A Study of Nursery Rhyme Adaptation in Detective Agatha Christ’s Novels in the Perspective of Story Poetics

Ran Li

doi:10.63313/LLCS.9084

Authors

Ran Li School of Foreign Studies, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434000, China Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63313/LLCS.9084

Keywords:

Story Poetics, Folk Literature, Adaptation of Nursery rhymes, Agatha Christie

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 reception mechanism. The paper aims to systematically elucidate Christie’s creative 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.

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