RT Article
T1 Modernism’s Missing Myth: A Reception History of Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory
JF Christianity & literature
VO 71
IS 1
SP 21
OP 39
A1 Anderson, Annesley
LA English
PB Johns Hopkins University Press
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1804326690
AB This paper uses a reception history approach to argue that Graham Greene’s novel The Power and the Glory should be considered a modernist text. The intense but varied affective responses of readers, along with the mythic status they attribute to the work, reveal that the novel has long been read both within and as a response to a modernist framework. Furthermore, reader responses all point to the same tension within the novel: the collision of a traditional and specific religious creed, Catholicism, with the thematic uncertainty and fragmentation of literary modernism. This tension is Greene’s contribution to the period.
K1 Sacred
K1 Belief
K1 Religious
K1 Religion
K1 Fiction
K1 twentieth-century
K1 Modernist
K1 Modernism
K1 Graham Greene
DO 10.1353/chy.2022.0001