https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:29299 Wed 11 Apr 2018 16:31:56 AEST ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:29301 fiction and on crime fiction criticism. This base, of the creative and critical, can inform the production of a work that offers an aesthetic quality and an academically rigorous contribution to conversations around one of the world’s best-selling genres.]]> Wed 11 Apr 2018 13:09:11 AEST ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:26674 in other words, and indeed texts in other words. This textuality brims over and strains against the generic parameters that she is considered to have pioneered, but which have been set in stone by critics, those all-powerful readers. This article follows one line of flight beyond the bounds of the detectival solution. The marrow thrown by Hercule Poirot in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd will be shown to be a literary act par excellence, a sign of textual exuberance. Or perhaps not so much a sign (for all signs point to the solution, do they not?) as an explosion. I shall read the marrow for what it is - a marrow with a history; I shall try to go beyond the metaphorical in favour of the intertextual; and finally, rather than turning a blind eye to it in our pursuit of the murderer, I shall read it.]]> Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:26:53 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:25087 Mon 07 May 2018 15:48:41 AEST ]]>