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The Ageless Agatha Christie

Author : J.C. Bernthal
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476663130
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Ageless Agatha Christie written by J.C. Bernthal and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Agatha Christie died in 1976, she was the bestselling mystery writer in history. This collection of new essays brings fresh perspectives to Christie scholarship with new readings and discussions of little-known aspects of her life, career and legacy. The contributors explore her relationship with modernism, the relevance of queer theory, television adaptations, issues with translations, information behavior theory, feminist readings, postcolonial tribute novels, celebrity culture and heritage cinema. The final word is given to fans in an editorial that collates testimonies from readers, collectors and enthusiasts.

AGATHA CHRISTIE COLLECTION - 3 NOVELS AND 25 SHORT STORIES

Author : AGATHA CHRISTIE; AGELESS READS.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913227364
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book AGATHA CHRISTIE COLLECTION - 3 NOVELS AND 25 SHORT STORIES written by AGATHA CHRISTIE; AGELESS READS. and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie

Author : Mary Anna Evans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350212482
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie written by Mary Anna Evans and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominated for the 2023 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical / Biography The first specifically academic companion to contemporary scholarship on the work of Agatha Christie, this book includes chapters by an international group of scholars writing on topics and fields of study as various as ecocriticism and the anthropocene, popular modernism, middlebrow fiction, queer theory, feminism, crime and the state, and more. It addresses a broad selection of Christie's crime novels, as well as her short stories, literary novels written pseudonymously, and her own and others' dramatic adaptations for television, film, and the stage. Featuring unprecedented access to images and content held in Christie's personal archive, as well as a Foreword from renowned crime fiction writer Val McDermid, this is essential reading for anyone interested in Christie's work and legacy.

Queering Agatha Christie

Author : J.C Bernthal
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319335332
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Queering Agatha Christie written by J.C Bernthal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first fully theorized queer reading of a Golden Age British crime writer. Agatha Christie was the most commercially successful novelist of the twentieth century, and her fiction remains popular. She created such memorable characters as Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple, and has become synonymous with a nostalgic, conservative tradition of crime fiction. J.C. Bernthal reads Christie through the lens of queer theory, uncovering a playful, alert, and subversive social commentary. After considering Christie’s emergence in a commercial market hostile to her sex, in Queering Agatha Christie Bernthal explores homophobic stereotypes, gender performativity, queer children, and masquerade in key texts published between 1920 and 1952. Christie engaged with debates around human identity in a unique historical period affected by two world wars. The final chapter considers twenty-first century Poirot and Marple adaptations, with visible LGBT characters, and poses the question: might the books be queerer?

Agatha Christie Goes to War

Author : Rebecca Mills
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000740846
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Agatha Christie Goes to War written by Rebecca Mills and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agatha Christie has never been substantially considered as a war writer, even though war is a constant presence in her writing. This interdisciplinary collection of essays considers the effects of these conflicts on the social and psychological textures of Christie’s detective fiction and other writings, demonstrating not only Christie’s textual navigation of her contemporary surroundings and politics, but also the value of her voice as a popular fiction writer reflecting popular concerns. Agatha Christie Goes to War introduces the ‘Queen of Crime’ as an essential voice in the discussion of war, warfare, and twentieth century literature.

After Austen

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319958941
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book After Austen written by Lisa Hopkins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twelve new essays examines some of what Jane Austen has become in the two hundred years since her death. Some of the chapters explore adaptations or repurposings of her work while others trace her influence on a surprising variety of different kinds of writing, sometimes even when there is no announced or obvious debt to her. In so doing they also inevitably shed light on Austen herself. Austen is often considered romantic and not often considered political, but both those perceptions are challenged her, as is the idea that she is primarily a writer for and about women. Her books are comic and ironic, but they have been reworked and drawn upon in very different genres and styles. Collectively these essays testify to the extraordinary versatility and resonance of Austen’s books.

Agatha Christie

Author : J.C. Bernthal
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476647151
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Agatha Christie written by J.C. Bernthal and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The undisputed "Queen of Crime," Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is the bestselling novelist of all time. As the creator of immortal detectives Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple, she continues to enthrall readers around the world and is drawing increasing attention from scholars, historians, and critics. But Christie wrote far beyond Poirot and Marple. A varied life including war work, archaeology, and two very different marriages provided the backdrop to a diverse body of work. This encyclopedic companion summarizes and explores Christie's entire literary output, including the detective fiction, plays, radio dramas, adaptations, and her little-studied non-crime writing. It details all published works and key themes and characters, as well as the people and places that inspired them, and identifies a trove of uncollected interviews, articles, and unpublished material, including details that have never appeared in print. For the casual reader looking for background information on their favorite mystery to the dedicated scholar tracking down elusive new angles, this companion will provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date information.

Geographies of Affect in Contemporary Literature and Visual Culture

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004442553
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Geographies of Affect in Contemporary Literature and Visual Culture written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening a dialogue between the literary and filmic works produced in Central Europe and in the Anglophone world, this volume explores the role of affects and emotions such as shame, fascination and withdrawal in contemporary literature and culture.

Sleuthing Miss Marple

Author : Desirée Prideaux
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800854455
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Sleuthing Miss Marple written by Desirée Prideaux and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sleuthing Miss Marple mirrors the structure and playful analytic style of a detective novel. Beginning at the ‘scene of the crime’, this investigation places Agatha Christie and the clue-puzzle in historical context, casting light on the methods, the motives, and, in a sense, the alibis that underpin Christie’s crime fiction. In keeping with the clue-puzzle analytical method devised for this book, each chapter builds towards a conclusion that delivers a surprising intellectual payoff. This enquiry is unapologetically textual in approach. It constructs a rigorous evidence base drawn from the Marple short stories and novels, and presents a useful interpretation of crime fiction scholarship. This provides a foundation for original literary analyses that reveal Christie’s engagements with gender roles and genre rules, and the sleights of hand that they conceal. Christie’s modus operandi is uncovered, as are the narrative strategies and literary devices that she deployed to ambush unwary readers. Crucially, this investigation shows how Christie’s ingenious methods made it possible for an elderly spinster to get away with solving murder. Sleuthing Miss Marple will be invaluable for students and researchers of crime fiction, twentieth-century literature, and creative writing.

Murder in the Closet

Author : Curtis Evans
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476626332
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Murder in the Closet written by Curtis Evans and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots, LGBTQ life was dominated by the negative image of "the closet"--the metaphorical space where that which was deemed "queer" was hidden from a hostile public view. Literary studies of queer themes and characters in crime fiction have tended to focus on the more positive and explicit representations since the riots, while pre-Stonewall works are thought to reference queer only negatively or obliquely. This collection of new essays questions that view with an investigation of queer aspects in crime fiction published over eight decades, from the corseted Victorian era to the unbuttoned 1960s.

The Rhetoric of Topics and Forms

Author : Gianna Zocco
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110641984
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Rhetoric of Topics and Forms written by Gianna Zocco and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth volume of the collected papers of the ICLA congress “The Many Languages of Comparative Literature” includes articles that study thematic and formal elements of literary texts. Although the question of prioritizing either the level of content or that of form has often provoked controversies, most contributions here treat them as internally connected. While theoretical considerations inform many of the readings, the main interest of most articles can be described as rhetorical (in the widest sense) – given that the ancient discipline of rhetoric did not only include the study of rhetorical figures and tropes such as metaphor, irony, or satire, but also that of topoi, which were originally viewed as the ‘places’ where certain arguments could be found, but later came to represent the arguments or intellectual themes themselves. Another feature shared by most of the articles is the tendency of ‘undeclared thematology’, which not only reflects the persistence of the charge of positivism, but also shows that most scholars prefer to locate themselves within more specific, often interdisciplinary fields of literary study. In this sense, this volume does not only prove the ongoing relevance of traditional fields such as rhetoric and thematology, but provides contributions to currently flourishing research areas, among them literary multilingualism, literature and emotions, and ecocriticism.

Living with Strangers

Author : Chiara Briganti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000182029
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Living with Strangers written by Chiara Briganti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living with Strangers examines the history and cultural representation of bed-sitting rooms and boarding houses in England from the early twentieth century to the present. Providing a historical overview, the authors explore how these alternative domestic spaces came to provide shelter for a diverse demographic of working women and men, retired army officers, gay people, students, bohemians, writers, artists, performers, migrants and asylum seekers, as well as shady figures and criminals. Drawing on historical records, case studies, and examples from literature, art, and film, the book examines how the prevalence and significance of bedsits and boarding houses in novels, plays, detective stories, Ealing comedies, and contemporary fiction and film produced its own genre of narrative. The nine chapters are written by an international range of established and emerging scholars in the fields of literary studies, art and film history, political theory, queer studies and cultural studies. A lively, highly original study, Living with Strangers makes a significant contribution to the cross-disciplinary field of home studies and provides insight into a crucial aspect of British cultural history. It is essential reading for students and researchers in anthropology, history, literary studies, sociology, gender and sexuality studies, film studies and cultural studies.

Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Fall 2021)

Author : Elizabeth Foxwell
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147664487X
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Fall 2021) written by Elizabeth Foxwell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal on mystery fiction, Clues is essential reading for literature and film students and researchers; popular culture aficionados; librarians; and mystery authors, fans and critics around the globe.

Vier Frauen und ein Mord

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Hoffmann und Campe
ISBN 13 : 3455005705
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Vier Frauen und ein Mord written by Agatha Christie and published by Hoffmann und Campe. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs McGinty, eine liebenswürdige, vielleicht etwas geschwätzige alte Dame, wurde kaltblütig ermordet. Schnell wird ihr Untermieter für die Tat verhaftet, doch wirkt er keineswegs wie ein Mörder, höchstens etwas verschroben. McGinthy schrieb kurz vor ihrem Tod einen Brief an die Zeitung. Ein Artikel über vier Verbrecherinnen hatte ihre Aufmerksamkeit erregt. Bedeutete dieser Brief ihr Todesurteil? Hercule Poirot und Ariadne Oliver rollen den Fall neu auf.

Rethinking Language, Text and Context

Author : Ruth Page
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351183206
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Language, Text and Context written by Ruth Page and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original research highlights the legacy of Michael Toolan’s pioneering contributions to the field of stylistics and in so doing provides a critical overview of the ways in which language, text, and context are analyzed in the field and its related disciplines. Featuring work from an international range of contributors, the book illustrates how the field of stylistics has evolved in the 25 years since the publication of Toolan’s seminal Language, Text and Context, which laid the foundation for the analysis of the language and style in literary texts. The volume demonstrates how technological innovations and the development of new interdisciplinary methodologies, including those from corpus, cognitive, and multimodal stylistics, point to the greater degree of interplay between language, text, and context exemplified in current research and how this dynamic relationship can be understood by featuring examples from a variety of texts and media. Underscoring the significance of Michael Toolan’s extensive work in the field in the evolution of literary linguistic research, this volume is key reading for students and researchers in stylistics, discourse studies, corpus linguistics, and interdisciplinary literary studies.

Victorian Detectives in Contemporary Culture

Author : Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319693115
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Detectives in Contemporary Culture written by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contrast to the main body of current Victorian detective criticism, which tends to concentrate on Conan Doyle’s creation and only uses other detectives as a backdrop, the texts gathered in this volume examine various contemporary ways of (re)presenting real and fictional detectives that originated in or are otherwise associated with that era: Inspector Bucket, Sergeant Cuff, Inspector Reid, Tobias Gregson, Flaxman Low, and psychiatrists as detectives. Such a collection allows for a critical re-assessment of both the detectives’ importance to the Victorian literature and culture and provides a better basis for understanding the reasons behind their contemporary returns, re-imaginings and re-creations, contributing to the creation of a base for further cultural and critical works dealing with reworkings of the Victorian era.

Murder in a Few Words

Author : Charlotte Beyer
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476641714
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Murder in a Few Words written by Charlotte Beyer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clue-puzzle, legal thriller, and classic whodunit are just a few of the subgenres within the widely popular crime fiction genre. However, despite its popularity among readers, the crime short story genre has yet to be fully explored by scholars. This book offers a deep-dive into crime short stories written by a wide range of authors, tracing the history and evolution of the crime short story. The book offers an accessible and original examination of crime short stories, focusing on compelling themes such as miscarriage of justice, feminism, environmental crime and toxic masculinity.