One of the most popular, respected and controversial writers of the twentiethcentury, Greene's work has still attracted relatively little scholarly comment. Thomson charts the intricate dance between his novels and screenplays, his many audiences, and an intellectual establishment reluctant to identify the work of a popular writer as 'literature'. INDICE: Acknowledgements - Introduction: The Politics of Reading Greene - PART I: FROM FAILED NOVELIST TO POPULAR WRITER - Institutional and Critical Priorities at the Beginning of Graham Greene's Career - The Failed Novelist - Readers and Generic Processes in Stamboul Train - Cinema as a Strategy of Containment - PART II: FROM POPULAR WRITER TO AUTHOR - Cinematic Evasions After Stamboul Train - Greene and Genre - Strategic Moves: Genres, Brand, Authors and The Third Man - Amateurs and Professionals, Auteurs and Intellectuals - PART III: FROM AUTHOR TO CONTESTED AUTHORITY - Auteurism and the Study of Greene - OurMan in Havana and Auteurism - PART IV: THE POLEMICAL BATTLEFIELD - Greene andthe Polemics of Canonical Reading - Depopulating the Common: Reading The End of the Affair - Liberal Commitment: Reading The Quiet American - AppropriatingGreene: Re-reading The End of the Affair and The Quiet American - Conclusion:The Problem of a 'Better Case' - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-22854-2
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 26/08/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés