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The morality play: medieval and modern
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Text from page 1: Furthermore the medieval drama has proved a source of inspiration to certain modern men of letters as well as to certain writers whose chief aim is the appeal to the popular taste, so that we have a ...
The miracle play : medieval and modern
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)
"The purpose of the present study is to investigate one of these three types,--the miracle play. It is the aim of the thesis to study typical examples of the medieval miracle and the entire list, so far as possible, of modern specimens; to compare...
Interpreters of Chicago : a study in American regionalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1932)
Webster, Margaret Ayer Barnes, and Janet Ayer Fairbank. Because of the diversified ways of presenting the character of Chicago, yet giving it the same characteristics of sprawling size, over-crowded streets, and hustling men and women, touched either...
The inter-relations of the three schools of French poetry in the nineteenth century
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
There have been three schools of poetry in France since the beginning of the nineteenth century. They are the Romantic, the Parnassian/and the Symbolistic. These are the schools which have made of their century in France, ...
The spirit of home in the literature of the Lower South
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Text from page 3: In 1867 Harte began writing stories of the West that were focused upon locality, employing in them a technique similar to that of Poe. He has been heralded as the first contributor to the literature of ...
Place names of five southern border counties of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1945)
Counties: Butler, Carter, Howell, Oregon, and Ripley....
"This present study is the the seventeenth in continuation of a project begun by the English Department of the University of Missouri in 1928, that of finding and recording the origin of the names of places in Missouri. I count it a rare privilege...
"This present study is the the seventeenth in continuation of a project begun by the English Department of the University of Missouri in 1928, that of finding and recording the origin of the names of places in Missouri. I count it a rare privilege...