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Detecting dominant discourses in selected detective fiction by Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie
Thesis (DLitt)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/24763 Detecting dominant discourses in selected detective fiction by Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie Smith, Ann L. liesel.c@webmail.co.za Coetzee, Liesel Horizon of expectation Discourse Children’s literature Detective fiction Enid blyton Nationality Hans-georg gadamer Hans jauss Gender Race Class Agatha christie Hegemony Michel foucault Raymond williams Antonio gramsci UCTD Thesis (DLitt)--University of Pretoria, 2010. Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie were the most successful British women writers of their time. Christie and Blyton were contemporaries, living and writing in the United Kingdom during the first half of the twentieth century. This study takes into consideration these similarities in its examination of the depiction of dominant discourses in relation to emergent, alternative and oppositional discourses in their writing. This thesis suggests that while Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie offer alternatives to the dominant patriarchal discourses of the British Empire in the first half of the twentieth century, they show allegiance, too, to the dominant discourses of their time. Specific consideration is given to the portrayal of discourses concerned with gender, feminism, classism, British colonialism, racism, and xenophobia in their writing. The work of Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie was extremely popular in their time and still is today. Their important contribution to popular literature in England in the early twentieth century justifies a study of a selection of their work in relation to detective fiction and children’s literature as well as to studies of social history that include the investigation of how dominant discourse is both endorsed and challenged. English unrestricted 2013-09-06T18:18:57Z 2011-05-20 2013-09-06T18:18:57Z 2011-04-18 2010 2011-05-17 Thesis Coetzee, L 2010, Detecting dominant discourses in selected detective fiction by Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie , DLitt thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24763 > D11/192/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24763 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05172011-105057/ © 2010 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Horizon of expectation Discourse Children’s literature Detective fiction Enid blyton Nationality Hans-georg gadamer Hans jauss Gender Race Class Agatha christie Hegemony Michel foucault Raymond williams Antonio gramsci UCTD Detecting dominant discourses in selected detective fiction by Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie |
| title | Detecting dominant discourses in selected detective fiction by Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie |
| title_full | Detecting dominant discourses in selected detective fiction by Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie |
| title_fullStr | Detecting dominant discourses in selected detective fiction by Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie |
| title_full_unstemmed | Detecting dominant discourses in selected detective fiction by Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie |
| title_short | Detecting dominant discourses in selected detective fiction by Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie |
| title_sort | detecting dominant discourses in selected detective fiction by enid blyton and agatha christie |
| topic | Horizon of expectation Discourse Children’s literature Detective fiction Enid blyton Nationality Hans-georg gadamer Hans jauss Gender Race Class Agatha christie Hegemony Michel foucault Raymond williams Antonio gramsci UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24763 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05172011-105057/ |