The Vocation of Evelyn Waugh: Faith and Art in the Post-War Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780367879891 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 196 str.

D. Marcel Decoste

Opis

Arguing against the critical commonplace that Evelyn Waugh’s post-war fiction represents a decline in his writerly powers, D. Marcel DeCoste analyzes Waugh's major works from Brideshead Revisited to Unconditional Surrender. As DeCoste shows, Waugh offers in these later works an under-remarked meditation on the dangers of aestheticism in the context

Spis treści

Deplorable design, divine providence: Brideshead Revisited and the callings of Charles Ryder.  The plasticity of the human: the death of art in The Loved One and Love Among the Ruins.  'A single peculiar act of service': Helena and the stylish pilgrimage of factual faith.  The man of letters in middle age: secular perdition and ecclesial art in Scott-King's Modern Europe and The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold . 'It's sauve qui peut now': art's death wish and charity's vocation in the War Trilogy.

O autorze

D. Marcel DeCoste is Associate Professor of English at the University of Regina, Canada, where he teaches twentieth-century British and American literature. He has published and presented widely on Waugh's work.