The Comic Mode in Evelyn Waugh's Fiction

ISBN-13: 9783659436512 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 152 str.

Macari Ileana Oana

Opis

This work focuses on the comic mode in Waughs fiction and mainly deals with his novels between 1928 and 1938. It has a two-part structure, in which the former is rooted predominantly in the field of discourse analysis. The latter considers, besides the literary aspects of the novels under discussion, the social and cultural context in which Waugh wrote. Discourse analysis techniques and principles are focused on the "use of language", "speech" and "conversation", and the paper deals with such concepts at large, seeing how they function in the creation of the comic mode. Throughout the paper, the author analyses the way Evelyn Waugh constructs his plots and ministers the fates of his characters. The uncertainty his heroes experience is a human universal that manages to destroy the comfortable sense of smugness society builds around the modern man.

O autorze

Dr Ileana Oana Macari has been with the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, UAIC, Iasi, Romania since 1996. She teaches English grammar, translation, academic writing and methodology courses. She also teaches Romanian as a foreign language to international students in the summer courses organized by her university.