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  • Amulet 

    Kartalopoulos, Stephanie (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The creative portion of this dissertation consists of my first poetry manuscript called Amulet. The poems are prefaced by a critical essay, "The ...
  • Broadening the scope: female authors are for more than the 'F-word' 

    Sobelman, Stacey L. (University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
    Though contemporary fiction has evolved significantly alongside the social and political revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there remains the tendency to return to the stigmatized classifications of ...
  • Comic relief 

    McCormick, Katie (University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
    This original play focuses on the character of Jaime who goes on a journey of self-discovery as she pursues her dream of being a standup comedian.
  • Deadbeat dad: Victor Frankenstein as the failed father 

    Skinner, Karalyn (University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
    In Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein (1831), protagonist Victor Frankenstein and his relationship to the creature have often been characterized in terms of creator and creation, with Victor trying to usurp women's procreative ...
  • Evening edition: trauma, journalism and the post-9/11 novel 

    Hart, Edward (University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
    This study will help shape our understanding of the boundaries between journalism and the novel, the ways in which the journalist problematizes our understanding of 9/11 and subverts the traditional trauma narrative ...
  • Great Britain and Latin America: the Romantics and the informal empire 

    Gibbs, Luke, 1976- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
    This study examines the cross-influences of Great Britain and Latin America in the Romantic epoch. The study argues that the reflexively imperialist notions and self-assured superiority of the British were slowly being ...
  • Greek cuisine on a budget 

    Segrave, Ashley (University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
    Last summer, I spent three weeks on the island of Thassos, Greece discovering, eating, and savoring life. Immersing myself under the cool seawater and climbing out onto the rocky shore I was met not only by great natural ...
  • History as a predicament vs. history as a venue : a comparative study of Robert Coover's The public burning and 'Abdul Khaaliq al-Rikaabi's Saabi' Ayaam al-Khalq 

    Mahir, Zaid (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In this comparative study, I examine the two novelists' approach to history, against the background of their respective cultures' understanding of ...
  • House of halls 

    Aguilar, Joseph (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] House of Halls is a story collection that investigates the nature of communication between families, friends, and lovers. In the titular story, a jilted ...
  • How to write like Tina and Mindy: constructing persona in female celebrity memoir 

    Neuroth, Sarah (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
    The primary goal for this project was to demonstrate that celebrity memoir, specifically female comedian memoir, examines the self in a similar manner as memoirs traditionally studied in creative nonfiction. Tina Fey's ...
  • The humanity of inaction: a comparison of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go with Michael Bay's The island 

    Hoffman, Benjamin (University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
    One of the most common reader responses to Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go has been to question the passivity of the clones, claiming that this inaction reveals a lack of humanity in characters who are otherwise presented ...
  • "If you don't laugh you'll cry": the occupational humor of white American prison workers and social workers 

    Schmidt, Claire (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
    Through original fieldwork, this dissertation compares narrative occupational humor of white American social workers to that of white American prison workers, concluding that both occupational groups use humor, both performed ...
  • Manufacturing a personage: photography and American literary celebrity, 1839-1860 

    Blackwell, Matthew (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
    The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the ways in which the daguerreotype influenced literary celebrity in the United States from the time of its invention in 1839 to the beginning of the Civil War in 1860. The ...
  • The moat 

    McIntyre, Katharine (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, ...
  • Pleasure reading: Playboy's literary fiction 

    Luft, Alexander (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
    This thesis analyzes short literary fiction published in Playboy magazine for the first two decades after its 1953 inception. Although Hugh Hefner's magazine was best known for its nude pictorials, its editorial mix also ...
  • Pulled out of the land: the poetry of Seamus Heaney and its usage of the past 

    Wisch, Stephen (University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
    The culture someone grows up in helps to define that person, for better or for worse. This culture steeps itself into the writer's work, and helps make the writer into who he or she is. For Seamus Heaney, this steeping was ...
  • Race, gender, and the limits of physicality in Ourika and Quicksand 

    Alafaireet, Lamia (University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
    A comparison of Claire de Duras's Ourika and Nella Larsen's Quicksand may at first seem puzzling to those familiar with the differing social and historical contexts of the two works. While it may be tempting to read Ourika ...
  • Revealing incidents : Harriet Jacobs and the new black female virtue 

    Cleveland, Sarah (University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
    In her narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Jacobs recounts the intended suppression and destruction of her own virtue by her master Dr. Flint. Rather than submit to Dr. Flint's demands, she subverts not only ...
  • Sexless faces, abnormal bodies, and white trash girls: grotesque women in southern Gothic literature 

    Lammers, Maura (University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
    By exploring and breaking down traditional gender roles through Miss Amelia's androgyny in The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, McCullers shows the ironclad nature of gender binaries and the inconsistency of gender perception in ...
  • Terrorism and spectacle in White noise and Mao II 

    Clark, Samuel E. (University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
    This essay analyzes Don DeLillo's White Noise and Mao II in order to demonstrate a progression of his view of the role of the critic in postmodern society. In White Noise, DeLillo conveys his view of the postmodern condition ...