Browsing English electronic theses and dissertations (MU) by Thesis Semester "2008 Fall"

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  • The creation of The four million : O. Henry's influences and working methods 

    Kass, Gary (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 ...

  • Fore ðære mærðe mod astige: two new perspectives on the Old English Gifts of men 

    Updegraff, Derek (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 ...

  • The January party 

    Pethybridge, Jeffrey (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The January Party is an original volume of poems accompanied by a critical essay entitled Graphs of Totality. The poems engage and revise historical ...

  • Re/presenting traditions: identity, power, and politics in folklife programming 

    Rathje, Elizabeth (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    Deliberately playing on the word "tradition," in Re/Presenting Traditions: Identity, Power, and Politics in Folklife Programming, my research interrogates both current practices of re/presenting traditional cultures to the ...

  • Ruin nation : antiquarian objects and political narratives in the long eighteenth century 

    Lake, Crystal B. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] "Ruin Nation: Antiquarian Objects and Political Narratives in the Long Eighteenth Century" examines representations of architectural ruins and ...

  • Still life with rooms people live in 

    Buchsbaum, Julie (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The following is a collection of poems about the transience of the human world, poems which combine an elegiac embracing of our own insignificance and ...