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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 ...
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 ...
Shakespeare's vast romance : a study of The winter's tale
(University of Missouri Press, 1980)
In the past few decades, no group of Shakespeare's plays has increased more in public and scholarly esteem than the four late comedies - Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winters Tale, and The Tempest - generally collected in modern ...
Galdos : the early historical novels
(University of Missouri Press, 1986)
With the advances of Galdos scholarship over the last twenty
years, the episodios are increasingly treated as works of fiction rather than as means of transmitting elementary historical facts to the ignorant; furthermore, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The First and second Dalhousie manuscripts : poems and prose
(University of Missouri Press, 1988)
Discovered in 1977 amoung the papers of the Dalhousie family at the Scottish Record Office in Edinburgh and purchased by Texas Tech University in 1983, the First and Second Dalhousie Manuscripts contain, respectively, ...
Gracious laughter : the meditative wit of Edward Taylor
(University of Missouri Press, 1989)
Study of the New England colonial poet, Edward Taylor, and the relationship between his verbal wit and his religious commitment to Puritan belief. Gatta evaluates the anti-utilitarian dimensions and Puritan themes in ...
Richard Crashaw : an annotated bibliography of criticism, 1632-1980
(University of Missouri Press, 1985)
Roberts provides a "fully annotated, comprehensive enumerative bibliography of the criticism on Richard Crashaw that contains, in addition to editions of his poetry, all books; parts of book-length studies; monographs; and ...
Themes in cultural psychiatry, an annotated bibliography, 1975-1980
(University of Missouri Press, 1982)
While expanding on the previous compilation, Anthropological and Cross-Cultural Themes in Mental Health: An Annotated Bibliography, 1925-1974, Favazza anthologizes the next five years of literature on cultural psychiatry. ...