Dining room detectives : analysing food in the novels of Agatha Christie / by Silvia Baučeková.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baučeková, Silvia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food in literature.

Detective and mystery stories, English.

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976--Criticism and interpretation.

Christie, Agatha.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

In the structuralist understanding as proposed by John G. Cawelti, a classical detective novel is defined as a formula which contains prescribed elements and develops in a predefined, ritualistic manner. When described in this way, the crime fiction formula very closely resembles a recipe: when one cooks, they also add prescribed ingredients in a predefined way in order to produce the final dish.This surprising parallel serves as the starting point for this book's analysis of classical detective novels by Agatha Christie. Here, a structuralist approach to Golden Age crime fiction is complement

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Conclusion

Appendix A

Appendix B

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 17, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8124-4

OCLC:

921216992