Between Form and Faith

Between Form and Faith

Graham Greene and the Catholic Novel

What is a “Catholic” novel? This book analyzes the fiction of Graham Greene in a radically new manner, considering in depth its form and content, which rest on the oppositions between secularism and religion. Sampson challenges these distinctions, arguing that Greene has a dramatic contribution to add to their methodological premises. Chapters on Greene’s four “Catholic” novels and two of his “post-Catholic” novels are complemented by fresh insight into the critical importance of his nonfiction. The study paints an image of an inviting yet beguilingly complex literary figure.
  • Cover
  • BETWEEN FORM AND FAITH
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction: The Uninstructed Catholic
  • 1 The Ache of Modernism: Theological Aesthetics in Greene’s Nonfiction
  • 2 Catholic Novels: Religious Anxieties in Brighton Rock and The Heart of the Matter
  • 3 Creator of Heaven and Earth: Catholicism and the “Catholic” in The Power and the Glory and The End of the Affair
  • 4 Entertaining the Second Vatican Council: Creative Theologies in The Honorary Consul and Monsignor Quixote
  • 5 Theory and Theology: Graham Greene’s Remapping of Common Ground
  • Conclusion: Where Now?
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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