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	Dr. Stephen Tyler: Vile Bodies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"Vile Bodies," which forms part of the title of this piece is meant to "tune" readers to the text by conjuring images of gyring bodies, whose twisting and turning symbolize the strophes and tropes of this text.
		This blurring of the distinction between bodies and machines is part of the long history of the capture and domestication of nature by culture, the triumph of reason over the pre-rational, of civilization over the primitive, which has brought about the general failure of the polar differentia that have constituted the givens of Western metaphysics.
		Human bodies or body parts may not yet be listed on the commodities exchange, but we do buy and sell them much as we buy and sell corn and wheat or any other commodity, and we calculate the price in terms of all the usual economic variables of scarcity, transformation, storage, and transportation.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~anth/bodies.html (9605 words)

	Vile Bodies -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Vile Bodies is a novel by (English author of satirical novels (1903-1966)) Evelyn Waugh.
		Heavily influenced by the (A theater where films are shown) cinema and by the disjointed style of (Click link for more info and facts about T.S. Eliot) T.S. Eliot, Vile Bodies is Waugh's most ostentatiously 'modern' novel (Frick, 1992).
		In 2003 the film (Click link for more info and facts about Bright Young Things) Bright Young Things, based on Vile Bodies and directed by (Click link for more info and facts about Stephen Fry) Stephen Fry, was released.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/vile_bodies.htm (266 words)

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		Far more interesting than these uses of body parts as the source and target of metaphors is the drganicIorganismic, part!whole synecdoche that enables the ide a that the body is a whole consisting of parts, each functioning to maintain the body by carrying out its particular job.
		Despi te the body metaphor implied by "corporation," the multinational corporation is not a body, nor is it an organ of society.
		It is a simulacrum of the organic, the organic recreated and reproduced b y the mechanical symbolizing instrumentality of the machine--the trick of the m achine (from Latin machina "a device," "a trick").
	is.rice.edu /~pound/bodies.html (9246 words)

	Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh: Worldtainment Audiobooks on Decklin's Domain. wt1054
		Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh: Worldtainment Audiobooks on Decklin's Domain.
		Evelyn Waugh's second novel, VILE BODIES, is his tribute to London's smart set.
		Vile Bodies is also available in paperback from Barnes and Noble...
	www.decklinsdomain.com /books/WTproduct/wt1054.htm (115 words)

	'Vile Bodies' perfumed - The Washington Times: Entertainment - September 10, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		What a piece of work is man. How empty of reason, how foul of body — in action an ape, in apprehension a pig; this quintessence of filth, this twisted, rank, and murderous thing: vile, vile, vile, vile.
		But by the time he published the novel in 1930, the book had become "Vile Bodies," and in the gap between those titles, you might measure the difference between what can be filmed and what cannot.
		Fry labels them — "Vile Bodies" is the favorite of "all my American friends," and they demanded fidelity to the original's plot.
	washingtontimes.com /functions/print.php?StoryID=20040909-090011-7720r (1430 words)

	Crisis Magazine
		In Vile Bodies he translated this essentially visual approach into words on paper, depicting London in the Twenties in a tumbling rush of fragmentary scenes and spare, elliptical dialogue that suggests far more than it states.
		Yet the uproariously funny Vile Bodies turns out to be the darkest of “comic” novels, one whose inhabitants are all hurtling gaily toward their doom.
		The intense melancholy of Vile Bodies, which is all the more potent for being conveyed almost entirely through implication, is occasionally italicized by Fry, thereby superimposing a jarring note of pathos at which Waugh would surely have turned up his nose.
	www.crisismagazine.com /december2004/films.htm (1176 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Vile Bodies (Penguin Modern Classics): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Vile Bodies is set in 20's England and follows the actions of the young and bored affluent set.
		The book is a parody as well as an encomium to an era when 'vile bodies' could exist with style.
		The second of 40 novels, Vile Bodies is his most characteristic work, brilliantly witty, stuffed with farcically brilliant characters who drink cocktails, go to costume parties, ride in motor cars and do little else.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0141182873 (779 words)

	Bright Young Things (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Waugh (1903-1966) was the author of Vile Bodies (1930), upon which Bright Young Things is based.
		Vile Bodies was a scathing look at the emptiness of celebrity, and the futility of the pursuit of fame and other unnecessary things.
		Adapter/director Stephen Fry manages to keep the wicked humor used by Waugh and crafts a funny yet poignant film tracking the life of one of these vile bodies as he begins to grow up and realize that the world offers more than an endless stream of parties.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/bright_young_things.html (602 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies as Opposed to Stephen Fry's Bright Young Things: Doubting All (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh is an epic satire of English high society after the Great War written with the brittle wit, insinuating intimacy, and skittering attention span of a gossip column.
		Vile Bodies imagines no alternative in the present for its amoral creatures (who live down to such names as Miles Malpractice, Father Rothschild S.J., and the Duchess of Stayle) and only a worse future, when they'll lack the will to get serious about the (unspecified) international conflict they'll be engaged in.
		(Vile Bodies came out in 1930, the year Waugh converted to Catholicism.) The glittering world of the book is a world without answers in which it's considered vulgarly "impudent" even to formulate the questions.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2004/09/01/114136.php (3678 words)

	ORANGE COUNTY WEEKLY OC Weekly: Film: Something Wilde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		That’s the subject of Vile Bodies, a pithy satirical novel in which the hard-partying English upper crust, trapped between world wars, takes a drubbing from the acid pen of Evelyn Waugh.
		Vile Bodies, which tracks a fast set partying itself into a stupor in London on the eve of World War II, must have been a bitch to adapt.
		Waugh’s achievement in Vile Bodies was to plant rumors of war without missing a satirical beat—sentimentality was anathema to him.
	www.ocweekly.com /ink/05/01/film-taylor.php (528 words)

	"Bright Young Things" reviewed by Steve Sailer for American Conservative
		While authors repetitively deplore the movie industry's philistinism, the reality is that decision-makers in the film business are suckers for prestigious literature, even though the best source novels for movies are clearly page-turning best-sellers that are longer on plot and character than aesthetic ambition, such as Gone with the Wind and The Godfather.
		Vile Bodies is also Waugh's most experimental novel, an attempt to further the modernist trend toward showing rather than telling that he detected in the otherwise incommensurable works of the two-fisted Hemingway and the fey Ronald Firbank.
		Nonetheless, the brilliance of Waugh's ear for spoken idioms has made Vile Bodies a steady seller for three quarters of a century.
	www.isteve.com /Film_Bright_Young_Things.htm (755 words)

	University of Leeds \| For the media \| Press releases \| Vile bodies
		However, Vile Bodies was mysteriously missing from their collection.
		The extravagant qualities of his lifestyle inspired his work, and Vile Bodies was written at a particularly testing time.
		“The existence of the Vile Bodies typescript was particularly interesting for the purpose of composition,” he said.
	www.leeds.ac.uk /media/current/waugh.htm (504 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Vile Bodies (Modern Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Although not a sequel to his first novel, "Decline and Fall," "Vile Bodies" includes several of the same characters and has a similar satiric tone.
		I bought one new copy from a bookstore just because I heard there was a caricature of Rosa Lewis, but I was hooked on Vile Bodies from page one, long before I ever got to the part about the Rosa Lewis character.
		VILE BODIES won't restore anyone's faith, but it will entertain them for a while, and perhaps make them puzzle over its meaning.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0141182873 (1721 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "Bright Young Things"
		Waugh set "Vile Bodies" in England, in an imaginary near-future that shares many characteristics with the real 1920s.
		Most notably, it's populated by a set of "bright young people" who fill their days with one chief activity: staving off boredom, a state of mind they fear more than poverty (particularly because most of them don't have to fear poverty at all).
		To call "Vile Bodies" a satire or a social commentary is to pin the handiest one-size-fits-all tag on it.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2004/08/20/bright (354 words)

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		Waugh, who came from the professional middle class, was a clear-eyed critic of the rich and ranking, but he was also a shocking snob who in later life tried to retool himself as a landed gent.
		Waugh’s achievement in Vile Bodies was to plant rumors of war without missing a satirical beat — sentimentality was anathema to him.
		Far from ignoring the novel’s dark, decent subtext, Fry overdoes it to a fault, undercutting the satire by humanizing his characters and slipping in an altogether gratuitous redemption at the end.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/printme.php?eid=56625 (525 words)

	Twentieth Century Literature: 'Vile bodies': a futurist fantasy. (Evelyn Waugh's novel)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Twentieth Century Literature: 'Vile bodies': a futurist fantasy.
		Evelyn Waugh's novel entitled 'Vile Bodies' shows the novelist's typical penchant for using the techniques and tools of modern literature in a satirical way to emphasize their absurdity.
		In the novel, Waugh used collage and montage liberally to portray the drabness of a future urban society whose main characteristic is the endless chattering of people contributing nothing but senseless noise.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:16736307&... (203 words)

	eManna - archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On one hand, we appreciate our bodies because they are useful and because without them we cannot exist in t his world.
		On the other hand, our bodies are troublesome, for they are often weak and subject to illness.
		If you find it difficult to believe that our vile bodies will be transfigured into glorious bodies, I ask you to consider the process a carnation seed undergoes to produce blossoms.
	www.emanna.com /archives/1997/em970910.htm (355 words)

	Ritz Filmbill: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Evelyn Waugh’s fantastic second novel, Vile Bodies, provides excellent source material for Stephen Fry’s directorial debut, Bright Young Things.
		That said, Vile Bodies deserves to be read if for no other reason than to enjoy Waugh’s way with words.
		While it may be nothing more than a frustration comedy, Vile Bodies never vexes.
	www.ritzfilmbill.com /editorial/books/vilebodies.html (273 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Vile Bodies (Penguin Modern Classics): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Bright Young Things of twenties' Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade.
		In a quest for treasure, a favourite party occupation, a vivid assortment of characters hunt fast and furiously for ever greater sensations and the fulfilment of unconscious desires.
		Bright Young Things is an adaptation of the Evelyn Waugh satirical novel Vile Bodies and has been a pet project of writer-director Stephen Fry for several years.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0141187506 (383 words)

	BookkooB: Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
		Above you will see a list of UK book stores, along with their stock and price details for Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh.
		To allow you to quickly compare prices, the stores are arranged in order of delivered price, cheapest first.
		The characters are engaging, the situations are absurd and I highly recommend Vile Bodies as a great way to spend a dull, rainy evening.
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/0316926116.htm (745 words)

	The Waugh Correspondent - Stephen Fry's dazzling Vile Bodies adaptation: Bright Young Things. By David Edelstein
		That's Adam Fenwick-Symes talking on the phone to his occasional fiancee, Nina Blount, early in Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies, the basis for the ripping new film Bright Young Things (ThinkFilm), directed by Stephen Fry.
		When you read an exchange like that, it's pretty clear what the tone and the emotional temperature of the book is going to be.
		The embrace of superficiality is desperate bordering on demonic: anything to keep from facing the horror of what had been and of what was sure to come.
	slate.com /id/2105419 (1092 words)

	Bright Young Things (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It's the young British aristocracy, dancing and snorting cocaine, oblivious to the Great Depression, despising the paparazzi but glorying in the publicity--the targets of the Evelyn Waugh's darkly satirical novel,
		Vile Bodies, on which the film is based.
		At the center of the multi-character story is Adam Syme (Stephen Campbell Moore) who has written a novel, the manuscript of which is confiscated by a customs officer at the start.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies9/BrightYoungThings.htm (455 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'Bright Young Things'
		All yesterday's parties: Evelyn Waugh's 'Vile Bodies' become 'Bright Young Things' in Stephen Fry's successful adaptation
		My favorite passage from Vile Bodies escaped Stephen Fry's recommended film adaptation Bright Young Things.
		It's a postscript regarding the party invitations sent by an upper-class twit called Johnnie Hoop: "There was the nice sensible copybook hand sort with a name and At Home and a date and time and address...
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/09.08.04/bright-0437.html (835 words)

	First-time director takes a brighter look at Waugh's 'Vile Bodies'
		When Stephen Fry set out to write and direct a movie set in London in the 1930s, he realized people have certain expectations of an English period film.
		Nor is it a warm exploration of stiff-upper-lip heroics in the teeth of despair, nor the puny against the great, nor an epic metaphor for the struggle of nations.
		It had no chance of that, being based on "Vile Bodies," a novel by the English satirist Evelyn Waugh (1903-66), who had no truck with such matters.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/09/11/DDGP98MIU81.DTL (1282 words)

	Vile Bodies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Okay, think Laguna Beach but with the wealthy young of the 1920's.
		Vile Bodies begins as a humorous, satirical tale of Adam a young novelist-turned-celebrity reporter and his fiancée Nina.
		These "bright young things" spend most of there time drinking excessively and devising clever slang terms.
	www.jemsfurniture.com /BookStore/isbn0316926116.html (330 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Vile Bodies: Photography and the Crisis of Looking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Amazon.ca: Books: Vile Bodies: Photography and the Crisis of Looking
		Vile Bodies: Photography and the Crisis of Looking
		Most of the artists have something to say and their display and interpretaton of the body reach the seductive by overcoming taboos and fears.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/379131940X (209 words)

	Vile Bodies by Waugh in Wonderful dust jacket from Randall House
		Vile Bodies by Waugh in Wonderful dust jacket from Randall House
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		For more information, please email or telephone us at 805/963-1909.
	www.randallhouserarebooks.com /indbooks/waugh.html (204 words)

	AllRefer.com - Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He served with distinction in World War II.
		Waugh burst upon the literary scene with a group of hilarious novels satirizing 20th-century life with savage and sophisticated wit; they include Decline and Fall (1928), Vile Bodies (1930), and A Handful of Dust (1934).
		He was even more mordantly satiric in Black Mischief (1932) and Scoop (1938), both treating Africa, and Put Out More Flags (1942), a fictional comment on the English war effort.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Waugh-Ev.html (590 words)

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