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Pulled out of the land: the poetry of Seamus Heaney and its usage of the past
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
The culture someone grows up in helps to define that person, for better or for worse. This culture steeps itself into the writer's work, and helps make the writer into who he or she is. For Seamus Heaney, this steeping was ...
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 ...
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. ...
Young adult novels and their film adaptations
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
When novels first originated in the mid eighteenth century, they were seen as lowbrow and unworthy of serious study. Now, the study of novels is a staple to academia, but certain types of novels are still considered with ...
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 ...
Misinterpreted Perception: Defining the True Nature of Chivalry During the First Crusade
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2015)
Over the turn of the centuries, chivalry has evolved and acquired numerous definitions. Currently the characteristics of a chivalric knight are skewed by the gentlemanly mannerisms and jousting tournaments seen in films. ...
Summer of the Sabra Cactus: The Body, Landscape, and Numbed Tourism
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2015)
Pull Me Out to Sea
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2015)
Revealing incidents : Harriet Jacobs and the new black female virtue
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
In her narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Jacobs recounts the intended suppression and destruction of her own virtue by her master Dr. Flint. Rather than submit to Dr. Flint's demands, she subverts not only ...
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 ...
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 ...
Under skin: a critical essay of gender and the travel narrative
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
There is a line between fact and parable, and the greatest writers of travel have unabashedly and purposefully ignored it in search of the subtle poetry just beneath the surface. This collection of non-fiction essays is ...
Greek cuisine on a budget
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
Last summer, I spent three weeks on the island of Thassos, Greece discovering, eating, and savoring life. Immersing myself under the cool seawater and climbing out onto the rocky shore I was met not only by great natural ...
Filling in the blanks : ambiguity, genre, and reader participation as anti-dictatorial forces in Junot Diaz's The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
Racist elevator inspectors, consumer-driven zombies, and the sardonicism that mocks them both in Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist and Zone One
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
Concluding paragraph: "In finality, addressing The Intuitionist and Zone One's ultimate goals rely on one motivating factor: progressive justice. Incorporating genre elements into sardonic dialogue about the current racial ...
"My madness singing" : the specter of syphilis in Prufrock's Love Song
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
Concluding paragraph: "This unpleasant conclusion results from Prufrock's night in the "Pervigilium," since his encounters with ambiguous women and his fears of venereal disease disturb him so much that they distance him ...
"Goodbye Christ" : Langston Hughes, black art and literary censorship
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
Concluding paragraph: "Langston Hughes as a literary figure today is beloved by many and it is through analyzing his life that I have become aware of his radical nature at the beginning of his career. His life, the mistakes ...
In sympathy : how to read -- and view -- Edith Wharton's The house of mirth
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
In the second Gilded Age that we live in now, it has been surprising to me to find that Edith Wharton's presence in homes and classrooms has been waning. In order to understand why this is, I turn to one of Wharton's most ...
Parody and media literacy in "Nathan For You" and [creative final] "Adrift"
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
Concluding paragraph from Parody and media literacy in "Nathan For You": Over three decades after The Simpsons broke onto the primetime scene, Nathan For You harnesses a brand new form of comedy that makes similar use of ...