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Agatha Christiepower and illusion /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Agatha ChristieR.A.York.
Reminder of title:	power and illusion /
Author:	York, R. A.,
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2007.
Description:	viii, 175 p.
Series:	Crime files series
Subject:	Detective and mystery stories, EnglishHistory and criticism.
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230590786

Agatha Christiepower and illusion /
York, R. A.,1941-

Agatha Christiepower and illusion /[electronic resource] :R.A.York. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2007. - viii, 175 p. - Crime files series.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The spectacle of death -- The wrong angle -- Actors and imposters --Human nature -- The self and the other -- Change and decay -- The war of good and evil -- Clues -- The myth of crime -- The real and the unreal -- The culture -- Curtain: a conclusion.

Agatha Christie's novels are not just an image of an ideal world of comfort and order. They depict a world subject to change - to war, to social instability, to the questioning of moral values - and they are closely related to current events. How did Christie, nostalgic for a stable society, respond to change? This book considers her treatment of crime both as illustrating a fundamentally evil human nature and as provoking ingenuity, enterprise, collaboration and enhanced tolerance. Two key factors appear: the illusion which she thinks inherent in human understanding and which is exploited by the cynical and self-interested, andthe love of power which taints family and society, which can provoke and motivate murder, and yet which is the basis of energetic action - for good or for evil. Against these stands the activity of the detectives: but is this activity rational or intuitive?Is it innocent, or does it have some complicity with the power and illusion it seeks to combat?

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230590786

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230590786doiSubjects--Personal Names:

465513
Christie, Agatha,
1890-1976--Stories, plots, etc.Subjects--Topical Terms:

298375
Detective and mystery stories, English
--History and criticism.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR6005.H66 / Z96 2007eb

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.912

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