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"[A] VIRGINAL TONGUE HOLD": HOPKINS'S THE WRECK OF THE DEUTSCHLAND AND MURIEL SPARK'S THE GIRLS OF SLENDER MEANS
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WILLIAM Butler Yeats's introduction to The Oxford Book of Modem Verse (1936) sees Hopkins virtually "unknown" to those who "began to think and read in the late eighties of the last century" (v).1 Yeats read Hopkins "with great difficulty," and was bothered especially by his diction, the "faint sound that strains the ear." Yet, the release of Hopkins's poems in 1918 "made 'sprung verse' the fashion, and now his influence has replaced that of Hardy and Bridges" (xxxix). Yeats's disparaging view...
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"[A] VIRGINAL TONGUE HOLD": HOPKINS'S THE WRECK OF THE DEUTSCHLAND AND MURIEL SPARK'S THE GIRLS OF SLENDER MEANS
Renascence
; WILLIAM Butler Yeats's introduction to The Oxford Book of Modem Verse (1936) sees Hopkins virtually "unknown" to those who "began to think and read in the late eighties of the last century" (v).1 Yeats read Hopkins "with great difficulty," and was bothered especially by his diction, the "faint
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"[A] virginal tongue hold": Hopkins's The Wreck of the Deutschland and Muriel Spark's The Girls of Slender Means.(Gerard Manley Hopkinse)
Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature
; WILLIAM Butler Yeats's introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936) sees Hopkins virtually unknown to those who began to think and read in the late eighties of the last century (v). (1) Yeats read Hopkins with great difficulty, and was bothered especially by his diction, the faint sound
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BOOK CLUB William Boyd introduces 'the girls of slender means' by MURIEL SPARK
The Sunday Telegraph London
; We would welcome your views on this novel as you read it. Tell us if you like (or dislike) the characters, the style of writing, the plot - anything that strikes you as interesting. Over the next three weeks we will publish a selection of your comments both in Seven and on our website - the best
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Strong, smart, and bold girls: the Girls Incorporated[R] approach to education.
Fordham Urban Law Journal
; ... advertising, health, careers in the media, news, and representations of girls and young ... categorizing the portrayals. (104) In the news--front page, sports, business--a counting ... 105.) Judith Jenkins George, Lack of News Coverage for Women's Athletics: A Questionable ...
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CULTURAL CAPITAL: Muriel Spark's London: a city of slender means
The Independent on Sunday
; One thinks of some writers as "London writers", but none brings London as strongly to life for me as Muriel Spark. Why, and how, is not easy to say. She does not write about London directly, as it were; only certain of her novels are set there, and it is a place very much belonging to the middle of
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Muriel Spark.(Author Profile)(Biography)
World Literature Today
; DAME MURIEL SPARK, born in 1938 in Edinburgh, Scotland, has been a professional writer since the 1940s. The author of nearly fifty novels, plays, nonfiction studies, and poetry and short-story collections, she made her publishing debut with Child of Light, a biography of Mary Shelley (1951); The
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Muriel Spark, Animal Lover
Weekend All Things Considered (NPR)
; DEBBIE ELLIOTT Weekend All Things Considered (NPR) 04-22-2006 Muriel Spark, Animal Lover Host: DEBBIE ELLIOTT Time: 1900-2000 DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host: And now an appreciation of author Muriel Spark, who died last week. Commentator Alice Furlaud developed a deep connection with the writer. Ms. ALICE
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"You Can Feel Them Looking at You": The Experiences of Adolescent Girls at Swimming Pools.
Journal of Leisure Research
; This paper explores the constraints that a sample of Western Australian high school girls experienced when using public swimming pools, and the strategies that they developed to negotiate these constraints. The data were collected from girls, aged 15-16 years, in focus groups and individual
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'My husband would have finished me off if I hadn't got out a bit quick' Real incidents from Dame Muriel Spark's life - including a murder - have a habit of finding their way into the plots of her books
Evening Standard - London
; WE meet in the old fashioned hotel she stays at in London. I am warned that Dame Muriel Spark is tired; hip operations have, in any case, made her sedentary. So there she sits, small and demure on the sofa, like a very elegant bird, perfectly perched, waiting to amaze. The writer of The Prime of
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Girls' troubles, girls' delinquency, and gender responsive programming: a review.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology
; This article begins with a consideration of the interconnected troubles and needs that research has documented for girls who become enmeshed in the juvenile justice system. Special attention is given to findings from research that gives girls in the system some 'voice' in explaining what services
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