The dark side of G.K. Chesterton : gargoyles and grotesques
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The dark side of G.K. Chesterton : gargoyles and grotesques
McFarland & Co., c2021
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-208) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a critical study of the great British man of letters, G.K. Chesterton, with chapters 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 frequent use of the image and 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 that appear 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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on Chesterton Page References
Foreword by Dale Ahlquist
Prologue: "Under a Crooked Sky"
Introduction: The Table Is Set
Chapter One. Chesterton and His Gargoyles: "A Gnarled Fancy"
Chapter Two. "Let the Tale Be Told": The Weird Tales
Chapter Three. "Sometimes I See Things in the Dark": The Detective Stories
Chapter Four. "Will Someone Please Explain the Explanation?" Locked Rooms and Miracle Crimes
Interlude: Chesterton and Jorge Luis Borges: "The Precarious Subjection of a Demoniacal Will"
Chapter Five. "It is a new planet and it shall bear my name" Chesterton and Science Fiction
Chapter Six. Thursday's Children: Job, The Man Who Was Thursday and The Surprise
Epilogue
Appendix A. "On the Road to Top Meadow"
Appendix B. "The Man Who Knew Too Much": The Story of Ignatius Press' Collected Chesterton
Appendix C. "A Mastery of Miracles": G.K. Chesterton and John Dickson Carr (by Douglas G. Greene)
Appendix D. "G.K. Chesterton, Ray Bradbury, and George Bernard Shaw" by Jonathan Eller
Appendix E. Father Brown's Space-Age Adventure: "The Spear of the Sun" G.K. Ch*st*rt*n
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
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