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Images of the sign : semiotic consciousness in the novels of Benito Perez Galdos
(University of Missouri Press, 1990)
The author has chosen to organize the discussion of Galdos's novels on the basis of paradigmatic considerations. The use of
paradigms, however, is not intended to reduce the complexity of the individual text to predetermined ...
Milton, the Bible, and misogyny
(University of Missouri Press, 1990)
Gallagher argues against an accepted notion that the works of John Milton show an inclination towards supporting biblical inerrancy and misogyny. Through careful exegesis, Gallagher proposes that Milton's theological ...
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 ...
Old Southwest humor from the St. Louis reveille, 1844-1850
(University of Missouri Press, 1990)
This book collects selected humorous essays from the Daily Reveille, a St. Louis daily journal, from the years 1844-1850.
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.
The Argentine generation of 1880 : ideology and cultural texts
(University of Missouri Press, 1990)
The political interests, the intellectual forces, and the attendant cultural activities associated with the project of providing Argentina with a specifically ninteenth-century Liberal identity are custumarily identified ...
Reconstructing the rhythm of Beowulf
(University of Missouri Press, 1990)
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" ...
Campaign Missouri 1992
(University of Missouri Press, 1994)
Missouri's campaigns in 1992 were the most exciting in years. Missouri citizens contributed the most money ever to their candidates, and the candidates spent almost all of it. Voter interest was high, reflected in voter ...
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 ...
Emerson's modernity and the example of Goethe
(University of Missouri Press, 1990)
Looking at Emerson in his time, as he was attempting to define his relevance to his age by creatively engaging an aggregate of attitudes and ideas that he and his contemporaries recognized as modern. Most of those attitudes ...
Dickens, Manzoni, Zola, and James : the impossible romance
(University of Missouri Press, 1990)
The unrivaled power and tension in the best works of Dickens, Manzoni, Zola, and James are derived precisely from the authors' imaginative experimentation with the dialectic structure of this perpetual opposition. Unlike ...
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
Serving the University of Missouri : a memoir of campus and system administration
(University of Missouri Press, 1993)
Memoir of James C. Olson, former Chancellor and President of the University of Missouri-Columbia, about his time and experiences working at the University of Missouri--Columbia.
This waking unafraid
(University of Missouri Press, 1995)
With an unusual blend of playful language, absurdist humor, and striking parables of contemporary life, David Swanger passes on to us he hard and wonderful lessons of life and death, magic and pain. By exploring the ...
Authority, church, and society in George Herbert : return to the middle way
(University of Missouri Press, 1993)
Hodgkins constructs a portrait of English poet, George Herbert, through his works and personal life. Hodgkins emphasizes the role moderation played in Herbert's religious and political views.