The dark side of G.K. Chesterton : gargoyles and grotesques /
Tibbetts, John C.,
The dark side of G.K. Chesterton : gargoyles and grotesques / John C. Tibbetts ; foreword by Dale Ahlquist. - x, 211 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chesterton and his gargoyles : "a gnarled fantasy" -- "The the tale be told" : the weird tales -- "Sometimes I see things in the dark" : the detective stories -- "Will someone please explain the explanation?" : locked rooms and miracle crimes -- Chesterton and Jorge Luis Borges : "The precarious subjection of a demoniacal will" -- "It is a new planet and it shall bear my name" : Chesterton and science fiction -- "Thursday's children : Job, The Man Who Was Thursday, and The Surprise.
""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."-Provided by publisher"--
9781476684970 1476684979
2021044623
Chesterton, G. K. 1874-1936 --Criticism and interpretation.
Gargoyles in literature.
Grotesque in literature.
Literary criticism.
PR4453 .C4 / Z768 2021
828/.91209
The dark side of G.K. Chesterton : gargoyles and grotesques / John C. Tibbetts ; foreword by Dale Ahlquist. - x, 211 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chesterton and his gargoyles : "a gnarled fantasy" -- "The the tale be told" : the weird tales -- "Sometimes I see things in the dark" : the detective stories -- "Will someone please explain the explanation?" : locked rooms and miracle crimes -- Chesterton and Jorge Luis Borges : "The precarious subjection of a demoniacal will" -- "It is a new planet and it shall bear my name" : Chesterton and science fiction -- "Thursday's children : Job, The Man Who Was Thursday, and The Surprise.
""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."-Provided by publisher"--
9781476684970 1476684979
2021044623
Chesterton, G. K. 1874-1936 --Criticism and interpretation.
Gargoyles in literature.
Grotesque in literature.
Literary criticism.
PR4453 .C4 / Z768 2021
828/.91209