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Toward the end of the first wave of critical interest in the fiction of Graham Greene, David Lodge observed that:
The reception and reputation of Graham Greene’s fiction is, indeed, a subject in itself. Briefly, he enjoys the admiration of reviewers, fellow novelists, and ‘general readers,’ who praise particularly his ‘craftsmanship,’ his ability ‘to tell a story’; and of some critics with a vested interest in Christian or specifically Catholic literature. But in the mainstream of Anglo-American literary criticism his reputation does not ride so high.1
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David Lodge, Graham Greene (New York: Columbia University Press, 1966) 3.
Roger Sharrock, Saints, Sinners and Comedians (Tunbridge Wells: Burns & Oates, 1984) 11.
Robert Hoskins, Graham Greene: An Approach to the Novels (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1999) 139.
Peter Mudford, Graham Greene (Plymouth: Northcote House in association with the British Council, 1996) 7.
See Heyward Brock and James M. Welsh, ‘Graham Greene and the structure of salvation’, Renascence (Autumn 1974) 32–39
A.A. DeVitis, ‘Religious aspects in the novels of Graham Greene’, The Shapeless God, edited by Harry J. Mooney, Jr. and Thomas F. Staley (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1968) 41–65
Wm. Thomas Hill, Perceptions of Religious Faith in the Work of Graham Greene (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2002).
See John A. Stotesbury, ‘Metropolitan space in Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair’, London in Literature: Visionary Mappings of the Metropolis, edited by Susana Onega and John A. Stotesbury (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag, 2002) 118
Henry Shapiro, ‘The infidel Greene: Radical ambiguity in Our Man in Havana’, Essays in Greene, edited by Peter Wolfe (Greenwood: Penkevill Publishing, 1987) 83–98
See Cates Baldridge, Graham Greene: The Virtues of Extremity (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000)
Satnam Kaur, Graham Greene: An Existentialist Investigation (Amritsar: Guru Nanak Dev University Press, 1988)
Anne T. Salvatore, ‘Graham Greene, Soren Kierkegaard, and the discourse of belief’, dissertation, Temple University, DAI 46 (1985) 699.
See Judith Adamson, Graham Greene: The Dangerous Edge (London: Macmillan, 1990)
See Amporn Amaracheewa, ‘Graham Greene’s paradoxical views of morality: The nature of sin’, dissertation, Bowling Greene State University, DAI 43 (1983) 2343
Doreen D’Cruz, ‘The pursuit of selfhood in the novels of Graham Greene’, dissertation, University of Michigan, DAI 41 (1980) 2093
Kathleen Behrenbruch Hindman, ‘The ambiance of Graham Greene’s fiction: The functions of milieu in his novels’, dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, DAI 41 (1980) 2122
William Thomas Hill, ‘The search for dwelling and its relationship to journeying and wandering in the novels of Graham Greene’, dissertation, University of Nebraska, DAI 54 (1994) 4101
Adam John Schwartz, ‘The third spring: Roman Catholic conversion and rebellion against modernity’, dissertation, Northwestern University, DAI 57 (1997) 4890
Valerie Frances Sedlak, ‘From the religious dimension to the spiritual vision in the novels of Graham Greene’, dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, DAI 53 (1993) 2384
Richard Stephen Vogel, ‘Avenues to faith: Encountering God in the fiction of Graham Greene and Walker Percy’, dissertation, St. John’s University, DAI 57 (1996) 223.
See Brian Diemert, Graham Greene’s Thrillers and the 1930s (Montreal: McGill-Queens University, 1996);and Elliott Malamet, The World Remade (New York: Peter Lang, 1998).
Wayne Booth, The Rhetoric of Fiction (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961) 90.
Damon Marcel DeCoste, ‘Modernism’s shell-shocked history’, Twentieth Century Literature (Winter 1999) 430.
John Coates, ‘Experimenting with genre: Greene and The Confidential Agent’, Renascence (Fall 2002) 46–64.
Brian Thomas, An Underground Fate: The Idiom of Romance in the Later Novels of Graham Greene (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988).
See Thomas Wendorf, ‘Greene, Tolkien and the mysterious relations of realism and fantasy’, Renascence (Fall 2002) 78–100.
Norman Sherry, The Life of Graham Greene, Volume Three (London: Jonathan Cape, 2004) 804.
John Spurling, Graham Greene (London: Methuen, 1983) 53.
Michel Foucault, ‘What is an author?’, The Critical Tradition, 2nd Edition, edited by David Richter (Boston: Bedford, 1998) 895.
For a full discussion of the ideological ramifications of this practice, see Mary-Louise Pratt, ‘Ideology and speech-act theory’, The Stylistics Reader, edited by Jean-Jacques Weber (London: Arnold, 1996) 181–93.
V.V.B. Rama Rao, Graham Greene’s Comic Vision (New Delhi: Reliance Publishing House, 1990) 96–99.
Miriam Allott, ‘Graham Greene and the way we live now’, Critical Quarterly (Autumn 1978) 9.
See John Atkins, Graham Greene (London: Calder and Boyars, 1966)
Michael Shelden, Graham Greene: The Man Within (London: Minerva, 1994).
Neil Sinyard, Graham Greene: A Literary Life (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) 11.
Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious (London: Routledge, 2002) 70–71.
Peter Rabinowitz, Before Reading (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987) 20–29.
See Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Extremes (London: Abacus, 1994) 257–86.
See E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel (London: Penguin, 2000) 28–30.
Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983) 31.
See I.A. Richards, Principles of Literary Criticism (London: Routledge, 2001) 39–51.
Louis Althusser, ‘Ideology and the state’, Lenin and Philosophy, translated by Ben Brewster (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1971) 148–59.
See Robert Murray Davis, ‘From standard to classic: Graham Greene in transition’, Studies in the Novel (Winter 1973) 530–46
Stuart Hall, ‘The rediscovery of ideology’, Literary Theory: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998) 1050.
Robert Young, ‘The idea of a Chrestomatic University’, quoted in The Rise and Fall of English, by Robert Scholes (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998) 45.
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Thomson, B.L. (2009). Introduction: The Politics of Reading Greene. In: Graham Greene and the Politics of Popular Fiction and Film. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230250871_1
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