Graham Greene’s Conradian Masterplot: The Arabesques of Influence

Pendleton, Robert

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1996-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349243655

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-24363-1

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 181