Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• Caroline Sheppard is a
precursor to Miss Marple
• “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is the supreme, the
ultimate detective novel. It rests upon the most
elegant of all twists.… This twist is not merely a
function of plot: it puts the whole concept of
detective fiction on an armature and sculpts it into
a dazzling new shape…. And only she could have
pulled it off so completely. Only she had the
requisite control, the willingness to absent herself
from the authorial scene and let her plot shine
clear.”—Laura Thompson, Christie’s biographer
Critical Reactions
• Truth
• Knowledge
• Reason
• Progress
Truth
• Wealth
• Social class
• Gender
• Pastoral setting
• Poirot as foreigner
Disillusionment
Unreliable Narrator
• The first postmodern novel?
• Decentering
• Einstein (1879-1955)
L1 O1 L2
Relative
• Relative to an inertial frame:
• Trajectory
• Velocity
• Simultaneity
• Distance
• Time
• y’ =y
• z’ =z
Relativity vs. Relativism
• In fact, it contradicts it
• Everything complex is
constructed logically from
simples relating immediately
to experience
Verification
• Criterion of demarcation
• Criterion of meaningfulness
• Criterion of meaningfulness
• Problems:
• Addition: A => (A v B)
• Universals
Falsification
• Problems:
• Conjunctions: A & B
• Existentials
Confirmation