Evelyn Waugh - New Directions

In this volume of essays the author casts new light on aspects of the writer's life and tackles his writings from a critical angle. Evelyn Waugh emerges as a diffident artist and sensitive recorder of the 1920s. This book looks at both Waugh's private and public lives.

List of contents

Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; Alain Blayac - Black Mischief as a Comic Structure; Leszek S.Kolek - Imagined Space in Brideshead Revisited; Robert M. Davis - Arcadian Minutiae: Notes on Brideshead Revisited; Jean L.Chevalier - Evelyn Waugh and Vatican Divorce; Donat S.Gallagher - Evelyn Waugh and the BBC; Winnifred M.Bogaards - Evelyn Waugh and Humour; Alain Blayac - The Being and Becoming of Evelyn Waugh; George McCartney - Select Bibliography - Index

Product details

• Authors: Alain Blayac, Alain Etc. Blayac, Blayac a., etc.
• Assisted by: Alai Blayac (Editor), Alain Blayac (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.12.1991
• EAN: 9780333538395
• ISBN: 978-0-333-53839-5
• No. of pages: 173
• Series: New Directions; New Directions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies