Graham Greene's Conradian Masterplot: The Arabesques of Influence (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349243655)

From The Man Within (1929) to The Captain and the Enemy (1988), Graham Greene engaged in a lifelong dialogue with Joseph Conrad's political, psychological and melodramatic fictions. Repressing Conrad's political anxieties, his early work displaces the protagonist's existential dilemma into the form of the thriller or - alternatively -the 'Catholic' novel. After The Quiet American (1955), however, Greene's novels return to politics, introducing comic variations which transform Conrad's 'masterplot' into a mixed genre uniquely his own, a process charted in this book, the first full-length study of the subject.

Author: Robert Pendleton
ISBN-10: 1349243655
ISBN-13: 9781349243655
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1996
Pages: 181
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d