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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
The critique of women in Shakespeare's plays
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
In many of William Shakespeare's plays, women play a central role in moving the plot forward. These women become catalysts for the drama that unfolds, especially in Shakespeare's tragedies, where the reactions of the other ...
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 ...
Making Pierre Menard author of the Quixote: critics, creators, and context in Borges
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
Though it has not always been so, it is now possible to conceptualize the act of reading as a process in which we necessarily form an interpretation of a piece of literature, and in so doing, create the work, or the meaning ...
Influence: the linked stories of Olive Kitteridge and developing creative work
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
This collection of stories stemmed from reading Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence. For this project, I chose to “misread” Olive Kitteridge, a Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Elizabeth Strout. Strout's novel is a ...
The relevance and controversy of Dorothy Parker's works
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
Dorothy Parker -- writer, poet, satirist, journalist -- was in her literary prime in 1920s and 30s America. America at the time was faced with considerable tensions, much of which was due to the burgeoning Women's Movement. ...
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, ...