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The last line of defense: Journalism photo editors and mental health during times of trauma
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Countless studies have been completed on the mental health of journalistic reporters and photographers after they cover traumatic events. However, no research has been done on the mental health of photo editors who must ...
Georges Perec: autobiographie et trauma
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
ce dernier est en fait l'origine même de son écriture, démontrable de toute évidence par l'étude d'un genre des plus intimes : l'autobiographie. La conclusion de ce travail établit que Perec, qui n'est pas parvenu à une résolution du...
Georges Perec (1936-1982) has been widely studied for his linguistic prowess and his unique talent as a writer. However, a new area into which the critique is now looking, trauma, is relevant at the utmost for studying the work of this author, and particularly his autobiographical work. This dissertation shows that W or the Memory of Childhood, but also Ellis Island, highlight the originality of Perec autobiography widely due to the trauma incurred by Perec as a young child, namely that of the destruction of his Jewish family by the Nazis during the second world war. Such an experience becomes particularly interesting when tied to autobiography. Additionally, the relationship between memory and recounting of the trauma lies at the heart of Georges Perec's writing, which I demonstrate in the analyses given of the autobiography and autobiographical endeavor of this author through the two above-mentioned books. In fact, Perec truly creates a new autobiographic genre with W or the Memory of Childhood, an autobiography which must resort to fiction so as to better express the trauma of an I (claimed amnesiac by the author) shattered by history with its Great Axe, in other words: the real. With Ellis Island, Perec's autobiographical approach turns into a research of collective memory through which he is in search of the memory of his own identity by means of meeting those, such as the Jews, who have gone through a similar experience of being forced into exile from their culture and identity.With this in mind, this dissertation introduces and defines trauma, in particular as applied to Perec, and explains it notably via a Lacanian approach, thus demonstrating that Perec, as any human being, was subjected to the very first traumatic instance presiding over the human condition: that of the real. This dissertation, focusing on Georges Perec's case, will explore the links between the individual and its relationship to that real, acutely harsh in the case of the writer since his entire family (with the exception of his paternal aunt) was deported and annihilated before 1944. I show that Perec chose literature as a means by which to tackle his trauma, which becomes obvious in the particularly intimate genre of autobiography. The conclusion of this dissertation establishes that Perec did not come to terms with his trauma. Autobiography is not, with Perec, a way to tell and explain onself (as Rousseau had done), but it is the writing of a broken life, a broken I, who, to the contrary of his annihilated family, wanted to leave a trace of his passage among us....
Georges Perec (1936-1982) has been widely studied for his linguistic prowess and his unique talent as a writer. However, a new area into which the critique is now looking, trauma, is relevant at the utmost for studying the work of this author, and particularly his autobiographical work. This dissertation shows that W or the Memory of Childhood, but also Ellis Island, highlight the originality of Perec autobiography widely due to the trauma incurred by Perec as a young child, namely that of the destruction of his Jewish family by the Nazis during the second world war. Such an experience becomes particularly interesting when tied to autobiography. Additionally, the relationship between memory and recounting of the trauma lies at the heart of Georges Perec's writing, which I demonstrate in the analyses given of the autobiography and autobiographical endeavor of this author through the two above-mentioned books. In fact, Perec truly creates a new autobiographic genre with W or the Memory of Childhood, an autobiography which must resort to fiction so as to better express the trauma of an I (claimed amnesiac by the author) shattered by history with its Great Axe, in other words: the real. With Ellis Island, Perec's autobiographical approach turns into a research of collective memory through which he is in search of the memory of his own identity by means of meeting those, such as the Jews, who have gone through a similar experience of being forced into exile from their culture and identity.With this in mind, this dissertation introduces and defines trauma, in particular as applied to Perec, and explains it notably via a Lacanian approach, thus demonstrating that Perec, as any human being, was subjected to the very first traumatic instance presiding over the human condition: that of the real. This dissertation, focusing on Georges Perec's case, will explore the links between the individual and its relationship to that real, acutely harsh in the case of the writer since his entire family (with the exception of his paternal aunt) was deported and annihilated before 1944. I show that Perec chose literature as a means by which to tackle his trauma, which becomes obvious in the particularly intimate genre of autobiography. The conclusion of this dissertation establishes that Perec did not come to terms with his trauma. Autobiography is not, with Perec, a way to tell and explain onself (as Rousseau had done), but it is the writing of a broken life, a broken I, who, to the contrary of his annihilated family, wanted to leave a trace of his passage among us....
The first inch of a saguaro
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The First Inch of a Saguaro follows three Mexican American teenagers after their father, Luis, is arrested for a drug-related murder in an Arizona border town. During Luis' trial, fourteenyear-old Javier takes to leaving ...
Albert Camus en la obra Carlos Martinez Rivas y Charles Bukowski
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This dissertation aims to shed light on the works of Carlos Martinez Rivas y Charles Bukowski from the perspective of a comparative analysis of their poetic production; the ethics and aesthetics of these authors inserted ...
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 ...
Off in Zimbabwe
(University of Missouri Press, 1985)
Dragon of Skyros : a study on the cultures of the ninth century through creative fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
To investigate the reception of Classical motifs within the early medieval world, as well as show the multicultural connectivity between peoples, this work of creative fiction explores the tradition of Neoptolemus in the ...
Kaylene can't drive : stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Kaylene Can't Drive: stories is a collection of short fiction about the lives of women, especially women in their twenties, many of whom live in New York City. Running through the stories are recurring themes. In several ...
Do you believe in Cabeza de Vaca?
(University of Missouri Press, 1991)
Collection of ten of Swan's short stories, many of which are set in the American Southwest and most examine characters as they experience varieties of loss.
The experimental origins of NPR
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Today National Public Radio is a well-established mainstream news organization with an even, consistent voice that is characterized by an earnest, ...
Fire drills
(University of Missouri Press, 1982)
Missouri alumnus, volume 008, number 07 (1920 April)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 1920)
Sharp things, or the silver lines are not scars
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This novel is the story of Tianne, a twenty-eight-year-old stained glass artist. She works two part-time jobs as a clerk at a stained glass supply ...
Book of apparitions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Book of Apparitions is an account of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, narrated by one of the assassins, Vaso ...
One last good time
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation consists of a book-length work of short fiction preceded by an essay called "In Defense of Starting Early." The ten stories that ...
Laughter and other lies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation contains a collection of twelve short stories as well as a critical essay on the short stories of Ann Beattie. The critical essay ...
When trying to return home : stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation includes the critical introduction "My Mother is My Homeland: Subversive Representations of the Black Puerto Rican Matriarch" ...
Refrain
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Refrain is set in 1950s Larissa, TX, where the disappearance of four local girls catapults the town into crisis, forcing them to confront their complicity and disregard for Native American life. Told from multiple points ...
Migratory patterns : stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Migratory patterns is a collection of short stories that examine the experience of Americans traveling abroad. The stories are set in a wide range of ...
Metaphysical tales
(University of Missouri Press, 1981)