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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Agatha Christie"”.
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Food in Agatha Christie
… what messages food and drink can convey in Agatha Christie's two novels (And Then There Were None; Ordeal by Innocence) and in the BBC's visual representations.
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Seventy Years of Swearing upon Eric the Skull: Genre and Gender in Selected Works by Detection Club Writers Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie
… by Detection Club Writers Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie” shows how the texts produced by Detection Club members Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie challenge assumptions about the value and role of popular genre fiction and demonstrate how the detective novel engages pressing social …
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Imagens da morte: um estudo do gênero policial-fantástico em Poe, Wilde e Christie
… we analyze the texts In a Glass Darkly, by Agatha Christie, The Oval Portrait, by Edgar Allan Poe, and The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, giving special attention to the study of the images and artificial representations of men: the mirror, as an ephemeral representation; and the …
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Storytellers in fallen worlds: the metaphysical longings of crime fiction detectives
… Poe, Raymond Chandler, Arthur Conan-Doyle and Agatha Christie imitate, subvert or transform the familiar conventions of the detective novel. In doing so, I offer a slightly subversive reading of Beckett’s Molloy, in which the more intellectual and literary form is used as a means to interpret …
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Turning Back the Tide: Patriarchy and Post-War Femininity in Agatha Christie’s Taken at the Flood.
Taken at the Flood’s lack of prominence in Agatha Christie’s canon is partly due to an ending that is problematic for contemporary readers. The female protagonist’s decision to stay with an abusive partner appears to condone domestic abuse. Yet, Taken at the Flood is also a valuable record of …