Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s.
Title:
Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s.
Author:
Diemert, Brian.
ISBN:
9780773566170
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (248 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Graham Greene and the 1930s -- 2 Exploring the Popular in Two Early Novels: Stamboul Train and England Made Me -- 3 Aspects of Detective Fiction -- 4 Approaches to the Thriller in Greene's Early Work: Rumour at Nightfall and It's a Battlefield -- 5 Thrillers of the 1930s: A Gun for Sale, Brighton Rock, and The Confidential Agent -- 6 The Ministry of Fear -- 7 The End of This Affair: Summing Up -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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