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  1. Agatha Christie and new directions in reading detective fiction
    narratology and detective criticism
    Author: Rolls, Alistair
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London ; New York

    "This book brings a new lens to the work of Agatha Christie through a series of close readings which challenge the official solutions by Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. This book's approach interweaves two core ideas: first, it explores the... more

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    "This book brings a new lens to the work of Agatha Christie through a series of close readings which challenge the official solutions by Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. This book's approach interweaves two core ideas: first, it explores the importance of French critic Pierre Bayard's self-styled 'detective criticism'; second, it takes detective criticism in a new direction by refocusing on the beginnings of Agatha Christie's novels. In this way, the book counters the end-orientation that has traditionally dominated the reading experience of, and critical response to, detective fiction by exploring the potential of the beginning to host other interpretations and stories. Offering a new way of reading detective fiction, this book is a mixture of narratology and detective criticism, and deploys it in the form of radical new readings of a number of Christie's most famous works. This illuminating text will interest students and scholars of crime and detective fiction, literary studies, and comparative literature"--

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781032264912; 9781032264936
    Other identifier:
    9781032264912
    RVK Categories: HM 2155
    Series: Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature
    Subjects: Kriminalliteratur
    Other subjects: Christie, Agatha (1890-1976); Christie, Agatha / 1890-1976 / Criticism and interpretation; Detective and mystery stories, English / History and criticism; English fiction / 20th century / History and criticism; Literary criticism
    Scope: x, 179 Seiten
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index