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Swipe right : college, dating, and the digital world
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
This thesis is about the modern process of “dating” or hooking up, the way technology is at the center of it, the exhaustion it creates, and the sadness for a loss of innocence/loss of simpler times/ loss of a better way ...
Love. a full-length play about firsts, faith, and pornography
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
A full-length play about firsts, faith, and pornography.
Under the Bell Jar and across the Wide Sargasso Sea : women's mental health and wellness in novels by Sylvia Plath and Jean Rhys
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
Many works of women's literature find their purpose by acting as ways to draw attention to what Maria Farland labels “the psychological implications of sexist stereotypes” (925). The 1960s saw an emerging trend of feminist ...
You’ve got mail : epistolography, mapping, and authenticity in early literature of Alexander the Great
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2017)
The Alexander Romance is a conglomerate of many different stories and traditions mingling the historical life of Alexander the Great with fantastic legends. It is not wholly historical, but it is also not wholly legendary; ...
The end of Cape Town : neoliberal deception in K. Sello Duiker's Thirteen Cents
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
Centuries ago, white settlers arrived at the area that would become modern day Cape Town, making their first contact with Southern Africa. Today, the city emulates its past role by continuing to host foreigners. Cape Town ...
Dreaming of love's elysium : the prodigal beauty of John Keats's Endymion
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
How death in young adult literature can teach us to live
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
According to scholar Roberta Seelinger Trites, death is “the defining factor that distinguishes [young adult literature] both from children's and adult literature.” Death is pertinent to all young adult readers, not just ...
Into the darkness : the erosion of empathy in the age of connectivity
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
“In an age of images and entertainment, in an age of instant emotional gratification, we neither seek nor want honesty or reality. Reality is complicated. Reality is boring. We are incapable or unwilling to handle its ...
Loudly Lydia: a look at the modern Lydia Bennet in “The Lizzie Bennet Diaries,” and what she implies about Austen in contemporary social debates
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
Pride and Prejudice has captivated audiences for nearly two centuries and its adaptations have given insight to Austen's social commentary in each generation. When The Lizzie Bennet Diaries premiered in 2012, the Bennet ...
Fearing the unknown : mental health in current day America
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2017)
Throughout American history, the issue of mental health has ebbed and flowed with importance and acceptance. Even though there is a consistent record of mental illness in history, stigma toward those with mental illnesses ...
Behind the blue shutters
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2017)
Throughout western history, people feared what they did not know; anything considered different made society feel uncomfortable. Humans have been conditioned to dislike differences and stay away from them. Because of this, ...
All quiet on the disillusioned front : the effects of World War II on American literature
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
World War II created a noticeable cultural shift across the globe, the effects of which are still being felt today. What needs to be addressed is that an entire ocean separated one of the major contributors to the war—the ...
Becoming majestic : theater and the paradox of individuality in the House of the Seven Gables
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
Most of the criticism on the writings of Hawthorne focus on his family, religion, and class. Each of these themes has a direct connection to Hawthorne's life: his ancestors were involved in the Salem Witch Trials, something ...
The framework of fantastical heroes
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2019)
Unraveling the Femme Fatale : Auteur Theory and Christopher Nolan's work
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2019)
"Auteur Theory, a term coined in the 1940s to recognize a filmmakers or directors unique thematic style has remained prevalent and has helped distinguish Auteur artists such as Christopher Nolan from his contemporary ...
After the final page : food transformation narratives and the call to individual action
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2019)
In this paper I examine and define the concept of transformation literature through three different books engaging in a conversation with food politics, and the intersection of ethics and morality. The first of the three ...
A novel narratological framework for the analysis of self-involving interactive fictions
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Science., 2021)
Posthumanism and science fiction : the case of Alex Garland's Ex Machina and Annihilation
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2019)
My honors thesis explores two films written and directed by Alex Garland, Ex Machina (2014) and Annihilation (2018), through the lens of posthumanist theory. Posthumanism is a broad umbrella term, which can be separated ...
Race, gender, and the limits of physicality in Ourika and Quicksand
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
A comparison of Claire de Duras's Ourika and Nella Larsen's Quicksand may at first seem puzzling to those familiar with the differing social and historical contexts of the two works. While it may be tempting to read Ourika ...
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 ...