A Study of Nursery Rhyme Adaptation in Detective Agatha Christ’s Novels in the Perspective of Story Poetics
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This study focuses on Agatha Christie’s adaptation practice of Western nursery rhymes in her detective novels, with the theoretical framework of the modern transformation of story poetics, providing an in-depth analysis of how Christie achieves the contemporary reinterpretation and aesthetic revitalization of folk literary resources by means of cross-genre and cross-media adaptation, recon-structive and subversive narrative strategies, and a reader-centered re-ception mechanism. The paper aims to systematically elucidate Christie’s crea-tive rein-terpretation while inheriting the traditional folk narrative, thereby offering in-sights for the theoretical construction of Chinese story poetics and the modern practice of local folk literature.
DOI: 10.63313/llcs.9084
Author: Ran Li
Institution: Yangtze University
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4414090636