[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] With the advent of widespread, user-driven video sharing on Internet sites like YouTube, a recognizable folk genre of the vlog has sprung up, with its ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In this dissertation, through examination of narrative form, particularly narration and characterization, in both travel writing and fiction by several ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This project is the first book-length study of the oral traditional aspects of the fourteenth-century long-line alliterative poems the Morte Arthure ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The framework of this thesis breaks down a few specific examples of select paradigm shifts that occur when traditional models of folklore studies are ...

This thesis analyzes short literary fiction published in Playboy magazine for the first two decades after its 1953 inception. Although Hugh Hefner's magazine was best known for its nude pictorials, its editorial mix also ...

This creative dissertation is an original work in the genre of memoir. It is a mixed-form memoir, comprised of prose and verse. The memoir contains ten essays that are loosely linked by theme, chronology, or event. ...

Although undergraduate creative writing courses routinely ask students to create “emotionally complex” characters, engage peers in the emotionally charged experience of workshopping, and scrutinize their personal investments ...

This project explores the role of disease in narratives of female development throughout the nineteenth century, primarily British women's novels. Specifically, I analyze the ways in which female subjectivities are formed ...

This study examines the cross-influences of Great Britain and Latin America in the Romantic epoch. The study argues that the reflexively imperialist notions and self-assured superiority of the British were slowly being ...

Through original fieldwork, this dissertation compares narrative occupational humor of white American social workers to that of white American prison workers, concluding that both occupational groups use humor, both performed ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] We Are All Dealers in Used Furniture is a book-length work of creative nonfiction on the subject of inheritance, in which I weigh the influence of the ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In The Locomotive and the Tree, I challenge the popular myth that the city of Pittsburgh was devoid of literary culture prior to the construction of ...

My dissertation examines the representation of the return migration in African American novels across the last five decades and argues that these return migration novels are distinct from earlier migration narratives and, ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Tracing <family values> as a central ideograph, this study offers a methodological innovation that engages both material/nonhuman and symbolic/human ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In Chaucer's Legend of Good Women, the narrator adapts several tales from Ovid's Heroides and at the end of these tales points to letters that the ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Despite the cultural, social, and political influence of the established church in Britain during the eighteenth century, existing scholarship on the ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In the critical introduction, I consider Claudia Rankine's innovative Don't Let Me Be Lonely from a New Media studies framework. While subtitled an ...