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Vusatiuk, Y. "Agatha Christie." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2015. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/40472.
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English writer, ―Queen of Crime‖. Agatha Christie was born on
15 September 1890, Torquay, Devon, England. After her father was
dead, she took care of her mother. In 1914 she married a pilot
Colonel Archibald Christie. During the First World War, Agatha
Miller worked as a nurse in a military hospital and studied
pharmacology. At the same time she began to write detective stories.
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Bernthal, James Carl. "A queer approach to Agatha Christie, 1920-1952." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/18196.
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This thesis provides the first extensive queer reading of a 'Golden Age' British detective fiction writer. The aim of this thesis is to assess queer potential in texts published by Agatha Christie between 1920 and 1952. Human identity can be read as self-consciously constructed in Christie's novels, which were written in a context of two world wars, advances in technology and communication, and what Michel Foucault called the 'medicalization' of Western culture. The self-conscious stereotyping in Christie's prose undermines her texts' conservative appeal to the status quo. Chapter One justifies this project's critique of identity essentialism in the texts by considering the manufacturing of 'Agatha Christie' as a widely-read celebrity author. Reading Christie's authorial identity as something established and refined through a market-driven response to readers' expectations and a conscious engagement with earlier forms of detective fiction provides space for reading identity itself as a stylized, performative, and sometimes parodic theme within the texts. In subsequent chapters, employing theoretical insights from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, and Lee Edelman, I explore Christie's participation in contemporary debates surrounding masculinity, femininity, and the importance of the family in shaping individual identity. Finally, I consider Christie's reputation in the twenty-first century by exploring nostalgic television adaptations of her work. Comparing the presentation of 'queer' characters in the literary texts to the adaptations' use of explicit homosexual themes and characters, I conclude that there is a stronger potential for 'queering' identity in the former. As the first full queer reading of a 'Golden Age' detective novelist, this thesis expands queer notions of archive and canonicity: few scholars to date have considered mainstream literary texts without overt LGBTQ+ themes or characters from a queer perspective. Given Christie's global reach and appeal, locating queerness in her texts means understanding queerness as fundamental to everyday culture. This means engaging with a subversive potential in twentieth century middlebrow conservatism.
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Marinkovic, Sladana. "Female detectives in modern detective novels : an analysis of Miss Marple and V. I. Warshawski." Thesis, University West, Department of Social and Behavioural Studies, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-1481.
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Linares, Trinidad. "Dis-Orienting Interactions: Agatha Christie, Imperial Tourists, and the Other." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1522953353192611.
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Maljukanovic, Bojana. "Dialogues in classical detective novels : an analysis of male and female dialogues in Agatha Christies "Death in the clouds"." Thesis, University West, Department of Social and Behavioural Studies, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-1480.
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Lindqvist, Caroline. "Suspect Behaviour : A Gender Perspective on Male and Female Characters in Two Detective Novels by Agatha Christie." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-27225.
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This essay is a gender analysis of some of the characters created by Agatha Christie. The aim is to investigate the occurrence of gender stereotypes and if traditional gender norms are challenged by men and/or women characters in Evil Under the Sun and The Body in the Library. Initially, there is an introduction to gender theories which includes the theorists Thomas Laqueur and Simone de Beauvoir among others. Laqueur presents the evolution of gender theories, specifically the two-sex model in which it was believed that sex is pervasive and thus the body rules the mind. Theories presented by him are vastly different from those of de Beauvoir who argues that the mind and body are separate. Other theorists which specifically deal with crime fiction and gender include Susan Rowland, who writes about the reformation of the detective and how the crime genre is gendered, and Gill Plain, who has been able to categorised Christie’s characters into three distinctive groups in which gender roles are clearly distinguishable. The conclusion reached is that male and female characters are portrayed both as adhering to gender roles, contemporary to the time at which the books were written, and as breaking them. However the outcomes and reactions differ depending on the character in question. Marple and Poirot appear to be well aware of the stereotypical way they are viewed and use it to appear less intimidating in order to hide their true nature as two sharp intellects.
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Wheeler, William. "Quelques aspects de l’œuvre d'Agatha Christie." Paris 7, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA070099.
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Recherche, dont le point de départ fut: "Agatha Christie - an autobiography", puis un choix d'ouvrages représentatifs de l’œuvre de l'auteur, analyse: - l'usage fait par l'auteur du "je", le "dit" et le "non dit" - les rapports de l'auteur avec les differents membres de sa famille, sa vie durant, afin de cerner et de dégager a travers son oeuvre: * sa vision personnelle de la famille, son rejet de l'amour son rejet de la sexualité le rôle attribue a la fidélité conjugale * sa manière de hiérarchiser les differents protagonistes - le rôle des structures de la société telles que: mariage, justice. . . - la notion de "déterminisme" - la notion de "destin" dans la société anglo-saxonne de l'époque victorienne. - le "jeu littéraire" que constitue le roman policier: - les règles qui lui sont inhérentes - l'évolution de ce genre littéraire a travers l’œuvre christienne - les rapports "auteur-lecteurs", écho lointain des taquineries et témoignages d'amour des protagonistes de son dernier ouvrage "Postern of fateThe point of departure was agatha christie - an autobiography and then representative works from her oeuvre which were analysed along the following lines: - the author's use of i, what is systematically said and what is systematically omitted. - the author's relationships with the various members of her family which lead to her particular view of the family, her "rejection" of love and sexuality and the special emphasis put on marital fidelity. Her obsessive use of hierarchy throughout her work which reflects the importance and her perception of the hierarchy reigning in her family. - the role of societal structures such as marriage, justice, etc; - the notion of determinism. - the notion of destiny in the english society and the end of the victorian era. - some specific aspects of the detective story as a genre: its rules, the personal evolution it takes within agatha christie's oeuvre and her special author - reader relationship which is echoed in her last work, postern of fate
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Grandidier, Stanislas. "Le mythe de l'enfance dans le roman de l'énigme d'Agatha Christie et dans le roman de mystère de Pierre Véry." Thesis, Nancy 2, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008NAN21018/document.
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Y aurait-il un travail du mythe, comme un travail du rêve, dans le roman policier ? L’examen des oeuvres d’Agatha Christie et de Pierre Véry induit cette question : le mythe de l’enfance peut, en effet, être appréhendé comme un instrument de lecture critique permettant d’organiser les cosmos véryien et christien selon certains dynamismes, certains noyaux et réseaux de signifiance. Fondée tant sur la matière que sur la forme, la représentation de l’enfance oscille, chez ces deux auteurs, entre procédé et processus d’esthétisation. Notre thèse a pour objet de questionner la signification, la fonction et l’effet de cette variation en s’appuyant sur des éléments et des configurations mythiquesIs there, as well as a work on dream, a work on myth in detective stories? Reading Agatha Christie and Pierre Véry induces this question: the myth of children can be seen, indeed, as a key to review their novels, enabling us to organize their works of fiction according to a few dynamisms and links of meaning. Based not only on material but also on form, the depiction of childhood is torned between aesthetic method and aesthetic process in Very’s and Christies’s books. Our work aims at questioning the meaning, the function and the consequences of this variation thanks to the use of mythical items
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Gillis, S. J. "Detecting fictions : resistance and resolution in the golden age detective novel." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341176.
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Coetzee, Liesel. "Detecting dominant discourses in selected detective fiction by Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24763.
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Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie were the most successful British women writers of their time. Christie and Blyton were contemporaries, living and writing in the United Kingdom during the first half of the twentieth century. This study takes into consideration these similarities in its examination of the depiction of dominant discourses in relation to emergent, alternative and oppositional discourses in their writing. This thesis suggests that while Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie offer alternatives to the dominant patriarchal discourses of the British Empire in the first half of the twentieth century, they show allegiance, too, to the dominant discourses of their time. Specific consideration is given to the portrayal of discourses concerned with gender, feminism, classism, British colonialism, racism, and xenophobia in their writing. The work of Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie was extremely popular in their time and still is today. Their important contribution to popular literature in England in the early twentieth century justifies a study of a selection of their work in relation to detective fiction and children’s literature as well as to studies of social history that include the investigation of how dominant discourse is both endorsed and challenged.Thesis (DLitt)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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Sarnelli, Debora Antonietta. "Landscapes of Murder: Exploring Geographies of Crime in the Novels of Agatha Christie." Doctoral thesis, Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2019. http://elea.unisa.it:8080/xmlui/handle/10556/4512.
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2017 - 2018Mystery novels and literary geography have not often intersected. Crime fiction, for instance, has frequently been examined in terms of temporality, rather than in terms of spatiality. Todorov, in this respect, argues that crime narratives, in particular the clue-puzzle forms, are constructed on a temporal duality: the story of the crime – tells what really happened, and the story of the detective’s investigation – the way the detective/narrator presents it to the reader. The two stories eventually converge when the sleuth unmasks the murderer (Todorov 1977). The aim of the research is to read Agatha Christie’s whodunit mysteries as centrally concerned with space, considering that, to quote Geoffrey Hartman, “to solve a crime in detective stories means to give it an exact location” (Hartman 2004). The study focuses on the spatial dimension of Agatha Christie’s detective fiction, shedding a light on her domesticated milieus, both real and fictive. The first to be analysed is rural England, presenting both the narrations where the English country house – a Victorian or a Georgian mansion – functions as the only setting prevailing over the local geography, and her fictional villages, apparent idyllic paradises which offer no refuge from the cruelties of the world. Similarly, the study takes into consideration the urban settings with a special attention devoted to the city of London which becomes the epitome of a privileged lifestyle. The city space appears as dangerous as the country side village. Subsequently the research moves outside the British borders, but within the confines of the enormous British Empire, with narratives set in foreign and exotic geographies. The study analyses Christie’s “colonial” novels, where the Middle East is portrayed as a space of otherness. In conclusion, the research investigates the train as a non-place, working on those narratives set in transit. All of these settings present a precise point in common, what has come to be called the closed circle of suspects. Whether in England or in the Middle East, the accent is laid on the domestic sphere of the setting, which conveys the uncanny feeling that the murderer is “one of us”. [edited by author]
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Cardoso, Andréa de Matos. "A aquisição de estratégias de escrita através do universo da narrativa investigativa de Agatha Christie." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2018. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/7011.
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É comum ouvir hoje, ao se abordarem questões de leitura e produção textual na sala de aula de Ensino Fundamental, que o aluno deve ter contato com um leque variado de textos, para que possa ampliar seus conhecimentos sobre a língua, utilizando-a de forma a atingir os objetivos desejados. Neste sentido, é indispensável que se explorem os mais diversos gêneros textuais, independentemente de que tipologia textual nele predomine. Contudo, pelo menos na minha prática, percebo uma tendência em se privilegiar, sobretudo com o trabalho de escrita, quando focamos texto de opinião, diálogo argumentativo, resenha crítica, dentre outros que têm o tipo textual predominantemente dissertativo-argumentativo. Outro fato que sempre me chamou atenção enquanto professora do Ensino Fundamental II, é que as narrativas que envolvem a perspectiva investigativa, tais como as narrativas policiais, agradam aos alunos bastante. Em geral, eles vivenciam essas narrativas em filmes e, em sua grande maioria, em séries, como Dexter e 24 horas, por exemplo. Nesse sentido, concebemos a seguinte hipótese investigativa: tendo em vista que uma das principais características das narrativas policiais é a sustentação do raciocínio lógico o qual implica, justamente, a ordenação do pensamento sequenciado (em variações conforme o autor), em que sentido um trabalho sistematizado de leitura e escrita dentro desse gênero narrativo implicaria a ampliação de repertório de alunos, ou seja, permitiria a eles se apropriarem de aspectos dessa leitura e, sobretudo, escrita? Partindo da prática de leitura em suspense1, a pesquisa desse projeto centrou-se, principalmente, em tentar conceber uma estratégia de escrita que permitisse não somente aos alunos experimentarem o processo de escrita com menos rejeição (como ocorre comumente) como também, ampliarem seu repertório no que diz respeito ao gênero estudado, sobretudo porque essa a questão do raciocínio lógico perpassa vários outros gêneros textuais. Trabalhamos com uma turma de 9o ano do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola pública no município de Volta Redonda, no Estado do Rio de Janeiro, que permita aos alunos ampliarem seu repertório no que concerne à leitura de narrativa policial. Elegemos como autor literário para a pesquisa a escritora Agatha Christie, particularmente com um conto em que o investigador é o clássico detetive Hercule Poirot. Apoiamo-nos, teoricamente, nas teorias do letramento (SOARES), particularmente do letramento literário (AGUIAR e COSSON), na teoria do efeito estético (ISER), de leitura compartilhada (COLOMER), mediação (PETIT) e nas concepções de narrativas policiais de Todorov. Temos como metodologia a pesquisa-ação, visto não somente o caráter interventivo da pesquisa como também a participação efetiva do professor pesquisador em sala de aula.
It’s ordinary to listen today, when debating issues of reading and text production in the classroom of Elementary School, that student should contact with a wide range of texts, for that you can expand knowledge of the language, using in it in order to achieve the desired goals. In this way, It’s essential that explore the most diverse text genres, regardless of that textual typology it predominates. However, at least in my practice, I see a tendency to favour, especially with the work of writing when we focus opinion text, argumentative dialogue, critical review, among others who have predominantly argumentative text-type. Another fact that always caught my attention, while elementary school teacher, is that the narratives, that involve the investigative perspective, such as the police narratives, like them enough. In general, they experience these narratives in film, and, in your vast majority, in TV series like Dexter and 24 Horas. In this way, we have formulated the following investigative hypothesis: considering that one of the main features of narratives cops is the logical-rational support, which implies the ordering of thought sequenced (in variations as the author), in that way a systematic work of reading and writing in this narrative genre, would change the expansion of repertoire of students, in other words, would allow them to take ownership of aspects of that reading and writing? Starting from the reading practice in suspense1 , the research of this project focused in trying to devise a strategy of writing that allowed not only to students try the writing process with less rejection as also, extend your repertoire with regard to genre studied especially because the point of logical reasoning pervades several other genres. We work with a class of ninth grade of Elementary School of public school in the municipality of Volta Redonda in the state of Rio de Janeiro, that allow students to extend your repertoire with regard to police narrative reading. We elect as literary author for research the writer Agatha Christie, particularly with the tales in which the investigator is the classic detective Hercule Poirot. We support, theoretically, in the theories of Literacy (SOARES), particularly the Literary Literacy (COSSON), in the theory of Aesthetic Effect (ISER), shared reading (COLOMER), mediation (PETIT), and on the conceptions of narratives of Todorov. We have how action research methodology seen not only the character of intervention research as well as the effective participation of the teacher in the classroom.
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Neves, Ana Patrícia Marabuto. "O puzzle e o jogo do crime : a adaptação cinematográfica da ficção de Agatha Christie." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/2766.
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Mestrado em Estudos InglesesTendo como objecto primário de estudo o delineamento das estratégias de detecção e de decepção mais recorrentes na ficção policial de Agatha Christie, esta tese visa a explanação do conceito de romance policial enquanto exercício lúdico de dedução lógica, e da transposição para o ecrã cinematográfico dos elementos que lhe concernem. Principiaremos pelo enquadramento da escrita de Christie na denominada Era Dourada da ficção policial e pela exploração de conceitos inerentes à sua definição e à sua recepção pública; seguidamente, abordaremos a referência do género na sua versão fílmica, salientando o seu destrinçamento relativamente às outras formas de ficção criminal. Após um breve sumário que reporta para a problemática inerente ao fenómeno da adaptação fílmica, são apresentados três diferentes casos de estudo, comportando análises comparativas entre três romances policiais de Christie e as suas respectivas adaptações cinematográficas, frisando quer o modo como os elementos básicos da denominada fórmula foram transferidos para o ecrã, quer a relevância das adições ao argumento original, visionadas por três realizadores distintos, em diferentes décadas do século vinte. ABSTRACT: This thesis aims to explain the concept of detective fiction as a recreational exercise of logical deduction and the transposition of its main elements to the cinema, focusing on the delineation of the most recurring strategies of detection and deception in Agatha Christie s detective fiction. First, we address Christie s writing in the so-called Golden Age of detective fiction and define its public reception; afterwards, we deal with the genre in its filmic version, emphasizing its features in comparison with other forms of crime fiction. After summarizing the problems in relation to film adaptation, three different case studies are presented, offering comparative analyses of three Christie novels and their respective cinematographic adaptations; these analyses stress either the way the basic elements of the formula were transposed to the screen, or the relevance of the additions to the original plots, as they have been interpolated by three different film directors in three different decades of the twentieth century.
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Soldini, Fabienne. "Le procès de lecture des romans policiers à énigme." Aix-Marseille 1, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1992AIX10006.
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Cette etude concerne la lecture des romans policiers a enigme ainsi que leur fonctionnement en tant que forme litteraire, ludique et sociale. La these se divise en trois tomes. Le premier traite de la materialite textuelle des recits a enigme il concerne les analyses textuelles, formelles structurales et virtuelles de dix romans a enigme representatifs de l'oeuvre d'agatha christie la description de la materialite permettant de saisir les romans a enigme comme jeu et forme litteraire est sociale, ainsi que de voir les competences et capacites que demande le texte. Le second texte a trait a la pratique de lecture s'est-a-dire du temps et de l'espace conce nes par les lecteurs a cette motivite. Elle traite de la lecture comme divertissement, comme mise entre parentheses du temps et de l'espace et de la disciplinarite des ordres sociaux, comme ouverture d'un espace temps subjectif et individuant. Le troisieme tome concerne l'acte de lire un roman a enigme. Cela dsigne le proces de lecture lui-meme a travers les operations cognitives effectuees pour la comprehension et l'actualisation du texte; la lecture est envisagee comme une co-construction de sens, un doncontre don et un phenomene social moderne.
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Lax, Susanna. "Dödens ö : En komparativ studie av Agatha Christies And Then There Were None och John Ajvide Lindqvists Tjärven." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-191835.
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Devereux, Danielle Marie. "Through the Magnifying Glass: Exploring British Society in the Golden Age Detective Fiction of Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Humanities, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8404.
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This thesis uses the popular genre of detective fiction to explore the context of the heyday of the crime genre: the Golden Age. This sub-genre, best known for producing Agatha Christie, spanned the complicated history of Britain involving the Great Depression, two World Wars and huge changes to class structure. It is for these reasons that the Golden Age is such a pivotal period for changing notions of British identity. Through the very British Christie and the less well known New Zealander, Ngaio Marsh, expressions of national identity are explored as well as how the colonial fits in. Focusing heavily on the authors and their own personal experiences and views, this thesis is divided into four chapters to further break down how the Golden Age period affected its citizens and why this detective fiction held such a wide appeal. Chapter one explores gender roles and how Golden Age authors both conformed to them through their choice in detectives, yet also how they naturally resisted some through their own public image. Chapter two then examines the issue of class and how Golden Age detective fiction portrayed the changes. Contrary to popular criticism, Christie and Marsh were surprisingly progressive and forward thinking on this subject. Chapter three considers how both authors employed setting to emphasise these changes. Both Christie and Marsh used foreign settings to highlight British society and its flaws, and Marsh used her New Zealand settings to consider the relationship between Britain and her home. The final chapter will consider why Golden Age detective fiction was so popular: what was the appeal? For a period of violence and uncertainty, why were people drawn to crime fiction involving sometimes gruesome death? The appeal lay, and still does, in the puzzle: the game that diverted readers from their own problems. Golden Age fiction may have been highly formulaic and predictable, but it was also highly artificial and self-referential. This was a clever and diverting fiction that has been constantly underestimated by critics and deserves further study.
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Bolzinger-Meyer, Dominique. "L'amateur d'indices ou la méthode clinique du détective dans les romans de Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie et Georges Simenon." Mulhouse, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001MULH0645.
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La méthode des enquêteurs dans les romans policiers classiques se fonde sur le modèle holmésien lui-même issu de la formation médicale de Conan Doyle. L'étude de la méthode d'investigation de trois enquêteurs emblématiques - Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot et le commissaire Maigret - se fait en deux temps. D'abord un inventaire des modèles du détective - lecteur, chasseur, savant, médecin - qui fait de Holmes un médecin spécialiste tente par les sciences psychiques et montre l'importance fonctionnelle du médecin dans les récits de détection. Puis une étude synthétique de la méthode à partir du modèle d'investigation de la clinique hippocratique : observation, raisonnement, savoir. L'observation, fondée sur une représentation de l'indice en' lésion, est parcourue par l'imaginaire de l'autopsie ; le raisonnement, qui consiste à établir des liens, s'appuie sur un savoir préétabli qui fonctionne comme un intertexte. Le savoir, envisage du point de vue du compagnon de l'enquêteur, l'ami médecin, inscrit l'investigation dans la dynamique de la rivalité fraternelle et situe les récits de détection dans le mythe gémellaire. On voit ainsi qu'à la suite d'un Holmes médecin et sorcier, situé à l'intersection de la découverte des micro-organismes et de l'émergence des sciences psychiques, Poirot pratique une clinique holmésienne systématiquement appliquée, puis déviée vers l'étude des discours, tandis que Maigret met en œuvre une clinique inversée. La méthode scientifique du détective est en fait un art ancestral, la clinique, qui influe significativement sur la forme et l'écriture des récits de détection.
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Weiss, Rebekka. "Tied-Up Heads versus Marble Skin : Agatha Christie’s Portrayal of Middle Eastern and African Colonised." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-33804.
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Agatha Christie set a number of her popular novels in British colonies in the Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean. While there is a lot of research about the portrayal of the colonised in the Middle East, there is only little to be found on those of Africa and the Caribbean. Therefore, this thesis aims to compare the portrayals of the Middle Eastern, African and Caribbean colonised by analysing Christie's The Man in the Brown Suit, Murder in Mesopotamia, Appointment with Deah, and A Caribbean Mystery.
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Lott, Monica L. "Seventy years of swearing upon Eric the Skull| Genre and gender in selected works by Detection Club writers Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie." Thesis, Kent State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3618871.
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My dissertation “Seventy Years of Swearing upon Eric the Skull: Genre and Gender in Selected Works 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 issues related to gender in modern Great Britain. Sayers and Christie addressed serious concerns of gender in relation to topics including war and an emerging market economy in inter-war Britain; however, because they were doing so in genre fiction, their insights have not been fully explored. The popularity of detective fiction, according to critics, has resulted in a lack of criticism and a distrust of the popular. Christie, more so than Sayers, has been ignored by critics because of her popularity and the formulaic nature of her fiction. Glenwood Irons claims that Christie's popularity is responsible for the “general ignorance of the sheer volume of detective fiction written by women” (xi), while Alison Light theorizes that the dearth of Christie criticism, because of her popularity, is “an absence which the growth of 'genre' studies of popular fiction has yet to address” (64). My goal is to understand how Sayers and Christie responded to modern issues through their writing and to set their writing in context with contemporary concerns in inter-war Britain. I advocate for a reexamination of Sayers and Christie that goes beyond their popularity as writers of genre fiction and analyzes the ways in which their fiction incorporates modern concerns.
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Lott, Monica L. "Seventy Years of Swearing upon Eric the Skull: Genre and Gender in Selected Works by Detection Club Writers Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1366152840.
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Menegheti, Pollyanna Souza [UNESP]. "De Holmes a Poirot: relações entre literatura e história na narrativa policial britânica." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/115731.
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Esta dissertação tem como objetivo analisar a ficção policial inglesa entre o período do fim do século XIX e início do século XX, em sua historicidade, levando em consideração a importância dos conceitos de representação e verossimilhança para o gênero romance, além de evidentemente, considerar os elementos específicos da ficção policial, como as noções de enigma e investigação, que formam as bases da literatura policial. Sendo assim, retornamos à origem do gênero policial, buscando suas raízes, até que este se desenvolva na forma do romance que conhecemos nos dias atuais. Todas as modificações ocorridas na estrutura da narrativa policial podem ser entendidas como um reflexo das próprias mudanças sociais e culturais que ocorriam neste importante período de transição histórica, visto que a estrutura da narrativa era modificada de acordo com as exigências do público leitor, que buscava sempre ser representada em tal narrativa. O simples fato de a estrutura da narrativa policial poder ser alterada sem perder seus elementos característicos, explica como este gênero não apenas foi capaz de se manter popular até os dias atuais, como também deixam claro como foi possível o surgimento de uma grande quantidade de subgêneros, que acabam por se enquadrar dentro do grande termo ficção criminal. Para realizar tal estudo, foram selecionadas três obras de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, criador do famoso detetive Sherlock Holmes e três obras de Agatha Christie, sendo que estas tem como protagonista seu mais famoso personagem, o detetive belga Hercule Poirot. As obras selecionadas demonstram justamente a adaptação não apenas da estrutura da trama, mas também do personagem principal, o detetive, às mais diversas situações a que é apresentado. O papel do narrador também se mostra fundamental neste estudo, justamente por ser sua figura que guia os leitores pela narrativa, e que se compromete a conceder todas as...
This dissertation aims to analyse the detective story between the end of the nineteenth-century and the beginning of the twentieth-century, in its historicity, taking into consideration the importance of the concepts of representation and verisimilitude for the novel genre, besides evidently take into consideration the specific elements of the detective story, like the notions of riddle and detection, that make the base of the crime fiction. Thus, we return to the origin of the detective story, searching for its roots until that it develops into the form of the detective story we know today. All the modification that happened in the structure of the detective story can be understand as a reflex of the social and cultural modifications that happened in this important time of historical transition, seeing that the structure of the narrative was modified according to the demands of the reading public, that aimed to always be represented in such narratives. The mere fact that the structure of the detective novel can be altered without losing its most characteristic elements explain how this genre was not only able to keep its popularity until today, as it also makes it clear how it was possible for a big quantity of subgenres to rise and be framed into the umbrella term 'crime fiction'. To fulfill such study, three works by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes, were selected, such as three works from Agatha Christie, which are protagonised by her most famous character, the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The selected works show precisely the adaptation not only of the structure of the plot, but also the adaptation of the main character, the detective, to the most diverse situations that he is presented to. The role of the narrator also proves itself to be crucial in this study, justly because it is its figure that guides the readers through the narrative and that...
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Stoermer, Carolyn E. "Locked Rooms and Interpreting Readers: The Role of Embedded Texts in the Locked-Room Mysteries of Poe, Leroux, and Christie." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1214591200.
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Dzirkalis, Anna M. "Investigating the female detective : gender paradoxes in popular British mystery fiction, 1864-1930 /." View abstract, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3287860.
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Yiannitsaros, Christopher. "Deadly domesticity : Agatha Christie's 'middlebrow' Gothic, 1930-1970." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2016. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/89292/.
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This thesis examines the use of the Gothic - genre of literary production deeply implicated with a set of patently middle class anxieties concerning the home - in the ‘middlebrow’ detective fiction of Agatha Christie, particularly within her novels authored in the forty year period between 1930 and 1970. It is argued that there are five different ‘types’ of Gothic at work in Christie’s fiction: the haunted house narrative; the Gothic village; Gay Gothic; Post-WWII Gothic; and Brontë Gothic. This thesis moreover suggests that Christie’s employment and development of these Gothic sub-genres is often achieved via nineteenth-century interlocutors, with Christie’s fiction drawing heavily upon, and in some cases ‘re-imagining’, some of the cornerstones of Victorian Gothic literature. In doing so, this thesis sets out to problematize Alison Light’s famous characterisation of Christie as a ‘modernist […] iconoclast’ whose fiction nonchalantly shatters ‘Victorian images of home, sweet home’. Instead, it is argued that Christie’s use of the Gothic speaks of a relationship with nineteenth-century literary culture which far more complicated: a contradictory interplay of simultaneous desire and distance characteristic of the ‘middlebrow’ fiction produced by women writers of this time. This thesis reads Christie’s use of the Gothic historically, seeking to both firmly situate her work within its contemporary historical contexts - particularly in relation to debates regarding the family, domestic space, and the birth of what Nicola Humble has termed the birth of ‘the new cult of the domestic’ after the First World War - and to elucidate the nineteenth-century contexts which she additionally draws upon. Ultimately, in reading instances of domestic Gothicism as they occur across her oeuvre, this thesis makes a case for the valuable historically-specific cultural critiques made by one who, at least in the popular imagination, is positioned as such an avowedly ‘conservative’ writer.
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Winterkvist, Frida. "”There is Nothing More Deceptive than an Obvious Fact” : A Feminist Study of the Detective Work by Miss Marple and Sherlock Holmes." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Engelska, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-32473.
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This comparative study focuses on the detective genre and is conducted through literary analysis with a feminist critical perspective of two of its most iconic protagonists, Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887 and Agatha Christie in 1930 respectively. The purpose is to attempt to establish the effect of the gender differences on these two protagonists. Both Holmes and Miss Marple are deemed as iconic in the detective genre, but the protagonists do not have similar experiences and are created by authors of different genders. Thus, the focus is to explore how gender differences are represented in the literary texts A Study in Scarlet (1887), “A Scandal in Bohemia” (1891), and The Murder at the Vicarage (1930) when it comes to their work as detectives. By using a feminist critical perspective and with the help of previous research, the differences in three central issues, that is, work methods, attitudes and method of disguise, are established. The most prominent result from the analysis is that Miss Marple has to work independently from the police force and trust another character, Leonard Clement, with what she knows hoping that Clement will use her observations to make the case move forward. By contrast, Holmes is approached by clients and even assists the police force in investigations, while Miss Marple is dismissed because of gender discrimination and ageism when she reaches out to the police force. Miss Marple is clearly a victim of gender discrimination and ageism, while Holmes is seen as eccentric but fully competent as a detective. Holmes is even described as having “extraordinary powers” while Miss Marple is described as an “old pussy” in a derogatory manner. Therefore, the results are that there is a significant difference in attitude where Holmes as a man encounters more positive attitudes and Miss Marple as a woman encounters more negative attitudes, all because of gender discrimination and ageism. These results are of great importance as it reveals what gender differences Holmes and Miss Marple encounter in their literary texts. It opens up the opportunity for more research in gender differences and gender discrimination in comparisons between protagonists. That Miss Marple is successful in the end, however, functions as a feminist statement.
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Ghosh, Arundhati. "From Holmes to Sherlock: Confession, Surveillance, and the Detective." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1376495997.
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Storm, Marjolijn. "Agatha Christie's 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles' : a case study in Dutch and German translation cultures using corpus linguistic tools." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3782/.
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Rooted in the field of Descriptive Translation Studies, the thesis combines such different areas as corpus linguistics, literary, cultural, media and socio-historical studies of the UK, the Netherlands and Germany. Five translations (three German and two Dutch) of Agatha Christie's first detective novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles are analysed. Using the theories by Itamar Even-Zohar (Polysystem Theory) and Gideon Toury (Translation Norms), the different approaches translators have taken to the text are examined and their translation decisions explained by looking at the status and position translations from English, detective stories as such, and the writer Agatha Christie had in the country and at the time these translations were published.
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Nagel, Agata [Verfasser], Christina [Akademischer Betreuer] Elschner, hristina [Gutachter] Elschner, and Inga [Gutachter] Hardeck. "Essays on Taxes and Organizational Form Choice: Evidence from Poland / Agata Nagel ; Gutachter: Christina Elschner, Inga Hardeck ; Betreuer: Christina Elschner." Frankfurt (Oder) : Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1193923530/34.
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Westcott-King, Arianne. "Besties, villains, and sidekicks: Representations of queer people from Agatha Christie’s 1950 novel A Murder Is Announced to its 2005 film adaptation." Thesis, Westcott-King, Arianne (2022) Besties, villains, and sidekicks: Representations of queer people from Agatha Christie’s 1950 novel A Murder Is Announced to its 2005 film adaptation. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 2022. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/65936/.
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In the many adaptations of Agatha Christie novels, it could be assumed that the representation of queer people would change as societal norms and values also change over time. However, this study calls this assumption into question.
I investigate how the representations of queer people in Agatha Christie’s A Murder Is Announced changed from the original 1950 novel to its 2005 film adaptation, exploring the extent to which Christie’s novel and its filmic adaptation work to reflect queer representations over an extended period. I examine the differences in queer representation between the novel and the film, and how these differences reflect or challenge societal changes. This process of analysis further uncovers a strong connection between crime fiction and queer theory. I found that the queer theory principles of performativity and deconstruction of identity aligns with the performance of identity and innocence in crime fiction, as well as the deconstruction of identity as the detective searches for the criminal. I argue that these intersections between queer theory and crime fiction are central to Christie’s crime fiction narratives.
Representations of queer people from 1950 to 2005 in Christie’s crime fiction underwent minimal change. The exploration of the setting of the narrative, in terms of both era and location, uncovers layers of identity performance and social permeability which reinforce identity as an important element of the narrative. Through the analysis of butch/femme lesbian representation, I find a reliance on the performance of heteronormative stereotypes used by both texts to demonstrate loving relationships. The representations of queer people in the 2005 film adaptation of A Murder Is Announced suggests an insistence that queer people be represented through dated stereotypes originating from the 1950s; a stylistic choice that may be reflective of the target audience for Christie’s work, instead of an attempt to update queer representations to appeal to a new contemporary audience.
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Larson, Emma. "An analysis of gender differences in detective fiction : Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and Sir Conan Doyle's "A Case of Identity"." Thesis, University West, Department of Social and Behavioural Studies, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-1479.
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Light, Alison. "Forever England : femininity, literature, and conservatism between the wars /." London ; New York : Routledge, 1991. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0648/91000587-d.html.
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Dormer, Mia Emilie. "A hidden life : how EAS (Era Appropriate Science) and professional investigators are marginalised in detective and historical detective fiction." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/33257.
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This by-practice project is the first to provide an extensive investigation of the marginalisation of era appropriate science (EAS) and professional investigators by detective and historical detective fiction authors. The purpose of the thesis is to analyse specific detective fiction authors from the earliest formats of the nineteenth century through to the 1990s and contemporary, selected historical detective fiction authors. Its aim is to examine the creation, development and perpetuation of the marginalisation tradition. This generic trend can be read as the authors privileging their detective’s innate skillset, metonymic connectivity and deductive abilities, while underplaying and belittling EAS and professional investigators. Chapter One establishes the project’s critique of the generic trend by considering parental authors, E. T. A Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe, Émile Gaboriau and Wilkie Collins. Reading how these authors instigated and purposed the downplaying demonstrates its founding within detective fiction at the earliest point. By comparing how the authors sidelined and omitted specific EAS and professional investigators, alongside science available at the time, this thesis provides a framework for examining how it continued in detective fiction. In following chapters, the framework established in Chapter One and the theoretical views of Charles Rzepka, Lee Horsley, Stephen Knight and Martin Priestman, are used to discuss how minimising EAS and professional investigators developed into a tradition; and became a generic trend in the recognised detective fiction formula that was used by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Freeman Wills Crofts, H. C. Bailey, R. Austin Freeman, Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell and P. D. James. I then examine how the device transferred to historical detective fiction, using the framework to consider Ellis Peters, Umberto Eco and other selected contemporary authors of historical detective fiction. Throughout, the critical aspect considers how the trivialisation developed and perpetuated through a generic trend. The research concludes that there is a trend embedded within detective and historical detective fiction. One that was created, developed and perpetuated by authors to augment their fictional detective’s innate skillset and to help produce narratives using it is a creative process. It further concludes that the trend can be reimagined to plausibly use EAS and professional investigators in detective and historical detective fiction. The aim of the creative aspect of the project is to employ the research and demonstrate how the tradition can be successfully reinterpreted. To do so, the historical detective fiction novel A Hidden Life uses traditional features of the detective fiction formula to support and strengthen plausible EAS and professional investigators within the narrative. The end result is a historical detective fiction novel. One that proves the thesis conclusion and is fundamentally crafted by the critical research.
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Zirngibl, Christina [Verfasser], and Ekkehard [Akademischer Betreuer] Haen. "Untersuchung des ärztlichen Verordnungsverhaltens bei der medikamentösen Schizophrenietherapie in den AGATE-Kliniken über den Zeitraum von 1995 bis 2006 und Vergleich mit der Behandlungsleitlinie der DGPPN / Christina Zirngibl. Betreuer: Ekkehard Haen." Regensburg : Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1025002342/34.
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Wang, Ming Fong, and 王銘鋒. "Agatha Christie: Detective Stories and Modernity." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16477545709870254457.
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Agatha Christie is often regarded as a traditional and classic detective writer who accentuates an ultimate truth and promotes the restoration of a stable social order in her novels. Yet, my study attempts to evidence that, with her writings transcending the limits of traditional detective fiction, she acted as a “reflexive” modernist by alternatively dealing with an uncertainty truth and demonstrating a shaky social order in a transitive changing reality from an industrial society to a post-industrial risk society. My dissertation is divided into six chapters, which focus on examining her reflexive and critical consciousness of a modernizing process, including the construction and deconstruction of a rational truth, disciplinary spatiotemporal practices, and legal institutions in her contemporary society of industrialization and urbanization under the impact of capitalism. The study of Christie’s works will be based on Ulrich Beck’s notions of ‘risk society” and “reflexive modernization.” The theories of other modernist scholars, including those of David Harvey, Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, and Walter Benjamin, are also applied to witness Christie’s transformation from a conventional detective writer to a modernist one. These four theorists interrogate the rational and disciplinary control of everyday life in an industrial society and deal with brand new spatio-temporal perceptions rising from the development of advanced technologies and modern city life. Their theoretical perspectives are helpful to analyze Christie’s texts. Christie’s writings exhibit a changing social reality, a change from an early modernity to a later development of high modernity. Other than applying traditional approaches like structuralism and genre study, I employ a high-modernist perspective to discuss the interactions between Christie’s literary texts and their social background. My study is expected to relocate Christie as an experimental writer in the literary history of detective fiction.
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Yang, Ya-Ju, and 楊雅茹. "Just for Fun? Justice and Morality in Agatha Christie''s Novels." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96e4px.
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This paper explores the reason why Agatha Christie’s detective stories are popular and why they are significant in the literary field. Agatha Christie was one of the most celebrated writers in the Golden Age of detective novels. She is renowned as a bestselling author who published more than eighty novels and plays. Her works have seen translated into over one hundred and three languages. Christie employs a complex plot, and enjoys involving her readers. While reading her novels, readers may participate and try to solve the crime as information and leads are gradually discovered by the detective. In addition to exploring the characteristics of Christie’s novels, this paper will examine her ideas about justice, good and evil. Her novels raise complex legal and moral questions: Is it legal if a person persuades others to commit a crime? When the legal system cannot protect people, is there any way we can execute justice? By analyzing Christie’s main character detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, I will highlight the virtues, values and beliefs she brings to her audiences and which establish Agatha Christie’s significance in the literary field.
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Terenas, Maria João Faria Pessoa. "A man's job Agatha Christie's Miss Marple with special reference to murder at the Vicarage." Master's thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/12119.
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Abstract: This dissertation is focused on only two of Agatha Christie’s earlier works on detective
fiction featuring her second most famous sleuth Miss Marple namely: Thirteen
Problems (1930) which was published in the United States of America under the name
of Tuesday’s Night Club and Murder at the Vicarage (1932).
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From 1900 to 1930 goes a time span of just thirty years, but they were crucial to
Humanity. They were days of development and devastation, of suffering and enjoyment
as the world had to deal with one World War and its aftermath.
In order to better understand the character Miss Jane Marple several events of Agatha
Christie’s own private life were taken into consideration. Agatha Christie places her
character in the tiny village of Saint Mary’s Mead to make her look credible and
between these two elements there is an interchange that helps in the characterization of
both. In the end Miss Marple reveals herself, she is far more than the frail, old spinster
who enjoys snooping and has a knack for murder, is the embodiment of Englishness.Resumo: Esta dissertação baseia-se nas duas primeiras obras de Agatha Christie em que o personagem principal é a famosa detective Miss Jane Marple, nomeadamente Thirteen Problems (1930) que foi publicado nos Estados Unidos da América sob o título de Tuesday’s Night Murder Club, e Murder at the Vicarage (1932). De 1900 a 1930 vão apenas trinta anos que, no entanto, se revelaram cruciais para a Humanidade. Dias em que o mundo assistiu a progressos e devastação, a sofrimento e alegrias, e se viu confrontado com a Guerra Mundial I e as suas consequências. Com o intuito de conseguir compreender melhor o personagem Miss Jane Marple vários acontecimentos da vida pessoal de Agatha Christie foram tomados em linha de conta. A autora coloca o personagem na minúscula aldeia de Saint Mary Mead, a fim de a tornar credível e entre estes dois elementos há um entrecruzamento que ajuda à caracterização de ambos. Miss Marple acaba por revelar-se muito para além da frágil e idosa solteirona, que gosta de bisbilhotar e tem uma queda para resolver crimes. Na verdade, ela encarna o espírito inglês da sua época.
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Denis, Marie-Ève. "Scruté à la loupe : analyse de la représentation du personnage du détective dans le roman policier." Mémoire, 2006. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/2876/1/M9363.pdf.
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Le présent mémoire propose une analyse de la représentation du personnage du détective dans le roman policier. À l'aide de quatre protagonistes issus de la littérature anglaise, cette recherche traite principalement des différences entre les détectives féminins et masculins. Un panorama des différentes théories relatives au personnage et au roman policier est le point d'ancrage de ce présent projet. Les travaux de Vincent Jouve, Umberto Eco, Jacques Dubois et Yves Reuter sont résumés afin de bien comprendre les concepts qui sont utilisés dans les pages suivantes. L'étude débute avec l'analyse des représentations masculines du détective. Grâce aux personnages de Hercule Poirot et Adam Dalgliesh nous examinons les différents aspects qui les unissent et les séparent. Cette prospection se fait à trois niveaux soit autour de la première description (ou mise en texte) du protagoniste, les réactions et perceptions des autres habitants du roman et, finalement, le point de vue extérieur du lecteur. Les informations recueillies permettent de dresser un portrait sommaire de la représentation masculine du détective. Ensuite, l'analyse des représentations féminines est effectuée. Les personnages de Miss Jane Marple et Cordelia Gray permettent de faire ressortir les ressemblances et les différences existantes entre ces deux héroïnes anglaises. Tout comme pour leurs homonymes masculins, l'analyse des deux détectives se fait sur les trois mêmes niveaux de recherche. Toutefois, l'étude de la confrontation entre Dalgliesh et Gray vient compléter ce qui constitue le troisième chapitre de ce mémoire. En troisième lieu, une réévaluation de l'essai Les femmes et le roman policier d'Anne Lemonde s'impose. A la lumière des informations données dans les chapitres précédents, la désuétude de cet essai québécois sera démontrée. Finalement, une comparaison entre les quatre personnages constitue la conclusion de ce mémoire. Un portrait sommaire est alors esquissé afin de comprendre les ressemblances et les dissemblances entre les deux genres de détectives. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Roman policier, Personnage, Détective, Agatha Christie, P.D. James.
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Stoppe, Sebastian. "Vier Begegnungen mit dem Tod: Appointment with Death in Literatur, Film, TV und Theater." 2016. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A38211.
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The article discusses the adaptation of the Poirot novel Appointment with Death, comparing the original novel with the respective adaptations for television, the cinema, and the theatre.
While all adaptations share certain elements with the original source, it is shown that the motion picture starring Peter Ustinov remains most faithful to the novel despite changing some plot details and Ustinov’s performance that is unlike Christie’s original vision of the detective’s appearance. On the other hand, the television series – though retaining the general plot structure – deviates significantly from the novel in many ways, including adding new characters, altering the entire backstories, and altering the murderer’s motifs and approach. Eventually, the theatre version (adapted by Christie herself) is a radical rework of the novel by eliminating the Poirot character completely from the story as well as changing the murderer’s identity.
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Котова, Марія Миколаївна. "Мовні засоби створення образів злодіїв у детективних романах Агати Крісті." Магістерська робота, 2020. https://dspace.znu.edu.ua/jspui/handle/12345/2691.
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Котова М. М. Мовні засоби створення образів злодіїв у детективних романах Агати Крісті : кваліфікаційна робота магістра спеціальності 035 "Філологія" / наук. керівник С. М. Єнікєєва. Запоріжжя : ЗНУ, 2020. 65 с.EN : The presented paper focuses on the peculiarities of constructing the characters of murderers’ in Agatha Christie’s detective novels. The object of the work can be defined as the peculiarities of structuring the the characters of murderers’ with the help of linguistic means (phonetical, lexical and grammatical). The subject is the peculiar character of the realization of this process in Agatha Christie’s detective novels «Cards on the table» (1936), «Evil Under the Sun» (1941), «Five Little Pigs» (1942) and «Sparkling Cyanide» (1945). The main aim of the paper is to define the ways, mechanisms and forms of structuring the characters of murderers’ in Agatha Christie’s detective novels in the light of stylistic devices used. It determined the accomplishment of such objectives as: - to systematize the key methodological theses of the research into the genre of the detective novel; - to define the narrative and stylistic specificity of the detective novel in general and Agatha Christie’s detective novels in particular; - to outline the gallery of murderes in Agatha Christie’s detective novels; - to elucidate the main mechanisms of constructing the psychological portrait of a murderer by using phonetical, lexical and grammatical means; On the basis of the conducted analysis the following conclusion were drawn. Skillfully using phonetic, lexical and grammatical means, Agatha Christie gives a clear and vivid linguistic characterization of her characters. The speech of the characters reflects the level of their education, social status, indicates gender characteristics, and also draws a portrait of a person of a certain age, temperament and psychological composition. Moreover, by analyzing the linguistic behavior of the negative characters, one can determine the peculiarities of their picture of the world and to judge the hierarchy of concepts and values. The reader can visualize the image of the murdere, based on these linguistic cues. It is worth noting that this is a distinctive feature of Christie’s creativity and narrative skill. A. Christie characterizes her murderers indirectly, that is, she allows the reader to from his own ideas of the criminal based on his linguistic behavior. Such a technique allows the author to set off particular characteristics and to create a more colorful, vivid, realistic image of the murderer.
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Taylor, Joanne. "'Evermore' : a novel and accompanying exegesis." Thesis, 2013. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/541485.
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Novels generally rely on suspension of disbelief and on techniques of suspense to involve the reader in the story. The exegesis of this thesis will explore these issues and related questions in relation to crime fiction, while the creative work explores these issues and questions in the context of a crime novel. The thesis poses the questions, how is suspense created and sustained for the length of a crime novel? Technically, how are crime fiction narratives shifted and shaped so that their trajectory encompasses successful resolution of the story and the discourse? What makes an ending work? What is the relationship between loss and sense-making in the narrative and the place of stories in relation to this? The exegetical work examines three very different crime novels that create and sustain suspense and the ways in which they do so: Agatha Christie’s A Murder Is Announced, Neil Cross’ Burial and Garry Disher’s Chain of Evidence. Detailed reference will be made to these works, with others referenced as appropriate. The thesis contrives to reveal how craft is consciously deployed to bring together elements in the text in such a way that they combine to form a whole that is more than the sum of its parts. The creative response to these questions aims to show a crafted whole, encapsulated in the crime novel which forms the greater part of this thesis. A synopsis for the novel is as follows: It is nearly ten years since Ella Ravell disappeared from a Sydney bushland suburb. It is also ten years since a baby died in its cradle. But at least with that death there was a body. In this novel, the shadowy underside of the cosy world of Sydney suburbia is shown through ordinary interactions between friends, neighbours and strangers. The novel follows the lives of Ella Ravell’s family and neighbours ten years on from her disappearance, and the developing action highlights the fracture lines already running through people’s lives; lines that it takes little further stress to break. As the cracks appear, the ways in which we invent and construct stories of our lives and give them meaning to resolve our disconnection are laid bare. By the close of the story, the characters must face the randomness that is part of nature and that happy endings are unlikely. The use of animal motifs—dead, dangerous, domestic and fantastic—acts in tandem with the Sydney settings to emphasise gothic elements in the story. These elements connect to overall themes of lost loves, of lost illusions, of extinction of hope and of species and the danger of nature. The Australian Museum and its specimens naturally belong in the realm of the fantastic, and this story places them at centre stage, along with showcasing parts of the city of Sydney that add to this fantastic element. The contrast between the darkness of the themes and the lightness of tone effected by the narrative techniques used to unfold the story of Ella Ravell’s disappearance contrives to mirror the ways in which narratives impose an illusion of the orderliness of events. The choice of a multi-narrator structure is intended to activate and emphasise psychological and symbolic nuances in the text, adding to the creation of a suburban gothic atmosphere. Under the surface of a Sydney and people that we think we know lies something darker and more complex, a space where loss and vanishing and dark, sometimes long-held, secrets and sorrows dominate people’s lives.
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Lee, Yi-Jing, and 李依靜. "Telling Truth Through Deception:On Agatha Christie’s Poetics of Detective Fiction." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/21536553596328552286.
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碩士淡江大學
英文學系碩士班
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This thesis aims at laying bare Agatha Christie’s poetics of detective fiction. In Chapter One, I deal with the reading experience from two main aspects: the reader and the text. In Chapter Two, I discuss the types of deception techniques used by Agatha Christie in her works to enhance the playfulness of the text. In this chapter, I point out that there are three major types of deception: concealing information, distraction with suspicious but irrelevant clues, and the use of the narrator to mislead the reader. In Chapter Three, I use And Then There Were None as my speaking example to show how Christie employs the deception techniques to subvert the norms of traditional detective fiction while still maintaining some of the basic elements of this genre. By blending the traditional with her new ideas, Agatha Christie has made the detective novel a more playful platform for crime fiction readers.
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Yang, Shu-hsu, and 楊舒琇. "Analytic Hercule Poirot's character shaping and investigating criminal cases of Agatha Christie's mysteries." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/42475545870837812887.
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Lin, Wei-pang, and 林維邦. "The Narrator and His Narrative in Agatha Christie’s «The Murder of Roger Ackroyd»." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67485592137018192771.
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碩士國立暨南國際大學
外國語文學系
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In this thesis, we read detective fiction as purely a form of literature and narrative text. We take Agatha Christie’s masterpiece, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, to discuss its achievements in the detective genre, the patterns of its formula, and its ways of narrative. Furthermore, we discuss The Murder of Roger Ackroyd as a record of history and analyze it with theories of historical narrative. The Introduction offers the background knowledge detective fiction. Chapter one is the discussion of the literary formula of detective fiction. We will discuss Cawelti’s five patterns of the detective formula and their correspondences with Todorov’s analysis of the “story of the crime” and the “story of the investigation.” In the second chapter, we will read Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd as a detective fiction to analyze how Dr. Sheppard plays the roles of “Watson” to Poirot and the murderer at the same time, and how he fails. In the third chapter, we regard The Murder of Roger Ackroyd as a historical record written by Dr. Sheppard. We will discuss the narrator Dr. Sheppard’s manipulation in his narrative of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and the problem of narrativization of real events with White and Mink’s ideas of historical narrative.
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Lin, Wei-Pang. "The Narrator and His Narrative in Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd." 2007. http://www.cetd.com.tw/ec/thesisdetail.aspx?etdun=U0020-2307200710013600.
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Su, Fong-Ya, and 蘇楓雅. "A Critique on the Chinese Translation of Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/yzbf85.
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碩士國立彰化師範大學
翻譯研究所
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The present study is designed to analyze a traditional Chinese translation of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd from the perspective of functionalist approach. The present study adopts the translation criticism theory proposed by Katharina Reiss to investigate if the questioned Chinese translation considered the text type of the source text and complied with translation requirements of this certain text type at the linguistic and extra-linguistic levels while identifying translational challenges of this book. Through comparing the target text to the source text under the adopted framework, the present study concludes that the selected translation mostly has met the translation requirement of a form-focused text by preserving the form of the source text, representing the aesthetic features and presenting analogs in target language. Yet, some of the translation is presented with a distinctly altered writing style by supplementing semantic content and using Chinese idioms excessively.
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Mayer, Agathe Christine [Verfasser]. "Entwicklung neuer Methoden zur Eisen-katalysierten Kohlenstoff-Heteroatom-Bindungsknüpfung / vorgelegt von Agathe Christine Mayer." 2009. http://d-nb.info/995452938/34.
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