Graham Greene (1904-1991)

A selective list of online literary criticism for English novelist Graham Greene, including signed articles by recognized scholars, peer and editor reviewed articles, and web sites that follow MLA guidelines for web pages.

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Literary criticism

Bergonzi, Bernard. "A Burnt-Out Case; How great was Graham Greene?" A review of Bergonzi's A Study in Greene (Oxford Univ. Press). Reviewed in The Weekly Standard, Dec 4, 2006 by Brooke Allen

Bergonzi, Bernard. A Study in Greene: Graham Greene and the Art of the Novel. (Oxford University Press, 2006.) Excerpts available from Google Books.

Decoste, Damon Marcel. "Modernism's Shell-Shocked History: Amnesia, Repetition, and the War in Graham Greene's The Ministry of Fear." Twentieth Century Literature, 12/22/99

Diemert, Brian. A review of Thrillers in the canon: Diemert on Graham Greene and modernism. Reviewer Leslie J. Favor finds that "Brian Diemert performs a cogent and engaging analysis of the 'entertainments' and thrillers of the golden decade of Greene's literary career." Papers on Language and Literature, Fall 1998

Diemert, Brian. "Pursuit of justice: Graham Greene's refiguring of the detective story in It's a Battlefield." Papers on Language and Literature, Summer 1994

Diemert, Brian. "Recomposing 'Valdemar': Graham Greene reweaves a tale by Poe." [Edgar Allan Poe] Style, Fall, 1993

Donaghy, H. J. Graham Greene: An Introduction to His Writings. (Rodopi, 1983.) Excerpts from Google Books.

Hoskins, Robert. Graham Greene: An Approach to the Novels. (Routledge, 1999.) Excerpts available at Google Books.

Malamet, Elliott. "Penning the police/policing the pen: the case of Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter." Twentieth Century Literature, Fall, 1993

Nordgren, Joe. An introduction to Graham Greene from the Literary Encyclopedia, 3/30/2005

Scannell, J. "The method is unsound: the aesthetic dissonance of colonial justification in Kipling, Conrad, and Greene." [Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene]. Style, Fall, 1996

Wendorf, Thomas A. "Greene, Tolkien, and the mysterious relations of realism and fantasy." Renascence, Fall 2002

Newspaper and commercial media

A NY Times feature page on Graham Greene with links to original Times reviews and articles about him

"Novelist of the Soul" Graham Greene's NY Times obituary, 4/4/1991.

Excerpts from Graham Greene's novels in a NY Times article illustrate that "while many of Greene's novels were at the core parables of the damned and the arduous paths to salvation, he was able to invest them with great atmospheric authenticity and dramatic piquancy"

Special web page on Graham Greene from National Public Radio

The extensive Graham Greene filmography, from the Internet Movie Database

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