§B RA "The process of detection is more interesting than the characterisation". TWEDYA?

§B RA "The process of detection is more interesting than the characterisation". TWEDYA?

method order and the little grey cells

clue-puzzle structure -- reader partaking in the detection

emotional distance

Poirot as a god-like figure

hidden character flaws

each one of you has something to hide

examples

disruptive?

more pronounced in RC BS -- in fact the primary function -- "life as it is lived"

I mean to know, and i shall know -- in spite of you all. -- all knowing intelligence

actual mustachioied brain...... / cleanliness

blunt's face a "mask"

plain writing style -- avoidance o f flamboyant imagery

stock characters from upper-middle class milieu

well-to do upper middle class businessman

spinster

servants

satire

"teeth and chains and bones"

egg-shaped head

everything is contained in the details and can be solved with enough intelligence

at the end of the proc of det stands a restoration of order: criminal cannot act once unmasked (PR)

Poirot's insistence on minor details such as turned out chair enable him to unravel mystery

timetables, maps, objective lang, declarative sentences, to convey clues

"The Hercule Poirots ... need only to sit back in a chair and think." (Dumb Witness)

increaasing secularisation in early C20th.

comforting -- reader superior to characters

ludic/escapist function

LoC avoid trauma

reflect politically conservative class for whom Christie was writing

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yes, present in Dupain

but only reaching a v. wide audience because of this soc ctx

Caroline as early version of Miss Marple

more pronounced than in EB's Trent's LC
-- elements of Kuenstlerroman... -
bc that was before war.

Raskin wish-fulfilment function - identify with the vindictiveness of the detective?

Lit of convalescence - crime is controllable by intelligence