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Beschreibung
Agatha Christie is the author of over 80 books and the world's longest running play. This Very Short Introduction will explore this extraordinary success by considering the curious alchemy of her straightforward style and her convoluted plotting, and it will examine the construction of her most popular serial characters.
Agatha Christie is the author of over 80 books and the world's longest running play. This Very Short Introduction will explore this extraordinary success by considering the curious alchemy of her straightforward style and her convoluted plotting, and it will examine the construction of her most popular serial characters.
Über den Autor
Gill Plain is Professor of English at the University of St Andrews. Alongside a lifelong preoccupation with crime fiction, she has research interests in British literature, cinema, and culture of the mid-twentieth century, war writing, feminist theory and gender studies. She is the author of Women's Fiction of the Second World War (1996); Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction: Gender, Sexuality and the Body (2001); and Literature of the 1940s: War, Postwar and 'Peace' (2013).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 1: Agatha Christie and the 'Golden Age' of crime

  • 2: Means, motive, and opportunity: Christie's techniques

  • 3: Not just escapism? Christie in context

  • 4: Criminal opinions? Christie's politics

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Very Short Introductions
ISBN-13: 9780198863748
ISBN-10: 0198863748
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Plain, Gill
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen: 6 back and white images
Maße: 174 x 111 x 10 mm
Von/Mit: Gill Plain
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.07.2025
Gewicht: 0,136 kg
Artikel-ID: 130441842

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