Understanding Agatha Christie / Tison Pugh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pugh, Tison, author.

Series:

Understanding contemporary British literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Christie, Agatha.

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Path to Open

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2023]

Summary:

"According to various sources, Agatha Christie is the bestselling novelist of all time, and in terms of total sales in all genres, she comes behind only the Christian Bible and Shakespeare. Because her novels are continuously adapted into new television series and films, including Kenneth Branagh's recent revivals of the star-studded affairs of the 1970s with Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and Death on the Nile (2022), interest in her publications has not noticeably waned. In Understanding Agatha Christie, Tison Pugh demonstrates both the pleasures of her fiction in terms of their play with the conventions of genre fiction and the ways in which she elevates her novels further through her use of various literary devices. He structures the manuscript around seven paradoxes of Christie's lasting success: her refusal to publicize herself while encoding personal experiences into her novels; resistance to the rules of mystery fiction; complex relationship with "cozies"; writing outside of the mystery genre; sardonic humor; critique of Englishness; and ambivalent relationship to film adaptation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Understanding Agatha Christie : the seven paradoxes of her appeal

Agatha Christie's life and puzzling persona

The scofflaw of the golden age of detective fiction

The hardboiled queen of the cozies

The poet of genre fiction

The tragicomic themes of Christie's murders

The queer insularity of Christie's England

Christie's murders at the movies . . . And why she disliked them

Conclusion : literary criticism and the mystery of Christie's murderous pleasures.

Notes:

Title from online title page (viewed on October 20, 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Pugh, Tison. Understanding Agatha Christie

ISBN:

9781643364421

1643364421

OCLC:

1377722612

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.