https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:43220 Appointment with Death (1938) poses a challenge to the longstanding critical practice of highlighting Agatha Christie's lack of literary sophistication: her 'workmanlike' style, stereotypical settings, two-dimensional characters and ludic conception of the plot as a game that the author plays with the reader. This challenge is due not only to the Middle Eastern setting or the novel's detailed psychoanalytical reading of domestic abuse, but also, more importantly, to its textual and subtextual debates surrounding truth and justice and the articulation of both through narrative. Based on a detailed textual examination of the novel, drawing in part on Pierre Bayard's 'counterinvestigative' approach to detective fiction, I argue that Appointment with Death presents readers with two competing narratives: Poirot's standard narrative of criminal retribution and a mythical narrative that links the suppression of pre-civilisational savagery to the practice of human sacrifice. As suggested by way of conclusion, this dual narrative structure must be seen as an effect of place, specifically the relocation of an English murder mystery to a Middle Eastern rife with cultural and mythical meanings.]]> Wed 14 Sep 2022 15:22:54 AEST ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:36664 Tue 23 Jun 2020 11:12:43 AEST ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:48344 Tue 14 Mar 2023 18:32:49 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:35473 Tue 13 Aug 2019 12:27:18 AEST ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:28405 The Body in the Library in order to demonstrate (1) how fetishism itself is a form of adaptation and thus how adaptation functions fetishistically; (2) how the fetishism diaplayed in the 2004 adaptation of the The Body in the Library reflexively references a more primal fetishism at work in the 'original' text; and (3) how the body in ,The Body in the Library functions as a screen memory to disavow (both veil and reference) a primal, and otherwise purloined, body. Finally, it is argued that the diegesis proper of The Body in the Library is itself a screen memory, or adaptation, designed to mask the original, transgressive desire of Dolly Bantry.]]> Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:36:02 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:37733 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) to look at ideas of the need (or not) to be faithful to an original text. The authors unpack some of the issues that surround the often controversial notion of the "canon" in detective fiction and present the telemovie as an example of the text's critical difference.]]> Mon 29 Mar 2021 15:29:59 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:32390 Mon 23 Sep 2019 13:35:56 AEST ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:24034 Murder on the Orient Express (1934) that highlights how Christie’s novel undermines Poirot’s authority as a detective and thereby also undermines his solution. The essay argues that the dénouement fails to bring about complete transparency and reduce the literary complexity of Christie’s plot.]]> Mon 23 Sep 2019 12:45:11 AEST ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:24032 Mon 23 Sep 2019 12:40:35 AEST ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:28403 Dead Man's Folly can assist in deconstructing the novel as a textual folly. A comparison of Dead Man's Folly to The Body in the Library reveals that Christie's tricks in the latter text, which may or may not have fooled Miss Marple, are also played on Hercule Poirot.]]> Mon 23 Sep 2019 10:23:12 AEST ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:40227 Mon 08 Aug 2022 13:23:34 AEST ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:42212 Fri 19 Aug 2022 11:14:34 AEST ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39512 Death in the Clouds (1935) and Dashiell Hammett’s The Dain Curse (1928–1929). This article argues that the fictional authors have significant implications for our understanding of the two novels, not only because they serve as mediums for reflection on the detection genre and its conventions, but also, more importantly, because they initiate a complex interplay between conflicting forms of authority – a game of truth and fiction that threatens the authority of the detective protagonist and thereby calls into question the authoritative self-interpretation of the mystery plot as presented in the form of the detective’s solution. The article presents a comparative analysis of two writers who are rarely studied together and may seem to have little in common, embodying as they do two distinctive styles of detective fiction. As the analysis shows, the close proximity of detectives and authors in both novels makes for an important and overlooked connection between them, bringing to light a set of shared epistemological ironies.]]> Fri 10 Jun 2022 15:35:30 AEST ]]>