Browsing University of Missouri-Columbia by Thesis Advisor "Lewis, Trudy"
Now showing items 1-13 of 13
-
The anxiety of authorship among women fantasy writers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)This thesis applies Gilbert's and Gubar's feminist theory evident in The Madwoman in the Attic to the male-dominated, gender biased fantasy genre that works to support and embolden evidence of an existing "anxiety of ... -
Babbler : a novel
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] A satirical novel of post-WWII America depicted through the fictitious memoirs of an ex-Nazi on an absurdist quest to win the Nobel Peace Prize. -
Big gorgeous jazz machine
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This manuscript considers the influence of twentieth-century avant-garde literature and painting in contemporary art comics, particularly the growing ... -
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 ... -
Escalations : stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The stories in "Escalations" cover a range of formal and dramatic content and operate on a sliding scale with regards to realism and surrealism: a woman ... -
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 ... -
I'm here, I'm listening : short stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] I'm Here, I'm Listening is a creative dissertation that makes the case for non-realist speculation as a fundamental tool for creative writers. The ... -
Magic for unlucky girls : stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Magic for Unlucky Girls: Stories is a collection of short stories that weave Western oral and literary folklore influences around women-centered ... -
Mutilation, dismemberment, and martyrdom : the female body fragmented : [introduction]
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Science., 2019) -
Rites of leaving
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)The school of Stoic philosophy traces its roots back to 300 B.C.E and thrived until the 4th century C.E, when it fell into decline and was ultimately assimilated into other systems of philosophy. It experienced a limited ... -
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 ... -
When the evening comes : a novel, and And it begins like this : essays
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)When the Evening Comes explores African American experience in the rural North Carolina south. The book centers around the interracial relationship of two characters--Ben Groves and Mary Holden--after they find the body ... -
The wise avenue
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)My dissertation's creative portion is a short story cycle constructed around two organizing principles: a place and a protagonist group. The cycle's setting is Dundalk, Maryland, a predominately white, working-class suburb. ...