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Global justice buzz : the visual rhetoric of the Beehive Design Collective
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
The moat
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The Moat is a short story collection unified through themes of the hidden, the underground, and the interior, both bodily and geographic. In my work, ...
Border crossings, identities, and creative nonfiction : Haitian travel guides and writing about Haiti
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
In my thesis, I explore the practice of travel writing by examining four separate travel guides. I ask how writing about travel, including my own creative writing about Haiti, interacts with issues of identity, the \"other,\" ...
Like a broken cinema film : rethinking Faulkner's filmic novels
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Almost since the movies first started, people have been arguing about how films change the way we think about novels. William Faulkner, while a famous novelist, also spent a lot of time working as a Hollywood screenwriter, ...
Marvelous whirlings : E.E. Cummings' Eimi, Louis Aragon, Ezra Pound, and Krazy Kat
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
In 1931, poet, painter, individual E.E. Cummings traveled to the USSR. The journal he kept during his travels would be expanded into the book Eimi and published in 1933. Eimi is an ambitious, wild, dense, and experimental ...
"A journey is an hallucination" : Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Flann O�Brien�s novel, The Third Policeman, consists of many unrealistic events, thus sharing similarities with the fantastic piece, Alice�s Adventures in Wonderland. The events and characters within the O�Brien�s storyline ...
And the wood doll arose and told, I'm a real
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] "Sphinx Eyes Antiphon," one of the poems in my collection, And the Wood Doll Arose and Told, I'm a Real, refers to a blank or unreciprocal social gaze. ...
Harriet Beecher Stowe and the circulation of texts
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation argues that even though Harriet Beecher Stowe participated in models of circulation throughout her career, they were shaped by drastic ...
Transatlantic geographies of faith in the long eighteenth century
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Noting the thousands of books that American colonists imported from the British Isles, scholars have imagined America as a satellite of British literary ...
Rewriting the creative : toward a happenings theory of creative composition & The last monarchist : stories from Nepal
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
First dissertation: Rewriting the creative: toward a happenings theory of creative composition. This dissertation explores the relationship between composition and creative writing in the light of the binary of rhetoric ...
This way back : essays from Cyprus
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This Way Back is a creative dissertation that explores the predicament of the transmigrant, the immigrant who has the capability of returning to the ...
My hands, remembering
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Lauren Fath's nonfiction writing uses handicraft as an entree to examining familial history and the inheritance of objects. Each essay in her collection ...
The frontier myth and the frontier thesis in contemporary genre fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
The aim of this dissertation is to investigate how City of Glass, No Country for Old Men, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and Mason & Dixon invoke various aspects of the frontier myth. City of Glass evokes the myth ...
It takes a village: Twentieth Century black women's fiction and the spiritual apprenticeship narrative
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
This dissertation looks at nine works by contemporary black women writers and argues that the relationships between the major characters in the text reflect and emphasize the importance of mentoring bonds in black communities. ...
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" ...
Philanthropic tourism and artistic authenticity : cultural empathy and the western consumption of Kyrgyz art
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
My dissertation offers a culturally-based examination of the aid-driven western marketplace for Central Asian crafts based on detailed textual and visual analysis of websites, film, online and print catalogues, and comics ...
Still life with rooms people live in
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The following is a collection of poems about the transience of the human world, poems which combine an elegiac embracing of our own insignificance and ...
Prop rockery
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Prop Rockery is a collection of poems in three sections. This collection is interested in two modes of poetic voice - a more brazen, maximalist mode ...
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 ...
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 ...