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"The Dead, the dead, the dead" : encountering loss in Civil War poetry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This Master's thesis presents a detailed examination of the ways in which Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman struggled to incorporate ...
The borderlands : living between archetypes in young adult Chicana literature
(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 ...
Breaking the rules : three novels innovating genre fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
In this project, I argue that certain texts that straddle the line between literary and genre fiction go unrecognized for important innovations. After establishing the rules and conventions of dystopian fiction, the ...
Action research on the letter as genre : an examination of both external and internal goals for the course and its students
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
This thesis project investigates a recently taught Honors split-level course taught at the University of Missouri through the lens and influence of Action Research, investigating the course's impact on instructors and students.
Sleep and affect in Old English poetry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
A long-standing topic of discussion in Anglo-Saxon Studies has been the definition and conceptualization of the mind and mental activities in Anglo-Saxon literature and culture. Most recently, the discussion has circulated ...
I'm here, I'm listening : short stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] I'm Here, I'm Listening is a creative dissertation that makes the case for non-realist speculation as a fundamental tool for creative writers. The ...
When the evening comes : a novel, and And it begins like this : essays
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
When the Evening Comes explores African American experience in the rural North Carolina south. The book centers around the interracial relationship of two characters--Ben Groves and Mary Holden--after they find the body ...
Assembling comics : the house style and legacy of RAW books and graphics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The purpose of this study is to construct a narrative history of the founding and development of RAW Books and Graphics while providing a critical ...
She is! Tracing the evolution of the female sexual narrative in creative nonfiction writing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This project explores the structures of four female-authored nonfiction sexual narratives: Anaïs Nin's Henry and June, Catherine Millet's The Sexual ...
Seeing through satire : how contemporary American fiction critiques the world
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In this dissertation, I argue some contemporary authors intermingle modes of satire and transparency to encourage a twenty-first century reading ...
In defense of biblical literacy in English and American literary studies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
This study seeks to address a nationwide lack of concern for biblical education in English literary studies. More specifically, it evaluates and offers potential remedies for the current state of biblical illiteracy within ...
Portrait of the Calvinist as a young killer : confessions, fanaticism, and satanic horror in Hogg's Justified Sinner
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
James Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner innovated several important novel genres in the Romantic literary era. The novel centers around a young man, Robert Wringhim, who, along with his devilish ...
Understanding the subject : Woolf's use of the bildungsroman in The Voyage Out and Jacob's Room
(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 ...
Seeing constructed realities : images and law in the contemporary American novel
(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, ...
Leavetakings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation is a collection of lyric essays about northern sorrows and friendships. These are preceded by a Critical Introduction which offers a ...
Show-me ambiguity : an ethnographic study of Missouri Civil War reenactment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
This thesis examines Civil War reenactment as it is practiced and performed by residents of Missouri. Using fieldwork (interviews and participant observation) conducted by the researcher at reenactment events, the thesis ...
British women novelists and the review periodical, 1790-1820 /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Between 1790 and 1820, women published more novels than men -- unlike any period before or after. It is remarkable that women assumed dominant authorship ...
Courtly anger, beastly violence, and the animal-affective prosthetic
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
This project is an examination of four medieval romances that feature human-animal contact: Marie de France's Lai of Bisclavret, the Latin Narratio de Arthuro Rege Britanniae et Rege Gorlagon lycanthropo, Chretien de Troyes' ...
Nature, materiality, and human agency in the literature of the Great Lakes, 1790-1853
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
The dissertation shows that human agency in all its discursive manifestations is a product of entanglement with nature's materiality--its physical objects and forces and this physicality's capacity for change--and this ...
The fetishization of firearms in African-American folklore and culture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
The following work analyzes the fetishization of firearms across a number of different mediums including, the corporeal world, African-American folklore, film, and music. The overarching theme is that firearms are sometimes ...