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标题：Rhyme or Reason: Three Patterns of Poetic Interference in the British Crime Novel
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作者：Camille Fort-Cantoni
期刊名称：Sillages Critiques
印刷版ISSN：1272-3819
电子版ISSN：1969-6302
出版年度：2004
期号：6
页码：45-56
DOI：10.4000/sillagescritiques.1438
出版社：Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"
摘要：This essay shows how poetical elements may be integrated to a prose genre, the crime fiction narrative, and the perturbations they may generate. Conan Doyle’s Musgrave Ritual centers on a pattern of verse. There are two ways of interpreting it: a poetical reading, that denies the text an object, and an utilitarian reading, that forces out of it a series of names limiting its “effect of illimitation” (Jean Cohen), though questioned by narrative irony. In Agatha Christie’s Crooked House, the nursery rhyme in the title is merely submitted by the detective to a rational, analogical reading. Now an irrational reading, based on Freud’s interpretation of dreams, might show that the poem’s signifiers all reveal one unspeakable statement: a child has killed. In Colin Dexter’s The Way Through The Woods, a detective builds up a poem in order to display its object – a corpse. This interpretation happens to be faulty, yet the poem states the truth insofar as it expresses another murderer’s confession – unknown to his author and the murderer. An oracular utterance, it subverts the traditional pattern of the detective’s final explanation.
关键词：poésie; roman policier; Conan Doyle; Agatha Christie; Colin Dexter; interprétation
其他关键词：poetry; Conan Doyle; Agatha Christie; Colin Dexter; crime fiction; interpretation