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    Into the forest: reading trees in nineteenth-century American literature 

    Regneri, Erin C. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Nineteenth-century American nature writing considers nature from the multiple perspectives of the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction landscapes. ...

    Interrogating transnational media representations of "harmful" bodylore 

    Atuhura, Dorothy (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The category of "harmful" cultural practices' has become a central and defining concept in global health and development policy. A key target of ...

    Brain catalogue 

    Moore, William (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
    Brain Catalogue is a creative dissertation that combines comics and nonfiction. Specifically, it deals with the type of nonfiction often called the essay. It is an experimental autobiography that is broken down across four ...

    A sociophonetic study of Cape Girardeau, Missouri English 

    Cochran, Nigelle (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This paper explores speech patterns of participants from Cape Girardeau, MO. Cape Girardeau Missouri is located just south of St. Louis along the ...

    The many faces of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe : examining the Crusoe myth in film and on television 

    Nikoleishvili, Sophia, 1976- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
    This dissertation focuses on the cinematic versions of the Robinson Crusoe story. Starting from the early 1900s, a significant number of films rewrite, reinvent, and rework the Crusoe myth. Instead of replicating Defoe's ...

    Nineteenth-century literary women and the temperance tradition : temperance rhetoric in the fiction of Lydia Sigourney, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 

    Block, Shelley R., 1974- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
    Although historically scholars have viewed nineteenth-century temperance as a lesser movement in a century characterized by other weighty reforms, this dissertation builds on recent scholarship that redirects attention to ...

    This is not Dickens: fidelity, nostalgia, and adaption 

    Spooner, Kristin (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
    In this project, I examine the responses of filmgoers to three adaptations of Victorian novels: Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice (2005), Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist (2005), and Alfonso Cuarón's Great Expectations (1998). ...

    A theory of Yere-Wolo : coming-of-age narratives in African diaspora literature 

    Ford, Na'Imah Hanan, 1976- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The term Yere-Wolo in Mande culture describes the process of "giving birth to oneself," a poetic way to envision the coming-of-age process. I use this ...

    A closer look at the rhetoric of rape 

    Jones, Patricia Louisa Mae Reece, 1972- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
    Based on the research of Lakoff and Turner, combined with studies in Burkean theory, and the representation of rape, this work presents the problematic use of metaphoric language in US Court rape trials. These are the cause ...

    The manuscript presentation volume of Jane Barker and her imaginative Catholic faith 

    Paul, Juliette (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The manuscript presentation volume of Jane Barker is a book largely unstudied by critics. Barker prepared A Collection of Poems Refering to the times ...

    A subject so shocking: the female sex offender in Richardson's Clarissa 

    Albin, Jennifer L. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
    Richardson's Clarissa is notable for the shocking rape of it's title character, but what is often critically overlooked about the plot is the presence of female accomplices during the crime. Clarissa's recollection of the ...

    The miniature room 

    Dunham, Rebecca, 1973- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
    This collection of original poems is entitled The Miniature Room, at least in part to reflect its attempt at mining even the smallest detail for a larger truth. The poems themselves, brief and lyric in nature, function as ...

    Reflective gazes: character and audience perception in Wycherley's the Plain Dealer 

    Rigdon, Brittany (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
    In his final dramatic work, William Wycherley eschews the typical standards of Restoration comedy in order to provide his audience with more than just a few good laughs and a reassuring message of social superiority. Instead ...

    Michelangelo's seizure 

    Gehrke, Steve (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
    The following is a book of poems based on the lives of several classic and contemporary painters, including Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Goya, Monet, Renoir, Magritte and many others. While the poems participate ...

    The miracle play : medieval and modern 

    Lanius, Tudor (University of Missouri, 1918)
    "The purpose of the present study is to investigate one of these three types,--the miracle play. It is the aim of the thesis to study typical examples of the medieval miracle and the entire list, so far as possible, of ...

    Interpreters of Chicago : a study in American regionalism 

    Conant, Dorothy Hazel (University of Missouri, 1932)
    The second discovery of America came when the writers discovered the interesting elements in the varied communities which made each of them unique. A like discovery had been made in England years before by George Eliot, ...

    Seeing constructed realities: images and law in the contemporary American novel 

    Amidei, Drew (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
    In the new digital era, novelists have developed new tools to aid them levy political criticism against targets that have traditionally fallen outside the reach of the novel. By examining four contemporary American novels, ...

    Understanding the subject: Woolfss use of the Bildungsroman in the "Voyage Out" and "Jacob's Room" 

    Berger, Alexandra (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
    This project explores the way in which Virginia Woolf uses and subverts the classic nineteenthcentury genre, the Bildungsroman in her first novel (The Voyage Out) and her third novel (Jacob's Room) in order to posit questions ...

    World reclamation in Shelley's Prometheus Unbound 

    Dittmer, Maggie (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
    Myth has a fluid function within culture, literature, and time. How myth is interpreted depends upon which element of it inspires or interests a person. The mythical figure of Prometheus has become embedded in the cultural ...

    The borderlands : living between archetypes in young adult Chicana literature 

    Morlock, Suzanne (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
    This thesis focuses on two models for Chicana womanhood, which are the La Virgen de Guadalupe archetype and the La Malinche archetype. They are both mythic figures in Mexican culture that are diametrically opposed to one ...
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