‘What are words?’: Symbolism and romance in Agatha Christie’s short stories ‘Within a Wall’, ‘The House of Dreams’ and ‘The Lonely God’
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: This article explores three of Agatha Christie’s early non-crime short stories written in the mid-1920s. I examine Christie’s use of symbolism and key motifs to explore the representation of relationships through the prism of romance. I argue that Christie’s short stories serve as a highly significant creative site for her investigation of the relationship between genre, subjectivity and symbolism.
DOI: 10.1386/fict_00012_1
Author: Charlotte Beyer
Institution: University of Gloucestershire
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3109969856