Literature & literary studies:

Graham Greene

Fictions, Faith and Authorship
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This is a new and comprehensive reconsideration of Graham Greene's use of Catholic and theological issues in his fictions and other writings from the 1920s until the 1980s. This major new reconsideration of Graham Greene's writings, from the 1920s until the 1980s, focuses both on his best known novels and his less familiar works, including his short stories, plays, poetry, film scripts and reviewing, journalism and personal correspondence. It explores the major issues of Catholic faith and doubt, particularly in relation to his portrayal of secular love and physical desire, and examines the religious and secular issues and plots involving trust, betrayal, love and despair. Although Greene's female characters have often been underestimated, Brennan argues that while sometimes abstract, symbolic and two-dimensional, these figures often prove central to an understanding of the moral, personal and spiritual dilemmas of his male characters. Finally, he reveals how Greene was one of the most generically ambitious writers of the twentieth century, experimenting with established forms but also believing that the career of a successful novelist should incorporate a great diversity of other categories of writing. Offering a new and original perspective on the reading of Greene's literary works and their importance to English twentieth-century fiction, this will be of interest to anyone studying Greene.

Author Biography

Michael G. Brennan is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Leeds, UK.
Release date Australia
March 18th, 2010
Pages
192
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Undergraduate
Illustrations
ill
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Imprint
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Dimensions
156x234x20
ISBN-13
9781847063380
Product ID
25515274

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