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Le présent mémoire propose une analyse de la représentation du personnage du détective dans le roman policier. À l'aide de quatre protagonistes issus de la littérature anglaise, cette recherche traite principalement des différences entre les détectives féminins et masculins. Un panorama des différentes théories relatives au personnage et au roman policier est le point d'ancrage de ce présent projet. Les travaux de Vincent Jouve, Umberto Eco, Jacques Dubois et Yves Reuter sont résumés afin de bien comprendre les concepts qui sont utilisés dans les pages suivantes. L'étude débute avec l'analyse des représentations masculines du détective. Grâce aux personnages de Hercule Poirot et Adam Dalgliesh nous examinons les différents aspects qui les unissent et les séparent. Cette prospection se fait à trois niveaux soit autour de la première description (ou mise en texte) du protagoniste, les réactions et perceptions des autres habitants du roman et, finalement, le point de vue extérieur du lecteur. Les informations recueillies permettent de dresser un portrait sommaire de la représentation masculine du détective. Ensuite, l'analyse des représentations féminines est effectuée. Les personnages de Miss Jane Marple et Cordelia Gray permettent de faire ressortir les ressemblances et les différences existantes entre ces deux héroïnes anglaises. Tout comme pour leurs homonymes masculins, l'analyse des deux détectives se fait sur les trois mêmes niveaux de recherche. Toutefois, l'étude de la confrontation entre Dalgliesh et Gray vient compléter ce qui constitue le troisième chapitre de ce mémoire. En troisième lieu, une réévaluation de l'essai Les femmes et le roman policier d'Anne Lemonde s'impose. A la lumière des informations données dans les chapitres précédents, la désuétude de cet essai québécois sera démontrée. Finalement, une comparaison entre les quatre personnages constitue la conclusion de ce mémoire. Un portrait sommaire est alors esquissé afin de comprendre les ressemblances et les dissemblances entre les deux genres de détectives. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Roman policier, Personnage, Détective, Agatha Christie, P.D. James.

This thesis uses the popular genre of detective fiction to explore the context of the heyday of the crime genre: the Golden Age. This sub-genre, best known for producing Agatha Christie, spanned the complicated history of Britain involving the Great Depression, two World Wars and huge changes to class structure. It is for these reasons that the Golden Age is such a pivotal period for changing notions of British identity. Through the very British Christie and the less well known New Zealander, Ngaio Marsh, expressions of national identity are explored as well as how the colonial fits in. Focusing heavily on the authors and their own personal experiences and views, this thesis is divided into four chapters to further break down how the Golden Age period affected its citizens and why this detective fiction held such a wide appeal. Chapter one explores gender roles and how Golden Age authors both conformed to them through their choice in detectives, yet also how they naturally resisted some through their own public image. Chapter two then examines the issue of class and how Golden Age detective fiction portrayed the changes. Contrary to popular criticism, Christie and Marsh were surprisingly progressive and forward thinking on this subject. Chapter three considers how both authors employed setting to emphasise these changes. Both Christie and Marsh used foreign settings to highlight British society and its flaws, and Marsh used her New Zealand settings to consider the relationship between Britain and her home. The final chapter will consider why Golden Age detective fiction was so popular: what was the appeal? For a period of violence and uncertainty, why were people drawn to crime fiction involving sometimes gruesome death? The appeal lay, and still does, in the puzzle: the game that diverted readers from their own problems. Golden Age fiction may have been highly formulaic and predictable, but it was also highly artificial and self-referential. This was a clever and diverting fiction that has been constantly underestimated by critics and deserves further study.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio University, June, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 338-348)

Thesis (D. Min.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2008. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 200-204).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2008. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 200-204).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2008. / Abstract and vita. Description based on Print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 200-204).

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-03T11:52:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-04-30Bitstream added on 2015-03-03T12:06:36Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000806166.pdf: 1244960 bytes, checksum: 5c69fea2a091a14d202e96d7c24e7479 (MD5) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Esta dissertação tem como objetivo analisar a ficção policial inglesa entre o período do fim do século XIX e início do século XX, em sua historicidade, levando em consideração a importância dos conceitos de representação e verossimilhança para o gênero romance, além de evidentemente, considerar os elementos específicos da ficção policial, como as noções de enigma e investigação, que formam as bases da literatura policial. Sendo assim, retornamos à origem do gênero policial, buscando suas raízes, até que este se desenvolva na forma do romance que conhecemos nos dias atuais. Todas as modificações ocorridas na estrutura da narrativa policial podem ser entendidas como um reflexo das próprias mudanças sociais e culturais que ocorriam neste importante período de transição histórica, visto que a estrutura da narrativa era modificada de acordo com as exigências do público leitor, que buscava sempre ser representada em tal narrativa. O simples fato de a estrutura da narrativa policial poder ser alterada sem perder seus elementos característicos, explica como este gênero não apenas foi capaz de se manter popular até os dias atuais, como também deixam claro como foi possível o surgimento de uma grande quantidade de subgêneros, que acabam por se enquadrar dentro do grande termo ficção criminal. Para realizar tal estudo, foram selecionadas três obras de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, criador do famoso detetive Sherlock Holmes e três obras de Agatha Christie, sendo que estas tem como protagonista seu mais famoso personagem, o detetive belga Hercule Poirot. As obras selecionadas demonstram justamente a adaptação não apenas da estrutura da trama, mas também do personagem principal, o detetive, às mais diversas situações a que é apresentado. O papel do narrador também se mostra fundamental neste estudo, justamente por ser sua figura que guia os leitores pela narrativa, e que se compromete a conceder todas as... / This dissertation aims to analyse the detective story between the end of the nineteenth-century and the beginning of the twentieth-century, in its historicity, taking into consideration the importance of the concepts of representation and verisimilitude for the novel genre, besides evidently take into consideration the specific elements of the detective story, like the notions of riddle and detection, that make the base of the crime fiction. Thus, we return to the origin of the detective story, searching for its roots until that it develops into the form of the detective story we know today. All the modification that happened in the structure of the detective story can be understand as a reflex of the social and cultural modifications that happened in this important time of historical transition, seeing that the structure of the narrative was modified according to the demands of the reading public, that aimed to always be represented in such narratives. The mere fact that the structure of the detective novel can be altered without losing its most characteristic elements explain how this genre was not only able to keep its popularity until today, as it also makes it clear how it was possible for a big quantity of subgenres to rise and be framed into the umbrella term 'crime fiction'. To fulfill such study, three works by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes, were selected, such as three works from Agatha Christie, which are protagonised by her most famous character, the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The selected works show precisely the adaptation not only of the structure of the plot, but also the adaptation of the main character, the detective, to the most diverse situations that he is presented to. The role of the narrator also proves itself to be crucial in this study, justly because it is its figure that guides the readers through the narrative and that...

This thesis provides the first extensive queer reading of a 'Golden Age' British detective fiction writer. The aim of this thesis is to assess queer potential in texts published by Agatha Christie between 1920 and 1952. Human identity can be read as self-consciously constructed in Christie's novels, which were written in a context of two world wars, advances in technology and communication, and what Michel Foucault called the 'medicalization' of Western culture. The self-conscious stereotyping in Christie's prose undermines her texts' conservative appeal to the status quo. Chapter One justifies this project's critique of identity essentialism in the texts by considering the manufacturing of 'Agatha Christie' as a widely-read celebrity author. Reading Christie's authorial identity as something established and refined through a market-driven response to readers' expectations and a conscious engagement with earlier forms of detective fiction provides space for reading identity itself as a stylized, performative, and sometimes parodic theme within the texts. In subsequent chapters, employing theoretical insights from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, and Lee Edelman, I explore Christie's participation in contemporary debates surrounding masculinity, femininity, and the importance of the family in shaping individual identity. Finally, I consider Christie's reputation in the twenty-first century by exploring nostalgic television adaptations of her work. Comparing the presentation of 'queer' characters in the literary texts to the adaptations' use of explicit homosexual themes and characters, I conclude that there is a stronger potential for 'queering' identity in the former. As the first full queer reading of a 'Golden Age' detective novelist, this thesis expands queer notions of archive and canonicity: few scholars to date have considered mainstream literary texts without overt LGBTQ+ themes or characters from a queer perspective. Given Christie's global reach and appeal, locating queerness in her texts means understanding queerness as fundamental to everyday culture. This means engaging with a subversive potential in twentieth century middlebrow conservatism.

The article discusses the adaptation of the Poirot novel Appointment with Death, comparing the original novel with the respective adaptations for television, the cinema, and the theatre. While all adaptations share certain elements with the original source, it is shown that the motion picture starring Peter Ustinov remains most faithful to the novel despite changing some plot details and Ustinov’s performance that is unlike Christie’s original vision of the detective’s appearance. On the other hand, the television series – though retaining the general plot structure – deviates significantly from the novel in many ways, including adding new characters, altering the entire backstories, and altering the murderer’s motifs and approach. Eventually, the theatre version (adapted by Christie herself) is a radical rework of the novel by eliminating the Poirot character completely from the story as well as changing the murderer’s identity.