• Thundering out of the shadow: modernism and identity in the novels of Felipe Alfau 

    Scott, Joseph B. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
    Felipe Alfau (1902-1999), a Spanish novelist who lived in the United States, was forgotten for many years. Critics writing on Alfau in the late 1980s and early 1990s argued for the literary value of his novels by comparing ...
  • Writer of the ineffable : the paradoxical role of Annie Dillard 

    Zimmerman, Lindsay (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
    While extensive analysis has been written exploring the presence of mysticism in the works of Annie Dillard, little work has emerged which pinpoints her particular mystic sources and demonstrates how Dillard's work uses ...