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Defence Mechanisms in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet (1887) and Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

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dc.contributor.author Guendouz, Houda
dc.contributor.author Larbi, Melissa
dc.contributor.author Slimi, Sabrina (Supervisor)
dc.date.accessioned 2022-04-19T11:39:28Z
dc.date.available 2022-04-19T11:39:28Z
dc.date.issued 2021-12
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/18652
dc.description English Literature and Civilisation en_US
dc.description.abstract The present work explores defence mechanisms as shown by the four main characters in both Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet (1887) and Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920). The novels are studied through the lens of psychoanalysis emphasising on defence mechanisms as discussed in Anna Freud's The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence 1936 and Norman Holland's The Dynamics of Literary Response 1968. In the light of these two books, the two novels are analysed by highlighting concepts of denial, sublimation defence mechanisms as shown by Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, then, repression and reaction formation as shown by John Watson and Arthur Hastings. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.subject Psychoanalysis : Defence Mechanisms en_US
dc.subject Sherlock Holmes en_US
dc.subject Hercule Poirot en_US
dc.title Defence Mechanisms in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet (1887) and Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US


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