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The radical self : metamorphosis to animal form in modern Latin American narrative
(University of Missouri Press, 1988)
This essay approaches modern Latin American narrative from a predominantly phenomenological and existential perspective and therefore marks a departure from the main currents of contemporary Latin American criticism, which ...
Fascists, communists, and the national government : civil liberties in Great Britain, 1931-1937
(University of Missouri Press, 1983)
Britain witnessed a milder brand of fascism and communism than
did most other European countries. Neither the extreme Left nor the extreme Right ever assumed proportions that directly threatened the regime or even approached ...
Galdos : the early historical novels
(University of Missouri Press, 1986)
With the advances of Galdos scholarship over the last twenty
years, the episodios are increasingly treated as works of fiction rather than as means of transmitting elementary historical facts to the ignorant; furthermore, ...
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 ...
Structures of domination and peasant movements in Latin America
(University of Missouri Press, 1981)
Although the results of Latin American peasant movements appeared particularly impressive in the 1960s and the 1970S, the end of the decade witnessed the progressive repression of the major movements on the continent. Latin ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Commerce des lumières : John Oswald and the British in Paris, 1790-1793
(University of Missouri Press, 1986)
"My subject is the involvement of British intellectuals in revolutionary thought and action between the end of the American Revolution and the fourth year of the French Revolution. John Oswald, briefly famous as a herald ...
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, ...
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 ...
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)
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 ...
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 ...
So doth, so is religion : John Donne and diplomatic contexts in the Reformed Netherlands
(University of Missouri Press, 1988)
Sellin examines the view of the Protestant Reformation as held by John Donne by recounting the poet's actions and words as a diplomat at the Hague, as well as throughout the Netherlands.