Search
Now showing items 41-60 of 81
Comic pattern in the novels of Smollett
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
This dissertation focuses upon the disparity between the bodies of Smollett's novels and their endings. The former is set in a society which historians identify as the "real world" of eighteenth-century London, a world ...
Spatial politics and genre in the 21st century Arabic novel in English
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This dissertation is a study of four 21st century Arabic novels translated to English, each of which narrates a regionally specific process of state-sanctioned property theft. I argue that the authors of these novels use ...
Talking turkey : visual media and the unraveling of Thanksgiving
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Standing at the core of American culture, Thanksgiving is an invented tradition celebrated by millions of Americans. This dissertation examines contemporary representations of Thanksgiving in "the media of everyday life" ...
Beginning's ends : new senses of ending and the eighteenth-century novel
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation argues that an examination of innovative endings in both canonized and forgotten eighteenth-century prose fiction contributes to our ...
The medieval English begging poem
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Since the only consistent feature of medieval English begging poems is the fact that they beg, usually for funds due, the form cannot quite be considered a genre. However, the relationships between poets and patrons that ...
"This land is my land" : authority and landscape in American women's nonfiction, 1843-1903
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] "Thus, the arc of my dissertation—from a landscape that is local and familiar to one that is vast and often incomprehensible—suggests that women confront ...
The Monstrous Ordinary : the erasure of the women of Weird Tales and the implications for monster theory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
that centers the experience of those usually designated as monsters. This dissertation further argues that the oversights of monster theory in its current incarnation are only made possible by the radical erasure of the work of the women of the pulp speculative...
We must look a long time before we can see : the art and science of Thoreau's early works
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
By the mid-nineteenth century, American Romanticism had replaced the predominant idea of nature as an exploitable resource with a different vision of nature -- one steeped in beauty and reverence. Perhaps no writer has ...
On poetry : the emergence and function of meaning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] On Poetry: The Emergence and Function of Meaning is intended to contribute to the scholarship of poetics and literary theory. The work is ...
Rites of leaving
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
the Renaissance and in the late 20th century. We own the resurgence of modern interest in Stoicism to the 1971 publication Problems in Stoicism by A.A. Long. Interest in modern Stoicism has only deepened in recent years, with non-academic self-help publications...
"The back-and-forth form" : epistolarity in late medieval literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
and medieval authors. The messenger's excessively human faculties emerge as cites of potential failure. Chapter 3 centers the performative elements of the epistolary circuit, arguing that the epistolary present tense is especially momentous. The timing...
Hiding in plain sight : anonymity across adaptations of Miklos Laszlo's Illatszertar (Parfumerie)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Director Ernst Lubitsch's romantic comedy film The Shop Around the Corner has inspired multiple adaptations since its release in 1940. In it, two shop clerks fall in love through anonymous letters while detesting each other ...
English literature and modern Bengali short fiction : a study in influences
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1969)
Modern short fiction is defined as a genre which deals, by means of a process of oblique questioning, with the concerns of "submerged population groups." Because answers to these questions are not necessarily supplied by ...
The crisis autobiography : Augustine, Rousseau, and Wordsworth
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This project, which on the broadest level can be defined as a comparative study of Augustine's Confessions, Rousseau's Confessions, and Wordsworth's Prelude, is an attempt to bridge a notable gap in the critical literature. ...
Social networks of friendship in the writings of early medieval english women
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
scholars choose to use as the focus of their feminist arguments. Female-composed texts of this period are often overlooked, are used as references for larger arguments about male-authored texts, or are discussed within male-centered contexts even if those...
Parody and media literacy in "Nathan For You" and [creative final] "Adrift"
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
Concluding paragraph from Parody and media literacy in "Nathan For You": Over three decades after The Simpsons broke onto the primetime scene, Nathan For You harnesses a brand new form of comedy that makes similar use of ...
The creation of The four million : O. Henry's influences and working methods
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Though O. Henry's The Four Million was intended as an attack on Ward McAllister's idea of the Four Hundred, each man is mentioned only in passing in studies of the other. One chapter therefore contrasts the two men by ...
Dee-jay drop that deadbeat : hip-hop's remix of fatherhood narratives
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This dissertation examines hip-hop fatherhood narratives from 2010-2015 influenced by drug addiction, mass incarceration, underground economies, trauma, and dysfunctional co-parenting. Explicitly, the paper explores how ...
As many roast bones as you need
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
explores parenthood, mental health, and how we remember the dead, tracing the broken ways we love and the effects of a destabilized childhood as I navigate the conflicting responsibilities to those I love, both human and animal, living and dead...
Death becomes her : modernism, femininity, and the erotics of death
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This project argues that modernist authors employ transgressive sexual desires both to disrupt and regulate femininity. Early twentieth-century cultural ...