Martyn Sampson

Between Form and Faith

Graham Greene and the Catholic Novel

• Broschiertes 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

• Studies in the Catholic Imagination: The Flannery O'Connor Trust Series
• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 229mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780823294671
• ISBN-10: 0823294676
• Artikelnr.: 59914335

Autorenporträt

Martyn Sampson

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