Graham Greene's thrillers and the 1930s / Brian Diemert.
Graham Greene's thrillers and the 1930s / Brian Diemert.
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Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1996.
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N823.912/148
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Language
English
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Physical content
viii, 237 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
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, Brig...
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Publisher
Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1996.
Place of Publication
Québec (Province)
Date Published
c1996.
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Summary
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 Virgi...
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Graham Greene's thrillers and the 1930s / Brian Diemert.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-230) and index.
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c1996.
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N823.912/148
Record Identifier
74VK2vQxM20d
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK2vQxM20d
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ISBN
0773514333 (paper)
9780773514324 (cloth : alk. paper)
0773514325 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780773514331 (paper)
DDC
823.912
MMS ID
991017972829702626
