WAUGH, Evelyn, 1903-1966SWORD of Honour (Book)THEOLOGYCHRISTIANITYVOCATIONEUCATASTROPHEEvelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy is a sacramental epic that derives its theology from the thinkers of the ressourcement, the theologians seeking a renewal of Catholic thinking by rediscovering the...
Waugh was home-schooled by his mother until the age of 7. In September 1910, Waugh began life as a day pupil at the Heath Mount preparatory school. By that time, he had started writing short stories as a hobby. At school, Waugh was a notorious school bully. One of his victims was C...
By contrast, Ann Pasternak Slater is nothing if not critical, her book a march through the novels fromDecline and Fallto theSword of Honourwar trilogy. With her husband, the poet Craig Raine, she editsAreté, a lively, pointed English periodical that isn’t afraid to stick its neck out. ...
1.(Biography)Evelyn(Arthur St John) (ˈiːvlɪn). 1903–66, English novelist. His early satirical novels includeDecline and Fall(1928),Vile Bodies(1930),A Handful of Dust(1934), andScoop(1938). His later novels include the more sombreBrideshead Revisited(1945) and the trilogy of Wor...
In the Picture traces Waugh's experiences, both vivid and mundane, with a completeness never before attempted and shows how they come alive in Sword of Honour. It also illuminates the brief hints within the narrative of key events of the war, while highlighting its strategic direction. Waugh'...
Guy Crouchback undergoes two journeys throughout the Sword of Honour trilogy. The first is his...Sherron, RobertThe Evelyn Waugh SocietyEvelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies R Sherron - 《Evelyn Waugh Studies》 被引量: 0发表: 2012年 TEMPTATIONS OF THE CRAFTSMAN IN MIDDLE AGE: DIABOLICAL ART AND...
(Men at Arms 行伍生涯;Officers and Gentlemen 军官与绅 士;Unconditional Surrender 无条件投降→The Sword of Honour 荣誉之剑三部曲)自传:A Little Learning 一点学问(三部只成一部)短篇小说集:Mr Loveday’s Little Outing and Other Sad Stories 洛弗戴先生一次短暂的外出与其他悲惨故事 in full born ...
“Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder” “Decline and Fall” “Helena” “Scoop” “Sword of Honour” “The Loved One” “Vile Bodies” (Show more) Subjects Of Study: Dante Gabriel Rossetti Ronald Arbuthnott Knox ...
A Maverick Historian - Rarely has comedy of manners been so artfully infused with pathos as in Evelyn Waugh's recently reissued Sword of Honour trilogy: "the finest work of fiction in English," our author argues, "to emerge from World War II".(Review)(Brief Article)...
The Sword of Honour trilogy—probably the greatest work of fiction to emerge from the Second World War—results from Waugh's having deliberately immersed himself in the destructive element, seeking military experience instead of avoiding it like the real-life equivalents of Parsnip and Pimpernell or...