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Fast talk & flush times : the confidence man as a literary convention
(University of Missouri Press, 1985)
Lenz provides a historical overview of the American confidence man, and its role as a literary convention....
Walter Jackson Ong, S.J.: A Selected Bibliography
(1987-01)
The published works of Walter J. Ong, S.J., number close to four hundred. What follows here is a chronological listing of about half that total. Some earlier publications, some items that would be difficult to obtain, and ...
Boyd G. Carter : scholar and hero
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1973)
"Dr. Boyd G. Carter, professor of Spanish and French on the Columbia Campus, is a scholar, but he shatters the stereotype."--Page 13
F. R. Leavis : judgement and the discipline of thought
(University of Missouri Press, 1978)
The pioneer editor in Missouri, 1808-1860
(University of Missouri Press, 1965)
Believing that newspapers were essential to democratic government and committed to the ideal of freedom of the press, the pioneer editor played an important role in the West.
Lionel Trilling : negative capability and the wisdom of avoidance
(University of Missouri Press, 1977)
Boyers examines the work of author and literary critic, Lionel Trilling, identifying a major theme of Trilling's writing style, criticism, and personal political stance as the avoidance of ideology. Boyers acknowledges this theme is central...
Back matter (Oral Tradition, 1/3, 1986)
(1986-10)
The Argentine generation of 1880 : ideology and cultural texts
(University of Missouri Press, 1990)
The political interests, the intellectual forces, and the attendant cultural activities associated with the project of providing Argentina with a specifically ninteenth-century Liberal identity are custumarily identified ...
Old Southwest humor from the St. Louis reveille, 1844-1850
(University of Missouri Press, 1990)
This book collects selected humorous essays from the Daily Reveille, a St. Louis daily journal, from the years 1844-1850.
Courses offered through the Center for Independent Study through correspondence, 1974-1975
(University of Missouri. University Extension., 1974)
Survival of the Traditional Romancero: Field Expeditions
(1987-05)
of its context. The ways in which the fieldwork should be organized as well as where and how it is to be carried out depend upon the objective that is being pursued. Oral literary genres differ in the ways they are transmitted, but we can find them...
Jewish issues in Argentine literature : from Gerchunoff to Szichman
(University of Missouri Press, 1989)
This examination of Jewish Argentine literature centers on the analysis of eight selected works whose publication dates range from 1910 to 1977. This study will examine poetry and a more abstract novel in addition to novels ...
Images of the sign : semiotic consciousness in the novels of Benito Perez Galdos
(University of Missouri Press, 1990)
The author has chosen to organize the discussion of Galdos's novels on the basis of paradigmatic considerations. The use of
paradigms, however, is not intended to reduce the complexity of the individual text to predetermined ...
An historical sketch of the Department of English, University of Missouri-Columbia
(Dept. of English, University of Missouri-Columbia,, 1986)