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The Vocation of Evelyn Waugh: Faith and Art in the Post-War Fiction D. Marcel DeCoste New edition
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The Vocation of Evelyn Waugh: Faith and Art in the Post-War Fiction
D. Marcel DeCoste
Arguing against the critical commonplace that Evelyn Waugh?s post-war fiction represents a decline in his powers as a writer, D. Marcel DeCoste offers detailed analyses of Waugh's major works from Brideshead Revisited to Unconditional Surrender. Rather than representing an ill-advised departure from his true calling as an iconoclastic satirist, DeCoste suggests, these novels form a cohesive, artful whole precisely as they explore the extent to which the writer?s and the Catholic?s vocations can coincide. For all their generic and stylistic diversity, these novels pursue a new, sustained exploration of Waugh?s art and faith both. As DeCoste shows, Waugh offers in his later works an under-remarked meditation on the dangers of a too-avid devotion to art in the context of modern secularism, forging in the second half of his career a literary achievement that both narrates and enacts a contrary, and Catholic, literary vocation.
188 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 28, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9781409470847 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 196 |
| Dimensions | 245 × 170 × 18 mm · 516 g |
| Language | English |
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