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”Mind you, I still believe in democracy” : Samhälle och politik i Agatha Christieskriminalromaner
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- Wendelius, Lars (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen
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- Uppsala : Svenska Litteratursällskapet, 2007
- 2007
- Swedish.
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In: Samlaren. - Uppsala : Svenska Litteratursällskapet. - 0348-6133 .- 2002-3871. ; 128, s. 146-175
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- Lars Wendelius, ”Mind you, I still believe in democracy”. Samhälle och politik i Agatha Christies kriminalromaner. (Society and Politics in Agatha Christie’s Crime Novels.) A deep distrust of man and a longing for order and stability characterize Christie’s novels. The social system is threatened by man’s desire to transgress given boundaries, above all by his utopian and idealistic dreams of a brave new world nourished by his lust for power. The opponents of these tendencies represent pragmatism, common sense, experience and traditions — virtues personified by characters like Jane Marple and Hercule Poirot. Christie’s books are characterized by, on the one hand, a tendency to idealize the old (Victorian and Edwardian) world and to represent the modern world as rootless and hollow, and, on the other hand, a tendency to represent the modern world as full of possibilities of self-realization for common man.
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- HUMANIORA -- Språk och litteratur -- Litteraturvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Languages and Literature -- General Literary Studies (hsv//eng)
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- Literature
- Litteraturvetenskap
- Literature
- Litteraturvetenskap
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- art (subject category)
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