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Evelyn Waugh´s Satire: Texts and Contexts
Naomi Milthorpe
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Description for Evelyn Waugh´s Satire: Texts and Contexts
Hardback. Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJ; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 19. Weight in Grams: 446.
Waugh is a perennial subject for literary scholars; most studies published in the past thirty years take a strongly biographical approach, using Waugh's life and faith as lenses through which to critique the fiction. Evelyn Waugh's Satire takes a different approach: using frameworks of modernist studies, intertextuality, satire theory, and the contexts of the interwar period, Milthorpe renews debates about the targets and tactics of Waugh's satire.
Waugh is a perennial subject for literary scholars; most studies published in the past thirty years take a strongly biographical approach, using Waugh's life and faith as lenses through which to critique the fiction. Evelyn Waugh's Satire takes a different approach: using frameworks of modernist studies, intertextuality, satire theory, and the contexts of the interwar period, Milthorpe renews debates about the targets and tactics of Waugh's satire.
Product Details
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611478747
SKU
V9781611478747
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About Naomi Milthorpe
Naomi Milthorpe is lecturer in English at the School of Humanities, University of Tasmania.
Reviews for Evelyn Waugh´s Satire: Texts and Contexts
Milthorpe is careful to acknowledge that most significant Waugh scholarship to date has been grounded in biographical study before making a robust case for rooting her own enquiry more theoretically, specifically in the mechanics of satire.... [T]he strategy is highly successful, energetic, and engaging. Milthorpe offers some original and alternative readings that benefit the field considerably.... Milthorpe's detailed exploration of ... Read more