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Rolls, Alistair, 1971-
Agatha Christie and new directions in reading detective fiction : narratology and detective criticism / Alistair Rolls. - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2022. - x, 179 p. ; 23 cm . - Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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. This illuminating text will interest students and scholars of crime and detective fiction, literary studies, and comparative literature"--
9781032264912 9781032264936
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. --Criticism and interpretation.
Detective and mystery stories, English
English fiction--20th century
History and criticism
Literary criticism.
PR6005.H66 / Z834 2022
823.912 / R755
Agatha Christie and new directions in reading detective fiction : narratology and detective criticism / Alistair Rolls. - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2022. - x, 179 p. ; 23 cm . - Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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. This illuminating text will interest students and scholars of crime and detective fiction, literary studies, and comparative literature"--
9781032264912 9781032264936
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. --Criticism and interpretation.
Detective and mystery stories, English
English fiction--20th century
History and criticism
Literary criticism.
PR6005.H66 / Z834 2022
823.912 / R755