From Maps to Stories
Dangerous Spaces in Agatha Christie’s Homes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20248240 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Debora Antonietta Sarnelli (University of Salerno, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0787 • E-ISSN: 2076-0787 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/h8010023 |
| OpenAlex | W2911398980 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
In the common imagination, home denotes the physical space where human beings find protection, intimacy, and bliss. Home is a place of affection and warmth. This article proposes to analyze the perception of the place called home within Christie’s narratives and how her fictional households are deprived of their protective value and become as blood soaked as the hard-boiled dirty back alleys. The article focuses on how every room occupies a different role in Christie’s fictional houses. There are safe rooms—the busiest rooms of the household where murder never happens—and dangerous rooms. The dangerous room—the murder scene—is described through the use of a map offered by the first-person narrator. The map provides the reader with important spatial information: this is the very place where the murder was perpetrated
Affection · Agatha · Art · BLISS · Literature · Living room · Narrative · Perception · Sociology · Computer Science · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Engineering · History · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |