03163nam 2200649Ia 450 991078271650332120230912144336.01-282-85408-997866128540880-7735-6617-110.1515/9780773566170(CKB)1000000000713573(SSID)ssj0000280014(PQKBManifestationID)11912400(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000280014(PQKBWorkID)10268287(PQKB)10990441(CaPaEBR)400944(CaBNvSL)jme00326576 (Au-PeEL)EBL3331374(CaPaEBR)ebr10146956(CaONFJC)MIL285408(OCoLC)929121817(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/xmfgwx(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400944(MiAaPQ)EBC3331374(DE-B1597)655114(DE-B1597)9780773566170(MiAaPQ)EBC3245892(EXLCZ)99100000000071357319960328d1996 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrGraham Greene's thrillers and the 1930s[electronic resource] /Brian DiemertMontreal, Que. McGill-Queen's University Press1996viii, 237 pBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7735-1433-3 0-7735-1432-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Graham Greene and the 1930s -- Exploring the Popular in Two Early Novels: Stamboul Train and England Made Me -- Aspects of Detective Fiction -- Approaches to the Thriller in Greene's Early Work -- Thrillers of the 1930s -- The Ministry of Fear -- The End of This Affair -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexDiemert 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.Political fiction, EnglishHistory and criticismGreat BritainSocial life and customs1918-1945Political fiction, EnglishHistory and criticism.823/.912Diemert Brian1959-1484621MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782716503321Graham Greene's thrillers and the 1930s3703354UNINA