Graham Greene’s Catholic Imagination (American Academy of Religion Academy Series)

Author: Mark Bosco
Publisher: An American Academy of Religion Book
Keywords: academy, religion, series, american, imagination, greene, catholic, graham
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2005-02-17
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0195177150
ISBN-13: 9780195177152

Book Description:

Much 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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