Open AccessHercule Poirot Investigates
Author(s) -
Jeffrey Condran
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
cultural and pedagogical inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1916-3460
DOI - 10.18733/cpi29480
Subject(s) - agatha , reading (process) , literary criticism , criticism , literature , art , art history , law , political science
Employing a synthesis of recent neuroscience research, cultural criticism, and the creative symbolism of Agatha Christie’s famous detective, Hercule Poirot, “Hercule Poirot Investigates: The Pyrrhic Victory of Technology and 21st Century Reading Practices or The Death of the Literary Mind,” theorizes that technology use and value conflict within English departments has resulted in a generation of reading professionals who are ill equipped to continue the work of the discipline.