Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s PDF
by Brian Diemert
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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, and shows how they reflect the evolution of Greene's sense of the importance of popular culture in the 1930s.
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- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press
- Publication Date:27/08/1996
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- ISBN:9780773566170
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press
- Publication Date:27/08/1996
- Category:
- ISBN:9780773566170