Browsing College of Arts and Sciences (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Dickey, Frances"

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  • The conditions 

    Hall, Jacob Griffin (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
    The critical introduction to this dissertation examines Jericho Brown's 2019 Pulitzer Prize winning collection The Tradition as a work of eco-justice poetry. In this essay, I argue that the tenets of eco-justice poetics ...

  • Inner meaning almost expressed : a return to agency in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway 

    Davis, Kelly M (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
    This essay focuses on both a response to a crisis of agency in the modern world. T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and Virginia Woolf's Mrs.Dalloway explore the relationship between a fractured relationship to meaning-making and ...

  • Songs of republic : envisioning democracy in the American long poem 

    Kane, Thomas (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation examines how, over time, the American long poem has been utilized as a genre in which to model democratic order. Specifically, it ...