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Three Authors of Alienation
Bombal, Onetti, Carpentier
By M. Ian Adams
University of Texas Press
How three twentieth-century Latin American authors treat the themes of alienation, disgust with life, and the feeling of nothingness arising from the conditions of modern society.
Literary Diseases
Theme and Metaphor in the Italian Novel
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive analysis of the metaphorical and symbolic force of disease in modern Italian literature.
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 14 and 15
Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, Parts Three and Four
University of Texas Press
These volumes contain ethnohistorical sources from the indigenous tradition, including prose and pictorial materials, a checklist of repositories, a title and synonymy index, and an annotated bibliography on native sources.
A Dream of Arcadia
Anti-Industrialism in Spanish LIterature, 1895–1905
By Lily Litvak
University of Texas Press
A Dream of Arcadia is the first work to explore Spain’s fertile and imaginative Art Nouveau.
The Concept of Academic Freedom
Edited by Edmund L. Pincoffs
University of Texas Press
Essays on the conceptual issues underlying the battle for academic freedom.
Energy and Structure
A Theory of Social Power
University of Texas Press
Richard N. Adams argues that social power affects humanity's approach to ecological, economic, and political problems, directing people to seek solutions which are often deceptively shortsighted.
Coevolution of Animals and Plants
Symposium V, First International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, 1973
Edited by Lawrence E. Gilbert and Peter H. Raven
University of Texas Press
The first book to focus on the dynamic aspects of animal-plant coevolution, covering as broadly as possible all the ways in which plants interact with animals.
Three Friends
Roy Bedichek, J. Frank Dobie, Walter Prescott Webb
University of Texas Press
A combination of biography and personal history that portrays not only the three friends, but the land they loved as well.
Studies in Upplandic Runography
University of Texas Press
A detailed treatment of the runic inscriptions from the province of Uppland, Sweden, where runic art reached a high point in A.D. 1200 and where runic inscriptions are most numerous.
Psychology of the Mexican
Culture and Personality
University of Texas Press
In his quest to understand and describe the behavior of the Mexican, the distinguished Mexican psychologist R. Díaz-Guerrero combines a strong theoretical interest in the relationship of culture to personality with a pragmatic concern for methodology.
Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution
University of Texas Press
Combining historical and critical approaches, Seymour Menton classifies and analyzes over two hundred novels and volumes of short stories, revealing the extent to which Cuban literature reflects the reality of the Revolution.
Markets in Oaxaca
University of Texas Press
A study of the regional peasant marketing system in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Forms of Modern British Fiction
Edited by Alan Warren Friedman
University of Texas Press
Six individualistic and strongminded critics delineate the "age of modernism" in British fiction.
Folklore Genres
Edited by Dan Ben-Amos
University of Texas Press
A collection of essays that represent development in folklore genre studies, diverging into literary, ethnographic, and taxonomic questions.
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Patron and Politician
Edited by William W. Kibler
University of Texas Press
Experts in five disciplines—history, art history, music, French and English literature—evaluate the influence of Eleanor and her court on history and the arts.
Viva Cristo Rey!
The Cristero Rebellion and the Church-State Conflict in Mexico
University of Texas Press
This book depicts a national calamity in which sincere people followed their convictions to often tragic ends.
The Way I Heard It
Tales of the Big Bend
By Walter Fulcher; Edited by Elton Miles
University of Texas Press
A collection of Big Bend folklore.
The Artist in New York
Letters to Jean Charlot and unpublished writings, 1925-1929.
By José Clemente Orozco; Translated by Ruth L.C. Simms
University of Texas Press
The letters and unpublished writings of Orozco from this period (1925-1929) describe an important period of transition in the artist's life.
Tales from the Basotho
By Minnie Postma; Translated by Susie McDermid
University of Texas Press
A collection of folktales from southern Africa.
Struggle in the Andes
Peasant Political Mobilization in Peru
University of Texas Press
An analysis of the causes and consequences of extensive social and political mobilization among Peru’s peasant population in the 1960s.
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