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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Sherlock Holmes"”.
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Sherlock Holmes & Hercule Poirot: Analysation, similarities and differences
Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot are two of the world’s most famous, well known and well-loved detectives. Their stories have been translated into many languages and have been made into many television series and movies. Both stories are famous for their characters and cleaver plots. Both being …
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Minding the gaps: deducing meaning in Sherlock Holmes fanfiction
… Specifically, I reference the subset of the Sherlock Holmes fan community that romantically pairs Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. By analyzing the numbers of fanfiction and providing a reader response and intertextual analysis that delves into specific influential works, the conclusion is …
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Gender and Genre in 21st Century Visions of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most-adapted characters in literature since his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887. Each new adaptation must offer innovations that bring freshness and contemporary appeal to time-worn stories and concepts or risk …
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Mobile Holmes: Sherlockiana, travel writing and the co-production of the Sherlock Holmes stories
… co-produce fiction. It focuses on American Sherlockians, a group of devotees of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. At its centre is an analysis of geographical and travel writings these readers produced about Holmes’s life and world, in the later years of the twentieth century. I …
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The Many Disguises of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Doyle (Sherlock Holmes, Fairies, and the Symbolist Movements in Art and Literature)
While fairies and Sherlock Holmes may not seem to have much in common, both were thought to be real by many Victorians. Most people are unaware that in addition to the Sherlock Holmes series, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote what he considered a non-fiction book expressing his belief in supernatural …
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The Literary Heritagescape: Translating Literary Settings into Heritage Sites
… literary heritage sites: Ashdown Forest, The Sherlock Holmes Museum, and Green Gables Heritage Place. The nature of these sites is examined through site observation of tangible and interpreted elements at each site and discussed through three themes: Immersion, Boundaries, and Authenticity. …
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“Petticoated police,” “intimate watching” and private agency(ies): reading the female detective of Fin-de-siècle British literature
… New Editions introduced to its readers "a Female Sherlock Holmes" (12). This was Loveday Brooke, in C. L. Pirkis‘s collection The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective. Loveday is one of many professional female detectives who traversed the pages of short stories, both serialised and in …
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Interactions between Text and Music in Three Pieces by Jon Deak, Frank Proto, and Tom Johnson
… this growing genre: Jon Deak’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1984); Frank Proto’s Afro-American Fragments (1996); and Tom Johnson’s Failing: A Very Difficult Piece for Solo String Bass (1975). This essay explores the interactions between music and verbal text. …
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The Police and the Periodical: Policing and Detection in Victorian Journalism and the Rise of Detective Fiction, c. 1840-1900
… police and the periodical – Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes.
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Detecting Masculinity: The Positive Masculine Qualities of Fictional Detectives.
… four detectives, each from a different era. Sherlock Holmes lives to solve problems. His primary function is to solve a riddle. Lord Peter Wimsey takes on the moral question of why anyone should detect at all. His stories involve the difficulty of justifying putting oneself in the morally …
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Unhappy Consciousness: Recognition and Reification in Victorian Fiction
… mystery plot. Chapter Three is a study of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in which I read the detective as an exaggerated portrait of the subjective effects of capitalist alienation, a monad whose only intervention in the world is to link predictive results with opaque …
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Motorcars and magic highways: the automobile and communication in twentieth-century American literature and film
… who characterize literary detectives from Sherlock Holmes through the Golden Age of Detective fiction with the hardboiled heroes of Dashiell Hammett and his disciples. I argue that while the former align with a society organized around rail travel and the telegraph, the hardboiled detective …
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Holmes, Alice, and Ezeulu: Western Rationality in the Context of British Colonialism and Western Modernity
<p>This thesis examines Western rationality, contextualizing that subject in British colonialism and Western modernity. Using Scott Lash's description of academic characterizations of modernity, I explore the “high" modernity of the social sciences represented in the books Alice's Adventures in …