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Adaptation : re-creating the novel as a stage play
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The critical introduction examines Linda Hutcheon's notion that the process of adaptation is worthy of observation, and that in analyzing a novelist adapting her own work for the stage, we begin to see how the interiority ...
Value and exchange in Hemingway's The sun also rises
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
The characters in The Sun Also Rises follow a code of exchange instead of a traditional moral code. This emphasis on exchange matches the new found booming economy of the 1920s. Characters follow this code of exchange ...
Songs of republic : envisioning democracy in the American long poem
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation examines how, over time, the American long poem has been utilized as a genre in which to model democratic order. Specifically, it ...
"A journey is an hallucination" : Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Flann O�Brien�s novel, The Third Policeman, consists of many unrealistic events, thus sharing similarities with the fantastic piece, Alice�s Adventures in Wonderland. The events and characters within the O�Brien�s storyline ...
Yeoman justice :the Robin Hood ballads and the appropriation of aristocratic and clerical justice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Robin Hood and the Monk, Robin Hood and the Potter, A Gest of Robyn Hode, and Robin Hood and the Guy of Guisborne. I argue the Robin Hood texts critique common medieval conceptions of justice by creating new ones through ...
How to write like Tina and Mindy: constructing persona in female celebrity memoir
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The primary goal for this project was to demonstrate that celebrity memoir, specifically female comedian memoir, examines the self in a similar manner as memoirs traditionally studied in creative nonfiction. Tina Fey's ...
Terrorism and spectacle in White noise and Mao II
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
This essay analyzes Don DeLillo's White Noise and Mao II in order to demonstrate a progression of his view of the role of the critic in postmodern society. In White Noise, DeLillo conveys his view of the postmodern condition ...
Comic relief
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
This original play focuses on the character of Jaime who goes on a journey of self-discovery as she pursues her dream of being a standup comedian.
Film in post-World War II American fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This dissertation is an exercise in intertextual analysis and an effort toward historicizing film referentiality in American fiction. It focuses on four novels, Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's ...
Letting off steam : neo-imperial anxieties in postcolonial steampunk literature, aesthetics, and performance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Private devotion, common prayer, and the British novel, 1700-1815
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[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 ...
Intersections of genre and mode : authenticity, fragility, and identification in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads (1800)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Global justice buzz : the visual rhetoric of the Beehive Design Collective
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Toward a new critical materialist rhetorical methodology : ideographic tracking of family values from eugenics to neoliberalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[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 ...
Return to sender : epistolarity in Chaucer's Legend of good women
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[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 ...
From the Bible to Harry Potter : Updating an ancient myth into modern fantasy
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
The Cold War and Agency Panic in The Bell Jar and "Three Women"
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
Concluding paragraph: "Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and "Three Women" show that politics influenced Plath's writing process in both direct and subtle ways. Combining the personal with the political in these works, Plath ...
The frontier myth and the frontier thesis in contemporary genre fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
The aim of this dissertation is to investigate how City of Glass, No Country for Old Men, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and Mason & Dixon invoke various aspects of the frontier myth. City of Glass evokes the myth ...
This way back : essays from Cyprus
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This Way Back is a creative dissertation that explores the predicament of the transmigrant, the immigrant who has the capability of returning to the ...
My hands, remembering
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Lauren Fath's nonfiction writing uses handicraft as an entree to examining familial history and the inheritance of objects. Each essay in her collection ...