University of Missouri Press

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The University of Missouri Press was founded in 1958. It publishes books on a variety of topics including American and world history, African American studies, women's studies, political science, literary criticism, regional studies, and creative nonfiction. Selected out-of-print titles have been digitized and are available in the MU Libraries digital repositories. For additional online titles, see the MOspace Digital Library.

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Petrarch's metamorphoses: text and subtext in the Rime sparse
(University of Missouri Press, 1985) Sturm-Maddox, Sara
Full text available in the MOspace Digital Library: http://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A14181
Mizzou Today
(University of Missouri Press, 2007) Hill, Rob, 1954-; Wallace, Richard L., 1936-; Worley, Karen Flandermeyer
"Picture the adrenalin-pumping excitement of hoop action on Norm Stewart Court. Now envision the tranquillity of a late summer day, with a half moon rising in a blue sky over the Columns. These photos tell the same story: it's not two different worlds -- it's Mizzou! The University of Missouri's rich record of accomplishment and service to Missouri, the nation, and the world has been captured in this pictorial history -- more than 140 full-color photos that provide a visual record of living and learning at the University of Missouri-Columbia."
The art of Frank Norris, storyteller
(University of Missouri Press, 1988) Hochman, Barbara; University of Missouri Press
Over the past twenty years, critics have increasingly challenged the conventional wisdom on Frank Norris as an exponent of literary naturalism. In the present study, Barbara Hochman goes still further in redefining his affinities. She focuses on his artistry as a storyteller, and on his overriding concern with human contact and the functions of aesthetic form. Hochman begins by considering traditional approaches to Norris. She notes thin although the rhetoric of the narrative voice' and the pattern of events in his fiction made Norris's work seem to fit neatly into the naturalist category, his four major novels- Vandover and the Brute, McTeague, The Octopus, and The Pit- lend themselves to very different readings. Hochman argues that the imaginative focus of Norris's work centers on the vulnerability of the self and its quest for a measure of equilibrium. She shows how Norris's work increasingly depicts constructive individual responses to experience, and the stabilizing power of memory, language, and art. These concerns are seen to account for the enduring vitality of Norris's work, and for the popularity it enjoyed in its own time.-- Book jacket.
These modern nights
(University of Missouri Press, 1988) Lyons, Richard; University of Missouri Press
Girl on a white porch
(University of Missouri Press, 1987) Schoenberger, Nancy; University of Missouri Press
Girl on a White Porch was chosen from over four hundred entries as the best new poetry manuscript of the year. These poems, by a writer whose roots are in Louisiana, evoke a strong sense of nostalgia for the Deep South, for family, and for a lost innocence that is both personal and regional." -- Cover, page 4.

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