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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Main Author: Anderson, Annesley (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2022
In: Christianity & literature
Year: 2022, Volume: 71, Issue: 1, Pages: 21-39
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Greene, Graham 1904-1991, The power and the glory
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KDB Roman Catholic Church
Further subjects:B Belief
B Modernist
B twentieth-century
B Religious
B Graham Greene
B Religion
B Sacred
B Fiction
B Modernism
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2056-5666
Contains:Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/chy.2022.0001