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Graham Greene's Conradian masterplot : the arabesques of influence / Robert Pendleton.
Van Pelt Library PR6013.R44 Z6578 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pendleton, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greene, Graham, 1904-1991--Knowledge and learning--Literature.
- Greene, Graham.
- Greene, Graham, 1904-1991.
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.
- Literature.
- Greene, Graham, 1904-1991--Stories, plots, etc.
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924--Influence.
- Conrad, Joseph.
- English fiction--Stories, plots, etc.
- English fiction.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Genre:
- Stories, plots, etc.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 181 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press, [1996]
- Summary:
- "From The Man Within (1929) to "The Captain and the Enemy (1988), Graham Greene engaged in a lifelong dialogue with Joseph Conrad's political, psychological and melodramatic fictions. Repressing Conrad's political anxieties, his early work displaces the protagonist's existential dilemma into the form of the thriller or - alternatively -the 'Catholic' novel. "After The Quiet American (1955), however, Greene's novels return to politics, introducing comic variations which transform Conrad's 'masterplot' into a mixed genre uniquely his own, a process charted in this book, the first full-length study of the subject.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-177) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0312125712
- OCLC:
- 31659595
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