Martyn Sampson

Between Form and Faith

Graham Greene and the Catholic Novel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"What is a "Catholic" novel? This book analyzes the fiction of Graham Greene in a radically new manner, considering in depth its form and content, which rest on the oppositions between secularism and religion. Sampson challenges these distinctions, arguing that Greene has a dramatic contribution to add to their methodological premises. Chapters on Greene's four "Catholic" novels and two of his "post-Catholic" novels are complemented by fresh insight into the critical importance of his nonfiction. The study paints an image of an inviting yet beguilingly complex literary figure"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9780823294664
• ISBN-10: 0823294668
• Artikelnr.: 59917584

Autorenporträt

Martyn Sampson earned his Ph.D. from the University of the West of England, Bristol, where he taught English. He served as Director of the 2018 and 2019 Graham Greene International Festivals.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Uninstructed Catholic 1
1 The Ache of Modernism: Theological Aesthetics in Greene's Nonfiction 15
2 Catholic Novels: Religious Anxieties in Brighton Rock and The Heart of
the Matter 38
3 Creator of Heaven and Earth:
Catholicism and the "Catholic" in The Power and the Glory and The End of
the Affair 80
4 Entertaining the Second Vatican Council:
Creative Theologies in The Honorary Consul and Monsignor Quixote 119
5 Theory and Theology: Graham Greene's Remapping of Common Ground 161
Conclusion: Where Now? 195
Acknowledgments 201
Notes 205
Bibliography 233
Index 261