Browsing Theses and Dissertations (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Ragland-Sullivan, Ellie, 1941-"
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Breathing in the other: enthusiasm and the sublime in eighteenth-century Britain
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)This project assesses enthusiasm and the sublime as important eighteenth-century phenomena for establishing the limits and bases of reason and polite discourse. My research focuses eighteenth-century and current sources ... -
Interpreting the gaze in Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris: a Lacanian approach
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Gaze and anxiety are the pivotal constructs in Hugo's magisterial Notre Dame de Paris, with Esmeralda as the Ur-object for both Claude Frollo and ... -
Lacan and the posthuman: prosthetic body in the works of Andy Warhol and David Cronenberg
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation examines the connection between the discourses of psychoanalysis and posthumanism. It focuses on the themes of humans' interaction ... -
Towards a deconstructive ethics: an economic sacrifice and the logic of the gift
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)This thesis argues that deconstruction as a practice has been, from its inception, inherently ethical, focusing in particular on Derrida's reading of the gift. Deconstruction, insofar as it remains committed to interrogating ...