Cultural Context in Evelyn Waugh’s “A Handful of Dust”

Authors

  • Екатерина Евгеньевна Рябчикова I. Kant Baltic Federal University

Abstract

Ekaterina E. Ryabchikova (Kaliningrad, Russian Federation)

The author makes an attempt to analyze Evelyn Waugh’s novel «A Handful of Dust» in the light of Waugh’s choice between Catholicism and Protestantism. It is claimed that the writer’s God-seeking experience can be understood through the symbols in the novel, which are connected to Faust («Gothic») cultural code of  Europe, a motive of pilgrimage and Augustine of Hippo’s idea of The City of God.

Key words: Waugh, "A Handful of Dust", Catholicism, Protestantism, Gothic, the City of God.

DOI 10.23683/1995-0640-2017-2-26-32

Author Biography

Екатерина Евгеньевна Рябчикова, I. Kant Baltic Federal University

Ekaterina E. Ryabchikova – post-graduate student. Historical linguistics, foreign philology and documentation dpt. I. Kant Baltic Federal University.

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Рябчикова, Е. Е. (2017). Cultural Context in Evelyn Waugh’s “A Handful of Dust”. Proceedings of Southern Federal University. Philology, (2), 26–32. Retrieved from https://philol-journal.sfedu.ru/index.php/sfuphilol/article/view/1014

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No. 2 (2017)

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