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Sophistication: A Literary and Cultural History

Sophistication: A Literary and Cultural History

Faye Hammill

Through a series of close readings of some of the essential texts of sophistication, Faye Hammill explores the developments in taste and ideology that account for this striking change.
Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of ...

Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of ...

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Dee Goertz, Edward Eden. SECTION FOUR Annotated Bibliography FAYE HAMMILL Carol Shields: An Annotated Bibliography FAYE HAMMILL Section I of.
Rose Macaulay, Gender, and Modernity

Rose Macaulay, Gender, and Modernity

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to another, as Faye Hammill has shown, in Crewe Train the terms 'naïveté' and ' primitiveness' serve as opposites to 'sophistication'. Middlebrow fiction frequently deploys unsophisticated statements, resisting Bloomsbury and bohemianism, ...
Modernism's Print Cultures

Modernism's Print Cultures

Faye Hammill

In the work of Catherine Clay ('What we might expect') and Catherine Keyser (' The Butter Printer'), magazine advertising for convenience food products is connected to anxieties about literary taste, and particularly about the consumption of ...
Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture: Canadian ...

Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture: Canadian ...

Faye Hammill

The leading monthlies - among them Mayfair, Chatelaine, and La Revue Moderne - presented travel as both a mode of self-improvement and a way of negotiating national identity.This book announces a new cross-cultural approach to periodical ...
Canadian Literature

Canadian Literature

Faye Hammill

While the focus of the book is on twentieth-century and contemporary writing, it also charts the historical development of Canadian literature and discusses important eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors.
Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada 1760-2000

Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada 1760-2000

Faye Hammill

All of these authors examine the social position of the woman of letters in Canada, the intellectual stimulation available to her, the literary possibilities of Canadian subject-matter, and the practical aspects of reading, writing, and ...
Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture Between the Wars

Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture Between the Wars

Faye Hammill

Emily Wortis Leider argues that this title “invited ironic comparison with the play The Constant Wife, a Somerset Maugham opus in which Ethel Barrymore had starred in 1926, and perhaps with Dorothy Parker's New Yorker column, ' Constant ...
Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada 1760-2000

Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada 1760-2000

Faye Hammill

7 Elizabeth Rollins Epperly, The Fragrance of Sweet Grass: L.M. Montgomery's Heroines and the Pursuit of Romance (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1992): 13. 1983, Mary Rubio had a grant application to edit Montgomery's L.M. Montgomery and ...
Evelyn Waugh’s Satire: Texts and Contexts

Evelyn Waugh’s Satire: Texts and Contexts

Naomi Milthorpe

Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm (London: Penguin, 2000), 8. 2. Reggie Oliver, Out of the Woodshed: The Life of Stella Gibbons (London: Bloomsbury, 1998), 111. Faye Hammill and Jonathan Greenberg both note this in discussing Cold ...
Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars

Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars

Faye Hammill

Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars profiles seven American, Canadian, and British women writers—Dorothy Parker, Anita Loos, Mae West, L. M. Montgomery, Margaret Kennedy, Stella Gibbons, and E. M. Delafield—who ...
Mentoring Dilemmas: Developmental Relationships Within ...

Mentoring Dilemmas: Developmental Relationships Within ...

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Developmental Relationships Within Multicultural Organizations Audrey J. Murrell, Faye J. Crosby, Robin J. Ely ... The final chapter in this section, written by Regina O'Neill, Sylvia Horton, and Faye Crosby, is a summary, exploration, and ...
Sex, Race, and Merit: Debating Affirmative Action in ...

Sex, Race, and Merit: Debating Affirmative Action in ...

Faye J. Crosby

and. Faye. J. Crosby. From. Justice,. Gender,. and. Affirmative. Action. vypposition to affirmative action has been based largely on whether or not it works. Our argument in favor of affirmative action stems from a conceptually prior issue: whether ...
Our ancestors

Our ancestors

Adelle Brown Ashford

7G-6. Greta Faye "Sissy" Maherg, b. 4 July 1964 (twin). 7G-7. Grover Floyd "Jeff" Maherg, b. 16 April 1968. 6G-6. Wayne Gordon Brown, b. 5 May 1931, 15th Street, Navy Yard, S.C., m. 23 June 1952 at Moncks Corner, S.C., Faye Dell Croft, b.
Solomon Geron and his descendants, 1761-1968

Solomon Geron and his descendants, 1761-1968

Jewell Daphne Gerron Woodard

... Dawn Cowan (2) James Deric Cowan b) Janetta Yvonne Cowan Meyers (1) Kevin Dale Myers 3) Charlie Weldon Cowan a) Travis Faye Cowan Pierce (1) Tammy Allison Pierce (2) Terensa Faye Pierce b) Charles Michael Cowan c) Christie ...
African American Psychology: From Africa to America

African American Psychology: From Africa to America

Faye Z Belgrave

From Africa to America Faye Z Belgrave, Kevin W Allison ... in African American marriage is that it is due to the decline in economic viability (low employment and unemployment) among African American men (Tucker & Mitchell- Kernan, 1999).
Head O' Lickin' and There Abouts: The Shepherd families

Head O' Lickin' and There Abouts: The Shepherd families

Clarence Edward Shepard

Faye Whitaker was born 20 October 1 942 at Flint, Kentucky, the daughter of Charles Whitaker and Bertha Cornett. Four children were born to Elmer Eugene Inmon and Faye Whitaker: 1. Elmer Eugene Inmon, born 23 July 1961 at Lima, Ohio, ...
Decisions - Making Personal Economic Choices

Decisions - Making Personal Economic Choices

Mary Lou Hammill

Page 16 (Chapter 2 opener): Exxon; page 18: Richard Hackett; page 19: Dan McCoy/Rainbow; page 22: Tom Dunham; page 25: Dennis Stock/Magnum; page 27: Palmer & Brilliant; page 29: Beringer/Dratch/The 'Image Works. Page 33 (Part  ...
Winning Basketball for Girls

Winning Basketball for Girls

Faye Young Miller

Recommends conditioning exercises; discusses shooting, passing, and dribbling; and explains offensive and defensive strategies.
The Tower

The Tower

Richard Martin Stern

This is the incredible suspense novel that inspired the famous movie The Towering Inferno staring Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway and William Holden.

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