Revisiting Beatrix: Intertextuality, Tradition and Modernity in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh was a staunch supporter of traditional values, in a world which, according to him, was going down the wrong track—that of modernism. Brideshead Revisited can thus be (re-)placed in Western tradition but its modern dimension needs also to be underlined. The starting point of the present...
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| الحاوية / القاعدة: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ebc, |
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Études britanniques contemporaines
2024
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | Evelyn Waugh was a staunch supporter of traditional values, in a world which, according to him, was going down the wrong track—that of modernism. Brideshead Revisited can thus be (re-)placed in Western tradition but its modern dimension needs also to be underlined. The starting point of the present paper is the underlying link between the novel and the painting Beata Beatrix, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, which eventually brings the reader back to Dante Alighieri and the Bible. To what extent do the several intertextual references, more or less explicit in the novel, plunge the reader into a chamber of echoes? What meaning do they convey? |
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