Evelyn Waugh's satire : texts and contexts /

"Waugh is a perennial subject for literary scholars; most studies published in the past thirty years take a strongly biographical approach, using Waugh's life and faith as lenses through which to critique the fiction. Evelyn Waugh's Satire takes a different approach: using frameworks...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Milthorpe, Naomi (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Waugh, Evelyn, > 1903-1966 > Criticism and interpretation.
Waugh, Evelyn, > 1903-1966
Satire, English > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Satire, English
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction satire, texts and contexts
  • England and the Octopus: decline and fall
  • Real tears: Vile Bodies and the Apes of God
  • Collecting material: Black Mischief, Scoop and Cold Comfort Farm
  • Blow the whole thing sky-high: A Handful of dust
  • Divided we stand, united we fall: put out more flags and Scott-King's modern Europe
  • Half in love with easeful death: the loved one and love among the ruins
  • Conscious imposture: the ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
  • Coda the Rake's Regress: "Basil Seal rides again."

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