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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Evelyn Waugh"”.
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Evelyn Waugh and la nouvelle théologie.
… seeks to provide a more profound study of Evelyn Waugh's relation to twentieth-century Catholic theology than has yet been attempted. In doing so, it offers a radical revision of our understanding of Waugh's relation to the Second Vatican Coucil. Waugh's famous contempt for the liturgical …
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Beauty as transcendent in Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, and Rumer Godden.
… and purely immanent, the authors in this project—Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, and Rumer Godden—all saw its potential for transcendence. Interestingly, they all had quite different ways of emphasizing beauty's transcendence in their writing. Waugh accomplished this by focusing on the …
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"I Heard the Same Thing Once Before": Intertextuality in Selected Works of Evelyn Waugh
… the significance of literary allusion in some of Evelyn Waughs works. It investigates intertextual significance and intent that has, heretofore, been largely bypassed. This study tracks Waugh's intertextual instances from his earliest novels through his short stories to one of his final works. …
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Sacred and Regenerative Space in the Modern Novel
This thesis examines the ways in which Evelyn Waugh, E.M. Forster, and Virginia Woolf represent and use domestic spaces.
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Waugh revisited : destabilizing language and structure in Vile bodies, A handful of dust, and Brideshead revisited by Jabe Ziino.
… novelists-Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, and Evelyn Waugh-I realized the extent to which my enjoyment of Waugh greatly surpassed that of all my other readings. Jabe, I told myself, if you are going to spend a year of your precious young time on a literature thesis, you had damn well better …
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National History and the Novel in 1930s Britain
… Focusing on the novelists Christopher Isherwood, Evelyn Waugh, and Virginia Woolf, and the philosopher of history, R. G. Collingwood, I describe how the 1930s inheritors of British cultural privilege found themselves symbolically disenfranchised from a national identity inextricably linked to war, …
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The Gods of Women and Their Mothers: Stories
… Hunt, Kimberly King Parsons, Marilynne Robinson, Evelyn Waugh, and Mary Robison who allowed me to explore a range of characters and their vulnerabilities.</p>
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TWILIGHT OF THE TOFFS: FALL OF A CASTE, RISE OF A MYTH
… Ishiguro‟s The Remains of the Day (1989) and Evelyn Waugh‟s Brideshead Revisited (1945). My main critical perspective is a structuralist one, namely that of Roland Barthes in his Mythologies (1956). I show how, notwithstanding the period in which they were written, their aesthetic orientation, …
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The Things That Remain: People, Objects, and Anxiety in Thirties British Fiction
… of Christopher Isherwood, Elizabeth Bowen, and Evelyn Waugh. Thirties writers have long been either neglected or associated primarily with political commitments, though this has begun to change. I argue that thirties writers often position things as an alternative to politics, religion, or even …
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‘The Grin upon the Deathshead’: A Study of Satire in 1920s British Art.
… echoes the writing of contemporaries such as Evelyn Waugh. His early work raises interesting questions regarding changing attitudes to gender and identity, and the influence of modern technology, cinema and jazz. The Sitwells form an important link between these two artists in their role as …
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Human hagiography : the saint figure in modernist British literature.
… Joan, T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, and Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited interpreted and portrayed saints' lives and in how they used allusions to the saints to create a particular type of character, what I call the modernist saint figure, and a particular genre, what I call "human" …
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'Scarecrows of Chivalry': The Literature of Post -Imperial English Masculinity
… in the works of Thomas Hughes, E. M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, and George Orwell. With its emphasis on the longue duree of the Victorian gentleman, the project stresses the post-imperial break-up of conventional languages and forms of masculinity after 1945, expanding the standard analytic frames …
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Perspectives on Africa in travel writing: representations of Ethiopia, Kenya, Republic of Congo and South Africa, 1930–2000
… with a specific focus on narratives by Evelyn Waugh, Wilfred Thesiger, Dervla Murphy and Redmond O’Hanlon. Narratives of South Africa by Laurens van der Post, Noni Jabavu and Dan Jacobson also provide important insights into African self-construction in travel writing, which is, as yet, …
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Among the Modernist Ruins: British Writing and the Architecture of the State
… progress. Meanwhile, Conservative novelist Evelyn Waugh used the language of infiltration when considering modern architecture's Continental origins, as he, along with leftist novelist Aldous Huxley, feared that modern architecture's very materials—steel, glass, concrete—were vehicles for …
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From Arcadia to Heroism: The Progression of the Protagonists in Evelyn Waugh's <em>Decline and Fall</em>, <em>A Handful of Dust</em> and <em>Brideshead Revisited</em>.
… study is an examination of the protagonists in Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall, A Handful of Dust, and Brideshead Revisited. The purpose of this study is to show how each novel displays the same type of character progressing towards heroism. This type of heroism is explained by using Carol …