https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 https://nova.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://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:20765 Wed 11 Apr 2018 13:30:17 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:25588 Insel Felsenburg is a striking literary manifestation of this conflict. As I argue, the narrative logic of this voluminous and somewhat bizarre novel can only be fully appreciated when taking into account its complex negotiations of mobility and movement control. Marking the confluence of two novelistic traditions, the utopian novel and the adventure novel, it is equally reliant on the settledness and the nomadism of its central characters, the former being the precondition for social order, the latter the basis for the novel's narrative momentum. The structure of the novel results from an attempt to resolve this conflict by channelling mobility into politically and morally acceptable paths - that is, by inventing a literary movement control regime.]]> Wed 04 Sep 2019 10:31:02 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39850 Tue 28 Jun 2022 11:59:08 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:44930 Tue 25 Oct 2022 10:01:34 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:32296 Tue 22 May 2018 14:02:01 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:32158 Tue 08 May 2018 14:13:52 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:45861 Thu 08 Dec 2022 09:53:53 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:13326 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:17:03 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:16444 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:51:12 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:25586 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:35:15 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:25069 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:10:42 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:43638 Mon 26 Sep 2022 16:36:56 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:43634 Mon 26 Sep 2022 16:22:46 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:28400 Insel Felsenburg (1731-43), Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (1795-96) as compared to Godwin's Caleb Williams (1794), and Stendhal's La Chartreuse de Parme (1839).]]> Mon 23 Sep 2019 13:44:57 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:24033 Mon 23 Sep 2019 13:44:36 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:25374 Mon 23 Sep 2019 13:24:42 AEST ]]> https://nova.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://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:24032 Mon 23 Sep 2019 12:40:35 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:9955 Mon 23 Sep 2019 12:38:26 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:32149 A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768) includes among its scenes and vignettes a suite of chapters devoted to what would later, in the wake of the French Revolution, become a standard motif of British travel writing: the passport, seen both as an instrument of control and as a means of gaining access to otherwise restricted territories. When reconstructed without the jumbled chronology that characterizes Sterne’s fiction, this episode relates how the whimsical narrator, Yorick, forgot to procure a valid travel document for himself prior to his precipitous departure for France, and how he eventually makes up for this neglect with the help of a well-connected count at Versailles. In purely narrative terms, it plays only a minor role in a book that, as indicated by the title, is more concerned with the emotional than the epic aspects of travel. Arguably, Yorick’s passport predicament serves simply as a pretext for introducing another suite of sentimental scenes, beginning with that of the encaged starling, evocative of the confined existence of a prisoner, and concluding with the narrator’s successful attempt to identify himself to the count by gesturing towards the gravedigger scene in Hamlet, which features the skull of his namesake, the late court jester. Yet, as I argue in this essay, the significance of the passport episode goes far beyond this narrative function.]]> Mon 23 Sep 2019 12:10:42 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:16437 Mon 23 Sep 2019 12:09:47 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:16564 Mon 23 Sep 2019 11:48:13 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:22797 Mon 23 Sep 2019 11:46:46 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:20573 Mon 23 Sep 2019 11:18:42 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:16374 Mon 23 Sep 2019 10:33:27 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:10221 Mon 23 Sep 2019 10:33:19 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:32148 Mon 23 Sep 2019 10:21:16 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:19707 Mon 23 Sep 2019 10:09:26 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:40394 Mon 22 Aug 2022 14:31:45 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:50237 Mon 10 Jul 2023 14:50:27 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:25087 Mon 07 May 2018 15:48:41 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:25587 Fri 20 Sep 2019 02:42:43 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:46083 Fri 11 Nov 2022 09:03:19 AEDT ]]> https://nova.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 ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:41526 Fri 05 Aug 2022 12:38:27 AEST ]]>