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Contributions of Asa Don Dickinson (1876-1960): First American Library Pioneer in British India
(University of Missouri International Library Center, 1990)
This book examines the life of American Librarian Asa Don Dickinson and his contributions to librarianship in India during the early twentieth century.
Decade of fear : Senator Hennings and civil liberties
(University of Missouri Press, 1965)
"civil liberties," in this work it seems preferable, for the sake of clarity, to restrict it to "equality among citizens."...
Structures of domination and peasant movements in Latin America
(University of Missouri Press, 1981)
Although the results of Latin American peasant movements appeared particularly impressive in the 1960s and the 1970S, the end of the decade witnessed the progressive repression of the major movements on the continent. Latin ...
Missouri under Radical rule, 1865-1870
(University of Missouri Press, 1965)
The five years following the Civil War were a critical period in Missouri's history.The conservative groups that had long dominated the politics and economics of the state found themselves split over a variety of issues. ...
Forms of the novel in the work of Camilo Jose Cela
(University of Missouri Press, 1967)
Before proceeding to an examination of Cela's works, mention of the critical orientation of this study may prove of some assistance to the reader. My primary intent is to discuss the novels in order to underline the "proteic" ...
Alternate voices in the contemporary Latin American narrative
(University of Missouri Press, 1985)
The chapters in this volume are contributions toward a reassessment
of contemporary Latin American writing and are based on the strategy of willfully imposing a perspective at radical variance with the existing bibliography ...
Mind in character : Shakespeare's speaker in the sonnets
(University of Missouri Press, 1987)
"This book is about poetry rather than theory. Shakespeare's poetry, I find, remains more relevant and more rewarding than any theory, however elaborate, as to who, if anyone, should read a text and, if so, how they should ...
Experiencing Shakespeare : essays on text, classroom, and performance
(University of Missouri Press, 1988)
"This is a collection of free-standing essays on Shakespeare. About half of them appear in scattered publications, some of them not readily accessible. The essays date from 1975 to 1985, and, in presenting them chronologically ...
David Rice Atchison of Missouri, border politician
(University of Missouri Press, 1961)
It is the purpose of this study to trace the public career of David Rice Atchison from his early cases in a frontier courtroom to his last defense of Southern rights in Kansas which ended in ultimate defeat and undeserved ...
Charles Perrault : memoirs of my life
(University of Missouri Press, 1989)
It is impossible to know whether Perrault intended the Memoirs to be published. There are early references to "your uncles," identifying Perrault's children as his immediate audience; however, he offered nothing about his ...
Sir Thomas Browne's Religio medici and two seventeenth century critics
(University of Missouri Press, 1973)
Browne has become so traditionally a part of the history and texture of classic English prose style that we sometimes unconsciously undervalue his ideas and their power to arouse dispute in his time. The primary purpose ...
Report of the proceedings of the Fifth Wheat Loan Library Workshop, Delhi, March 5-9, 1962
(United States Information Service, 1963)
This is a report of the fifth and final Wheat Loan Library Workshop held in Delhi from March 5 to 9, 1962.
Emerson's modernity and the example of Goethe
(University of Missouri Press, 1990)
Looking at Emerson in his time, as he was attempting to define his relevance to his age by creatively engaging an aggregate of attitudes and ideas that he and his contemporaries recognized as modern. Most of those attitudes ...
Nicolás Guillén, popular poet of the Caribbean
(University of Missouri Press, 1990)
Nicolas Guillen is generally lionized by the critics as an exponent of an exotic version of mainstream Latin American poetry, a somewhat avant-garde negroid poetry (literally, poesia negroide) He has also been claimed by ...
Turbulent partnership : Missouri and the Union, 1861-1865
(University of Missouri Press, 1963)
Allan Nevins pointed out that Missouri was "of critical importance to the salvation of the Union" in the Civil War. The richest and most heavily populated state of the trans-Mississippi West, Missouri was the key to ...
Currents in the contemporary Argentine novel : Arlt, Mallea, Sabato, and Cortázar
(University of Missouri Press, 1975)
Foster briefly outlines the the historical tradition of the novel in Argentinian literature and focuses his study to four of its major contemporary writers. His selective survey examines the attributes that distinguish ...
Thomas Stothard : the mechanisms of art patronage in England circa 1800
(University of Missouri Press, 1988)
Thomas Stothard (1755-1834) was probably the most prolific illustrator of his times, executing
designs for everything from landscape, sculpture, and history painting to ceramics, silverwork, and book illustration. The ...
The Old French and Chaucerian fabliaux : a study of their comic climax
(University of Missouri Press, 1978)
This study is about the comic structure of the
fabliaux. The survival of approximately 160 Old French fabliaux, some in several versions and in different manuscripts, attests to their widespread popularity in the Middle ...
As equals and as sisters : feminism, the labor movement, and the Women's Trade Union League of New York
(University of Missouri Press, 1980)
This book is the story of the New York Women's Trade Union League's efforts to reach New York City's working women and interest them in unionization, to create an alliance of upper-class and working-class women, and to ...
The radical self : metamorphosis to animal form in modern Latin American narrative
(University of Missouri Press, 1988)
This essay approaches modern Latin American narrative from a predominantly phenomenological and existential perspective and therefore marks a departure from the main currents of contemporary Latin American criticism, which ...