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Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s
Diemert
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Description for Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s
Paperback. Examines the first and most prolific phase of Graham Greene's career, demonstrating the relationship between his fiction and the political, economic, social and literary contexts of the period. This volume examines some of Greene's best-known works including "Brighton Rock". Num Pages: 256 pages, notes, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773514331
SKU
V9780773514331
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Reviews for Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s
"Conscientious and perceptive, Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s engages theoretical and generic concerns that Greene scholarship has never before probed so fully." Keith Wilson, Department of English, University of Ottawa. "Diemert has new and interesting things to say about Greene's use of thrillers and other popular modes of fiction as models for his art." Bernard Bergonzi, Department of English, ... Read more