Graham Greene (1904-1991)


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A selective bibliography of open access articles on Graham Greene, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of 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

Decoste, Damon Marcel. "Modernism's Shell-Shocked History: Amnesia, Repetition, and the War in Graham Greene's The Ministry of Fear" in 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," in Papers on Language and Literature, Summer 1994

Diemert, Brian. Recomposing "Valdemar": Graham Greene reweaves a tale by Poe - The Short Story: Theory and Practice Style, Fall, 1993

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, James. "The method is unsound: the aesthetic dissonance of colonial justification in Kipling, Conrad, and Greene" - authors Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene Style, Fall, 1996

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


Introductory, overview, unsigned material

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"

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

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

A feature page on Graham Greene from the U.K. Guardian, with links to additional reviews and articles on him

Biographical introduction to Graham Greene from Books and Writers, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland

Special web page on Graham Greene from National Public Radio

The extensive Graham Greene filmography, from the Internet Movie Database


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