Anxiety of the Age Portrayed in the Novels of Graham Greene

Authors

  • Dr. A. Joycilin Shermila Associate Professor, Annammal College of Education for Women, Tuticorin

Keywords:

Modern Age, Graham Greene, Novels analysis

Abstract

An enduring feature of Greene’s fiction is the keenness to look at the disgusting face of the twentieth century. Greene’s fiction dwells on the conflicts and pains of the modern world. He used the powerful imagination that led him to speak of his work as a “guided dream.” That imagination fired by intense moral and religious perception and made Greene’s fiction the best-realized portrayal in its time. The paper undertakes an analysis of stark portrayal of the modern age through Graham Greene’s novels

References

Booker, M. Keith. 1994. The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Greene, Graham.1937. Brighton Rock. New York: Penguin.

Graham Greene, Graham. 1971. The Lawless Roads. New York: Penguin.

Greene, Graham, 1939. The Confidential Agent. London: Heinemann.

Greene, Graham. 1950. The Third Man. London: Heineman.

Greene, Graham. 1973. A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. by Samuel Lynn Hynes. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Eliot, T.S. 2003. “The Wasteland” in The Waste Land and Other Poems. Ed. By Frank Kermode. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin.

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Published

01.10.2011

How to Cite

A. Joycilin Shermila. (2011). Anxiety of the Age Portrayed in the Novels of Graham Greene. Journal of Teaching and Research in English Literature, 3(2), 11–16. Retrieved from https://journals.eltai.in/index.php/jtrel/article/view/JTREL030204

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2011): October

Section

Research Articles

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