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    SubjectPoetry (8)Lyric poetry (5)Narration (Rhetoric) (3)Oral tradition (3)African Americans -- Folklore (2)... View MoreDate Issued2000 - 2020 (186)1900 - 1999 (19)Author/ContributorCairns, Scott (14)Prahlad, Anand (11)Heringman, Noah (9)Lewis, Trudy (Trudy L.) (9)Looser, Devoney, 1967- (8)... View MoreSubject: Time Period1700-1799 (7)1900-1999 (5)1600-1699 (4)1500-1599 (2)1800-1899 (2)... View MoreSubject: PlaceUnited States (5)England (2)Great Britain (2)Arab countries (1)England -- London (1)... View MoreAdvisorCairns, Scott (14)Prahlad, Anand (11)Heringman, Noah (9)Lewis, Trudy (Trudy L.) (9)Looser, Devoney, 1967- (8)... View MoreThesis Department
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    Thesis Semester2000 - 2014 (2)1900 - 1999 (19)Language (ISO)English (205)

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    The diminishing house 

    Beer, Nicky (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 ...

    Migratory patterns : stories 

    Oates, Nathan, 1976- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Migratory patterns is a collection of short stories that examine the experience of Americans traveling abroad. The stories are set in a wide range of ...

    Adding to the fragment : happiness & conversation in three eighteenth-century comedic novels 

    Kempf, Nathan, 1975- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Recently, Happiness Studies has become an important field of inquiry. This paper brings some of the insights of Happiness Studies to bear on three ...

    The eight leaves 

    Connolly, Wm. Anthony (William Anthony). (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The creative dissertation The Eight Leaves is a deconstructed memoir, composed in a series of inter-connected lyric essays structured in a ring ...

    "The great fairy science" : the marriage of natural history and fantasy in Victorian children's literature 

    Green, Joseph D., 1963- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
    This dissertation explores the merging of two unlikely literary - natural history writing and fantasy - as a subgenre of mid - to late nineteenth century British children's literature. Tailoring natural history for children, ...

    Merchants and the medieval mirror 

    Kraft, Damon, 1978- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] My dissertation examines the representation of merchants in late medieval poems inspired by mirrors for princes. The mirror was a genre that had an ...

    Fundamentalist rhetorics of self-determination : a feminist conundrum 

    Clark, Naomi Katherine Peachy (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
    This thesis analyzes the circulation of fundamentalist women's mediated rhetoric in the wake of Texas Child Protective Services' removal of more than 400 children from the polygamist YFZ Ranch near Eldorado, Texas, in April ...

    Monuments of human antiquity : William Blake's Milton, a poem as a topographical survey of human creativity 

    Sullivan, Thomas E. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
    This study explores the influences of the eighteenth-century cultural interest in Antiquity on William Blake's illuminated book Milton, a Poem. Beginning with William Stukeley's guidebooks, Stonehenge, A Temple Restor'd ...

    Players in control : narrative, new media, and Dungeons & dragons 

    Sullivan, Stephanie Michelle (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
    Scholars who study learning in video games draw direct parallels to tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) like Dungeons & Dragons in terms of the underlying principles that enhance learning. In fact, tabletop RPGs have formed ...

    Trauma and the fantastic in twentieth century war fiction 

    Horton, Michael Anthony (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
    This thesis examines the relationship between trauma and the literary mode of the fantastic. While the fantastic has historically been understood as an escapist mode or a literature of wish fulfillment, it may also play ...

    Let your conscience be your guide : or else Shakespeare and questions of the conscience in Richard, Duke of York and Richard III 

    Aijian, Phillip (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
    This master's thesis investigates William Shakespeare's development and treatment of the conscience in his plays Richard, Duke of York and Richard III. This study and investigation derive from a point of academic contention ...

    "This sweet touch" : alienation and physical connection in the works of Michael Ondaatje, Shyam Selvadurai, and Salman Rushdie 

    Mitchell, Scott Alan, 1977- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
    This dissertation argues that Michael Ondaatje, Shyam Selvadurai, and Rushdie in their fiction present experiencing moments of mutual recognition instigated by physical connection as a possible means of ameliorating the ...

    Thinking locally : provincialism and cosmopolitanism in American literature since the Great Depression 

    Arthur, Jason G. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
    Thinking Locally produces an account of twentieth-century literary history that counters the literary-historical over-reliance on wars as framing events. Eschewing the standard break between pre-World War II and post-World ...

    Souvenirs of America: American gift books, 1825-1840 

    Huff, Kristina (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
    The Token and The Atlantic Souvenir, two of the most popular and successful American gift books between 1825 and 1840, balance claims about the merit and possibility of American literature and art while exploring Americans' ...

    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 ...

    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 ...

    Thundering out of the shadow: modernism and identity in the novels of Felipe Alfau 

    Scott, Joseph B. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
    Felipe Alfau (1902-1999), a Spanish novelist who lived in the United States, was forgotten for many years. Critics writing on Alfau in the late 1980s and early 1990s argued for the literary value of his novels by comparing ...

    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 ...

    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 ...
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