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Hercule Poirot and the Tricky Performers of Stereotypes in Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express [PDF]
Text Matters, 2021 Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express (1934) remains well-read, and its hero Hercule Poirot continues to enjoy popular currency. Yet the text has not aged well due to some of its now clichéd plot developments and dialogue, as well as Christie’s ...
Kenneth David Eckert
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Taxonomic and Thematic Organisation of Proper Name Conceptual Knowledge [PDF]
Behavioural Neurology, 2011 We report the investigation of the organisation of proper names in two aphasic patients (NBC and FBI). The performance of both patients on spoken word to written word matching tasks was inconsistent, affected by presentation rate and semantic relatedness
Sebastian J. Crutch +1 more
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Hercule Poirot and Criminal Psychology: Crime and Detection in Selected Novels of Agatha Christie [PDF]
Journal of Language Horizons, 2021 In this article, we explore the concept of criminal psychology and will explicate some of its major tenets in characterization of Hercule Poirot. Using an interdisciplinary approach, by close reading and drawing from crime and psychological theories ...
Esmaeil Najar, Fatemeh Salehi Vaziri
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Szerepjáték, álnévhasználat és irodalmi fikció [PDF]
Névtani Értesítő, 2019 Role-playing games, the use of pseudonyms and literary fiction The paper contains the onomastic analysis of the comedy crime novel Zločin Hercula Poirona (The Crime of Hercule Poiron) by Eva Bešťáková, which was published in 2016. The focus is on the
KRISZTIÁN BENYOVSZKY
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Hercule Poirot, foreigners and traveling in the works by Agatha Christie
Studia Humanitatis, 2023 The author is looking for an answer of the question how there was born an idea in a number of works by Agatha Christie. The article provides examples that were not mentioned earlier, showing the connection of the novelist’s work with episodes from her ...
Bogatyrev Arseniy Vladimirovich
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The Comfort of Crime: The Appeal of Formulaic Fiction during the Pandemic
Litteraria Copernicana, 2021 2020 was taxing, and one of the comforting ways of dealing with the uncertainty the COVID-19 pandemic has brought was reading. It seems hardly surprising that the British turned to crime fiction, which they not only avidly consume but also successfully ...
Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko
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Desde Afuera: el imaginario arqueológico [PDF]
La Zaranda de Ideas, 2005 novia es arqueóloga. Yo, escritor. Por lo menos es lo que ella cree. Lo que no sabe es que también soy detective. Mi seudónimo es Binford. Ya sé, ya sé. Un poco pretencioso.
Mathias de Breyne
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Georges Simenon y su comisario-analista comprensivo, compasivo y misericordioso
Cuadernos de Teología - Universidad Católica del Norte, 2017 Este artículo parte de la hipótesis de que el escritor belga-francés George Simenon polemiza, en sus novelas policiales con el comisario Maigret como protagonista, por un lado, con el modelo del clásico detective privado como superhombre intelectual (cf.
Clemens Franken Kurzen
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Open Library of Humanities, 2019 A variety of psychoanalytic readings of late-Victorian and early-twentieth century crime fiction often place the detective at the centre of their analysis, depicting them as a conduit through which readings of other aspects of the genre can be ...
Samuel Joseph Saunders
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Crime Fiction: A Global Phenomenon
IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship, 2016 Crime fiction, if you choose to classify it in its broadest sense, has a very long history. Detectives can be found in ancient texts from around the world.
Bill Phillips
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