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A Sanskrit Librarian Comes to America
(University of Missouri International Library Center, 1999)
The following is a collection of papers written during a long period of more than four decades in the fields of Sanskrit literature, library science and Indo-American cultural cooperation. No attempt has been made to revise ...
Let it ride
(University of Missouri Press, 1991)
Written with the breathtaking beauty of the woods at night, 'Let It Ride' is a lyrical, witty celebration of the significance of the small things in our lives--children, insects, fleeting thoughts--by a writer of uncommon talent
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.
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" ...
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 ...
Bushwhacker, 1924
(Kansas City-Western Dental College, 1924)
The big horse and other stories of modern Macedonia
(University of Missouri Press, 1974)
It was not until after the Second World War and the successful struggle of Tito's partisans and the forging of a new Yugoslavia that Macedonia realized in some measure her autonomy as a republic, federated within that new ...
Fast talk & flush times : the confidence man as a literary convention
(University of Missouri Press, 1985)
Lenz provides a historical overview of the American confidence man, and its role as a literary convention.
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.
The secret & Lily Hart : two tales
(University of Missouri Press, 1979)
Holtz transcribes and adds commentary to a manuscript containing two stories, "The Secret" and "Lily Hart" by Charlotte Brontë.
What they say : Indian librarians speak on the wheat loan program : a glorious era in the history of Indo-American library cooperation
(International Library Center, 1986)
The India Wheat Loan Educational Exchange Program of the Foreign Service of the United States of America originated in 1951 when the U.S. Government loaned to India a sum of $190,000,000 to assist her in relieving acute ...
Something to love : Barbara Pym's novels
(University of Missouri Press, 1986)
According to Benet, Pym's ten novels center on one great subject that moves, shapes, or disfigures all her major characters: the many guises of love, sought, attained, or frustrated. As the novels progress, we understand ...
Report of the proceedings of the Fifth Wheat Loan Library Workshop, Delhi, March 5-9, 1962
(United States Information Service, 1963)
This is a report of the fifth and final Wheat Loan Library Workshop held in Delhi from March 5 to 9, 1962.
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 ...
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 ...
Do you believe in Cabeza de Vaca?
(University of Missouri Press, 1991)
Collection of ten of Swan's short stories, many of which are set in the American Southwest and most examine characters as they experience varieties of loss.
It's good to tell you : French folktales from Missouri
(University of Missouri Press, 1981)
. There is evidence that these tales and their direct ancestors have evolved from the ancient Sanskrit and Persian cultures to the European Middle Ages, from the Age of Enlightenment to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, wherever oral cultures had flourished. We...