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Auteur(s) : Milthorpe, Naomi
Titre(s) : Evelyn Waugh's satire [Texte imprimé] : texts and contexts / Naomi Milthorpe
Publication : Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson university press, 2016
Description matérielle : x, 185 pages ; 24 cm
Comprend : 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."
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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 of modernist studies, intertextuality, satire theory, and
the contexts of the interwar period, Milthorpe renews debates about the targets and
tactics of Waugh's satire." ; "Evelyn Waugh (1903--1966) is one of the twentieth century's
great prose stylists and the author of a suite of devastating satires on modern English
life, from his first unforgettably funny novel Decline and Fall, to his last work
of fiction, "Basil Seal Rides Again." Evelyn Waugh's Satire: Texts and Contexts renews
scholarly debates central to Waugh's work: the forms of his satire, his attitudes
towards modernity and modernism, his place in the literary culture of the interwar
period, and his pugnacious (mis)reading of literary and other texts. This study offers
new exegetical accounts of the forms and figures of Waugh's satire, linking original
readings of Waugh's texts to the literary-historical contexts that informed them.
Posing fresh readings of familiar works and affording attention to more neglected
texts, Evelyn Waugh's Satire: Texts and Contexts offers readers and scholars a timely
opportunity to return to the rich, dark art of this master of prose satire."--Publisher's
description
Sujet(s) : Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966) -- Critique et interprétation
Satire anglaise
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781611478747. - ISBN 161147874X. - ISBN 9781611478754 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45284576r
Notice n° :
FRBNF45284576
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