@article{oai:kitami-it.repo.nii.ac.jp:00007570,
 author = {Saigusa, Kazuhiko},
 journal = {人間科学研究},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {Evelyn Waugh’s first published novel Decline and Fall presents a satire on the
interwar British society by producing an atmosphere of futility and the absence of value
then overhanging society. This effect results not only from satirical descriptions of
social phenomena but also from a subversive treatment of the narrative form of
Bildungsroman novels. Waugh’s novel makes a parody of Bildungsroman novels in
both structural and thematic ways. The novel denies the progressive linearity of that
narrative form by giving itself the structure of meaningless circularity. The mocking
treatment of other elements of Bildungsroman, especially of gentlemanship and public
school, also produces the same satirical effect. Through performing a parody of
Bildungsroman novels, Decline and Fall asserts that the narrative form which was
dominant in the Victorian era was no longer acceptable after the First World War.},
 pages = {17--34},
 title = {The Circular World of Non-Development:Evelyn Waugh’s Rendering of Bildungsroman in Decline and Fall},
 volume = {9},
 year = {2013}
}