Agatha Christie and new directions in reading detective fiction : narratology and detective criticism / Alistair Rolls.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rolls, Alistair, 1971- author.

Series:

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature.

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976.

Christie, Agatha.

Detective and mystery stories, English.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 pages)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2022]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-328852-9

1-003-28852-9

1-000-60439-X

1-000-60438-1

9781003288527

OCLC:

1311967431