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Style and structure, politics, and preaching : the lives of saints and other alliterative works by Ælfric of Eynsham
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation centers on selected works of the late Anglo-Saxon author Ælfric of Eynsham. The purpose of the project is to refine our understanding ...
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 ...
Sexless faces, abnormal bodies, and white trash girls: grotesque women in southern Gothic literature
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
By exploring and breaking down traditional gender roles through Miss Amelia's androgyny in The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, McCullers shows the ironclad nature of gender binaries and the inconsistency of gender perception in ...
Triptych : essays of place and travel
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The critical introduction outlines three perspectives on place identified by Robert Root--the insider, the outsider, and the traveler with a lens text. ...
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 ...
Intersections of genre and mode : authenticity, fragility, and identification in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads (1800)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
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 ...
Global justice buzz : the visual rhetoric of the Beehive Design Collective
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
In the permanent collection : poems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In the Permanent Collection is a collection of lyric poetry that turns a careful and sometimes ironic eye to high and low art -- from modern abstract ...
Melodrama's afterlife : Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, and The Woman in White from the Victorian stage to the silent screen
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Unique in building a much-needed bridge between fiction, theatre, and film, "Melodrama's Afterlife" proves that writers working in all three genres throughout the long Victorian era engaged in a reciprocal relationship ...
Border crossings : contemporary transnational literature across media and genre and Remind me again what happened : a novel
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Remind Me Again What Happened is a novel told through three characters' perspectives, one of whom suffers from memory loss. By exploring the individual ...
The locomotive and the tree: industrial Pittsburgh's late nineteenth-century literary culture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[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 ...
The space of the south and self-definition in African American return migration novels of the post-civil rights era
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
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, ...
Somatic subjects : the pathological path to Victorian womanhood
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
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 ...
Great Britain and Latin America: the Romantics and the informal empire
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
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 ...
"If you don't laugh you'll cry": the occupational humor of white American prison workers and social workers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
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 ...
This hour is mine : a novel
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This creative dissertation is in the form of a novel that explores the contemporary form of the Gothic novel. The classic Gothic novel used haunted ...
Under skin: a critical essay of gender and the travel narrative
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
There is a line between fact and parable, and the greatest writers of travel have unabashedly and purposefully ignored it in search of the subtle poetry just beneath the surface. This collection of non-fiction essays is ...
Race, gender, and the limits of physicality in Ourika and Quicksand
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
A comparison of Claire de Duras's Ourika and Nella Larsen's Quicksand may at first seem puzzling to those familiar with the differing social and historical contexts of the two works. While it may be tempting to read Ourika ...
Migrations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] "If I had to tell the story in one line or two, I would tell it this way: I loved her and she did not choose me, though I believed she would." At 28, ...