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Evelyn Waugh
Ann Pasternak-Slater
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Description for Evelyn Waugh
Paperback. Series: Writers & Their Work S. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
Everyone knows how funny Evelyn Waugh is. One of his finest comic creations was his own increasingly rebarbative public persona – a self-confessed ‘front of pomposity mitigated by indiscretion, that was as hard, bright and antiquated as a cuirass’. No wonder new biographies of Waugh are popular. The life and work cannot be separated. Gathered productively at the writer’s desk are the chaotic and often bizarre details of Waugh’s own life, what he called the ‘adroit jigsaw’ of his unobtrusively elegant aesthetic structures, and his moral coherence. This study shows how Waugh transformed his own experiences into painfully comic, brilliantly ... Read more
Everyone knows how funny Evelyn Waugh is. One of his finest comic creations was his own increasingly rebarbative public persona – a self-confessed ‘front of pomposity mitigated by indiscretion, that was as hard, bright and antiquated as a cuirass’. No wonder new biographies of Waugh are popular. The life and work cannot be separated. Gathered productively at the writer’s desk are the chaotic and often bizarre details of Waugh’s own life, what he called the ‘adroit jigsaw’ of his unobtrusively elegant aesthetic structures, and his moral coherence. This study shows how Waugh transformed his own experiences into painfully comic, brilliantly ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Condition
New
Series
Writers & Their Work S.
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780746308226
SKU
V9780746308226
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About Ann Pasternak-Slater
Ann Pasternak Slater is a Senior Research Fellow at St Anne’s College, Oxford. She has taught English Literature at Oxford for forty years, specialising in Renaissance and Twentieth Century Literature. She is on the Editorial Board of the 42-volume scholarly edition of The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh, to be published by Oxford University Press and is editing its volume ... Read more
Reviews for Evelyn Waugh
Reviews 'There is no doubt that Pasternak Slater’s analysis of [Waugh's] oeuvre is a superb piece of work. It should become a classic, enduring study.' William Boyd, The Guardian 'Ann Pasternak Slater usefully reverses the main tendency in decades of critical reaction to Evelyn Waugh. Most studies focus on his early works; Pasternak Slater devotes more space to ... Read more