Allusion in Detective Fiction: Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L. Sayers

Bloomfield, Jem

Allusion in Detective Fiction: Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L. Sayers
  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-07-10
  • 售價: $4,660
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 230
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3031583388
  • ISBN-13: 9783031583384

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商品描述

This study argues that allusion is a central part of classic British detective fiction. It demonstrates the fraught status of Shakespeare and the Bible during the Golden Age of the British detective novel, and the cultural currents which novelists navigated whilst alluding to them. The first part traces the complex web of allusions to Shakespeare and the Bible which appear in the novels of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, examining the meanings these allusions produce. The second part explores the way in which Sayers' own collection of detective novels became a canon, on which later novelists exercised those same allusive practices. It studies allusions to Sayers' novels throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, from Gladys Mitchell and P.D. James to Reginald Hill and Sujata Massey. This study reveals allusion as a shaping force at the origin of the classic British detective novel, and a continuing element in its identity.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本研究主張暗示是經典英國偵探小說的核心部分。它展示了在英國偵探小說的黃金時代，莎士比亞和聖經的問題性地位，以及小說家們在引用這些作品時所面臨的文化潮流。第一部分追蹤了阿加莎·克里斯蒂和多羅西·L·塞耶斯小說中出現的對莎士比亞和聖經的複雜引用網絡，並探討了這些引用所產生的意義。第二部分探討了塞耶斯自己的偵探小說集如何成為一個經典，後來的小說家們也運用了同樣的引用實踐。它研究了從格拉迪斯·米切爾和P.D.詹姆斯到雷金納德·希爾和蘇賈塔·馬西等人在20世紀和21世紀對塞耶斯小說的引用。本研究揭示了引用作為經典英國偵探小說起源的塑造力量，以及其身份中持續存在的元素。

作者簡介

Jem Bloomfield is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Nottingham, UK. His research interests focus around detective fiction, British mid-century writing, and the reception histories of Shakespeare and the Bible. His books include Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible (2016), Witchcraft and Paganism in Midcentury Women's Detective Fiction (2022) and Paths in the Snow: A Literary Journey Through The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2023).

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Jem Bloomfield是英國諾丁漢大學的文學助理教授。他的研究興趣主要集中在偵探小說、英國中世紀寫作以及莎士比亞和聖經的接受史。他的著作包括《Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible》（2016年）、《Witchcraft and Paganism in Midcentury Women's Detective Fiction》（2022年）和《Paths in the Snow: A Literary Journey Through The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe》（2023年）。

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