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    SubjectPoetry (10)Lyric poetry (5)American poetry (3)Bildungsromans (3)Narration (Rhetoric) (3)... View MoreDate Issued2000 - 2020 (282)1900 - 1999 (24)Author/ContributorCairns, Scott (20)Lewis, Trudy (Trudy L.) (15)Prahlad, Anand (15)Heringman, Noah (13)Cohen, Samuel S. (10)... View MoreSubject: Time Period1700-1799 (9)1900-1999 (7)1600-1699 (5)1800-1899 (4)1500-1599 (3)... View MoreSubject: PlaceUnited States (10)England (3)Great Britain (2)Ireland (2)Arab countries (1)... View MoreAdvisorCairns, Scott (20)Lewis, Trudy (Trudy L.) (15)Prahlad, Anand (15)Heringman, Noah (13)Cohen, Samuel S. (10)... View MoreThesis Department
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    Postwar masculine identity in Ann Bannon's I am a woman 

    Miller, Allyson (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
    Postwar men experienced an identity destabilization that was unique to the era. Lesbian pulp fiction provided the opportunity for heterosexual men to "try on" alternate identities while simultaneously asserting their ...

    Gothic mutability : the flux of form and the creation of fear 

    Roma, Rebecca (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
    The purpose of this study is to offer revisions to current conceptions of Gothic origins and form by redefining the limiting categories "male Gothic" and "female Gothic" as well as their supernatural correspondents, "horror ...

    Deaf identity, motherhood and transforming normalcy : an ethnographic challenge to disability studies' treatment of personal experience narratives 

    Henson, Tahna B. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This thesis is a fieldwork-based examination of personal experience narratives told by Deaf and hearing mothers of Deaf children. Using participant ...

    Representations of the violently displaced black female self in contemporary African literature: (African and African Diaspora Studies scholarly dissertation), & House on a jade sea : (creative writing, fiction, dissertation) 

    Mabura, Lily Gacheri, 1975- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Representations of the violently displaced black female self in contemporary African literature is a study of my broad interests in the peculiar ...

    Explicating the incipits : a writer's journey in Italo Calvino's if on a winter's night a traveler 

    McCabe, Nell H., 1978- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Much of the scholarly work on Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler focuses on the importance of the R/reader in the text by looking at ...

    Kaylene can't drive : stories 

    Wilkinson, Amy Day (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
    Kaylene Can't Drive: stories is a collection of short fiction about the lives of women, especially women in their twenties, many of whom live in New York City. Running through the stories are recurring themes. In several ...

    The Kissing party 

    Barber, Sarah E. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
    The Kissing Party is a book of lyric poems that interrogate the tradition of love poetry and attempt to refigure and revivify the work of writers like Marvell, Donne, Carew, and the continental and English sonneteers. Some ...

    "We pay the devil rent for living in hell, 'cause the projects was built on the spot where Lucifer fell" : theorizing Richard Wright's Native son and Iceberg Slim's Pimp as urban neo-slave narratives 

    Wilmot, Jennifer M., 1984- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This thesis is devoted to arguing for recognition of the urban neo-slave narrative, and to analyzing two examples of such novels: Richard Wright's ...

    Prop rockery 

    Rosko, Emily, 1979- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Prop Rockery is a collection of poems in three sections. This collection is interested in two modes of poetic voice - a more brazen, maximalist mode ...

    Still life with rooms people live in 

    Buchsbaum, Julie (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The following is a collection of poems about the transience of the human world, poems which combine an elegiac embracing of our own insignificance and ...

    Players in control : narrative, new media, and Dungeons & dragons 

    Sullivan, Stephanie Michelle (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
    Scholars who study learning in video games draw direct parallels to tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) like Dungeons & Dragons in terms of the underlying principles that enhance learning. In fact, tabletop RPGs have formed ...

    Let your conscience be your guide : or else Shakespeare and questions of the conscience in Richard, Duke of York and Richard III 

    Aijian, Phillip (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
    This master's thesis investigates William Shakespeare's development and treatment of the conscience in his plays Richard, Duke of York and Richard III. This study and investigation derive from a point of academic contention ...

    Trauma and the fantastic in twentieth century war fiction 

    Horton, Michael Anthony (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
    This thesis examines the relationship between trauma and the literary mode of the fantastic. While the fantastic has historically been understood as an escapist mode or a literature of wish fulfillment, it may also play ...

    Monuments of human antiquity : William Blake's Milton, a poem as a topographical survey of human creativity 

    Sullivan, Thomas E. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
    This study explores the influences of the eighteenth-century cultural interest in Antiquity on William Blake's illuminated book Milton, a Poem. Beginning with William Stukeley's guidebooks, Stonehenge, A Temple Restor'd ...

    Fundamentalist rhetorics of self-determination : a feminist conundrum 

    Clark, Naomi Katherine Peachy (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
    This thesis analyzes the circulation of fundamentalist women's mediated rhetoric in the wake of Texas Child Protective Services' removal of more than 400 children from the polygamist YFZ Ranch near Eldorado, Texas, in April ...

    "This sweet touch" : alienation and physical connection in the works of Michael Ondaatje, Shyam Selvadurai, and Salman Rushdie 

    Mitchell, Scott Alan, 1977- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
    This dissertation argues that Michael Ondaatje, Shyam Selvadurai, and Rushdie in their fiction present experiencing moments of mutual recognition instigated by physical connection as a possible means of ameliorating the ...

    Tools of a trade : guilt as a rhetorical device in conduct literature 

    McDermott, Margaret Ann (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    Guilt as a rhetorical device is an aspect of the study of rhetoric that is largely ignored by the academic community. It has been used effectively, as in the case of conduct literature, for a number of years and continues ...

    Ancient yet new : William Blake's Milton -- a poem and the politics of antiquarianism 

    Fontana, Thomas (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 ...

    "It is a hell for one" : "psychotic depression" and suicide in David Foster Wallace's Infinite jest 

    Thomas, Eric Austin, 1984- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This Master's thesis analyzes one particular character in David Foster Wallace's novel, Infinite Jest (1996): Kate Gompert, a suicidal marijuana addict ...

    Two works in creative non-fiction: The Marine wife and Novosibirsk 

    Mehl, Katrina (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 ...
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