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The art of Frank Norris, storyteller
(University of Missouri Press, 1988)
Over the past twenty years, critics have increasingly challenged the conventional wisdom on Frank Norris as an exponent of literary naturalism. In the present study, Barbara Hochman goes still further in redefining his affinities. She focuses on his...
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.
Announcement of the summer session: June 4th to August 7th, 1908
(University of Missouri, 1908)
Journalism Week, 1925
(University of Missouri, 1925)
University of Missouri Independent Study, 1998-1999 bulletin
(University Extension. University of Missouri., 1998)
University of Missouri Independent Study, 1997-1998 bulletin
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1997)
Center for Independent Study, 1984-85 catalog
(University of Missouri, 1984)
University of Missouri Center for Independent Study catalog, 1992-1993
(University of Missouri, 1992)
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 ...
The men I have chosen for fathers : literary and philosophical passages
(University of Missouri Press, 1990)
Selected pieces from essays published over the past twenty-five years. In general, the first essays move from a concern with the literature of the Southern Renaissance to a consideration of that New England "regionalist" ...
University of Missouri--Columbia, High School, a distance education institution, 1999-2000 high school bulletin
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1999)
Inner landscapes : the theater of Sam Shepard
(University of Missouri Press, 1984)
primarily giving literary and dramatic analysis, Mottram also constructs a biographical context for the plays that is a blend of straightforward fact and Shepard's imaginative recreations of significant events in his own life. Shepard once wrote, 'I'm taking...
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 ...
Bibliography of Missouri geography : a guide to written material on places and regions of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division., 1977)
This bibliography is intended to serve as large an audience as possible. Included are works of a range of reading difficulty or sophistication. The annotations for entries should serve as guides to the kind of readership ...
War and the novelist : appraising the American war novel
(University of Missouri Press, 1976)
This study, based on a comprehensive examination of a representative cross-section of the literature, attempts a fresh evaluation of the contemporary American War novel. Many of the authors discussed here have done more ...
The great western land pirate : John A. Murrell in legend and history
(University of Missouri Press, 1981)
John A. Murrell lived in Tennessee when Andrew Jackson was president. According to legend, he was an able
man who had been raised to be a rascal by his unscrupulous mother. Flogged and imprisoned as a youth, he swore eternal ...
University of Missouri Center for Independent Study catalog, 1989-90
(University of Missouri--Columbia. University Extension., 1989)
Ariosto and Boiardo : the origins of Orlando furioso
(University of Missouri Press, 1987)
, and then only after a crisis in European thought. It ran through well over one
hundred and fifty separate editions in the sixteenth century alone' and, singular among Renaissance epics of any nation, spoke in every major and many a minor European tongue. Till...