Evelyn Waugh: New Directions [Paperback]

In this volume of essays casting new light on aspects of Waugh's life and writings, the essential Waugh emerges as a diffident artist and a sensitive recorder not only of the Roaring Twenties but also of his century. Evelyn Waugh's undisputed talent and controversial personality are set off in a series of studies that provide new elements towards the understanding of the man and the artist: the annulment of his first marriage, his relations with the BBC are for the first time dealt with in depth and objectivity.Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; Alain Blayac - Black Mischief as a Comic Structure; Leszek S.Kolek - Imagined Space in Brideshead Revisited; Robert M. Davis - Arcadian Minutiae: Notes on Brideshead Revisited; Jean L.Chevalier - Evelyn Waugh and Vatican Divorce; Donat S.Gallagher - Evelyn Waugh and the BBC; Winnifred M.Bogaards - Evelyn Waugh and Humour; Alain Blayac - The Being and Becoming of Evelyn Waugh; George McCartney - Select Bibliography - Index