THE CONCEPT OF EVIL IN A. CHRISTIE’S DETECTIVE STORIES
Journal Title: Львівський філологічний часопис - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue
Abstract
The paper is focused on the problem of the inner structure of the detective stories by Agatha Christie. Agatha Christie is one of the most known writers of detective stories in the world. She is also one of the best-selling novelist in modern literature. Her special gift to give people a piece of mystery in their lives rendered her to live forever in their minds. She published 66 detective novels and stories, which were translated into 44 languages. Her fertileness was and still is an inimitable art of writing which catching continually the multitude of the readers. The object of the research is to present the inner structure in A. Christie’s detective stories, through the prism of literary and stylistic analysis. Through many years researchers were trying to study A. Christie’s way of writing focusing on different aspects of her style. They were looking for the answer how she combined plots making the readers so involved into a story. After plenty of studies they assumed that A. Christie’s detective stories were so successful because of her plain language which could be compared to Sir A. C. Doyle, who often used many different variants of the word “answered”, though for A. Christie there was the word “said” which she seldom used in writing. She also didn’t have a custom of introducing new words, rather she was prone to use everyday middle-class English. A. Christie also didn’t challenge the readers with vocabulary to ease them be focused on the plot.
Authors and Affiliations
Maria Stepanivna Malanyuk, Ivanna Ivanivna Barnych, Natalia Vasylivna Svydnytska-Ilkiv Natalia Vasylivna
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