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...where Joyce died ten years ago. A practical woman, she helped him settle down and get his work done, sighed after reading Ulysses: "I guess the man's a genius, but what a dirty mind he has, surely!" After he reached success and died, she long endured a genteel poverty, unwilling to live in England, unable to get more than a fraction of his royalties out of the country...
Darkness and Day, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Further astonishing dilemmas of some of Compton-Burnett's genteel English characters; contrived mainly to let the characters gossip unconventionally about life, death and each other (TIME, March...
Darkness and Day, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Further astonishing dilemmas of some of Compton-Burnett's genteel English characters; contrived mainly to let the characters gossip unconventionally about life, death and each other (TIME, March...
Born in Indiana in 1871, Dreiser grew up at the time when Genteel Tradition was giving way to a rising new movement called "realism." In the early chapters of the book, Matthiessen traces Dreiser's groping for a new expression of that movement, which search culminated in 1900 in the publication of "Sister Carrie...
Professors must drop "genteel maneuvers" and act tough if they want to preserve academic freedom, Winkler warned. While the California's faculty persevered in polite tactics, the economic pressure of the Bank of America was brought to bear upon them, Winkler charged...