• The American alien: immigrants, expatriates and extraterrestrials in twentieth-century U.S. fiction 

    Scott, Joseph B. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
    This project argues that such widely differing figures in twentieth-century American literature as the immigrant and the expatriate, the colonizer and the colonized, whether human or extraterrestrial, can all be described ...
  • The dissolution of character in late romantic British literature, 1816-1837 

    Cope, Jonas (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
    This dissertation studies how late romantic British authors, writing primarily in the 1820s and 1830s, renegotiate inherited models of “character” from their high romantic predecessors. The authors in this dissertation all ...
  • Film in post-World War II American fiction 

    Wise, Ramsay (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
    This dissertation is an exercise in intertextual analysis and an effort toward historicizing film referentiality in American fiction. It focuses on four novels, Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's ...
  • Passing figures 

    Dunne, Gregory (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
    This creative dissertation is an original work in the genre of memoir. It is a mixed-form memoir, comprised of prose and verse. The memoir contains ten essays that are loosely linked by theme, chronology, or event. ...
  • Somatic subjects : the pathological path to Victorian womanhood 

    Wilson, Erin (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
    This project explores the role of disease in narratives of female development throughout the nineteenth century, primarily British women's novels. Specifically, I analyze the ways in which female subjectivities are formed ...
  • Writing to feel / feeling to write : utilizing emotion theory and performance studies in creative writing pedagogy 

    Henderson, Kevin (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
    Although undergraduate creative writing courses routinely ask students to create “emotionally complex” characters, engage peers in the emotionally charged experience of workshopping, and scrutinize their personal investments ...