Browsing 2022 MU Theses - Freely available online by Thesis Advisor "Cohen, Samuel"
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Beyond the trauma hero: the discourse of American war fiction from the Global War on Terror
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)The recent US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, the last major theatre of war for post 9/11 veterans, marks a turning point for the United States. This new period of relative warlessness allows the nation to reflect on ... -
"Futures possible": reading for realism in contemporary literary genre fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)This thesis reads three contemporary novels, Colson Whitehead's Zone One, Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice, and Lydia Millet's Mermaids in Paradise in relation to literary realism. What is so novel about this approach is ... -
Untangling the knot: the theory generation, irony, and neoliberalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)Significant typological work has been done in cataloging forms of life, literature, and culture in the alleged aftermath of the epoch of postmodernism, but recent critical works invite deeper considerations of the political ...