God and the Little Grey Cells

God and the Little Grey Cells

Religion in Agatha Christie's Poirot Stories

Clanton, Jr., Dan W.

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

06/2024

256

Dura

Inglês

9780567696076

15 a 20 dias

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Acknowledgments
Author's Preface
Introduction
Part One: Literary and Historical Background
Chapter 1: Golden Age Crime Fiction and Agatha Christie
Chapter 2: Christianity in England and Agatha Christie
Part Two: The Bible in Christie's Poirot Stories
Chapter 3: Death on the Nile
Chapter 4: Evil Under the Sun
Chapter 5: The Prodigal Son
Part Three: Poirot, Religion, and Christianity
Chapter 6: Poirot's Religious Identity, Part 1: Background and Nine Themes
Chapter 7: Poirot's Religious Identity, Part 2: "The Chocolate Box" and Taken at the Flood
Chapter 8: Murder on the Orient Express
Chapter 9: The A.B.C. Murders
Chapter 10: Curtain
Part Four: "Other" Religions in Christie's Poirot Stories
Chapter 11: A Christian "Cult"
Chapter 12: Spiritualism
Chapter 13: Jews and Judaism
Chapter 14: Muslims and Islam
Conclusion
Appendix: Biblical Allusions and Quotations
Bibliography
Index
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Agatha Christie; Hercule Poirot; The Bible; Poirot; religion; media; popular culture; Christie studies; biblical studies