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A Literary Life
David Wykes
ISBN: 9780312225087
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Palgrave USA
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Waugh's life and his literary life exist in dynamic relationship. Virtually all of his fiction was autobiographical…
Waugh's life and his literary life exist in dynamic relationship. Virtually all of his fiction was autobiographical, yet he maintained that his novels were objects, unrelated to the life of their author. This study traces the shifting relationship of ascertainable fact and imaginative fiction throughout Waugh's career, focusing on the endless negotiation he conducted between life and art, and on why, from being author of the anarchic, hilarious Decline and Fall, he transformed himself into the author of the romantic, eschatological Brideshead Revisited.
| ISBN | 0312225083 | | Pages | 240 | | ISBN13 | 9780312225087
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Palgrave USA | | Weight (grammes) | 476 | | Imprint | Palgrave USA | | Published in | New York | | Format | Hardback | | Series title | Literary Lives (Hardcover) | | Publication date | 04 Apr 2003 | | Height (mm) | 220 | | Non-book description | 224 p. ; | | Width (mm) | 140 | | Library of Congress | PR6045.A97 | | Spine width (mm) | 25 | | DEWEY | 823.912 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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| | | Acknowledgements | | | | | | Key to References | | | | | | Three Annotated Epigraphs | | 1 | | | | Introduction: Fiction, Autobiography, History | | 3 | | 1 | | Second Son: 1903-24 | | 11 | | 2 | | Pain as is Seldom Seen in Men: 1924-30 | | 38 | | 3 | | Something of the Crusader's Zeal: 1930-39 | | 74 | | 4 | | A Legitimate Contribution to the War Effort: 1939-51 | | 123 | | 5 | | Small Acts to Redeem the Times: 1951-66 | | 165 | | | | Notes | | 212 | | | | Index | | 214 |
...this volume is the most accessible guide to a writer who still finds plenty of 'general' as well as academic readers. "Choice"  Be the first to write a customer review
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