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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 ...
La Revista ilustrada de Nueva York : history, anthology, and index of literary selections
(University of Missouri Press, 1976)
The numerous Spanish-language periodicals that were published in the United States during the last decades of the nineteenth century and in the early years of the twentieth provide a fascinating but much-overlooked view ...
The humor of irony and satire : in the Tradiciones peruanas
(University of Missouri Press, 1986)
The richness and vastness of Palma's narrative contribution have long demanded a more illustrative approach, such as that employed by Rosenblat and Hatzfeld in their studies of Cervantes' language. Accordingly, I have ...
The chivalric world of Don Quijote : style, structure, and narrative technique
(University of Missouri Press, 1982)
The purpose of this book is to examine the characters, style, themes, structure, and narrative technique of that chivalric world. I hope to show, among other things, that Don Quijote begins to retreat from his chivalric ...
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" ...
The Venezuelan Armed Forces in politics, 1935-1959
(University of Missouri Press, 1972)
The purpose of this study is to analyze the political role of the Venezuelan military from the death of Gen. Juan Vicente Gomez in 1935 to the presidency of Romulo Betancourt in 1959. This analysis should contribute to a ...
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 ...
The Bucareli Conference and United States-Mexican relations
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1966)
This dissertation attempts to explain the role of the Bucareli Conference in the contest between the United States and Mexico from 1914 to approximately 1930. It arose from an interest in the land and oil questions and ...
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 more overtly concerned...
Studies in the contemporary Spanish-American short story
(University of Missouri Press, 1979)
This work deals with selected Latin-American writers of short
stories and, in the case of each author, with only one or a limited
number of texts. No attempt has been made to write a history of the
contemporary short story ...
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 ...