learning to be a certain type of person: one who, like his father, ...
Race, class, gender and property in women's writing of the Harlem Renaissance
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
By the 1920s, although slavery had been abolished in America decades before, many social, economic and legal inequalities remained between whites and blacks. This is well-known United States history, although to many, it ...
Two works in creative non-fiction: The Marine wife and Novosibirsk
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
The two memoirs in my thesis universalize personal experience by linking it to larger historical events (war or the fall of the Soviet Union), and illuminate the historical through the lens of intimate life. The first piece ...
Deadbeat dad: Victor Frankenstein as the failed father
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
In Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein (1831), protagonist Victor Frankenstein and his relationship to the creature have often been characterized in terms of creator and creation, with Victor trying to usurp women's procreative ...
Comic relief
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
This original play focuses on the character of Jaime who goes on a journey of self-discovery as she pursues her dream of being a standup comedian.
Terrorism and spectacle in White noise and Mao II
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
This essay analyzes Don DeLillo's White Noise and Mao II in order to demonstrate a progression of his view of the role of the critic in postmodern society. In White Noise, DeLillo conveys his view of the postmodern condition ...
The humanity of inaction: a comparison of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go with Michael Bay's The island
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
One of the most common reader responses to Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go has been to question the passivity of the clones, claiming that this inaction reveals a lack of humanity in characters who are otherwise presented ...
Sexless faces, abnormal bodies, and white trash girls: grotesque women in southern Gothic literature
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
By exploring and breaking down traditional gender roles through Miss Amelia's androgyny in The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, McCullers shows the ironclad nature of gender binaries and the inconsistency of gender perception in ...
Losing sight of literature: the commodity of book packaging
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
In every young writer's heart there is a dream, a dream that one day all of their hard work will lead to a successful, published novel. And not just any novel, but the next Great American novel that will be taught in classes ...
The symbolic significance of vice in Raymond Carver's What we talk about when we talk about love: blue-collar despair transcending class distinction
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
Raymond Carver's literary reputation is often defined as a minimalist writer who is known for his ability to effectively chronicle blue-collar despair. Because of his affinity to focus on characters of a lower class ...
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 ...
The violent Mr. Hyde versus feminism: horror cinema's response to female sexuality in film adaptations of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
As one of the most adapted literary works of all time, filmmakers throughout the twentieth century have tried to answer one inexplicable question in Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Why ...
Days of the dim: the postmodern poetics and hope of Anne Waldman
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
Language defines the survival and persistence of the human species. Poetics has been one of the most revered forms of both oral and written languages. Over the ages, poetry in the English language has morphed and evolved ...
Pull Me Out to Sea
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2015)
The widow's place : Mrs. Norris in Mansfield Park
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2015)
“The most hateful character in Jane Austen's novels,” “a vicious pest,” “Austen's most nearly psychotic creation.” Such is the critical consensus on Mrs. Norris of Mansfield Park: that she is hateful, vicious, and psychotic ...
War, trauma, and literature: World War I veterans and the expression of “shell-shock” in literature
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2015)
The Personal Essay and the Memoir: A Comparison
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2015)
This thesis will attempt to put into perspective the various differences between the personal essay and the memoir. Furthermore, it will discuss why the personal essay is more useful for the creative portion of the thesis. ...