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Hereditas
Seven Essays on the Modern Experience of the Classical
Edited by Frederic Will
University of Texas Press
These studies in the interpretation of literature and thought afford stimulating evidence that the classical tradition is still alive in our modern age.
Heimskringla
History of the Kings of Norway
By Snorri Sturluson; Translated by Lee M. Hollander
University of Texas Press
Beginning with the dim prehistory of the mythical gods and their descendants, Heimskringla recounts the history of the kings of Norway through the reign of Olaf Haraldsson, who became Norway's patron saint.
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 1
Natural Environment and Early Cultures
By Robert Wauchope; Edited by Robert C. West
University of Texas Press
This volume covers the natural environment of Middle America, its role in the shaping of Indian cultures, the earliest primitive hunters of this area, the beginnings of agriculture, and the broad patterns of prehistoric civilizations there.
Dreamtigers
University of Texas Press
This collection of poems, parables, and stories explores the mysterious territory that lies between the dreams of the creative artist and the "real" world.
Confabulario and Other Inventions
University of Texas Press
A biting commentary on the follies of mankind, by one of Mexico's outstanding authors.
Anson Jones
The Last President of Texas
University of Texas Press
This is the story of a New Englander who came penniless to Mexican Texas in 1833 and within the next decade helped to bring his adopted country through the turbulent disorders of settlement, revolution, political experimentation, and statehood.
The Masks of Tragedy
Essays on Six Greek Dramas
University of Texas Press
In exploring the characters and the situations of the plays he has chosen, the author transports his reader to the world of fifth-century B.C. Greece, and establishes the relevance of that world to our own experience.
The Three Marias
By Rachel de Queiroz; Translated by Fred P. Ellison
University of Texas Press
A novel about a girl growing up in the seaport town of Fortaleza, in northeastern Brazil.
The Francklyn Land & Cattle Company
A Panhandle Enterprise, 1882-1957
University of Texas Press
An intensive study of a large Texas ranch, particularly of its business and financial aspects, in which the author has utilized many company records and firsthand accounts by the men who were engaged in the difficult task of establishing and maintaining a
The Edge of the Storm
A Novel
University of Texas Press
An English translation of the greatest work of a man regarded by many as Mexico's most important novelist.
The Cultural Milieu of Addison's Literary Criticism
University of Texas Press
A literary case study presented as partial answer to the complicated question: what cultural conditions are conducive to the development of a particular theory of literature?
The Chief Executive In Texas
A Study in Gubernatorial Leadership
By Fred Gantt
University of Texas Press
An analysis of the Texas governorship built on a broad historical foundation that places events and persons in a perspective perhaps not previously considered by the reader.
Robert Estienne's Influence on Lexicography
University of Texas Press
Towering above printers of his time and their successors for many years afterward was the figure of Robert Estienne, the great French lexicographer of the sixteenth century, whose contribution to knowledge and its dissemination is the subject of this authoritative book.
Profile of Man and Culture in Mexico
University of Texas Press
A twentieth-century Mexican philosopher considers the culture of his native land.
Portugal's Other Kingdom
The Algarve
University of Texas Press
The geography and culture of an isolated province of Portugal as it first felt the impact of industrialization.
Pioneer Printer
Samuel Bangs in Mexico and Texas
University of Texas Press
This fine biography of Samuel Bangs, the first printer in the territory that is now Texas, is at the same time a fascinating history of northern Mexico (including Texas) in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Kant and the Southern New Critics
University of Texas Press
The theories and practices of some pioneers of philosophical criticism—John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Cleanth Brooks, and others—and the influence of the Kantian generative idea on their assumption that a work of art is the celebration of one’s qualitative experience.
If I Can Do It Horseback
A Cow-Country Sketchbook
By John Hendrix; Illustrated by Malcolm Thurgood
University of Texas Press
John Hendrix drew upon his own varied experiences for this panoramic view of West Texas ranch life, presented here in an integral compilation of flavorful articles written originally for The Cattleman.
Gay as a Grig
Memories of a North Texas Girlhood
University of Texas Press
The memoir of a young woman growing up in North Texas at the end of the nineteenth century.
The Viceregency of Antonio María Bucareli in New Spain, 1771–1779
University of Texas Press
The actions and reflections of the forty-sixth viceroy of New Spain, a cautious and conservative man, as they relate to certain major problems of his administration.
The Regional Vocabulary of Texas
University of Texas Press
A reference to Texas's regional vocabulary through the mid-20th century.
The Poetic Edda
Translated by Lee M. Hollander
University of Texas Press
These verses are a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage.
The Golden Frontier
The Recollections of Herman Francis Reinhart, 1851-1869
University of Texas Press
The memoir of a man who was part of a part of every gold discovery that stirred the West, from the summer of 1851 when he traveled the Oregon trail to California, until a January day in 1869 when he climbed aboard an eastbound train at Evanston, Wyoming.
The Art of Faulkner's Novels
University of Texas Press
How Faulkner’s work can be viewed as an extraordinary attempt to transform the panorama of human social experience into thematic material.
Taming the Nueces Strip
The Story of McNelly's Rangers
By George Durham and Clyde Wantland
University of Texas Press
How a Ranger company overcame a group of border bandits.
Mexican Art and the Academy of San Carlos, 1785-1915
By Jean Charlot; Introduction by Elizabeth Wilder Weismann
University of Texas Press
An aesthetic history of a Mexican art school.
Metternich's Diplomacy at its Zenith, 1820-1823
Austria and the Congresses of Troppau, Laibach, and Verona
University of Texas Press
What Metternich wanted at the peak of his career, why he wanted it, and the methods by which he achieved his goals are questions brilliantly answered in this survey and analysis of the Austrian chancellor's diplomacy during the period when he was the pree
Mary Austin Holley
A Biography
University of Texas Press
The biography of a notable Texas woman.
José Clemente Orozco
An Autobiography
University of Texas Press
The autobiography of one of Mexico's greatest artists.
Image of Australia
Edited by Joseph Jones
University of Texas Press
A collection of literature and commentary on Australian culture in the mid-twentieth century.
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