Browsing 2022 MU Dissertations - Freely available online by Thesis Department "English (MU)"

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  • The conditions 

    Hall, Jacob Griffin (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
    The critical introduction to this dissertation examines Jericho Brown's 2019 Pulitzer Prize winning collection The Tradition as a work of eco-justice poetry. In this essay, I argue that the tenets of eco-justice poetics ...

  • From the body to language: life and mind in literature and film from the Modernist Era to the present 

    Lang, Peter Michael (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
    My dissertation focuses on the ways in which twentieth-century literature intersects with theories of living systems and biosemiotics, the biological capacity for meaning making. My critical readings highlight the process ...

  • The graduate student novel: a new subgenre in university fiction 

    Walz, Kacy (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
    This study examines novels with graduate student protagonists, referred to as graduate student novels or grad novels, and argues that such novels should be considered distinct from others about university experiences. It ...

  • Rites of leaving 

    Rhodes, Katie (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
    The school of Stoic philosophy traces its roots back to 300 B.C.E and thrived until the 4th century C.E, when it fell into decline and was ultimately assimilated into other systems of philosophy. It experienced a limited ...

  • Sifting the Feminine Bones: essays 

    Anderson, Ashley (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
    Sifting the Feminine Bones: Essays is a two-part project of critical analysis and creative nonfiction that examines how literary, cultural, and social constructions of femininity and the ways in which they influence our ...

  • Spatial politics and genre in the 21st century Arabic novel in English 

    Guerra, Elijah (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
    This dissertation is a study of four 21st century Arabic novels translated to English, each of which narrates a regionally specific process of state-sanctioned property theft. I argue that the authors of these novels use ...

  • The wise avenue 

    Netro, Angela (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
    My dissertation's creative portion is a short story cycle constructed around two organizing principles: a place and a protagonist group. The cycle's setting is Dundalk, Maryland, a predominately white, working-class suburb. ...