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Mustache memoir
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
2019-01-23: This paper is temporarily unavailable.
From Humayun Khan to Kamala Khan : ambivalence towards the Muslim super hero
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2017)
The 2016 Democratic National Convention saw the emergence of an unlikely national hero: Humayun Khan. Khan had passed away long before the Democratic National Convention while on duty as an American soldier in Iraq, but ...
Romantic friendships in Shirley and Wives and daughters
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2017)
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. -- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice. The opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice is an often quoted phrase ...
Theatrical flattery : Macbeth and King James I of England
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
The world has come to regard William Shakespeare as a literary genius who used the stage as a tool for not only the performance of his masterfully constructed plays, but often as a platform for commentary on what occurred ...
Love. a full-length play about firsts, faith, and pornography
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
A full-length play about firsts, faith, and pornography.
In my own mode : intersections of identity in Frankenstein
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
The outer narrative frame of Frankenstein consists of Robert Walton's letters sent from Russia to his sister who lives in his native England. He laments his friendlessness and confesses his apprehensions for his future: ...
Under the Bell Jar and across the Wide Sargasso Sea : women's mental health and wellness in novels by Sylvia Plath and Jean Rhys
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
Many works of women's literature find their purpose by acting as ways to draw attention to what Maria Farland labels “the psychological implications of sexist stereotypes” (925). The 1960s saw an emerging trend of feminist ...
The role of the first-person narrator when dealing with mental illness
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2017)
This thesis examines how the first-person narrator alters reader perception in a story about mental illness. The role genre plays with the first-person narrator when talking about mental illness is also important when ...
Time, prolepsis, & narrative voice in the construction of linked short fiction : an examination of Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
Prolepsis is a writing technique that reveals future events in the context of the present narrative. On its most basic level, it allows the reader a glimpse into the future without causing significant disruption to the ...
The framework of fantastical heroes
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2019)
Unraveling the Femme Fatale : Auteur Theory and Christopher Nolan's work
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2019)
"Auteur Theory, a term coined in the 1940s to recognize a filmmakers or directors unique thematic style has remained prevalent and has helped distinguish Auteur artists such as Christopher Nolan from his contemporary ...
After the final page : food transformation narratives and the call to individual action
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2019)
In this paper I examine and define the concept of transformation literature through three different books engaging in a conversation with food politics, and the intersection of ethics and morality. The first of the three ...
A novel narratological framework for the analysis of self-involving interactive fictions
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Science., 2021)