Graham Greene's Narrative Strategies A Study of the Major Novels [Hardcover]

In Narrative Strategies Roston focuses upon the Greene's texts themselves and their manipulation of reader response, highlighting the innovative strategies that Greene developed to cope with the mid-century invalidation of the traditional hero. The result is a stimulating new reading of the major novels.The Strategies The Power and the Glory The Heart of the Matter The End of the Affair A Burnt-Out Case The Comedians The Honorary Consul Monsignor Quixote Notes Select Bibliography Index

'This is a compelling and well-argued text...the author succeeds in giving a different perspective on the novels, disclosing a complexity and compassion for which Greene was not often credited and offers provocative and rewarding accounts of The End of the Affair and A Burnt-Out Case...an impressive critical study.' - Professor Neil Sinyard, University of Hull, UK

'The book can be highly recommended to all for its combination of enlightening analytical detail and width of literary and cultural reference.' - Gordon Leah, The Heythrop Journal

MURRAY ROSTON holds a Dual Professorship at Bar Ilan University, Israel, where he lives, and at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), USA, where he teaches frequently. He has published numerous books on literature and the visual arts, on the Bible in English literature, on the modern search for identity and on general Renaissance topics.