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We are all dealers in used furniture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] We Are All Dealers in Used Furniture is a book-length work of creative nonfiction on the subject of inheritance, in which I weigh the influence of the ...
Two works in creative non-fiction: The Marine wife and Novosibirsk
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
The two memoirs in my thesis universalize personal experience by linking it to larger historical events (war or the fall of the Soviet Union), and illuminate the historical through the lens of intimate life. The first piece ...
Influence: the linked stories of Olive Kitteridge and developing creative work
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
This collection of stories stemmed from reading Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence. For this project, I chose to “misread” Olive Kitteridge, a Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Elizabeth Strout. Strout's novel is a ...
Making Pierre Menard author of the Quixote: critics, creators, and context in Borges
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
Though it has not always been so, it is now possible to conceptualize the act of reading as a process in which we necessarily form an interpretation of a piece of literature, and in so doing, create the work, or the meaning ...
The relevance and controversy of Dorothy Parker's works
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
Dorothy Parker -- writer, poet, satirist, journalist -- was in her literary prime in 1920s and 30s America. America at the time was faced with considerable tensions, much of which was due to the burgeoning Women's Movement. ...
Illustrated editions : depicting the eighteenth-century British novel
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This dissertation on illustrated British fiction from the 1740s to 1830s argues that a vital part of novelistic interpretation is omitted when illustrations are overlooked. Rather than viewing the novels of the eighteenth ...
The American alien: immigrants, expatriates and extraterrestrials in twentieth-century U.S. fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This project argues that such widely differing figures in twentieth-century American literature as the immigrant and the expatriate, the colonizer and the colonized, whether human or extraterrestrial, can all be described ...
Second person ethereal
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation consists of a critical introduction and a full-length book of poetry. The critical introduction deals with the literary manifestations ...
Sacrifice for nostalgia : the American small-town and the grotesque
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
The American small-town as a literary construction has been studied extensively in criticism. These studies mostly concentrate on the different manifestations of the small-town America during the 19th and 20th century. In ...
My America
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
My dissertation, my America, is partly a series of poems written from the perspective of Modernist photographer Edward Weston. The first section, "Tina mia," is situated in the late 1920's, when he had left his lover and ...
"It is Deirdre you mourn for" : the third-person narration of Deirdre McCloskey's Crossing : a memoir
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This thesis uses Deirdre McCloskey's memoir Crossing (1999) as a case study to explore the relationship between personal and cultural narratives of transsexuality. McCloskey's work is noteworthy for being the only trans ...
Perspective : cultural contexts, little magazines, and networks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] "This essay has surveyed a broad swath of criticism of little magazines, established both critical and cultural contexts for Perspective, assessed ...