Author: Jim Bernhard
Publisher: University of Missouri Pre
Keywords: names, newspapers, post, picayune, porcupine
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-08-06
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0826217486
ISBN-13: 9780826217486

Times or News is easy to understand, but why do some newspapers have strange names such as Jimplecute or Bazoo? Cataloging names from the most common to the most bizarre, Bernhard explores the history and etymology of newspapers names names that, by their very peculiarity, cry out for explanation. Bernhard focuses on printed general-interest English-language dailies and weeklies, showing that the reasons for newspaper names vary: sometimes their origins are political or historical, sometimes personal or simply whimsical. Many names have lost their original purpose but were originally chosen wi

Authors:Langston Hughes,  Leslie Catherine Sander,
Publisher: University of Missouri Pre
Keywords: works, collected, langston, hughes, vol, dramatic, plays, operas, later, gospel
Number of Pages: 712
Published: 2004-03-01
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0826214770
ISBN-13: 9780826214775

Although Langston Hughes had a lifelong engagement in theater and other performance arts, his work in this area is the least known of his rich and complex contributions to African American expressive culture. This volume focuses on Hughes’s plays after 1942, along with all of his other work written for performance, including operas, musicals, radio plays, ballet libretti, and song lyrics, all of which demonstrate his strong determination to inject an African American presence into a range of cultural forms.

Author: Anna K. Nardo
Publisher: University of Missouri Pre
Keywords: milton, john, dialogue, eliot, george
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2003-06-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0826214657
ISBN-13: 9780826214652

In George Eliot’s Dialogue with John Milton, Anna K. Nardo details how Eliot reimagined Milton’s life and art to write epic novels for an age of unbelief. Nardo demonstrates that Eliot directly engaged Milton’s poetry, prose, and the well-known legends of his life-transposing, reframing, regendering, and thus testing both the stories told about Milton and the stories Milton told.

Author: Russell Cartwright Stroup Richard Cartwright
Publisher: University of Missouri Pre
Keywords: world, war, chaplain, combat, pacific, letters
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 2000-05-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0826212883
ISBN-13: 9780826212887

This work examines the profound influence of such foundations as the Southern Education Board, the Roswald Fund, and the General Education Board. Blacks challenged the foundations, expressing their own agendas through resistance to policies of the northern agencies.

Authors:Eric Voegelin, Manfred Henningse,
Publisher: University of Missouri Pre
Keywords: science, politics, works, eric, voegelin, volume, collected, gnosticism, religions, new, restraint, modernity, political
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2000-03-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 082621245X
ISBN-13: 9780826212450

This three-in-one volume delves into the intellectual and spiritual complications of modernity, tracing its evolution from the ancient civilizations to the 20th-century.

Authors:Eric Voegelin,  James L. Wiser,
Publisher: University of Missouri Pre
Keywords: volume, works, collected, eric, voegelin, modernity, rise, political, ideas, religion, history
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1998-09-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0826211941
ISBN-13: 9780826211941

Examining the emergence of modernity within the philosophical and political debates of the 16th century, this book analyzes the "great confusion". It features such thinkers as Calvin, Althusius, Hooker, Bracciolini, Savonarola, Copernicus, Tycho de Brahe, Giordano Bruno and Jean Bodin.

Authors:Eric Voegelin,  Gilbert Weiss, Ruth Hein, Erik
Publisher: University of Missouri Pre
Keywords: state, eric, voegelin, volume, works, austrian, essay, problem, authoritarian, collected
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 1999-04-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0826212352
ISBN-13: 9780826212351

Published in Vienna in 1936, The Authoritarian State by Eric Voegelin has remained virtually unknown to the public until now. Sales of the German edition were halted following the Nazi invasion of Austria in 1938, and the entire printing was later destroyed by wartime bombing. In this volume, Voegelin offers a critical examination of the most prominent European theories of state and constitutional law of the period while providing a political and historical analysis of the Austrian situation. He discusses the dismissal of Parliament in 1933, the civil war, the murder of Federal Chancellor Doll