Modernism’s Missing Myth: A Reception History of Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory
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 bot...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2022
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Christianity & literature
Jahr: 2022, Band: 71, Heft: 1, Seiten: 21-39 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Greene, Graham 1904-1991, The power and the glory
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| IxTheo Notationen: | CD Christentum und Kultur KAJ Kirchengeschichte 1914-; neueste Zeit KDB Katholische Kirche |
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Belief
B Modernist B twentieth-century B Religious B Graham Greene B Religion B Sacred B Fiction B Modernism |
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/chy.2022.0001 |