Graham Greene's Catholic imagination / Mark Bosco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bosco, Mark.

Series:

American Academy of Religion academy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greene, Graham, 1904-1991--Criticism and interpretation.

Greene, Graham, 1904-1991--Religion.

Greene, Graham, 1904-1991.

Catholic Church--In literature.

Catholic Church.

Christianity and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Christian fiction, English--History and criticism.

Christian fiction, English.

Catholics in literature.

Christianity and literature.

History.

Religion.

Criticism and interpretation.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

viii, 205 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Summary:

Much has been written about Graham Greene's relationship to his Catholic faith and its privileged place within his texts. His early books are usually described as "Catholic Novels" - understood as a genre that not only uses Catholic belief to frame the issues of modernity, but also offers Catholicism's vision and doctrine as a remedy to the present crisis in Western civilization. Greene's later work, by contrast, is generally regarded as falling into political and detective genres. In this book, Mark Bosco argues that this is a false dichotomy created by a narrowly prescriptive understanding of the Catholic genre and obscures the impact of Greene's developing religious imagination on his literary art.

Contents:

Catholicism : Graham Greene's Pattern in the carpet

The Greene/ing of the Catholic novel : Greene's appropriation of Oxford and the French Catholic literary revival

Vatican II con/texts and Greene's Catholic imagination

New threads in an old pattern : Greene's Catholic imagination in the honorary consul and the human factor

The pattern completed : the final Greene/ing of the Catholic imagination in Dr. Fischer of Geneva and Monsignor Quixote

Epilogue: coloring Catholicism "Greene".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-198) and index.

ISBN:

0195177150

OCLC:

54825912