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Category Archives: Academia
Roundup: End of a Literary Era
–This week’s issue of the New Statesman has as its Weekend Essay an article by John Mullan. This is entitled “The Death of the British Catholic Novel: Catholicism gave English literature something it needs to rediscover” and opens with this: … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Oxford, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged David Lodge, New Statesman, Somerville College Oxford, St John's College, The Spectator, Washington Post
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Roundup: From Arcadia to Bohemia
—The Irish Rover, a newspaper sponsored by University of Notre Dame (in Indiana, not Ireland), has posted a brief article on the origins of “Arcadia”. This is by Santiago Legarre who is a visiting professor at the Notre Dame Law … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Labels, Vile Bodies
Tagged Financial Times, Harold Acton, Reaction.life, The Irish Rover, TLS
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Roundup: Waugh’s Highclere Moments
—Tatler magazine has a story about Lady Carnarvon, resident of the country house that has been the setting for the TV series and films of Downton Abbey. Another of these is being produced. Here are the opening paragraphs of the … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Sword of Honour
Tagged BBC, Daily Mail, Hoover Institution, Journal of European Studies, Tatler
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Oxford Seminar of Pinfoldian Interest
Oxford University has announced a seminar that may be of interest to Waugh scholars. It is open to current members of the university and is entitled “Laura Marcus Workshop: Autobiographical Fiction and the 1950s Telepathy Wave.” It will be led … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Events, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Laura Marcus Workshop, Oxford University
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2023 Academic Papers
The following academic papers with Evelyn Waugh in their titles appeared during calendar 2023. Abstracts have been included where available: –Victoria Fernandez Ruiz, “Metaphorical value in the metaphor of conversion: The sacred and profane memories of Capt. Charles Ryder in … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Love Among The Ruins, Sword of Honour
Tagged Harold Acton
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Easter Roundup
–The Jesuit journal America has an article by senior editor James T Keane entitled “The sometimes-savage perfection of Catholic parody.” In looking back over previous articles on this theme, he came up with one in 1958 where its author Joel … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Scoop
Tagged America. The Jesuir Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Texas A & M International, The Critic, The Spectator
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2022 Academic Papers
Announcements of academic papers with Evelyn Waugh in their title for the calendar year 2022 are posted below. Where abstracts have been published with the title and source, these have been included: –Guy Woodward, “Conducting his Own Campaigns: Evelyn Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Put Out More Flags, Sword of Honour, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
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Auction Sale of Two Waugh Letters
An online auction is offering for sale a 1945 letter from Evelyn Waugh to a Conservative MP. This relates to the policies of the British Government in Yugoslavia during and after WWII. Here is the seller’s listing info as posted … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Auctions, Internet, Items for Sale, Letters, Ronald Knox, World War II
Tagged Liveauctioneers.com, Members of Parliament, University of Leicester
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OUP Announces New Waugh Volume
The Oxford University Press has announced a new volume in its ongoing Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh series. This will be CWEW Volume 10: The Loved One: An Anglo- American Tragedy. Its tentative UK release date is 23 April 2024 … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, The Loved One
Tagged Adrian Poole
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