RT bachelor thesis
T1 Point of view and narrator's control in Agatha Christie's "The Chocolate Box": A stylistics approach
T2 Punto de vista y control del narrador en "La Caja de Bombones" de Agatha Christie: Un enfoque estilístico
A1 Oliva Suárez, Marta
A2 Filología Francesa e Inglesa
K1 Stylistics
K1 Agatha Christie
K1 Speech and thought presentation
K1 Short story
K1 The Chocolate Box
AB Stylistics deals with the analysis of style in language and how the study of linguistic choices in a text contributes to its interpretation (Short 1996, Toolan 1998, Simpson 2004, Jeffries & McIntyre 2010). This project includes a stylistics analysis of the short story "The Chocolate Box" (Christie, 1974) which depicts Agatha Christie’s most famous detective Hercules Poirot. The corpus was selected on the grounds that it has not previously been analyzed from a stylistics viewpoint and that it is the only story in which Poirot fails to uncover the culprit. The project aims at achieving a better understanding of the role of each character in the detective story and how the reader is deceived so as not to uncover the murderer until the end of the story. The analysis will be based on the speech and thought presentation framework (Short 1996, Simpson 2004) and applied to each of the characters in the story, bearing in mid the narrator’s control over them. The differences of point of view in the corpus will be the key to discover the way in which the narrator presents his relationship with the characters as well as the level of control in their interactions.
YR 2017
FD 2017-09
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/19939
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/19939
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 11-nov-2026