Dorothy Sayers and the Case of the Shell-Shocked Detective

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariela Freedman
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Littératures ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-59
Author(s):  
Victor Dupont
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Author(s):  
Allan Hepburn

Miracles rarely appear in novels, yet Graham Greene includes several of them in The End of the Affair. Sarah Miles heals a boy suffering from appendicitis and a man with a disfigured cheek. Like a saint, she seems to heal or revive through her compassionate touch, as when she raises her lover, who may or may not have died in a bomb blast, by touching his hand. This chapter locates Sarah’s interventions amidst debates about miracles, beginning with David Hume’s sceptical rejection of inexplicable phenomena, through such mid-century books as C. S. Lewis’s Miracles and Dorothy Sayers’ The Mind of the Maker. The inherent godlessness of novels, as Georg Lukacs puts the matter in Theory of the Novel, would seem to ban mystical content altogether from novelistic discourse. Yet this chapter argues for the revaluation of mystical content—the ordeals of the whisky priest in The Power and the Glory, for example—within the generic precincts of the novel.


1992 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-154
Author(s):  
Brocard Sewell ◽  
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Pro Ecclesia ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-140
Author(s):  
J. Daryl Charles
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Author(s):  
T. M. Huliak

The article deals with the feminist component in the detective novels «The Double Game in Four Hands» by I. Rozdobudko and «Gaudy Night» by D. Sayers. Its dominant features are distinguished: original female images and women's writing which is manifested through the detailing and usage of parenthetical constructions. The common and distinctive features of the use of the feminist component in the Ukrainian and English female detective discourse are described. The similarity and difference in the images of Musya Gurchyk and Harriet Vane who are the expressions of the creative method of detective writers are analyzed. The emotional and detailing functions of the parenthetical constructions are described. It is emphasized that the feminist component plays an important role in the creation of the genre of the female detective novel.


Author(s):  
Celia Marshik

Examines fancy dress, which was wildly popular wear for costume parties in the early twentieth century. In a range of popular publications, authors suggest that such costumes cannot change or transform the characters that wear it. In contrast, Woolf and Dorothy Sayers write fiction in which costumes can utterly change those who wear them but limit such powers to upper-class, highly educated characters


English Today ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-45
Author(s):  
Paul Christophersen
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Dorothy Sayers would surely have turned in her grave if she could have heard, as I did a few months ago, a BBC announcer introducing a dramatization of her story Gaudy Night by a few remarks about the heroine, Harriet Vane, and her ‘cohort’, Lord Peter Wimsey. Or perhaps she would have been convulsed with laughter at the absurd contrast between Lord Peter in his sober Savile Row suit and the cohorts in Byron's well-known lines:The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold.


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