Browsing UCO - Graduate Works and Theses by Degrees "M.A., English"
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Ernest Hemingway and the reality of the American dream.
(2011)Ernest Hemingway's fiction criticizes the American Dream and its myth of success in the early twentieth century. In The Sun Also Rises, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," Hemingway ... -
Frank.
(2012)Frank is a graphic novel script written in the official D.C. Comic format. The setting starts in Shawnee, Oklahoma. There a teenage girl named Emily is kidnapped by Lilith (the first vampire ever created) and Frank (the ... -
Girls ride horses, too.
(2010)"Maggie Fitzgerald is a young, widowed mother of two. Her brother Alan is a police detective in Atlanta, Georgia. The brother is killed on duty, and on the day of his funeral, Vince Howard, one of Alan's friends, stops by ... -
Hemingway : insights on military leadership.
(2014)The literature of Ernest Hemingway is rich with military lessons derived from his lifetime of proximity to war and his understanding of soldiers and leaders at all levels as presented through his characters. Hemingway wrote ... -
Hinterland.
(2007)A young adult novel set in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, aims at an audience of fifteen years old or older. Identity and responsibility emerge as the two most important themes in this bildungsroman, as sixteen-year-old ... -
Homecoming.
(2017)The poems featured in Homecoming are narrative, and are written in free verse, prose and lyrical form. This anthology of poems was inspired by Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street, Sonya Sones, and Ted Kooser. The ... -
In the shadow of the giant : the impact of the industrial city on identity in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature
(2014)The Industrial Era in America ushered in a time of unprecedented economic growth, yet unfortunately, the industrial-consumer culture created by this growth fostered a devaluation of the American individual during this time ... -
Indiana Jones and the displaced daddy : Spielberg's quest for the good father, adulthood, and God.
(2010)"The Indiana Jones films define adventure as perpetual adolescence: idealized yet stifling emotional maturation. The series consequently resonates with the search for a good father and a confirmation for modernist man that ... -
Jamal Garcia.
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"Leaving the rez" : indigenizing urban space in selected short stories by Sherman Alexie.
(2011)As the world continues to move away from rural forms of living, so too do Native Americans struggle with this transition, both within the realm of literature and in the real world around us. The plight of modern Native ... -
Life in a doorway.
(2012)Life in a Doorway is a story about Brianna Fairchild who is a senior graduating from high school. The week before graduation her twin brother Hayden dies in a tragic accident at the school. Brianna, who was estranged from ... -
Lost in luck : stories.
(2011)Lost in luck: stories is a collection of eight short stories written and revised during my time as a graduate student at the University of Central Oklahoma. The most prominent theme within the collection is luck. Specifically, ... -
Meat makes the man : the hierarchies of masculinity and meat eating in Shakespearean drama.
(2018)This thesis explores how Shakespeare's dramatic works highlight the complex relationships between the hierarchies of masculinity and meat eating. The theoretical backing consists of both gender-based and ecocritical writings. ... -
Memories of a redneck-hillbilly family.
(2018)Memories of a Redneck-Hillbilly Family' is a memoir, but it functions more like an autoethnography rather than a strict memoir. Jeannette Walls' memoir the Glass Castle reveals a few painful family truths as mine does; ... -
Missouri love story.
(2015)Summer visits to her family are usually filled with friendship, joy, and love, but the year Kylie Bellows turns sixteen, she faces the reality about her family. For the past nine years Kylie has attended school in Boston ... -
The multimodal rhetoric of Tinder and the algorithms that shape our choices
(2023)As the popularity of online dating applications continues to grow in the digital world, so does the use of algorithms and multimodal rhetoric in shaping user experiences. Both multimodality and algorithms are related to ... -
The myth of women having it all : gender performativity in American media
(2022)The effects of the cult of domesticity, which have been fought against since the first suffragette movements, have permeated the history of the culture of the United States. In what follows, I will examine the ways the ... -
Poetry of literary studies.
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Prairie noir.
(2017)This thesis is comprised of English-language poetry, with many of the poems addressing the author's background as an Oklahoman, but also as an individual in the 21st Century. -
Princess Sultana : a reflection of Saudi society.
(2011)The story of Sultana in Princess: a true story of life behind the veil in Saudi Arabia, written by Jean Sasson, proposes an autobiography of a woman in the royal family in Saudi Arabia. Assuming the voice of a woman who ...