Graham Greene's Catholic ImaginationMuch has been written about Graham Greene's relationship to his Catholic faith and its privileged place within his texts. His early books are usually described as "Catholic Novels" - understood as a genre that not only uses Catholic belief to frame the issues of modernity, but also offers Catholicism's vision and doctrine as a remedy to the present crisis in Western civilization. Greene's later work, by contrast, is generally regarded as falling into political and detective genres. In this book, Mark Bosco argues that this is a false dichotomy created by a narrowly prescriptive understanding of the Catholic genre and obscures the impact of Greene's developing religious imagination on his literary art. |
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Contents
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Greenes Appropriation of Oxford and the French Catholic Literary Revival | 31 |
3 Vatican II Contexts and Greenes Catholic Imagination | 71 |
Greenes Catholic Imagination in The Honorary Consul and The Human Factor | 97 |
The Final Greeneing of the Catholic Imagination in Dr Fischer of Geneva and Monsignor Quixote | 129 |
Coloring Catholicism Greene | 155 |
Notes | 161 |
References | 189 |
Index | 199 |
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