Agatha Christie and New Directions in Reading Detective Fiction : Narratology and Detective Criticism Paperback / softback
by Alistair (University of Newcastle) Rolls
Part of the Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:180 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:27/05/2024
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- ISBN:9781032264936
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Pre-Order
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:180 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:27/05/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781032264936
