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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 ...
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 ...
Nicolás Guillén, popular poet of the Caribbean
(University of Missouri Press, 1990)
Nicolas Guillen is generally lionized by the critics as an exponent of an exotic version of mainstream Latin American poetry, a somewhat avant-garde negroid poetry (literally, poesia negroide) He has also been claimed by ...
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)
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 ...
A dream with no stump roots in it
(University of Missouri Press, 1975)
Work and the work ethic in American drama, 1920-1970
(University of Missouri Press, 1982)
Analysis of the themes in modern American drama, including traditional and modern work ethic. Greenfield challenges the notion that twentieth-century American dramatic literature is lacking in intellectual and artistic ...
The golden labyrinth
(University of Missouri Press, 1995)
The poems in Simon's captivating fourth volume describe the labyrinth of India, an overwhelming, difficult place for a foreigner to explore, but a country that seems to offer a transcendent good at its core for those who ...
Bilhaṇa's Vikramāṅkadevacarita and its neo-expounders (1991)
(University of Missouri, International Library Center, 1991)
The Vikramāṅkadevacarita mahākāvya of the great Kashmirian poet Bilhaṇa is one of the best (if not the best) historical poem in Sanskrit literature. It follows a new path in poetic composition and blazes a new trail ...
Off in Zimbabwe
(University of Missouri Press, 1985)
The History of the world as pictures
(University of Missouri Press, 1965)
Acts of regeneration : allegory and archetype in the works of Norman Mailer
(University of Missouri Press, 1980)
An in-depth study of Normain Mailer's use of conscious and unconscious allegory in his later works.
First American library pioneer in India
(Indian Library Institute and Bibliographical Centre, 1983)
This is a history of the public library movement in Baroda, the first territory not only among the princely states but also in British India to have been provided with universal, compulsory, free primary education and a ...
Vikramāṅkābhyudayam : a historical Sanskrit campū
(Oriental Institute, 1966)
Protestant versus Catholic in Mid-Victorian England : Mr. Newdegate and the nuns
(University of Missouri Press, 1982)
This book explores the conflict between Protestants and Catholics in the period from 1850 to 1874, focusing on Parliament Member Charles Newdigate Newdegate and his crusade against male and female Catholic religious orders.
Langston Hughes: Antologia Mayor
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1990)
Experiments with farm crops in southwest Missouri
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1915)