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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 Greenes 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 litera
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In this significant rereading of Graham Greene's writing career, Michael Brennan explores the impact of major issues of Catholic faith and doubt on his work, 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 charac
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"Informative, broad-ranging, and sheds new light on the life and literary art of one of the last century's most celebrated authors"--
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This collection of fourteen essays by American and English scholars -- many of them hitherto unpublished and all of them selected with a view to avoiding the duplication of essays already familiar and available -- offers new testimony of the range and accomplishments of Graham Greene's talent. The essays vary from considerations of general topics to critical analyses of single novels, from a discussion of Greene as a writer of Christian tragedy to a witty, irreverent assessment of The Power and the Glory. The authors here are chiefly concerned with the novels, though frequent allusions reveal
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Mood Spectrum in Graham Greene examines the pathology of bipolar disorder through symptoms uniquely expressed in the writer's novels. It explains and illustrates how mutated genes endow him with artistic genius, even as they engender a mental illness that too often results in a life barren of intimacy, and in an unquiet mind that can lead to psychosis and suicide if untreated. Critics have generally either ignored his illness in his novels or ascribed agency based on false psychological models, despite Greene often projecting his illness into character-constructs that share his condition and t
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English novelist, short-story writer, playwright and journalist, Graham Greene was one of the most widely read novelist of the 20th-century, a superb storyteller. Adventure and suspense are constant elements in his novels and many of his books have been made into successful films. Although Greene was nominated several times as a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, he never received the award. Graham Greene is a descriptive catalog of first editions of works by Greene, which are currently held in the collection of the University of Louisville. Arranged chronologically by title, Rober
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Examining Graham Greene's structure and language, this book traces the obsessive motifs that recur throughout his novels. Useful for academics and general readers, it argues that Greene was at his best in the earlier work, which combines melodrama, realism, and poetry, and that his masterpiece is 'Brighton Rock'.
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This volume provides a detailed description of the literary contact between Graham Greene and Franco's Spain. Part I describes the most significant political events that affected the Spanish book industry under this regime, with the first chapter offering an account of the methods of control created to exercise authoritative influence over the cultural scene. Part II explores critical studies of Greene's artistic output in Franco's Spain, and the second chapter investigates literary critics' evaluations of the author as published in the national press, magazines and journals, as well as in the
Greene, Graham, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Political and social views.
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Unamuno, Miguel de, --- Greene, Graham, --- Criticism and interpretation.
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This study reveals Greene in a dual role as author, one who projects literary experience into his view of life and subsequently projects both his experience and its ""literary"" interpretation into his fiction.
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