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Category Archives: Academia
Waugh Conference at Gerald Brenan House in Malaga
The Gerald Brenan House in Malaga, Spain, has announced a one-day conference on Evelyn Waugh to take place a week from today on Friday 23 June. According to the Barcelona newspaper La Vanguardia, the conference will start with a showing of … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Conferences, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Carlos Villar Flor, Gerald Brenan House, La Vanguardia, Malaga
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Waugh Introduces New Edition of Greek Poetry
References to Waugh’s novels are used to introduce a review of the first volume of a new edition of The Greek Anthology published by Harvard University Press and The Loeb Library. The review is by Hayden Pelliccia and appears in a recent … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, Ronald Knox, The Loved One
Tagged Hayden Pellicia, New York Review of Books, The Greek Anthology
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W G Sebald, Comic Novelist?
In a long article in the latest edition of the New Yorker, Anglo-American literary scholar and critic James Wood (not to be confused with the scriptwriter of the same name who wrote BBC’s recent adaptation of Decline and Fall) tries … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged James Wood, New Yorker, W G Sebald
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2017 John H. Wilson Jr. Evelyn Waugh Undergraduate Essay Contest
Essays by undergraduates on the life and work of Evelyn Waugh are solicited for the 2017 John H. Wilson Jr. Evelyn Waugh Undergraduate Essay Contest. The contest is sponsored by Evelyn Waugh Studies, the journal of the Evelyn Waugh Society, … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Evelyn Waugh Society, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Undergraduate Essay Contest
Tagged John H. Wilson Jr.
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Christ Church Dust-up Brings Waugh Cites in Press
A recent incident at Christ Church, an Oxford college, has been widely reported in the British press. This involved a student, Lavinia Woodward, who was studying to be a surgeon. In a reportedly drug-induced rage, she stabbed her boyfriend (whom … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Christ Church, Daily Mail, Guardian, Lavinia Woodward, Peter Hitchins, Simon Jenkins, Tom Winnifrith
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Lucy, Paula, Jane and Evelyn
Columnist Jennifer Selway in her Daily Express entertainment gossip column brings Evelyn Waugh into a literary scholarship cat fight between Waugh biographer Paula Byrne, PhD (Liverpool), and BBC historical TV presenter Lucy Worsley, DPhil (Sussex), both of whom have also written … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Express, Jane Austen, Jennifer Selway, Lucy Worsley, Paula Byrne, plagiarism, Private Eye
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More Information Available on Initial Complete Works Volumes
Oxford University Press has released additional information on the first volumes of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh to be published later this year. See previous posts. This includes more detailed descriptions of the contents as well as the cover art … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Complete Works, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Rossetti: His Life and Works
Tagged Amazon.com, Oxford University Press
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Article on Waugh and Refugees
The current issue of the Brno Studies in English carries an article by Prof Carlos Villar Flor entitled “Displacement and Exile in Evelyn Waugh’s Post-War Fiction”. The article is based on a paper Prof Villar Flor presented at the 2015 … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Conferences, Scott-King's Modern Europe, Sword of Honour
Tagged Brno Studies in English, Carlos Villar Flor, WWII refugees
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