Description
This is a critical study of the great British man of letters G.K. Chesterton, devoted to the novels, stories and essays that explore the darker fringes of his wild imagination. Everything is different in the dark, wrote Chesterton; perhaps you don't know how terrible a truth that is. Chesterton's use of the theme of gargoyles provides the thematic structure of the book. It covers the detective stories of Father Brown and others, the locked rooms and miracle crimes in his writing, his status as a science fiction writer, and the riddles and paradoxes of three works--Job, The Man Who Was Thursday, and the play The Surprise. This volume also includes an interlude about Chesterton and Jorge Luis Borges and a robust appendix including interviews about the formation of Ignatius Press's Collected Chesterton.
Author: John C. Tibbetts
Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
Published: 09/01/2021
Pages: 221
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.84h x 6.93w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9781476684970
ISBN10: 1476684979
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | Mystery & Detective Fiction
About the Author
John C. Tibbetts is a professor at the University of Kansas. His many books on the arts include film, music and literature. He has been twice a finalist for the prestigious Bram Stoker Award.