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Journal articles on the topic "Evelyn Waugh, satire, English literature 20th Century"

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"Social outlines of the English «campus novel»: historical revision of the subgenre." Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Series "Philology", no. 79 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.26565/2227-1864-2018-79-13.

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Campus novel or academic fiction is a specific genre that has gained worldwide readership. Campuses spread throughout the world provide rich productive raw material for fiction. The trend of campus novels started back a century ago and mainly in the UK. The paper refers to the diachronic transformations that took place in the history of English literature of the twentieth century with such a novelistic subgenre as «campus novel». The key issues related to this subgenre have been outlined taking into account the novels written by Dorothy Sayers, Evelyn Waugh, Charles Percy Snow, John Wain, and
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Evelyn Waugh, satire, English literature 20th Century"

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Milthorpe, Naomi Elizabeth, and naomi milthorpe@anu edu au. "Systems of order: The satirical novels of Evelyn Waugh." The Australian National University. School of Humanities, 2009. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20090630.150502.

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Systems of Order: The satirical novels of Evelyn Waugh is a study of Evelyn Waugh’s satire. It offers a contextual reading of eleven works by Waugh, presenting revisionist readings of familiar novels and according attention to previously neglected works. It aims to sketch out the main features of Waugh’s satire, including Waugh’s lexis and the use of certain key images and motifs. Comparative analysis of Waugh’s satirical novels with works by contemporary writers such as Clough Williams-Ellis, Wyndham Lewis, Stella Gibbons and T.S. Eliot brings into sharp relief the techniques and targets o
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McQueen, Anna. "A class apart : the servant question in English fiction, 1920-1950." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/24485.

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In the reading of the servants in examples from the period 1920-1950, the servant question is invoked to expose the workings of class. The servants in these narratives of Bowen, Green, Taylor, Waugh, Mansfield and Panter-Downes, lady’s maids, housekeepers, nannies, a butler and a chauffeur, are in thrall to the collective structures of societal ordering, and reluctant with respect to social mobility. Class was not fully being negotiated in this period, in fact little change was visible. Fer example intimacy, such as that between the lady’s maid and her mistress, meant that class confrontation
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Milthorpe, Naomi Elizabeth. "Systems of order: The satirical novels of Evelyn Waugh." Phd thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/49312.

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'Systems of Order: The satirical novels of Evelyn Waugh' is a study of Evelyn Waugh’s satire. It offers a contextual reading of eleven works by Waugh, presenting revisionist readings of familiar novels and according attention to previously neglected works. It aims to sketch out the main features of Waugh’s satire, including Waugh’s lexis and the use of certain key images and motifs. Comparative analysis of Waugh’s satirical novels with works by contemporary writers such as Clough Williams-Ellis, Wyndham Lewis, Stella Gibbons and T.S. Eliot brings into sharp relief the techniques and targets of
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Books on the topic "Evelyn Waugh, satire, English literature 20th Century"

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McCartney, George. Evelyn Waugh and the Modernist Tradition. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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McCartney, George. Evelyn Waugh and the Modernist Tradition. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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