English Senior Honors Theses (MU)
This community contains the collections of honors theses written by Department of English bachelor of arts degree candidates at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
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Recent Submissions
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A novel narratological framework for the analysis of self-involving interactive fictions
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Mutilation, dismemberment, and martyrdom : the female body fragmented : [introduction]
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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 ... -
Write my way out : the power of words against erasure in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Julia Alvarez's How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2019)Since the days of the conquistadors, erasure has been an inherent facet of Dominican identities. Similarly, the pressures of immigrants to blend into United States culture and stifle their "otherness" only added to the ... -
The framework of fantastical heroes
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Posthumanism and science fiction : the case of Alex Garland's Ex Machina and Annihilation
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2019)My honors thesis explores two films written and directed by Alex Garland, Ex Machina (2014) and Annihilation (2018), through the lens of posthumanist theory. Posthumanism is a broad umbrella term, which can be separated ... -
Roseanne re-boot : the complexity and complicity of depicting the white working class
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2019)Roseanne Barr created her hallmark television show, Roseanne, to foreground the experiences of the white working class people who had been feeling forgotten and abandoned in recent history. Barr's humor and her unique blend ... -
Depressed and disconnected : the symptoms of a digital age in America
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2019)"I saw the symptoms first. It was the way music had become about hopelessness, drugs, sex, and disturbing emptiness. It was how platonic in-person conversation felt. It was in every addicted person around me. It was in the ... -
Woman unapologetic : 'something worth learning'
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2019)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This thesis includes a critical introduction on the writing of Anne Sexton and Alicia Ostriker, two women creators who write the woman's experience and ... -
Into the darkness : the erosion of empathy in the age of connectivity
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)“In an age of images and entertainment, in an age of instant emotional gratification, we neither seek nor want honesty or reality. Reality is complicated. Reality is boring. We are incapable or unwilling to handle its ... -
Dreaming of love's elysium : the prodigal beauty of John Keats's Endymion
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The end of Cape Town : neoliberal deception in K. Sello Duiker's Thirteen Cents
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)Centuries ago, white settlers arrived at the area that would become modern day Cape Town, making their first contact with Southern Africa. Today, the city emulates its past role by continuing to host foreigners. Cape Town ... -
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 ... -
Swipe right : college, dating, and the digital world
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)This thesis is about the modern process of “dating” or hooking up, the way technology is at the center of it, the exhaustion it creates, and the sadness for a loss of innocence/loss of simpler times/ loss of a better way ... -
Mustache memoir
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)2019-01-23: This paper is temporarily unavailable. -
How death in young adult literature can teach us to live
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)According to scholar Roberta Seelinger Trites, death is “the defining factor that distinguishes [young adult literature] both from children's and adult literature.” Death is pertinent to all young adult readers, not just ... -
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: ...