Graham Greenes Thrillers And The 1930s

Author : Brian Diemert
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773514325
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s written by Brian Diemert and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1996 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9780773514331
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s written by Brian Diemert and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Graham Greene
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557831880
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Graham Greene Film Reader written by Graham Greene and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1994 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers Greene's film writings, and offers a brief introduction to the role of motion pictures in his life and career

Author : Cates Baldridge
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826260039
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Graham Greene's Fictions written by Cates Baldridge and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dermot Gilvary
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441164162
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene written by Dermot Gilvary and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew Levay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110842886X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violent Minds written by Matthew Levay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1441164197
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Fiction and the Break-Up of Britain written by Hywel Dix and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1504056728
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Travel Writing written by Graham Greene and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Mike Hill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441161945
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of Graham Greene written by Mike Hill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive reference guide to the published writings of Graham Greene, this book surveys not only Greene's literary work - including his fiction, poetry and drama - but also his other published writings. Accessibly organised over five central sections, the book provides the most up-to-date listing available of Greene's journalism, his published letters and major interviews. The Writings of Graham Greene also includes a bibliography of major secondary writings on Greene and a substantial and fully cross-referenced index to aid scholars and researchers working in the field of 20th Century literature.

Author : Adrian Poole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139828118
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists written by Adrian Poole and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-10 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The significance of each writer in their own time is explained, the relation of their work to that of predecessors and successors explored, and their most important novels analysed. These essays do not aim to create a canon in a prescriptive way, but taken together they describe a strong developing tradition of the writing of fictional prose over the past 300 years. This volume is a helpful guide for those studying and teaching the novel, and will allow readers to consider the significance of less familiar authors such as Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen alongside those with a more established place in literary history.