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You’ve got mail : epistolography, mapping, and authenticity in early literature of Alexander the Great
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2017)
The Alexander Romance is a conglomerate of many different stories and traditions mingling the historical life of Alexander the Great with fantastic legends. It is not wholly historical, but it is also not wholly legendary; ...
The elite media framing the emerging markets : a textual analysis of Mongolian case in the Wall Street Journal
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This textual analysis addresses how The Wall Street Journal framed Mongolian economic and political image in the global capital market from 2012 to ...
A thousand TV shows : applying a rhizomatic lens to television genres
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
One frequent technique for studying television is through genre. However, with the complex television environment of the 21st century, many genre studies do not adequately account for how generic television programs intersect ...
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" ...
Mizzou, volume 102, number 2 (2014 Winter)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2014)
Representations of the violently displaced black female self in contemporary African literature: African and African Diaspora Studies scholarly dissertation, & House on a jade sea : creative writing, fiction, dissertation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Representations of the violently displaced black female self in contemporary African literature is a study of my broad interests in the peculiar ...
Developing computational thinking competencies and natural selection understanding thorough unplugged algorithmic explanations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Technology and computing have permeated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, resulting in a need for a computationally ...
Picturing Dixieland : a qualitative analysis of early twenty-first century newspaper photojournalism in the American South
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The American South has long played a crucial part in the development of United States national identity. Since the 18th century, it served as a negative reference point against which to ground this greater national ...
Democracy and the failure of liberalism? : globalization and the reemergence of Orientalist essentialism in Hindutva's construction of fundamentalist Hindu identity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This dissertation demonstrates the emergent character of nationalism in conjunction with economic liberalism and global capitalism. It demonstrates how globalization and right wing fundamentalist nationalisms are mutually ...
Undergraduate catalog 2012-14
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Have "right", be "right" a study of the religion of consumerism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] American society has evolved to equate the cost of a product with the status of a product. The current populace direct their attention to price as a ...
Undergraduate catalog 2010-12, revised
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
University catalog, 2017-18
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Parallelism in verbal art and performance : an introduction
(2017-10)
Parallelism has been considered a fundamental feature of artistic expression. Robert Lowth (1753:180) coined the term parallelismus membrorum (“parallelism of members”) to describe a variety of different types of equivalence ...
Architectural coin types : reflections of Roman society
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Architectural representations on Roman coins are among the most intensely studied images on ancient coins. Scholars frequently use them as evidence ...