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Author | : Brian Diemert |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 0773514325 |
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In Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s Brian Diemert examines the first and most prolific phase of Graham Greene's career, demonstrating the close relationship between Greene's fiction and the political, economic, social, and literary contexts of the period. Situating Greene alongside other young writers who responded to the worsening political climate of the 1930s by promoting social and political reform, Diemert argues that Greene believed literature could not be divorced from its social and political milieu and saw popular forms of writing as the best way to inform a wide audience. Diemert traces Greene's adaptation of nineteenth-century romance thrillers and classical detective stories into modern political thrillers as a means of presenting serious concerns in an engaging fashion. He argues that Greene's popular thrillers were in part a reaction to the high modernism of writers such as James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf, whose esoteric experiments with language were disengaged from immediate social concerns and inaccessible to a large segment of the reading public.
Author | : Brian Diemert |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780773514331 |
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In Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s Brian Diemert examines the first and most prolific phase of Graham Greene's career, demonstrating the close relationship between Greene's fiction and the political, economic, social, and literary contexts of the period. Situating Greene alongside other young writers who responded to the worsening political climate of the 1930s by promoting social and political reform, Diemert argues that Greene believed literature could not be divorced from its social and political milieu and saw popular forms of writing as the best way to inform a wide audience.
Author | : John Spurling |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-11 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781032871066 |
Download Graham Greene Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book, originally published in 1983, begins with an analysis of the patterns of Graham Greene's mind. It explores the way the patterns are modified from the political thrillers of the 1930s through the 'Catholic' novels of the 1940s and 1950s to the post-war comedies and 'Third World' novels.
Author | : Graham Greene |
Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | : 784 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781557831880 |
Download The Graham Greene Film Reader Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Gathers Greene's film writings, and offers a brief introduction to the role of motion pictures in his life and career
Author | : B. Thomson |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2009-08-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230250874 |
Download Graham Greene and the Politics of Popular Fiction and Film Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One of the most popular, respected and controversial writers of the twentieth century, Greene's work has still attracted relatively little scholarly comment. Thomson charts the intricate dance between his novels and screenplays, his many audiences, and an intellectual establishment reluctant to identify the work of a popular writer as 'literature'.
Author | : Cates Baldridge |
Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0826260039 |
Download Graham Greene's Fictions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Dermot Gilvary |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2011-09-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1441164162 |
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Author | : Matthew Levay |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2019-01-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 110842886X |
Download Violent Minds Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Levay analyzes representations of the criminal in British and American modernism from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s.
Author | : Hywel Dix |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2011-11-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1441164197 |
Download Postmodern Fiction and the Break-Up of Britain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A monograph analysing the symbolic role played by contemporary fiction in the break-up of political and cultural consensus in British public life.
Author | : Graham Greene |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 495 |
Release | : 2018-11-06 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1504056728 |
Download Selected Travel Writing Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A pair of revelatory travel memoirs from “a superb storyteller . . . [who] had a talent for depicting local color” (The New York Times). “One of the finest writers of any language,” British author Graham Greene embarked on two awe-inspiring and eye-opening journeys in the 1930s—to West Africa and to Mexico (The Washington Post). Greene would find himself both shaken and inspired by these trips, which would go on to inform his novels. Journey Without Maps: When Graham Greene set off from Liverpool in 1935 for what was then an Africa unmarked by colonization, it was to leave the known transgressions of his own civilization behind for those unknown. First by cargo ship, then by train and truck through Sierra Leone, and finally on foot, Greene embarked on a dangerous and unpredictable 350-mile, four-week trek through Liberia with his cousin and a handful of servants and bearers into a world where few had ever seen a white man. For Greene, this odyssey became as much a trip into the primitive interiors of the writer himself as it was a physical journey into a land foreign to his experience. “One of the best travel books [of the twentieth] century.” —The Independent The Lawless Roads: This eyewitness account of religious and political persecution in 1930s Mexico inspired The Power and the Glory, the British novelist’s “masterpiece” (John Updike). In 1938, Greene, a burgeoning convert to Roman Catholicism, was commissioned to expose the anticlerical purges in Mexico. Churches had been destroyed, peasants held secret masses in their homes, religious icons were banned, and priests disappeared. Traveling under the growing clouds of fascism, Greene was anxious to see for himself the effect it had on the people. Journeying through the rugged and remote terrain of Chiapas and Tabasco, Greene’s emotional, gut response to the landscape; the sights and sounds; the oppressive heat; and the people’s fear, despair, resignation, and fierce resilience makes for a vivid and powerful chronicle. “[A] singularly beautiful travel book.” —New Statesman