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	Bakhtin Circle [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The old idealist formulation of the novel's imperative that it be a 'full and comprehensive reflection of its era' is reformulated as 'the novel must represent all the ideological voices of its era...
		The novel should not be seen as a compensation for the restlessness of contemporary society, uncovering the assured road to progress, but the embodiment of the dynamic forces that could shape society in a popular-democratic fashion.
		The novel of Rabelais is seen as the epitome of this process of breaking down the rigid, hierarchical world of the Middle Ages and the birth of the modern era.
	www.iep.utm.edu /b/bakhtin.htm (8222 words)

	The Inner Circle - Reviewed by Kevin McGowin - Eclectica Magazine v8n4
		The Inner Circle is told as the first-person account of John Milk, the first of Dr. Alfred C. ("Prok") Kinsey's "inner circle" of sex researchers at Indiana University, as Milk presumably recites his memories into a tape recorder following Kinsey's death from heart failure in 1956.
		So the "inner circle" expands to include Milk's wife, Iris, of whom there is blessed little to be said because Boyle is a bit, uh, Lawrencian in his depiction of female characters (they're one-dimensional, but if their "emotions" are articulated, this rounds them out, or so the thinking goes).
		But in a novel 150 pages too long, it is an act of unconscionable pretension to pull it, and plus, Boyle does try to further plots and characterizations after this pointand the attempt falls flat.
	www.eclectica.org /v8n4/mcgowin_boyle.html (763 words)

	The Inner Circle (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Boyle first published in 2004 about the development of sexology in the United States and about Alfred Kinsey's rise to fame during the late 1940s and early 1950s as seen through the eyes of one of his loyal assistants.
		Boyle makes it unmistakably clear in the "Author’s Note" that The Inner Circle "is a work of fiction, and [that] all characters and situations have been invented, with the exception of the historical figures of Alfred C. Kinsey and his wife, Clara Bracken (McMillen) Kinsey".
		The Inner Circle revolves around the tensions that are bound to arise if a small group of people deliberately abandons the traditional moral values with which they were raised in favour of an unconventional outlook on love, marriage and sex.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Inner_Circle_(novel) (752 words)

	Inner circle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Inner Circle, a musical group known for the song "Bad Boys", which is the theme song for the television series COPS
		The Inner Circle, a 1991 film about KGB officer Ivan Sanchin
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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inner_circle (191 words)

	Penguin Group (Canada) - a reading guide for The Inner Circle
		The Inner Circle is T.C. Boyle's tenth novel.
		Q: The Inner Circle is about conflicts among desires: the desire for acceptance by a father figure; the desire for pleasure; the desire for loyal, unquestioning love; and countless others.
		On the one hand, he arrogantly assumes that their inner circle is so significant the whole world knows the names of his fellow researchers.
	bookclub.penguin.ca /nf/shared/SharedDisplay/0,,214016_0,00.html (2413 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| The Inner Circle \| T.C. Boyle
		The Inner Circle is about conflicts among desires: the desire for acceptance by a father figure, the desire for pleasure, the desire for loyal, unquestioning love, and countless others.
		In The Inner Circle, satire is directed at a variety of targets, including the frustrations and inanities of the workplace.
		The Inner Circle acquires its particular shape and emphasis because it is narrated through the eyes of John Milk.
	www.penguinputnam.com /static/rguides/us/the_inner_circle.html (2873 words)

	The Stranger - Books - Feature - Tears of a Clown
		Boyle's novels and short stories contain characters whose pain is hidden behind idiosyncrasy, dogma, and desire, and he wrenches the seriousness of their lives from the consequences of their strange passions.
		The Inner Circle, named after the small group of research assistants whom Kinsey employed, is the story of one of those assistants, John Milk.
		In the case of The Inner Circle, Boyle's commitment to laying the factual groundwork yields a social milieu of benign sterility, with everything in its right place and not a moment of ambiguity to be had.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=19460 (617 words)

	Sex, sex and more sex: Working for Kinsey
		It is, then, the story of Kinsey as narrated by John Milk, a researcher/interviewer for Kinsey, and one of the "Inner Circle," as the core group came to be known.
		This novel is complex and complicated and jammed with wordplay.
		Kinsey is a force of a man, driven by an obsession whose roots are not dealt with in the novel -- a recent biography of Kinsey by James Jones strongly hints at those sources.
	www.suntimes.com /output/books/sho-sunday-boyle26.html (795 words)

	Powell's Books - The Inner Circle by T. C. Boyle
		As a member of Kinsey's "inner circle" of researchers, Milk (and his beautiful new wife) is called on to participate in sexual experiments that become increasingly uninhibited — and problematic for his marriage.
		The irony and the drama of this mesmerizing novel lie in Milk's unquestioning acceptance of his idol's demands, and the gradual moral corruption that ensues from such occupational obligations as serving as Kinsey's partner in homosexual sex while also bedding Prok's compliant wife and eventually offering his own wife in group sex activities.
		Boyle's narrative brio accelerates as other members of the inner circle and their wives respond to Kinsey's manipulative charisma, while the professor's increasingly uninhibited and egotistical demands test the bonds of marital fidelity.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=17-0670033448-2 (831 words)

	JS Online: Cozy with Kinse
		The primary conceit of T.C. Boyle's provocative new novel is that it represents the taped memoir of John Milk, assistant to Alfred Kinsey, the pioneering sex researcher at Indiana University whose two massive volumes on human sexual behavior changed forever the way Americans viewed that previously private subject.
		Although we are given snippets of these interviews, Boyle has wisely chosen to soft-pedal the clinical aspects of his story in favor of concentrating on the interactions of Kinsey's so-called inner circle, a tightly controlled band of young men who worked together in basement offices documenting the results of Kinsey's research.
		This may be Boyle's intention since the novel takes the form of a confession by Milk in the wake of his wife's rejection after a particularly licentious gathering of the group.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/books/reviews/sep04/261197.asp?format=print (708 words)

	Inner Circle Media \| web site design, web applications, content management systems - Ann Arbor, Michigan :: Company > ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Inner Circle Media will develop a new logo for MC3, as well as stationery materials and a corporate brochure.
		Inner Circle Media will also develop a customized content management system to allow MWF staff to easily update the website.
		Founded in 2001, Inner Circle Media (www.innercirclemedia.com) is a women-owned firm providing web and corporate identity solutions to a range of companies.
	www.innercirclemedia.net /company/news.php?news=august-04 (356 words)

	Out.com Book Reviews
		T.C. Boyle’s 10th novel takes a long and lively look at the fancies and foibles of the most important sex researcher of the 20th century, Alfred C. Kinsey (1894—1956).
		As he did with the founder of Kellogg’s cereals in a previous novel, The Road to Wellville, Boyle delights in taking considerable liberties with his subject matter, infusing his novel with period details and giving himself ample leeway in the name of creating a strong narrative pull.
		Both novels present a young married couple being put through some very strange paces by an iconoclastic theorist—digestive paces in Wellville, sexual ones in Circle.
	www.out.com /bookreviews2.asp?id=6264 (188 words)

	Kiss and tell and watch / T.C. Boyle's novel explores the impact of Kinsey's sex research on a marriage
		Although this highly readable novel is very much about sex in both its clinical and its private aspects (and for the Kinsey depicted here, the professional and the personal were all but inseparable), its deeper subject is love and the challenge that sexual liberation poses to monogamy.
		"The Inner Circle" is most immediately comparable to his 1993 novel "The Road to Wellville," which similarly focused on a central "great man, " Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, founder of Kellogg cereals, a single-minded social crusader with hidden complications.
		The members of Boyle's inner circle are indeed fictional, but aspects of their personalities and situations have their analogues in the biographies, particularly recent works by James H. Jones and Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/a/2004/09/12/RVGC98I30C1.DTL&type=printable (630 words)

	The Inner Circle :: Education by Design Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		As a member of Kinseyand#146;s "inner circle" of researchers, Milk (and his beautiful new wife) is called on to participate in sexual experiments that become increasingly uninhibitedand#151;and problematic for his marriage.
		Ultimately, although Milk is unquestionably the most dedicated and non-cynical member of the inner circle it is eventually he himself who is overcome by emotion and breaks their code of objectivity.
		Yes, this is a book about a member of Kinsey's inner circle reflecting on his life working for the great man and how that work has been important though it has cost much confusion and disharmony in his personal realm.
	www.edbydesign.com /books/0670033448.html (3459 words)

	http://www.britishbookshop.at - T.C. Boyle - The Inner Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		As part of Kinsey's "inner circle" of researchers, he begins work on the pioneering study of sexuality which would eventually result in the publication of the controversial "Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male" and "...Female".
		The inner circle itself gradually takes on the character of a sect, with "Prok" as demigod, and the demands he places on his disciples (and their wives), and the increasingly daring sexual experimentation in which they are required to participate, leads to a conflict of loyalty between Milk and his wife, Iris.
		Kinsey was a driven man who played an important role in helping break through the prudery and hypocrisy surrounding human sexuality, and the new novel by the author of "Drop City" and "A Friend of the Earth" is a fascinating look at his life and work.
	www.britishbookshop.at /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=36 (219 words)

	The Inner Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Boyle’s tenth novel, The Inner Circle has it all: fabulous characters, a rollicking plot, and more sex than pioneering researcher Dr. Alfred Kinsey ever dreamed of documenting.
		A love story, The Inner Circle is narrated by John Milk, a virginal young man who in 1940 accepts a job as an assistant to Dr. Alfred Kinsey, an extraordinarily charming professor of zoology at Indiana University who has just discovered his life’s true calling: sex.
		As a member of Kinsey’s "inner circle" of researchers, Milk (and his beautiful new wife) is called on to participate in sexual experiments that become increasingly uninhibited—and problematic for his marriage.
	www.rental-car.org /the-inner-circle-0670033448.html (229 words)

	Book Reviews - The Inner Circle by T. C. Boyle
		In The Inner Circle, John Milk is a young man, a virgin, who takes a job as an assistant to Dr. Alfred Kinsey, who has found his calling as a sex researcher.
		As Milk becomes one of the "inner circle," a group of researchers who work for Kinsey, much of his life and sexual experiences revolve around Kinsey's wishes.
		The Inner Circle has received positive reviews with the Rocky Mountain News saying, "Written in a winning, conversational style, The Inner Circle is a quick read despite running more than 400 pages, and it manages to be at once funny and sad, sordid and profound, much like Kinsey, the man around which it swirls."
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /inner_circle (215 words)

	'The Inner Circle' (washingtonpost.com)
		For The Inner Circle is a novel in the style of The Aspern Papers and The Good Soldier, one of those books that offer pitiless accounts of self-delusion, moral corruption, betrayal and unconscious cruelty.
		When a nurse allows herself to be filmed having vigorous intercourse with one of the inner circle, we are left admiring her easygoing, guilt-free assertion that she simply enjoys men.
		At times The Inner Circle calls to mind not Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953) but a somewhat later classic of social science: Obedience to Authority, Stanley Milgram's famous account of the human tendency to follow orders, no matter who they hurt or what their consequences.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A27502-2004Sep16.html (1358 words)

	Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - The Inner Circle by T. C. Boyle, reviewed by Times Literary Supplement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The novel's narrator is the imagined figure of John Milk, a whitely wholesome freshman who becomes Dr Kinsey's amanuensis and chief researcher.
		Milk's story is a sexual Bildungsroman, as his admission into Prok's inner circle soon leads to a practical -- as well as theoretical -- initiation into a new world of open sex.
		For Milk, a true "inner circle" cannot not be formed amid Prok's oppressive permissiveness but is, as Robert Browning wrote to his wife, "a self-imposed circle linking the experiences of two persons only".
	www.powells.com /review/2005_02_27.html (990 words)

	Bookreporter.com - THE INNER CIRCLE by T.C. Boyle
		In fact, the novel is a bit frustrating in the emotional stagnation of John Milk and the utter control over him and the others that Kinsey seems to have.
		On the one hand, THE INNER CIRCLE is a book about sex; the sex lives of individuals and the sex life of a puritanical mid-century nation.
		Milk's marriage is, as one might easily imagine, strained under the weight of his work and also under the demands Kinsey puts on his inner circle to participate in his lifestyle of insatiable sexual desire.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/0670033448.asp (625 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Observer review: The Inner Circle by TC Boyle
		His 10th novel features Professor Alfred Kinsey, known to all as Prok - zoologist, horticulturalist, expert on the gall wasp and, more infamously, taxonomist of the infinite variety of erotic acrobatics practised by 'the human animal'.
		In a sense, The Inner Circle is a prequel to Drop City (2003), which examined the revolution's emotional fallout in the 1970s.
		Mac initiates him in the garden, at her husband's behest, and soon all three are having sex with each other, not to mention anyone else in the inner circle.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,,1411600,00.html (826 words)

	What's love got to do with it? \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		It is against this varyingly success-filled and problem-plagued setting that Boyle focuses his piercing, imaginative powers to reconstruct the inner workings of the inner circle of the Kinsey research team.
		Though Prok is happily married with children, and Milk is engaged and eventually married with children, both would engage in academics-gone-wild antics throughout their association, especially when they hit the road to visit other colleges, prisons and the seamier parts of various towns for speaking engagements and interviewing sessions.
		It's an equal opportunity available to, and willingly acceded to by, each of the few other happily married members of the inner circle as they come on board to work for the ever-demanding Kinsey.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040912/news_lz1v12circle.html (1152 words)

	Strand Bookstore: Inner Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Infused with lyricism and take-no-prisoners storytelling, "The Inner Circle" is an irresistible tale about the interaction between our human and animal natures.
		Boylersquo;s tenth novel, The Inner Circle has it all: fabulous characters, a rollicking plot, and more sex than pioneering researcher Dr. Alfred Kinsey ever dreamed of documenting.
		A love story, The Inner Circle is narrated by John Milk, a virginal young man who in 1940 accepts a job as an assistant to Dr. Alfred Kinsey, an extraordinarily charming professor of zoology at Indiana University who has just discovered hislifersquo;s true calling: sex.
	www.strandbooks.com /profile?isbn=0670033448&itemno=0 (325 words)

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