Allusion in Detective Fiction: Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L. Sayers
(2024)
Book
Bloomfield, J. Allusion in Detective Fiction: Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L. Sayers. Palgrave
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“Three Ordinary, Normal Old Women”: Agatha Christie’s Uses of Shakespeare (2018)
Journal Article
Bloomfield, J. (2020). “Three Ordinary, Normal Old Women”: Agatha Christie’s Uses of Shakespeare. Shakespeare, 16(1), 23-39. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2018.1553891This article draws on recent scholarship on Shakespearean allusions and crime fiction to develop an in-depth exploration of Agatha Christie's quotations from the playwright. These quotations do not tend to point to the murderer or give clues to the p... Read More about “Three Ordinary, Normal Old Women”: Agatha Christie’s Uses of Shakespeare.
“My Eucharist to the people of District 11”:bread, sacrifice and thanksgiving in The Hunger Games (2017)
Journal Article
Bloomfield, J. (2017). “My Eucharist to the people of District 11”:bread, sacrifice and thanksgiving in The Hunger Games. Theology, 120(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0040571X16684430The imagery of bread in The Hunger Games provides an opportunity to read the novel within a Christian tradition alert to themes of suffering, sacrifice and solidarity. This article examines how the novel “re-enchants” bread as both a site of ideolog... Read More about “My Eucharist to the people of District 11”:bread, sacrifice and thanksgiving in The Hunger Games.
Words of power: reading Shakespeare and the Bible (2016)
Book
Bloomfield, J. (2016). Words of power: reading Shakespeare and the Bible. Cambridge: Lutterworth Press