Browsing University of Missouri-Columbia by Thesis Advisor "Dickey, Frances, 1970-"

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  • The Cold War and Agency Panic in The Bell Jar and "Three Women" 

    Eberhard, Tonya (University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
    Concluding paragraph: "Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and "Three Women" show that politics influenced Plath's writing process in both direct and subtle ways. Combining the personal with the political in these works, Plath ...

  • The influence of Fyodor Dostoevsky on E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf 

    Dolan, Ashley E., 1986- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
    Dostoevsky's novels intrigued many English novelists when Constance Garnett's translation of The Brothers Karamazov introduced him to English readers in 1912. Both Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster wrote critically about ...

  • Marvelous whirlings : E.E. Cummings' Eimi, Louis Aragon, Ezra Pound, and Krazy Kat 

    Huber, Joshua (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 ...

  • "My madness singing" : the specter of syphilis in Prufrock's Love Song 

    Barnhardt, Bradford (University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
    Concluding paragraph: "This unpleasant conclusion results from Prufrock's night in the "Pervigilium," since his encounters with ambiguous women and his fears of venereal disease disturb him so much that they distance him ...

  • Reluctant sublime 

    Langemak, Elizabeth (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation consists of two parts: a critical essay on the Canadian poet Anne Carson's place in the lineage of confessional poetry, as well as ...

  • Time, the river, and the mountain : ecology and technology in Finnegans Wake 

    Kerker, Adam (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This paper broadly investigates Finnegans Wake's resonance with ecological and environmental themes. It reads the motif of recirculation in ...

  • Understanding the subject : Woolf's use of the bildungsroman in The Voyage Out and Jacob's Room 

    Berger, Alexandra (Alexandra J.) (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
    This project explores the way in which Virginia Woolf uses and subverts the classic nineteenthcentury genre, the Bildungsroman in her first novel (The Voyage Out) and her third novel (Jacob's Room) in order to posit questions ...

  • Value and exchange in Hemingway's The sun also rises 

    Watson, Charlyn (University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
    The characters in The Sun Also Rises follow a code of exchange instead of a traditional moral code. This emphasis on exchange matches the new found booming economy of the 1920s. Characters follow this code of exchange ...