Number 56.3 of Evelyn Waugh Studies has been issued and circulated to members. Here is a summary of its contents from Jamie Collinson:
“…The feature essay happens to marry two of my own strongest interests – and ones I’d considered irreconcilable: Waugh and postmodernism. In Waugh’s Postmodern Pilgrimage, Catherine Simmerer makes the case that: ‘Brideshead Revisited complicates the traditional long nineteenth century novel by undermining the purely humanist nature of the traditional novel form, in introducing a sacred dimension and by breaking the bildungsroman narrative cycle of home-adventure-return.’ The essay makes a highly original and insightful case, and is one of the best pieces on Waugh I’ve read recently.
Elsewhere in this edition: Marshall McGraw is amusingly unimpressed by Flyte or Fancy: You Decide: Evelyn Waugh Meets Harry Clifton on the Road to Brideshead, by David Slattery-Christy…”
A copy of the issue is available at this link.
