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The Comfort of Crime: The Appeal of Formulaic Fiction during the Pandemic

open access: yesLitteraria 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]

open access: yesLa 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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Rhetorical structure and reader manipulation in Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper describes Agatha Christie’s use of rhetoric to convince readers of the ‘truth’ of her detective’s solution in The Murder on the Orient Express, and uses an adaptation of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) designed for analyses of long extracts ...
Alexander, M.
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Georges Simenon y su comisario-analista comprensivo, compasivo y misericordioso.

open access: yesCuadernos 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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Encontro com a Morte: tirania e liberdade em Agatha Christie

open access: yesRumores, 2017
Alguns elementos permitem distinguir Encontro com a Morte dos demais romances protagonizados por Hercule Poirot. Dentre eles, considerem-se: a composição das personagens; a forte ligação do detetive com os membros da família; as motivações para o crime ...
Jean Pierre Chauvin
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‘It is Introspective, and I Want to Introspect’: Detection, Isolation, and Neurotypicality in Crime Fiction, c. 1891–1940

open access: yesOpen 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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Queering Agatha Christie: Revisiting the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This is a review of 'Queering Agatha Christie: Revisiting the Golden Age of Detective Fiction' by J.C. Bernthal to be published in Modern Language Review.
Alyce von Rothkirch
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The Italian titles of Agatha Christie’s novels [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article is devoted to an analysis of the titles of the 66 novels written by Agatha Christie, with a special focus on their Italian translations.
Viezzi, Maurizio
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Means of communication in Agatha Christie’s creative concept: telephone, mail, radio

open access: yesStudia Humanitatis, 2023
Agatha Christie’s literary heritage is studied from the point of view of various communication devices use, which are abundantly mentioned in the author’s works.
Bogatyrev Arseniy Vladimirovich
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