Browsing Graduate School - MU Theses and Dissertations (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Holtz, William V."

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  • Comic pattern in the novels of Smollett 

    Batesel, Paul (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
    This dissertation focuses upon the disparity between the bodies of Smollett's novels and their endings. The former is set in a society which historians identify as the "real world" of eighteenth-century London, a world ...

  • The other side of the window : an essay on structural iconography in English and American fiction 

    Lawson, Jessie Edminster (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1978)
    The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the structural and symbolic function of the window as a major motif in certain works of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English and American fiction. Within this body ...

  • "To move wild laughter in the throat of death" : an anatomy of Black Humor 

    Freisinger, Randall R. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1975)
    This dissertation presents an extended definition of a literary genre that has been labelled "Black Humor" by many contemporary critics. Though the phrase has been used with increasing frequency in the last ten years, it ...