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The January party
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The January Party is an original volume of poems accompanied by a critical essay entitled Graphs of Totality. The poems engage and revise historical ...
The diminishing house
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The Diminishing House is a collection of poems in three sections. The first section begins with a series of childhood confrontations of mortality; the ...
Lord Byron's critique of despotism and militarism in the Russian Cantos of Don Juan
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
In his mock-epic masterpiece Don Juan (1819-1824), Lord Byron dwells on the example of Russia in his discussion of the politics of European imperial powers and their military ambitions. In Cantos VII-VIII, the poem's hero, ...
A silent savior: the inapproachability of Christ in the Dream of the rood
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
The Dream of the Rood is celebrated as one of the most beautiful poems in the Old English corpus, mostly due to its blending of Christian and Germanic heroic traditions. In this dream vision, the cross as Christ's retainer ...
The many faces of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe : examining the Crusoe myth in film and on television
(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 ...
The symbolic significance of vice in Raymond Carver's What we talk about when we talk about love: blue-collar despair transcending class distinction
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
Raymond Carver's literary reputation is often defined as a minimalist writer who is known for his ability to effectively chronicle blue-collar despair. Because of his affinity to focus on characters of a lower class ...
The poetics of the medium : aesthetic forms and technologies of the word in the English Middle Ages
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation argues that we can understand poetic form in the Middle Ages as language that interacts with its medium. The communication technologies ...
The dramatic structure of Shakespeare's plays
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1904)
A drama is a presentation of an action. Action is the connection and interweaving of details, by a controlling idea, into a work of art, possessing unity; it is the train of incident, conceived as a whole. Events in ...
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 ...
Spectatorship in the crowd in American literature, 1880-1920
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation examines spectatorship in nineteenth and early twentieth century American literature, focusing on lesser-known texts by Irvin S. Cobb ...
The dissolution of character in late romantic British literature, 1816-1837
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This dissertation studies how late romantic British authors, writing primarily in the 1820s and 1830s, renegotiate inherited models of “character” from their high romantic predecessors. The authors in this dissertation all ...
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 ...
The conception of tragedy in recent English drama
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
It is the purpose of this thesis to examine the conception of tragedy in English drama of the period 1900-1912. In the investigation three questions have been considered. 1. What conceptions of tragedy prevailed in English ...
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 ...
Judgments on witness reliability from written transcripts
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
A myriad of research has been done on the ways in which different linguistic features can affect perceptions made about the speaker. The judgments made about a speaker can be particularly important in legal settings, like ...
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 ...
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. ...
Night and day
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Night and Day relays the coming-of-age narrative of a minority female character fluctuating between the melting pot American culture of her mother, ...
County road 23 /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation is composed of a critical introduction and a creative manuscript. The critical introduction "Deindustrial Half-life: Decayed Whiteness ...