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Queering Agatha Christie

J.C Bernthal
Queering Agatha Christie Book PDF

Author : J.C Bernthal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319335339

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Queering Agatha Christie by J.C Bernthal Pdf

This book is the first fully theorized queer reading of a Golden Age British crime writer. Agatha Christie was the most commercially successful novelist of the twentieth century, and her fiction remains popular. She created such memorable characters as Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple, and has become synonymous with a nostalgic, conservative tradition of crime fiction. J.C. Bernthal reads Christie through the lens of queer theory, uncovering a playful, alert, and subversive social commentary. After considering Christie’s emergence in a commercial market hostile to her sex, in Queering Agatha Christie Bernthal explores homophobic stereotypes, gender performativity, queer children, and masquerade in key texts published between 1920 and 1952. Christie engaged with debates around human identity in a unique historical period affected by two world wars. The final chapter considers twenty-first century Poirot and Marple adaptations, with visible LGBT characters, and poses the question: might the books be queerer?

Miss Pym Disposes

Josephine Tey
Miss Pym Disposes Book PDF

Author : Josephine Tey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476733296

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Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey Pdf

Miss Lucy Pym, a popular English psychologist, is guest lecturer at a physical training college. The year's term is nearly over, and Miss Pym -- inquisitive and observant -- detects a furtiveness in the behavior of one student during a final exam. She prevents the girl from cheating by destroying her crib notes. But Miss Pym's cover-up of one crime precipitates another -- a fatal "accident" that only her psychological theories can prove was really murder.

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie

Mary Anna Evans,J.C. Bernthal
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie Book PDF

Author : Mary Anna Evans,J.C. Bernthal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350212480

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie by Mary Anna Evans,J.C. Bernthal Pdf

Nominated for the 2023 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical / Biography The first specifically academic companion to contemporary scholarship on the work of Agatha Christie, this book includes chapters by an international group of scholars writing on topics and fields of study as various as ecocriticism and the anthropocene, popular modernism, middlebrow fiction, queer theory, feminism, crime and the state, and more. It addresses a broad selection of Christie's crime novels, as well as her short stories, literary novels written pseudonymously, and her own and others' dramatic adaptations for television, film, and the stage. Featuring unprecedented access to images and content held in Christie's personal archive, as well as a Foreword from renowned crime fiction writer Val McDermid, this is essential reading for anyone interested in Christie's work and legacy.

Murder in the Closet

Curtis Evans
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Author : Curtis Evans
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476626338

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Murder in the Closet by Curtis Evans Pdf

Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots, LGBTQ life was dominated by the negative image of "the closet"--the metaphorical space where that which was deemed "queer" was hidden from a hostile public view. Literary studies of queer themes and characters in crime fiction have tended to focus on the more positive and explicit representations since the riots, while pre-Stonewall works are thought to reference queer only negatively or obliquely. This collection of new essays questions that view with an investigation of queer aspects in crime fiction published over eight decades, from the corseted Victorian era to the unbuttoned 1960s.

The Ageless Agatha Christie

J.C. Bernthal
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Author : J.C. Bernthal
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476623979

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The Ageless Agatha Christie by J.C. Bernthal Pdf

When Agatha Christie died in 1976, she was the bestselling mystery writer in history. This collection of new essays brings fresh perspectives to Christie scholarship with new readings and discussions of little-known aspects of her life, career and legacy. The contributors explore her relationship with modernism, the relevance of queer theory, television adaptations, issues with translations, information behavior theory, feminist readings, postcolonial tribute novels, celebrity culture and heritage cinema. The final word is given to fans in an editorial that collates testimonies from readers, collectors and enthusiasts.

The Body in the Library

Agatha Christie
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Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0613571908

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The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie Pdf

For use in schools and libraries only. When Colonel and Mrs. Bantry find the corpse of a beautiful girl in their library, they rely upon their good friend Miss Marple to unravel the crime.

Agatha Christie Goes to War

Rebecca Mills,J.C. Bernthal
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Author : Rebecca Mills,J.C. Bernthal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000740844

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Agatha Christie Goes to War by Rebecca Mills,J.C. Bernthal Pdf

Agatha Christie has never been substantially considered as a war writer, even though war is a constant presence in her writing. This interdisciplinary collection of essays considers the effects of these conflicts on the social and psychological textures of Christie’s detective fiction and other writings, demonstrating not only Christie’s textual navigation of her contemporary surroundings and politics, but also the value of her voice as a popular fiction writer reflecting popular concerns. Agatha Christie Goes to War introduces the ‘Queen of Crime’ as an essential voice in the discussion of war, warfare, and twentieth century literature.

Nemesis

Agatha Christie
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Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062073702

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Nemesis by Agatha Christie Pdf

In utter disbelief, Miss Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr. Rafiel—an acquaintance she had met briefly on her travels. He had left instructions for her to investigate a crime after his death. The only problem was, he had failed to tell her who was involved or where and when the crime had been committed. It was most intriguing. Soon she is faced with a new crime—the ultimate crime—murder. It seems someone is adamant that past evils remained buried. . . .

The Sittaford Mystery

Agatha Christie
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Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061752209

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The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie Pdf

The Sittaford Mystery is Dame Agatha at her most intriguing, as a séance in a snowbound house predicts a particularly grisly murder. In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: "Captain Trevelyan . . . dead . . . murder." Is this black magic or simply a macabre joke? The only way to be certain is to locate Captain Trevelyan. Unfortunately, his home is six miles away and, with snowdrifts blocking the roads, someone will have to make the journey on foot. . . .

The Seven Dials Mystery

Agatha Christie
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Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 0008255504

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The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie Pdf

A healthy young man dies in his sleep, despite the ringing of eight separate alarm clocks... Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper; so the other house guests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off, one after the other, starting at 6.30 a.m. But when morning arrived, one clock was missing and the prank had backfired with tragic consequences. For Jimmy Thesiger in particular, the words 'Seven Dials' were to take on a new and chilling significance...

Queer/Adaptation

Pamela Demory
Queer Adaptation Book PDF

Author : Pamela Demory
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030053062

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Queer/Adaptation by Pamela Demory Pdf

This collection of essays illuminates the intersection of queer and adaptation. Both adaptation and queerness suffer from the stereotype of being secondary: to identify something as an adaptation is to recognize it in relation to something else that seems more original, more authentic. Similarly, to identify something as queer is to place it in relation to what is assumed to be “normal” or “straight.” This ground-breaking volume brings together fifteen original essays that critically challenge these assumptions about originality, authenticity, and value. The volume is organized in three parts: The essays in Part I examine what happens when an adaptation queers its source text and explore the role of the author/screenwriter/director in making those choices. The essays in Part II look at what happens when filmmakers push against boundaries of various kinds: time and space, texts and bodies, genres and formats. And the essays in Part III explore adaptations whose source texts cannot be easily pinned down, where there are multiple adaptations, and where the adaptation process itself is queer. The book includes discussion of a wide variety of texts, including opera, classic film, genre fiction, documentary, musicals, literary fiction, low-budget horror, camp classics, and experimental texts, providing a comprehensive and interdisciplinary introduction to the myriad ways in which queer and adaptation overlap.

The Golden Spiders

Rex Stout
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Author : Rex Stout
Publisher : Crimeline
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307755971

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Nero Wolfe was almost as famous for his wealthy clients and extravagant fees as for his genius at detection. So why has he accepted a case for $4.30? And why have the last two people to hire him been ruthlessly murdered? Wolfe suspects the answers may lie in the story of a twelve-year-old boy who turns up at the door of his West Thirty-fifth Street brownstone. In short order, Wolfe finds himself confronted by one of his most perplexing and pressing cases, involving a curious set of clues: a gray Cadillac, a mysterious woman, and a pair of earrings shaped like spiders dipped in gold. The case is all boiling down to a strange taste of greed—and a grumpy gourmand’s unappeasable appetite for truth. Introduction by Linda Barnes “It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore.”—The New York Times Book Review A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America’s greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time. Together, Stout and Wolfe have entertained—and puzzled—millions of mystery fans around the world. Now, with his perambulatory man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth is back in the original seventy-three cases of crime and detection written by the inimitable master himself, Rex Stout.

The Back Passage

James Lear
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Author : James Lear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781573442435

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The Back Passage by James Lear Pdf

A seaside village, an English country house, a family of wealthy eccentrics and their equally peculiar servants, a determined detective - all the ingredients are here for a cozy Agatha Christie-style whodunnit. But wait - Edward `Mitch' Mitchell is no Hercule Poirot, and The Back Passage is no Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Mitch is a handsome, insatiable 22-year-old hunk who never lets a clue stand in the way of a steamy encounter, whether it's with the local constabulary, or his schoolmate and fellow athlete Boy Morgan, who becomes his Watson.

And Then There Were None

AGATHA CHRISTIE
And Then There Were None Book PDF

Author : AGATHA CHRISTIE
Publisher : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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And Then There Were None by AGATHA CHRISTIE Pdf

First, there were ten—a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a little private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal—and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. A famous nursery rhyme is framed and hung in every room of the mansion: "Ten little boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine. Nine little boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were eight. Eight little boys traveling in Devon; One said he'd stay there then there were seven. Seven little boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in half and then there were six. Six little boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stung one and then there were five. Five little boys going in for law; One got in Chancery and then there were four. Four little boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three. Three little boys walking in the zoo; A big bear hugged one and then there were two. Two little boys sitting in the sun; One got frizzled up and then there was one. One little boy left all alone; He went out and hanged himself and then there were none." When they realize that murders are occurring as described in the rhyme, terror mounts. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. Who has choreographed this dastardly scheme? And who will be left to tell the tale? Only the dead are above suspicion.

Taken at the Flood

Agatha Christie
Taken at the Flood Book PDF

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 0008256098

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Taken at the Flood by Agatha Christie Pdf

A man returns from the dead, and the body of a mysterious stranger is found in his room... A few weeks after marrying an attractive young widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the Cloade family fortune. Shortly afterwards, Hercule Poirot receives a visit from the dead man's sister-in-law who claims she has been warned by 'spirits' that Mrs Underhay's first husband is still alive. Poirot has his suspicions when he is asked to find a missing person guided only by the spirit world. Yet what mystifies Poirot most is the woman's true motive for approaching him...