Browsing 2008 Theses (MU) by Thesis Department "English (MU)"
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A banished Adam : Mark Twain and the father of the human race
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)While Mark Twain has long been viewed as irreligious, scholarship in recent years has underscored the fact that Christianity, the God of the Bible, and the Presbyterianism of his youth play an integral part in his work. ... -
The creation of The four million : O. Henry's influences and working methods
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)Though O. Henry's The Four Million was intended as an attack on Ward McAllister's idea of the Four Hundred, each man is mentioned only in passing in studies of the other. One chapter therefore contrasts the two men by ... -
The crisis autobiography : Augustine, Rousseau, and Wordsworth
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)This project, which on the broadest level can be defined as a comparative study of Augustine's Confessions, Rousseau's Confessions, and Wordsworth's Prelude, is an attempt to bridge a notable gap in the critical literature. ... -
Deaf identity, motherhood and transforming normalcy : an ethnographic challenge to disability studies' treatment of personal experience narratives
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This thesis is a fieldwork-based examination of personal experience narratives told by Deaf and hearing mothers of Deaf children. Using participant ... -
Fore ðære mærðe mod astige: two new perspectives on the Old English Gifts of men
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)The Old English poem The Gifts of Men has received little attention in contemporary scholarship, and when it has been referenced in recent decades, the primary trend has been to comment on its unique structure and position ... -
Lord Byron's critique of despotism and militarism in the Russian Cantos of Don Juan
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)In his mock-epic masterpiece Don Juan (1819-1824), Lord Byron dwells on the example of Russia in his discussion of the politics of European imperial powers and their military ambitions. In Cantos VII-VIII, the poem's hero, ... -
Mere shadows of human forms: intersections of body and adaptation theories in six screen versions of Jane Eyre
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Current scholars of cinematic embodiment recognize limitations in psychoanalytic theories of spectatorship, but their works are still too dependent on ... -
A silent savior: the inapproachability of Christ in the Dream of the rood
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)The Dream of the Rood is celebrated as one of the most beautiful poems in the Old English corpus, mostly due to its blending of Christian and Germanic heroic traditions. In this dream vision, the cross as Christ's retainer ... -
Sleeping toward Christianity : the form and function of the Seven sleepers legend in medieval British oral tradition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)The legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus is a fascinating part of medieval oral tradition, and eminently worthy of further consideration. The legend was obviously popular and widespread during the medieval period, yet ... -
Tools of a trade : guilt as a rhetorical device in conduct literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)Guilt as a rhetorical device is an aspect of the study of rhetoric that is largely ignored by the academic community. It has been used effectively, as in the case of conduct literature, for a number of years and continues ... -
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 ... -
Valuable drops of gold : exploring economics in John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative of a five years expedition against the revolted Negroes of Surinam
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)Though John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam is not completely unfamiliar to literary scholars studying eighteenth-century depictions of African chattel slavery, ...