Graham Greene's thrillers and the 1930s / Brian Diemert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diemert, Brian, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Greene, Graham.

Greene, Graham, 1904-1991--Political and social views.

Political fiction, English--History and criticism.

Political fiction, English.

Physical Description:

viii, 237 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s investigates some of Greene's best-known works, such as A Gun for Sale, Brighton Rock, and The Ministry of Fear, and shows how they reflect the evolution of Greene's sense of the importance of popular culture in the 1930s.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Graham Greene and the 1930s

Exploring the Popular in Two Early Novels: Stamboul Train and England Made Me

Aspects of Detective Fiction

Approaches to the Thriller in Greene's Early Work

Thrillers of the 1930s

The Ministry of Fear

The End of This Affair

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85408-9

9786612854088

0-7735-6617-1

OCLC:

929121817