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Fire drills
(University of Missouri Press, 1982)
Jumping-off place
(University of Missouri Press, 1981)
Secretary of praise : the poetic vocation of George Herbert
(University of Missouri Press, 1984)
The purpose of this study is to elucidate Herbert's poetry by reference to grace and charity as two of the major themes of The Temple. These doctrines lay the foundation for an understanding of Herbert's poetic vocation, ...
The Elmer Ellis Humor Collection
(Ellis Library -- University of Missouri--Columbia, 1986)
The Elmer Ellis Humor Collection Supplement
(Ellis Library -- University of Missouri--Columbia, 1986)
The mild reservationists and the League of Nations controversy in the Senate
(University of Missouri Press, 1989)
"What if the United States Senate had approved the Versailles Treaty and permitted the country to join the League of Nations that was being formed after the First World War? Would the course of history have been so altered ...
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 ...
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 ...
God be with the clown : humor in American poetry
(University of Missouri Press, 1984)
This study will examine the neglected comic element in American poetry, placing it in the rich and distinctive traditions of American humor.
Trip report, 1989
(1989)
The following reports by members of the faculty of the four campuses of the University of Missouri System and the University of Western Cape, located in Bellville, South Africa, are the result of participation in a faculty ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A wild civility : interactions in the poetry and thought of Robert Graves
(University of Missouri Press, 1980)
Keane explores the interaction of emotion and artistry within the poetry and personality of Robert Graves, while analyzing Graves' allusion to earlier English poetry.
Inner landscapes : the theater of Sam Shepard
(University of Missouri Press, 1984)
"Sam Shepard has so often been called the preeminent playwright of his generation that the statement goes almost unchallenged today. Some have gone further in their praise: Partisan Review, for example, has described him ...
Mark Twain's escape from time : a study of patterns and images
(University of Missouri Press, 1982)
This study traces, through paterns of images, the development of Mark Twain's first-person narrative personae and examines the alienation from the zeitgeist both in the work and in his life. It looks at the ways this ...
Trip report, 1988
(1988)
The following reports by members of the faculty of the four campuses of the University of Missouri System and the University of Western Cape, located in Bellville, South Africa, are the result of participation in a faculty ...
Ariosto and Boiardo : the origins of Orlando furioso
(University of Missouri Press, 1987)
In remarkably intensified form the fortunes of Orlando Furioso repeat the history common to the group of which it is really a very uncommon member. It was immediately and indisputably the poem of its age, challenged only ...
Passages of a stream : a chronicle of the Meramec
(University of Missouri Press, 1984)
Jackson explores the geographical, etymological, and historical roots of the Meramec River, and provides the accounts of environmental efforts to prevent its damming.
Donald Barthelme's fiction : the ironist saved from drowning
(University of Missouri Press, 1982)