Journal articles: 'Agatha Christie'

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Cruickshank, Sarah. "Agatha Christie." 5 to 7 Educator 2008, no. 46 (October 2008): xx—xxi. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/ftse.2008.7.10.31009.

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Silva, Daniele Luci da, Renato Massaharu Hassunuma, Patrícia Carvalho Garcia, and Sandra Heloisa Nunes Messias. "OS VENENOS DE AGATHA CHRISTIE NO ENSINO DO SISTEMA GLOBALMENTE HARMONIZADO DE CLASSIFICAÇÃO E ROTULAGEM DE PRODUTOS QUÍMICOS." Revista Multidisciplinar de Educação e Meio Ambiente 5, no. 1 (February 3, 2024): 23–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.51189/integrar/rema/3925.

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Introdução: Quando se trata de literatura policial, a escritora inglesa Agatha Christie é considerada uma das romancistas mais bem sucedidas da história da literatura pelos seus inúmeros livros vendidos. Devido ao seu aprendizado recebido em hospitais durante a primeira e a segunda guerras mundiais, Agatha Christie adquiriu conhecimento sobre vários venenos que aparecem em suas obras. Em venenos e produtos químicos, é utilizado o sistema harmonizado de classificação e rotulagem de produtos químicos (GHS) para definir os seus perigos específicos. Objetivo: Apresentar uma proposta didática de como as histórias de Agatha Christie podem ser utilizadas no ensino do GHS. Material e métodos: Foi realizada um levantamento bibliográfico dos venenos que aparecem em obras de Agatha Christie. Os venenos foram triados a partir de uma busca informações sobre sua classificação no GHS no site PubChem. Baseado nas informações obtidas, foi desenvolvida uma proposta didática de ensino do GHS. Resultados: Das obras de Agatha Christie foram levantados 28 venenos diferentes, sendo triados 20 a partir da busca de informações sobre sua classificação no GHS pelo site PubChem. O ácido fórmico foi utilizado como modelo para apresentação de uma proposta didática de como um conto “A maldição dos Lemesurier” pode ser usado em sala de aula no ensino do GHS. Conclusões: As obras de Agatha Christie apresentam diversos tipos de venenos que podem ser utilizados como recurso didático no ensino do GHS. Novas pesquisas aplicando a proposta apresentada devem ser realizadas para discutir a proposta didática apresentada.

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Hall, Mark. "Misgivings about Agatha Christie." Public Archaeology 2, no. 4 (January 2002): 241–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/pua.2002.2.4.241.

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Chapman, Llewella. "Agatha Christie on Screen." Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 38, no. 1 (September 26, 2017): 201–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2017.1381359.

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Lourenço Hanes, Vanessa Lopes. "Las traducciones de Agatha Christie en Brasil: consideraciones sobre la representación de la oralidad y el poscolonialismo." Mutatis Mutandis. Revista Latinoamericana de Traducción 7, no. 2 (March 31, 2014): 306–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.17533/udea.mut.19011.

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En este artículo se analizan, de forma micro y macro estructural, dos modelos de traducciones pertenecientes a un mismo período histórico, y publicadas por la misma editorial. El enfoque principal del análisis son las representaciones escritas del discurso oral de los personajes de Agatha Christie en las elecciones brasileñas, particularmente del registro utilizado en los diálogos. Los datos recopilados en el estudio muestran que los libros de Agatha Christie representan, claramente, intercambios culturales entre América Latina y Europa, fenómeno reiterado por otros investigadores del tema. Su trabajo traducido indica cómo la oralidad se ha abordado tanto a nivel nacional como a nivel internacional en las traducciones de Agatha Christie, dando pistas de cuáles son los elementos determinantes en Brasil. Las hesitaciones, exclusiones, elecciones y estrategias en estos dos textos representan opciones sistemáticas de la Ágatha Christie brasileña que, obviamente, reflejan consideraciones coloniales en términos de lenguas, así como en términos de géneros literarios.

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Chauvin, Jean Pierre. "Personagens autoritárias segundo Agatha Christie." Revista USP, no. 128 (May 6, 2021): 99–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9036.i128p99-104.

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Wren-Lewis, John. "Adam, Eve and Agatha Christie." Chesterton Review 19, no. 2 (1993): 193–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/chesterton199319241.

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Cachin, Marie-françoise. "Agatha Christie, reine de l’édition." Cahiers Charles V 10, no. 1 (1988): 75–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/cchav.1988.1011.

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Bargainnier, Earl F. "The Poems of Agatha Christie." Journal of Popular Culture 21, no. 3 (December 1987): 103–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1987.2103_103.x.

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Magadan, Esdras Matheus. "40 anos sem Agatha Christie." Ciência e Cultura 68, no. 1 (March 2016): 62–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.21800/2317-66602016000100019.

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Mocná, Dagmar. "Karel Čapek versus Agatha Christie." Česká literatura 72, no. 1 (February 2024): 28–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.51305/cl.2024.01.02.

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Vogel, Michely Jabala Mamede. "A pesquisa científica brasileira sobre Agatha Christie: primeiros resultados." Informação@Profissões 10, no. 3 (December 31, 2021): 51. http://dx.doi.org/10.5433/2317-4390.2021v10n3p51.

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Objetivo: Agatha Christie é uma autora de sucesso mesmo 40 anos após sua morte, e sua obras seguem sendo publicadas e convertidas a outras mídias. A Ciência da Informação preocupa-se com as operações realizadas com as informações e documentos, sendo capaz de mapear as produções de uma área, especialmente através da Bibliometria. O objetivo desta pesquisa é, portanto, identificar as pesquisas brasileiras sobre Agatha Christie por meio de um mapeamento bibliométrico, a partir do currículo Lattes. Metodologia: Trate-se de pesquisa bibliográfica para levantar os conceitos, documental para coleta e bibliométrica para análise dos dados. Resultados: A produção é muito maior do que a constante em bases de dados como Web of Science, Scopus e SciELO, chegando a 195 trabalhos contra os três encontrados em tais bases. Conclusões: A pesquisa sobre Agatha Christie no Brasil encontra-se em consolidação, sendo realizada em nível de graduação e pós-graduação, mas que falta uma infraestrutura de pesquisa em termos de bases de dados para armazenar e recuperar informações das Humanidades.

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Dudley Edwards, Owen. "Winston Churchill in a Christie Mystery." Scottish Affairs 32, no. 2 (May 2023): 219–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/scot.2023.0456.

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This essay looks at the literary relationship between two of Britain’s great twentieth century figures, Agatha Christie and Winston Churchill. The two are rarely considered together, but did Christie, in ‘The Augean Stables’ (1940), cast Churchill as the warmonger Everhard?

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Peters, Fiona. "Agatha Christie: Evil, Love and Desire." Crime Fiction Studies 3, no. 2 (September 2022): 124–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cfs.2022.0070.

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References to the concept of evil can be found scattered throughout Agatha Christie’s novels. It is, however, rare to encounter this as a prevalent theme, especially in the novels which feature her private detectives Poirot, Marple and Tommy and Tuppence. It is my contention in this article that it is not until two of her late novels Endless Night (1967) and The Pale Horse (1961) that Christie foregrounds the issue of evil and concurrent themes of psychotic and obsessive love and desire. Of course, there are multiple examples of the intersections between love and evil, involving betrayal, trickery and duplicity throughout her work, but these are generally secondary to plot structure and, in the case of love, romantic and often neat endings. The article contends that a ‘new’ Christie starts to emerge late in her work, one who has, however obliquely still, begun to engage with evil as a fundamental question, post-WW2 and the Holocaust.

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Hasegewa, Guy R. "The Poisonous Pen of Agatha Christie." American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy 51, no. 3 (February 1, 1994): 435. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ajhp/51.3.435.

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Mackey, Margaret. "Developing Readers: Lessons from Agatha Christie." Literacy 25, no. 2 (July 1991): 25–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9345.1991.tb00029.x.

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Mann, J. "The poisonous pen of Agatha Christie." Trends in Pharmacological Sciences 15, no. 8 (August 1994): 307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0165-6147(94)90012-4.

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Bastan, Ajda. "The Hagia Sophia and the Other Turkish Locations in Agatha Christie’s “Murder On the Orient Express”." International Journal of Social, Political and Economic Research 8, no. 1 (April 3, 2021): 37–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.46291/ijospervol8iss1pp37-46.

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British author Agatha Christie, who is one of the best-selling novelists in world literature, is the pioneering figure of detective fiction. Christie, the queen of mystery, wrote about eighty novels during her life. A great number of the author’s books were also adapted into movies. Viewed as one of Agatha Christie's most noteworthy accomplishments, the novel Murder on the Orient Express was released in 1934. It is highly believed that Agatha Christie wrote this novel during her long stays in Istanbul. The story is about a Belgian detective investigating a crime that occurred on the train. In Murder on the Orient Express many places and locations related to Turkey are mentioned. These are the Sainte Sophie (Hagia Sophia), the Orient Express, the Taurus Express, Nissibin, the Cilician Gates, Istanbul, Konya, The Bosporus, the Galata Bridge, The Tokatlian Hotel, Smyrna, Taurus and Hayda-passar. The novel starts with the completion of Hercule Poirot's investigation in Syria at the Aleppo train station. Poirot goes to Istanbul via the Taurus Express, where he wants to take the Orient Express to London. In fact, Poirot wants to make a few days’ holiday in Istanbul and visit Hagia Sophia.

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Hanes, Vanessa Lopes Lourenço. "Between continents: Agatha Christie’s translations as intercultural mediators." Cadernos de Tradução 37, no. 1 (January 9, 2017): 208. http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-7968.2017v37n1p208.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-7968.2017v37n1p208A trajetória de Agatha Christie no polissistema literário brasileiro é usada para ilustrar como a literatura traduzida pode demonstrar a complexidade da mediação intercultural, com livros e autores fazendo o papel de agentes que interconectam várias culturas em uma rede de relações complexa e até mesmo inesperada. Três pontos de vista aparentemente simples são apresentados ao leitor (Agatha Christie importada da Inglaterra para o Brasil, exportada do Brasil para Portugal e, finalmente, nuances da presença dela dentro da língua portuguesa e da cultura brasileiras). Exemplos específicos desses aspectos mostram como a literatura traduzida pode facilitar a compreensão das interfaces dinâmicas entre diferentes culturas e dentro das mesmas.

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Alobaidi, Shaimaa. "The World of Mystery and Crime: Agatha Christie Techniques." European Journal of Theoretical and Applied Sciences 2, no. 3 (May 1, 2024): 208–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.59324/ejtas.2024.2(3).17.

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And Then There Were None and A Murder is Announced are two prominent works written by the “Queen of Crime” Agatha Christie. While both novels belong to the genre of the murder mystery and detective fiction, the writer employs different literary techniques to build suspense and keep the readers’ engagement until the final scene. Moreover, Agatha Christie also pays great attention to the details of the crime. Providing the audience with certain clues, the writer succeeds to manipulate the reader’s thoughts. Thereby, And Then There Were None and A Murder is Announced are remarkable examples of the murder mystery that is achieved by different literary means making the stories topical literary works.

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Tırmıkçıoğlu, Zeynep. "Polisiye Romanlarda Ölüm Nedeni Olarak Zehir ve Yüksek Doz İlaç: Agatha Christie ve Ahmet Ümit Eserlerinin Karşılaştırılması." Bulletin of Legal Medicine 25, no. 2 (September 18, 2020): 90–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.17986/blm.1390.

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Amaç: Bu araştırmada Batı ve Türk edebiyatından polisiye eserlerde ölüm nedeni olarak zehir ya da yüksek doz ilaç kullanımının karşılaştırmalı olarak incelenmesi amaçlandı. Gereç ve Yöntem: Polisiye roman örnekleri olarak Agatha Christie ve Ahmet Ümit’in eserleri incelendi. Cinayet silahı ve ölüm nedeni olarak zehir ya da yüksek doz ilaç kullanımı olup olmadığı, varsa bu ilaç ve maddelerin özellikleri ile zehirlenme bulgularının eser içerisinde veriliş şekli karşılaştırmalı olarak değerlendirildi. Bulgular: Agatha Christie romanlarında çeşitli zehir ve ilaçların, kurbanın yemeğine ya da içeceğine karıştırılarak verildiği görülmektedir. Kurbanların ölüm nedenleri “Şampanyadaki Zehir”, “On Küçük Zenci”, “Ve Ayna Kırıldı”da siyanür; “Koltuktaki Ölü”, “Sonunda Ölüm Geldi” romanlarında morfindir. Agatha Christie’nin diğer romanlarında striknin, taksin, talyum, fosfor, arsenik, baldıran otu, yüksük otu, güzel avrat otu ile barbitürik asit içeren bir ilaç cinayet silahı olarak kullanılmıştır. Ahmet Ümit romanlarında ise kurbanı öldüren zehir terkipleri yerine bıçak, tabanca gibi cinayet silahları karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Öte yandan Ahmet Ümit’in “İstanbul Hatırası” romanında kurbanların öldürülmeden önce kısa etkili bir anestezik olan propofol ile, “Kırlangıç Çığlığı”nda ise nöromüsküler blokerlerden mivaküryum ile etkisiz hale getirildikleri görülmektedir. “Sultanı Öldürmek” romanında ana tema Fatih Sultan Mehmet’in afyon veya benzeri bir madde ile zehirlenerek öldürülmüş olabileceği iken bu romanda da cinayet silahı bir mektup açacağıdır. Sonuçlar: Zehir ve yüksek doz ilacın cinayet silahı olarak kullanımı Agatha Christie eserlerinde dikkat çekici olarak karşımıza çıkmakta iken Ahmet Ümit’in sayılı romanında kısa süreli olarak bazı ilaçların kullanıldığına dair ifadelere rastlanmıştır. Zehirle öldürmek, Osmanlı tarihinde gizemli bir konu olsa da, Türk toplumsal suç anlayışı açısından yabancı bir unsur olarak yorumlanabilir.

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Argashokova, Svetlana, Marina Mikaelyan, Anna Zgonnikova, and Irina Zueva. "Verbalization of Concept of “Vigilante Justice” in Agatha Christie’s Creative Work." SHS Web of Conferences 50 (2018): 01106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20185001106.

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The article deals with the concept of “vigilante justice”. The authors analyze the creative works of Agatha Christie to find out the ways of the representation of this concept. They use the linguistic hermeneutic method of interpretation based on the three-leveled system of comprehension which was worked out by Prof. Bogin. The main objective of this method is discovering of metaconcepts because only by understanding them a reader can reach the level of deep meanings of the text. Using this method, the authors discover the artistic details which contain symbols referring the concept of “vigilante justice”. Moreover, with the help of metaconcepts represented in the novels they try to find out the deep inner meaning decoded by Agatha Christie in her creative works.

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Porinets, Yurii Yur'evich. "Literary allusions in detective novels by Agatha Christie." Филология: научные исследования, no. 8 (August 2022): 73–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0749.2022.8.38665.

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The author analyzes literary allusions in detective novels by Agatha Christie. For the first time, allusions to the works of W. Shakespeare, C. Dickens, P. G. Wodehouse, G. K. Chesterton are considered in detail. Many allusions are established for the first time. As a material for writing this article, a large number of novels were used, among which there are also rarely considered texts of the English writer. The meaning of allusions to "Twelfth Night" in the novel "The Sad Cypress" is revealed in detail, to the works of Wodehouse – in the novel "Why not Evans?" In the article, in the context of the studied problem, the features of escapism of the detective genre are considered. Based on the consideration of examples from a number of novels by Agatha Christie, conclusions are drawn about the significance of literary allusions in her novels in general and in specific works in particular. Allusions expand the semantic field of novels, allow Agatha Christie to go beyond the detective story, limited by the principles of formulaic literature, to consider psychological problems, to portray ambiguous characters in the spirit of classical English literature. At the same time, with the help of a significant number of allusions emphasized by the author, the literary nature of what is happening in detective novels is brought to the fore, which largely corresponds to the escapist nature of this genre.

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Maśko, Adrianna. "Ibrāhīm Aḥmad’s The Guitar of Agatha Christie: Postcolonial and Biofictional Perspectives on Iraq’s Post-World War I Past and Post-2003 Present." Anaquel de Estudios Árabes 34, no. 1 (February 10, 2023): 159–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/anqe.83976.

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In recent years, several anglophone biographical novels devoted to Agatha Christie have been published. Some of them focus on her 1926 disappearance in England, while others allude to this incident as a significant event from her past. The article investigates Iraqi author Ibrāhīm Aḥmad’s The Guitar of Agatha Christie (2016), an Arabic novel that tells the story of Christie’s disappearance in Baghdad in 1949. This novel is considered a postcolonial, postmodern and biographical novel in the article, and thus examined with reference to a number of studies on postcolonial fiction, biofiction and Genette’s narratology. Emphasis is placed on its narrative structure and “dual temporality”, a term introduced by Michael Lackey to describe how a biographical subject is employed in a narrative as a means for reflecting upon both his or her times and present-day reality. The article seeks answers to the question of how Aḥmad’s historical and cultural background impacts his vision of particular events in Christie’s life. The article concludes by identifying four diegetic and temporal levels in the novel that resembles a portmanteau narrative. Agatha Christie and the story of her disappearance serve as a pretext to discuss Iraq’s post-World War I past and post-2003 present. Several other stories are included in this narrative, all of which involve encounters between representatives of the East and the West.

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Tyler, Lisa. "An Agatha Christie Play—Without the Mystery." Hemingway Review 21, no. 2 (2002): 121–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hem.2002.0025.

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Bogatyrev, Arseny Vladimirovich. "AGATHA CHRISTIE AND THE PROBLEM OF INFLUENCES." Вестник Восточно-Сибирского государственного института культуры 144 (November 28, 2022): 54–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.31443/2541-8874-2022-3-23-54-69.

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Harmon, Lucyna. "Narratemes in Agatha Christie’s Poirot Novels." Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia 66, no. 2 (March 30, 2021): 33–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2021.2.03.

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"Narratemes in Agatha Christie’s Poirot Novels. In this paper, Agatha Christie’s selected Poirot novels are examined for recurring narratemes, limited, for the purposes of this research, to actions and results of actions as important constituents of the plot. As point of departure, Propp’s narratemes, structural elements of Russian folktales are referred to. Then, ten recurrent narratemes are identified in twenty-two Poirot novels and their functionality is established. The need of further research on this topic is articulated. It is likely that more narratemes be recognised and localised and thus they broaden our knowledge about the componential aspects of Christie’s work. Keywords: Agatha Christie, Poirot, detective novel, narrateme, plot, suspense "

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Plain, Gill. "Death on the Roads: Motoring with Agatha Christie." Crime Fiction Studies 5, no. 1 (March 2024): 18–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cfs.2024.0108.

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Over the course of her autobiography, Agatha Christie makes some fascinating observations about cars, and what their growing ubiquity meant to a young woman transitioning from Victorian girlhood to interwar modernity. In her interwar novels, meanwhile, the car functions variously as a marker of status, an index of character and a symbol of female agency. However, this initially optimistic embrace of motoring modernity began to change in the second half of Christie's career, with the result that the car would come to signify not just a changing relationship between gender and mobility, but also a transition in detective methodology. Exploring novels from the interwar, war and postwar periods – including Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (1934), The Hollow (1946) and By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968) – this article follows the car to map transitions in how, why, and what Christie detects.

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Pakhomova, Olena, and Victoria Yashkina. "AGATHA CRISTIE’S INDIVIDUAL STYLE: HOW TRUE ILLUSIONS ARE CREATED." English and American Studies, no. 19 (May 2, 2022): 127–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/382214.

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The article considers the uniqueness of Agatha Christie's individual style in thematic, plot and compositional, figurative and both linguistic and stylistic aspects. Numerous scholars (A.Adamov, G. Andjaparidze, A. Vulis, S. Van Dyne and R. Knox) explored the mystery of its success. A large number of foreign and domestic literary critics study the linguistic and stylistic originality of detective stories of the famous writer, among which are I. Dudin, J. Markulan, M. Summers, B. Raynov, T. Kestgei, N. Berkovsky and M. Volkenstein. In general, scholars analyzed detective utterance as a literary genre and determined the contribution and place of A. Christie in the general literary process. M. Kozhin, A. Fedorov, N. Mikhalska and others concentrated attention on the consideration and analysis of linguistic and stylistic, thematic and compositional features of the works of A. Christie. This article aims to give an overview of A. Christie's idiosyncrasy and outline the various features of the creation of imagery, linguistic and stylistic techniques inherent in the outstanding writer’s style. In general, scholars analyzed detective stories as examples of literary genre presentations and determined the contribution and place of A. Christie in the overall literary process. Despite the existing theoretical achievements of scholars, in our study we found that A. Christie is characterized by her unique style, which combines not only linguistic but also linguistic elements. The stylistic constant of the writer's work is the appropriate image system, thoroughly portrayed and described according to the genre (a detective who investigates a crime and a criminal (and each of the characters can be one person at a time). In general, the writer uses a rich arsenal of linguistic and stylistic means (irony, epithets, metaphors, simile, hyperbole), which become markers of her unique pen.

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Porinets, Yurii Yur'evich. "The Innocence in the Novels of Agatha Christie." Филология: научные исследования, no. 8 (August 2022): 33–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0749.2022.8.38666.

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The author examines the motive of innocence in the detective novels of Agatha Christie. This motive is being analyzed in detail for the first time. The conceptual basis of the research was the works of W. H. Auden, G. K. Chesterton, D. Cavelty, D. Sayers devoted to the genre of detective literature. Using the example of many novels, the article traces the relationship between the motives of guilt, innocence, paradise lost and others. The motive of love is considered as a motive, in many ways the opposite of the motive of guilt. Special attention is paid in the article to the novel "The Trial of Innocence", on the example of which the motive of innocence and its significance in the motivic structure are revealed. Based on numerous examples, the article shows that the search for truth in Agatha Christie's detectives is essentially equivalent to the defense of innocence. The motive of innocence in Agatha Christie's novels is of great importance and is closely related to the motives of guilt, retribution, justice, good and evil, paradise, trust, and personality formation. The article shows that it is the protection of innocent characters (both victims of crime and those unjustly accused) that is the primary task for those who conduct the investigation. This is due to the idea inherent in the detective genre of restoring the original harmony destroyed as a result of the crime.

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Parguez, Alain. "Did Agatha Christie Discover Who the Murderer Was?" International Journal of Political Economy 45, no. 1 (January 2, 2016): 40–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08911916.2016.1161329.

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Antoniou, Janey. "Does crime literature contribute to the stigmatisation of those with mental health problems?" Psychiatric Bulletin 28, no. 3 (March 2004): 95–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.28.3.95.

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The Royal College of Psychiatrists is in the last year of its ‘Changing Minds' campaign to reduce the stigma of having schizophrenia, substance use problems, dementia, eating disorders, anxiety and depression. As a mental health service user with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, I have been involved in the campaign since its outset and have become used to blaming the media, especially the tabloid press, for a large part of the stigma that people with mental health problems encounter. However, recently while in hospital I re-read an Agatha Christie book and began to wonder whether crime novels, with their usual starting point of a murder, could actually contribute as much to such stigmatisation. As Agatha Christie was probably the most prolific crime writer in the English language, this article examines some of her novels with a view to discovering the extent to which she played a part in the perception of the ‘mad’ killer.

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Csorba, Mária Lujza. "Feminization of Agatha Christie´s Character Hercule Poirot through His Appearance, Personality, Age and Cat Symbolism." International Journal of English and Comparative Literary Studies 2, no. 5 (October 14, 2021): 12–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.47631/ijecls.v2i5.335.

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This article aims to analyze how Agatha Christie’s character Hercule Poirot is feminized through several aspects, namely his appearance and character, his age and recurring cat symbolism. All the aspects and their examples were collected from Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot stories employing close reading as a method. By the use of several academic papers focused mainly on the topic of gender stereotypes in connection to the presented examples from Agatha Christie’s works, the central argument is that the character of the male detective Hercule Poirot is strongly feminized. Although this theory is already widely accepted, this article focuses on its less frequently discussed aspects, namely cat symbolism and age-related feminization.

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Markova, M. V. "Aleksandr Livergant. Agatha Christie: The witness for the prosecution." Voprosy literatury, no. 6 (December 8, 2023): 194–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2023-6-194-199.

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The review considers the first Russian biography of Agatha Christie authored by A. Livergant. Opening with a prologue that reconstructs the events preceding the writer’s famous disappearance, the biography combines a wealth of facts with good artistic quality. That it should be rich in facts is required by the book’s genre, but the biography’s very structure, which resembles a work of fiction, with its prologue, thirteen chapters and ‘In place of an epilogue,’ conveys the idea of the inseparability of life from writing. Since Christie drew inspiration for her mysteries from journeys and her own life’s events, the structure seems particularly appropriate. Moreover, it offers a principally new optics for the examination of the writer’s legacy: something more than works of a gifted artisan of the genre, Christie’s texts are a product of a specific context made up by historical and cultural developments as well as other works of fiction, of which many have been translated by Livergant or examined in his other biographies

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Atika Pertiwi and Cita Hikmah Yanti. "Deixis in the novel Murder on the orient express." Language and Education Journal 5, no. 2 (November 2, 2020): 87–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.52237/lej.v5i2.181.

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This study which entitled “Deixis in The Novel Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie” Deixis described the relationship between language and context and the objectives of this study were (1) to find out the utterances of a major character, M. Poirot, and types of the deixis in The Novel Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie. (2) to describe the reference of each type of deixis in the Novel Murder on the Orient Express. This study applied the descriptive qualitative method. The result of this study showed that there were three types of deixis found in the utterances of a major character, M. Poirot in the novel Murder on the Orient Express, namely personal deixis (73 data), temporal deixis (18 data), and spatial deixis (9 data). The referent of the personal deixis found referred to all passenger in the Orient Express, temporal deixis refers to the time of utterance was uttered and the murder of Ratchett occurred, spatial deixis referred to the Orient Express itself.

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Nofia, Vina Siti Sri, and Muhammad Rayhan Bustam. "ANALISIS SEMIOTIKA ROLAND BARTHES PADA SAMPUL BUKU FIVE LITTLE PIGS KARYA AGATHA CHRISTIE." MAHADAYA: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya 2, no. 2 (October 29, 2022): 143–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.34010/mhd.v2i2.7795.

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Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan makna denotatif dan konotatif dari tanda-tanda yang terdapat pada sampul buku Five Little Pigs karya Agatha Christie. Untuk itu, pendekatan kualitatif digunakan dalam penelitian ini. Data dikumpulkan dari interpretasi teks dan gambar pada sampul buku, didukung oleh jurnal untuk dianalisis. Selanjutnya, teori Barthes tentang hubungan antara penanda dan petanda yang disebut “staggered systems” diterapkan dalam kasus ini. Menurut Barthes, dua tingkatan itu adalah denotasi dan konotasi. Konotasi didefinisikan sebagai makna yang dikaitkan dengan gambar di luar tingkat denotasi yang jelas, sedangkan denotasi didefinisikan sebagai tingkat makna pertama dan paling sederhana dari sebuah gambar. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan makna konotatif tanda melalui teks dan gambar yang terdapat pada sampul buku Five Little Pigs karya Agatha Christie versi penerbit William Morrow Paperbacks tahun 2011. Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa (1) Beberapa teks dan gambar sebagai tanda mengandung makna konotatif dan denotatif dalam merujuk pada objek tertentu, (2) makna konotatif dari tanda yang dimetaforakan melalui makna denotatif, dan (3) tanda visual lebih banyak atau dominan dibandingkan tanda verbal. Kata kunci: Sampul Buku, Denotasi, Konotasi

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Plain, Gill. "‘Tale Engineering’: Agatha Christie and the Aftermath of the Second World War." Literature & History 29, no. 2 (October 19, 2020): 179–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306197320945945.

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The ‘golden age’ of clue-puzzle detective fiction is usually considered to end in 1939 with the outbreak of the Second World War. Yet Agatha Christie, the most high-profile and successful exponent of the form, continued to produce bestselling novels until her death in 1976. This essay examines three novels from the immediate postwar period to consider how she adapted her writing to negotiate a changing world and evolving fashions in genre fiction. Engaging with grief, demobilisation, gender, citizenship and the new fears of the atomic age, Christie proves unexpectedly attentive to the anxieties of a new modernity.

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T, Pathinathan, Mike Dison E, and Ponnivalavan K. "Semantic Ordering Relation- Applied to Agatha Christie Crime Thrillers." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTING ALGORITHM 3, no. 3 (December 31, 2014): 304–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.20894/ijcoa.101.003.003.035.

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Prior, Christopher. "An Empire Gone Bad: Agatha Christie, Anglocentrism and Decolonization." Cultural and Social History 15, no. 2 (January 25, 2018): 197–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2018.1427354.

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Ewers, Chris. "Genre in Transit: Agatha Christie, Trains, and the Whodunit." Journal of Narrative Theory 46, no. 1 (2016): 97–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jnt.2016.0009.

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Carroll, Alicia. "‘Leaves and Berries’: Agatha Christie and the Herbal Revival." Green Letters 22, no. 1 (January 2, 2018): 20–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2018.1438303.

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Eckert, Julia. "Beyond Agatha Christie: Relationality and critique in anthropological theory." Anthropological Theory 16, no. 2-3 (September 2016): 241–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1463499616662574.

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Critical anthropological theory needs to be a theory of relationality. Only through a relational theory can we come to a perception of our fundamental commonality and conceptualise difference as being given significance by the unequal relations that we stand in towards each other. A relational theory needs concepts that reflect on the asymmetrical interdependence that shapes the dynamics of power relations, which give rise to institutions of ‘significant difference’. I propose Luc Boltanski’s notion of ‘situation’ as a concept that enables us to grasp the structured contingency that shapes our mutual interdependence. Situation, by making possible the micro-analysis of macro-relations, also provides the conceptual tools to think beyond that which is, towards that which is possible.

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Vucinic, D., and N. Jovic. "86. Posttraumatic epilepsy in an Agatha Christie detective story." Epilepsy & Behavior 17, no. 4 (April 2010): 604. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yebeh.2010.01.111.

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Strout, Cushing. "Through the Looking Glass and Back with Agatha Christie." Sewanee Review 115, no. 1 (2007): 141–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sew.2007.0028.

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Chauvin, Jean Pierre. "O Gerente e a Recepcionista." Cadernos de Pesquisa do CDHIS 34, no. 1 (June 26, 2021): 117–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.14393/cdhis.v34n1.2021.61370.

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Publicado em 1965, O Caso do Hotel Bertram reúne algumas das caracterizações mais importantes, dentre os romances protagonizados por Miss Jane Marple. Neste ensaio, discutem-se os métodos empregados por Agatha Christie ao representar as diferentes classes sociais das personagens no romance, com ênfase nos retratos do gerente e da recepcionista do estabelecimento em que os crimes acontecem.

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Ternopol, Tat’yana V. "The hypotext of a children’s game in "Five Little Pigs" by Agatha Christie." Vestnik of Kostroma State University, no. 4 (2019): 130–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2019-25-4-130-134.

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The article is devoted to analysing the role of hypotext of a children’s finger-play in Agatha Christie’s detective novel. Methods of hermeneutics and comparative analysis are applied to study levels of detail, motif, image system and structure. The researcher makes a conclusion that Agatha Christie continued trying new models of using folklore hypotext based on its peculiar features (such as verbal and kinetic components of a folklore game). The motif of a number five manifested in the title organises the text and gives an attentive reader a chance to solve the case. According to the researcher, the composition of "Five Little Pigs" is determined by a detective formula as well as the rules of the finger-play used as a hypotext.

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Shchurina, Yu V., and M. A. Bayushkina. "Precedent Elements in Modern Rock Poetry: Adaptation Potential (Based on Songs by Gleb Samoilov)." Verba Northwest Linguistic Journal, no. 4 (2023): 9–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.34680/verba-2023-4(9)-9-24.

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The article examines precedent units found in the song texts of Gleb Samoilov (the author of songs for the cult Russian rock band “Agatha Christie” and the band “The Matrixx”). The possibilities of adapting the precedent phenomena in the author's context are described, which allows transforming known meanings and generating new ones. The relevance of the study is due to the factthat the lyrics of modern rock bands, rich in precedent phenomena, reflect the cultural traditions of society and modern cultural values. Results: in the analyzed song texts of the bands “Agatha Christie” and “The Matrixx”, precedent units of different types have been identified; they are associated with Christian sources, Russian classical and Soviet literature, song traditions; they are used to have an emotional impact on the listener, actualize the corresponding associative and intellectual-cultural blocks, and form a conscious attitude towards what is being described, which becomes possible due to the various methods of precedent unit transformation, actively used by the author. The following types of precedent adaptation are defined in the author's context: indirect (allusive) references, lexical and grammatical transformations, changes in the composition of components, combinations of these methods, transposition.

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BOGATYREV, ARSENIY. "“DEATH IN THE CLOUDS” BY AGATHA CHRISTIE: NOTES ON THE NOVEL." Культурный код, no. 2023-4 (2023): 9–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.36945/2658-3852-2023-4-9-24.

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The author of the article reflects on certain features of Agatha Christie’s novel, the appearance of which was influenced by her personal experiences, historical events. The writer touched on a wide range of issues like the topics of geography, cooking, national character, etc. With a degree of sobriety regarding the shortcomings of the English nation, Christie criticizes the existing stereotypes in the English environment regarding some peoples, for example, the Irish, philosophizes about human nature, preaches the importance of realistic view of the world. The novel allows us to learn a little more about the nuances of Hercule Poirot’s thought processes and origins. “Death in the Clouds” is interesting because of its allusions to various literary works, both by Christie herself and by other authors. Without considering her literary “child” as something serious, she nevertheless used some of the developments tested in this plot in future creations, for example, the novel “One, Two, Buckle My Shoe”.

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Hannabuss, Stuart. "Agatha Christie: The Finished Portrait20085Andrew Norman. Agatha Christie: The Finished Portrait. Stroud: Tempus Publishing 2007. , ISBN: 978‐0‐7524‐4288‐4 paperback £9.99." Library Review 57, no. 7 (August 15, 2008): 555–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00242530810894103.

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Chakravarty, Prerana. "The Culinary Space: Food as a Narrative Tool in Agatha Christie’s Detective Novels." Southeast Asian Review of English 59, no. 2 (January 2, 2023): 58–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol59no2.6.

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Kevin Burton Smith in his article ‘Murder on the Menu’ (2010), comments, “right from the start there’s been a curious link between food (and drink) and crime fiction.” Despite the fact that culinary mystery novels arose as a subgenre of crime fiction in the late twentieth century, food has always been a part of crime fiction, and has played an important role in the early stories of Sherlock Holmes and Edgar Allan Poe. Food is frequently depicted as a source of stability and order in crime novels, establishing verisimilitude, creating a genuine world, a world as we know it. Agatha Christie, too, has included significant reference to food, eating habits and food rituals throughout her detective stories, using it as a tool to create a feminine and domestic space. This paper will analyse how Christie has used the depiction of food as a tool to further the narrative, portraying it in her novels as a calming ritual and a clue to the murder. However, food in Christie’s stories can also gain a more sinister undertone, and this paper will also analyse this, focusing on how Christie transforms food into a murder weapon itself, as a bad omen indicating events, thereby, blending reality with the storyline and lending vivacity to her characters and her plots.

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