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001-es BibID:	BIBFORM075097
Első szerző:	Zsámba Renáta (egyetemi tanársegéd)
Cím:	Haunted in the Suburbs : Forms of Representing Evil in Dorothy L. Sayers' The Documents in the Case / Zsámba Renáta
Dátum:	2017
Megjegyzések:	Dorothy L. Sayers's The Documents in the Case (1930) is not a typical Golden Age crime novel either in terms of its narrative form, characters and the social issues it raises. According to Catherine Kenney, the novel was also daring because it took artistic risks as Sayers adopted epistolary form to narrate the events lacking her brilliant gentleman detective, Lord Peter Wimsey. In my proposed paper, it is my intention to uncover the dynamics and complex nature of evil as it is represented in this relatively neglected, unconventional but unique novel of Dorothy L. Sayers. I shall explore the novel's engagement with social and political issues: this 1930 novel is also a typical thirties text, focusing on post-war trauma, a search for identity after the war, social transformation and class structure, changing gender roles, suburban culture and technological inventions, all of these reflected in the characters everyday routine as well as in the dynamics of their relations to each other. Given that the characters describe the events in their letters by revealing their subjective points of view, the perception of what is right and what is wrong, who is good and who is evil may easily be confused, unlike in most classical crime fiction. In Sayers's modernist take, evil comes to be portrayed by the image of the average middle-class idle woman imprisoned in the suburbs of London. Due to the lack of real stimulus, and an unhappy marriage, she becomes entrapped by the fanciful ideas she receives from books and magazines that finally lead to the murder of the husband. Sayers suggests a parallel between the suburban context and the woman's hollowed-out identity as well as the consequent lack of moral standards of her own, which is as associated with evil and cruelty.
ISBN:	978-1-4438-3155-0
Tárgyszavak:	Bölcsészettudományok Irodalom- és kultúratudományok tanulmány, értekezés
Megjelenés:	Space, Gender and the Gaze in Literature and Art / Ed. Kovács Ágnes Zsófia, Sári László. - p. 119-132. -
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