A Good Laugh Is Hard to Find: From Destructive Satire to Sacramental Humor in Evelyn Waugh's Helena
Despite Evelyn Waugh's conviction that Helena (1950) was his greatest work, the novel receives less critical attention than his well-known interwar satires and his postwar hit, Brideshead Revisited (1945). This article argues that the novel accomplishes Waugh's self-conscious postwar effor...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
[2018]
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2018, Volume: 67, Issue: 2, Pages: 312-331 |
| RelBib Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture NBP Sacramentology; sacraments TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
BRIDESHEAD Revisited (Book : Waugh)
B Helena (1950) B Sacramentals B sacramental humor B Satire B Evelyn Waugh B WAUGH, Evelyn, 1903-1966 B HELENA (Book) B Sacraments |
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