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Nature, community, & will : a study in literary and social thought
(University of Missouri Press, 1976)
In three essays, West explores the morality of asceticism, discipline, and dignity within the works of eight social theorists. He attempts to discover a feeling of pride over human affairs that differs from the pride which ...
John Cam Hobhouse : a political life, 1819-1852
(University of Missouri Press, 1973)
Zegger chronicles the political life of the 19th century British radical politician.
Ideology and economics; U.S. relations with the Soviet Union, 1918-1933
(University of Missouri Press, 1974)
Hoff discusses the conmplications and contradictions between the political ideologies and economic interests of American administrations in regard to relations with the Soviet Union following World War I.
The Seventy-sixth Congress and World War II, 1939-1940
(University of Missouri Press, 1979)
This work examines legislative correspondence and published documents of the Seventy-sixth Congress to magnify the legistalive branch's role in determining American foreign policy in the years leading up to World War II. ...
The pattern of judgement in the Queste and Cleanness
(University of Missouri Press, 1978)
Morse examines the symbolism of the vessel as a representation of man in both the French prose romance La Queste del Sant Graal and English poem Cleanness.
The consolations of ambiguity : an essay on the novels of Anthony Burgess
(University of Missouri Press, 1971)
Morris investigates the existential crises that heroes face in the novels of Anthony Burgess. When forced to confront an unsympathetic reality, these heroes use introspection as a means of internal metamorphosis, not only ...
F. R. Leavis : judgement and the discipline of thought
(University of Missouri Press, 1978)
The Kefauver Committee and the politics of crime, 1950-1952
(University of Missouri Press, 1974)
In 1950, the essentials of two distinct interpretations of organized crime existed side by side in the United States. One was
essentially socioeconomic, one conspiratorial. The Kefauver Crime Committee of 1950-1951 was to ...
George Herbert : an annotated bibliography of modern criticism, 1905-1974
(University of Missouri Press, 1978)
The primary purpose of this annotated bibliography is to provide scholars and critics of George Herbert with an aid to research. This study is the first to collect and fully annotate the criticism and scholarship written ...
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 ...
Letters from the darkling plain : language and the grounds of knowledge in the poetry of Arnold and Hopkins
(University of Missouri Press, 1972)
The works of these two writers are especially appropriate for linguistic and epistemological study because we find in them an unusually large amount of theorizing about the function of poetry and language-implicit in
their ...
On Calderon
(University of Missouri Press, 1978)
This study will deal specifically with seven of Calderon's plays: two autos, Los encantos de la Culpa and El gran teatro del mundo; the "metaphysical" play La vida es sueno; the historico-religious play El principe constante; ...
Sir Thomas Browne's Religio medici and two seventeenth century critics
(University of Missouri Press, 1973)
Browne has become so traditionally a part of the history and texture of classic English prose style that we sometimes unconsciously undervalue his ideas and their power to arouse dispute in his time. The primary purpose ...
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 ...
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 ...
John Donne : an annotated bibliography of modern criticism, 1912-1967
(University of Missouri Press, 1973)
The aim of this bibliography is to provide students of John Donne with a much needed research tool. This study is the first to collect and annotate the extensive criticism and scholarship on Donne written in this century. ...
Sir Philip Sidney: an annotated bibliography of modern criticism, 1941-1970
(University of Missouri Press, 1972)
This bibliography is a guide to Sidney criticism from 1941 to 1970. It consists of sections of general criticism, for biographical materials, for each of Sidney's major works, for the minor works, and final sections for ...
Currents in the contemporary Argentine novel : Arlt, Mallea, Sabato, and Cortázar
(University of Missouri Press, 1975)
Foster briefly outlines the the historical tradition of the novel in Argentinian literature and focuses his study to four of its major contemporary writers. His selective survey examines the attributes that distinguish ...
The village war : Vietnamese Communist revolutionary activities in Dinh Tuong province, 1960-1964
(University of Missouri Press, 1973)
An account of the Vietnamese Communist revolutionary activity in Dinh Tuong Province - Mekondeltaet in the period 1960 - 64, the book contains further aspects of psychological warfare and guerrilla activity.--books.google.com.
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.