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 depiction of class, ethnic and national prejudices in it and her other novels. This study hopes ...
Published in Prague Journal of English Studies
Agatha Christie’s outlook on gender, as depicted in her novels, has been described as conservative or even criticised as anti-feminist. However, more recently, a growing number of feminist scholars (Alison Light, Susan Rowland, Merja Makinen) have begun to oppose this view and instead argue that Christie’s approach to the various social phenomena d...
From the mid-nineteenth century, Britain experienced a 'detective craze'Â in popular culture. The girl detective emerged comparatively late in the first decade of the twentieth century. Despite the prominence and permeation of the girl detective in British experiences of girlhood, the cultural and social meanings of this character have not been si...
Published in Frontiers of Narrative Studies
The first paragraph of Greene’s The End of the Affair establishes a clear link between two of the major themes of the novel: storytelling and Catholicism. Maurice Bendrix, the first-person narrator, considers whether it is his craft as a professional writer that leads him to begin telling his story the way he does, or, were he a believer, whether t...
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Published in Dementia (London, England)
Namen magistrske naloge je raziskati, kako se idiomi prevajajo iz angleškega jezika v slovenski jezik ter analizirati težave, s katerimi se je med postopkom prevajanja srečal prevajalec. V teoretičnem delu naloge so predstavljene štiri teme: Agatha Christie in analizirana knjiga Pet prašičkov, detektivski žanr, prevajanje in frazeologija s poudarko...
This paper addresses Paul Auster’s Oracle Night (2004) through the lens of storyworld theories. This approach seeks to reveal the transfictional and metaleptic dimensions of the novel while also analyzing recurrent Austerian motifs such as the figure of the writer-investigator, the porous border between fiction and reality, and the mise en abyme of...
This essay offers a reading of Shelley's "Julian and Maddalo" as a Detective Story, or rather, as a metacognitive mystery tale. The poem indeed asks important questions about the possibility and reliability of knowledge. The detective-poet's quest for higher truths is confronted with the impenetrable forces of the sublime and the grotesque and is t...
