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Agatha Christie and New Directions in Reading Detective Fiction: Narratology and Detective Criticism

Agatha Christie and New Directions in Reading Detective Fiction: Narratology and Detective Criticism

Rolls, Alistair

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1032264918
ISBN13: 9781032264912
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 17 2022
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book brings a new lens to the work of Agatha Christie through a series of close readings which challenge the official solutions by Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

This book's approach interweaves two core ideas: first, it explores the importance of French critic Pierre Bayard's self-styled 'detective criticism'; second, it takes detective criticism in a new direction by refocusing on the beginnings of Agatha Christie's novels. In this way, the book counters the end-orientation that has traditionally dominated the reading experience of, and critical response to, detective fiction by exploring the potential of the beginning to host other interpretations and stories. Offering a new way of reading detective fiction, this book is a mixture of narratology and detective criticism, and deploys it in the form of radical new readings of a number of Christie's most famous works.

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