Browsing Department of English Language and Literature (UMKC) by Thesis Semester "2011 Spring"
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Cushioned by a wave
(University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2011-05-13)This book of poems investigates the speaker's relationships with her family and lovers, and how these experiences define her sense of direction and the world she inhabits. Recurring themes of miscommunication, sex, and ... -
Friction
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-10)This work includes short stories of various lengths with a mix of creative non-fiction. -
Life without my head
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-24)This book of poems understands the human body as artifice, a device to broadcast and receive pain, even as it promises great pleasure. Here, this device is mostly female: a hyper-sexualized screensaver for a voyeuristic ... -
Praising Girls: The Epideictic Rhetoric of Young Women, 1895-1930
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-17)At the turn of the twentieth century, young women began to see themselves and to been seen as a distinct social group for the first time in the history of the United States. This recognition was fostered by historical ... -
Several ways of seeing
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-12)The following eleven stories represent what I believe to be the strongest creative output from my three years of graduate study and creative writing at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. In order to reflect my ... -
Shadows and light - a story collection
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-06-06)We lie and we are lied to. Why then does it shock us when those around us are never what they seem, what they expose for judgment, rather than the whole of what they are. We each seek to assure those around us that we are ...