1. Session Two: Graham Greene, Brighton Rock
Crime Fiction
Session Two: Graham Greene, Brighton Rock

2. Agenda Summary of Session One Modernism and crime fiction
Graham Greene and Brighton Rock

3. Summary of Session One Crime Fiction and the Narrative Paradigm
Story and Plot
Progression
Regression
Digression

4. Narrative
Story
Present
Plot
Past

5. Peter Brooks, Reading for the Plot (1984)
The anticipation of retrospection
The Beginning
The Middle
The End
Plot

6. Virginia Woolf, ”The Mark on the Wall”
A crack in
The wood:
Speculation,
Association,
Stream of
consciousness
Made by a
Nail:
Speculation,
Association,
Stream of
consciousness
A rose
Leaf:
Speculation,
Association,
Stream of
consciousness
a snail!
The
mark
???

7. Modernism, Crime, and Narrative
James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922)
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1927)
William Faulkner

8. Graham Greene and Modernism
Rejects the mimesis of the mind for its own sake, for example, Woolf’s project of examining ”an ordinary mind on an ordinary day” (”Modern Fiction”)
Accepts the waste land image (Eliot)
The notion of sin

9. Graham Greene, Brighton Rock
What strikes you as odd and distinctive about this novel?
Characters?
Plot?
Point of view?
Imagery?
Setting?

10. Graham Greene, Brighton Rock
Criminals: The Boy, Spicer, Dallow, Hale, Colleoni, etc.
Crime: Protection money, blackmail, murder (Hale, Spicer), gang war.
Detective: Ida Arnold
”Crime” and ”criminals”?
”Detective”: the reader, the newspaper readers.

11. I 1
Hale
2 (20)
The Boy
3 (28)
Ida Arnold II
1 (47)
2 (63)
III
1 (73)
2 (86)
Spicer
3 (91)
4 (103) IV
1 (107)
The Races
2 (129)
3 (132)
Spicer dead

12. V
1 (141)
The Boy
After inquest
2 (148)
Same
3 (153)
Visiting Rose’s parents
4 (157)
Ida Arnold
5 (160)
6 (164) VI
1 (169)
Cubitt
Talks to Crab and Ida
2 (180)

13. VII
1 (207)
Rose
2 (219)
The Boy
3 (225)
Visits Mr Prewitt
4 (231)
5 (234)
6 (241)
Ida Arnold
7 (244)
8 (253)
Dallow, Ida Arnold
9 (259)
10 (265)
11 (267)

14. Hale Kolley Kibber: Object of dertection - subjectivity, freedom
The Messenger
Fred:
Object of detection
- subjectivity, freedom
The gang war

15. Rose
Good and Evil
Development?
Change?

16. The Boy
Good and Evil
Development?
Change?

17. Ida Arnold
Right and wrong