The Vocation of Evelyn Waugh - Faith and Art in the Post-War Fiction (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2019
First published:	2015
Authors:	D. Marcel DeCoste
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	196
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-87989-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > General Promotions
LSN:	0-367-87989-1
Barcode:	9780367879891

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