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Cagliyan, Murat. "Gothic Elements In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle'." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612835/index.pdf.
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The aim of this thesis is to analyse the use of Gothic elements in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle&rsquos Sherlock Holmes stories. It begins with an overview of Gothic and detective fiction, pointing out the Gothic novels published in the late Victorian period, and referring to the Gothic influence on Poe, Dickens, and Collins who are important writers in the development of detective fiction. In this way, it is revealed that the presence of Gothic elements in the Sherlock Holmes stories is part of the writing fashion of the era. The thesis then analyses the Holmes stories which present significant Gothic elements in terms of terror, horror and the supernatural. In addition, it examines the whole Holmes canon in an endeavour to find out the Sherlock Holmes character&rsquo
s similarity to the Byronic hero who often appears in Gothic fiction. As a result, this study shows that Gothic elements contribute to the Sherlock Holmes stories in two ways. Firstly, they add to the depiction of minor characters, the setting, and the atmosphere of these stories. Secondly, they manifest themselves in the portrayal of the character of Holmes himself. Thus, the use of Gothic elements enables Doyle to create suspenseful and surprising stories with a strikingly memorable detective figure.
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Wynne, Catherine Elizabeth. "Bram Stoker, Arthur Conan Doyle and the colonial gothic." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365851.
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Durrer, Rebecca A. (Rebecca Ann). "Knightly Gentlemen: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and His Historical Novels." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500933/.
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This thesis analyzes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contribution to the revival of chivalric ideals in late Victorian England. The primary sources of this study are Doyle's historical novels and the secondary sources address the different aspects of the revival of the chivalric ideals. The first two chapters introduce Doyle's historical novels, and the final four chapters define the revival, the class and gender issues surrounding the revival, and the illustration of these in Doyle's novels. The conclusion of the thesis asserts that Doyle supported the revival of chivalric ideals, and the revival attempted to maintain, in the late nineteenth century, the traditional class and gender structure of the Middle Ages.
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Brombley, Katharine Grace. "Possessions and obsessions : fandom and the case of Arthur Conan Doyle." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2018. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/possessions-and-obsessions(70b4b74e-d35a-4d0e-a146-e3c640f622d0).html.
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This thesis focuses on the legacy of Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous literary creation: Sherlock Holmes. This thesis examines the historical, literary, and cultural context that caused a Sherlock Holmes fandom to emerge in the 1890s-1930s. Drawing on a range of resources, including previously unworked material from the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection, Richard Lancelyn Green Bequest (Portsmouth, UK), this thesis furthers the current research being carried out on Sherlock Holmes fandom. The special edition ‘Sherlock Holmes Fandom, Sherlockiana, and the Great Game’ of Transformative Works and Cultures (2017) offers original research that traces the roots of participatory fandom to the 1890s, but there are still large gaps to be explored. This thesis therefore aims to engage with Sherlockian fandom as an 1890s phenomenon that progressed and grew from Holmes’ first appearance in the Strand. It also examines the previously ignored role of the Strand in cultivating a Sherlock Holmes fandom. It does this by looking at the commercialisation of Holmes, as well as the concepts of authorship, canon, paratexts, and collections. It combines existing approaches, such as literary theory, fan studies, and thing theory, and applies it to Victorian and Edwardian culture. This thesis argues that the Strand had a contradictory relationship with Sherlock Holmes fanfiction. On the one hand, the Strand used the idea of self-improvement to actively encourage readers to participate in authorship; on the other, they also rigorously enforced a literary hierarchy. Instead, Tit-Bits became the place for fans’ creative output, including Sherlock Holmes pastiches and parodies. This dual approach to fan behaviours was also present in the Strand’s attitude to collecting. They produced Sherlock Holmes postcards to be collected, yet also pathologised collectors in the magazine’s content. This thesis also argues that the Sherlock Holmes Canon itself offers a self-reflexive and dual portrayal of fans and collectors.
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Pinque, Méryl. "Sherlock Holmes, l'ombre du héros : essai /." Descartes (37 rue du Commerce, 37160) : Faustroll, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39281090n.
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Young, Summer Nicole. "Diagnosing health : critical reception of Arthur Conan Doyle in the Victorian periodical press /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p1422977.
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Jaëck, Nathalie. "Types et archétypes dans les histoire de Sherlock Holmes de Arthur Conan Doyle." Bordeaux 3, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997BOR30071.
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Cette these a pour but d'isoler les mecanismes de fonctionnement du mythe qu'est devenu sherlock holmes dans les cinquante-six nouvelles et les quatre romans originaux d'arthur conan doyle, une etude narratologique et structurelle du texte montrera de quelle facon le mythe est inscrit dans le langage, et se construit autour d'un discours initiatique qui bouleverse le schema temporel : le texte accede ainsi a un present continu, et gomme efficacement la frontiere entre la realite et la fiction. Une typologie des symboles recurrents dans l'oeuvre montrera que doyle poursuit dans le fond le meme but que dans la forme, a savoir faire echec au temps qui passe. Un premier mouvement consiste a prendre les armes contre le temps nefaste, et a faire de sherlock holmes un heros ascensionnel immortel : ce regime diurne de conflit contre les forces du mal, versant normatif du texte, repose sur des structures schizomorphes qui provoquent une pathologie generalisee de nevrose obsessionnelle. Parallelelement, doyle developpe pourtant un regime nocturne dissident, une autre scene, ou le conflit contre le temps s'inverse en absorption, ou le clivage se dissout dans une osmose generalisee, dans un melange des genres qui engendre une perte, pathologique mais jubilatoire, de toute sensibilite differentielle. Apres avoir ete reduit par la force, le temps chronologique laisse donc place a une " cinquieme saison " absolument privee d'histoire, archetypique de la quietude prenatale, et transforme rituellement le recit en mytheThe aim of this ph. D thesis is to isolate the mechanism that is at the origin of the sherlock holmes myth, in the original 56 stories and 4 novels by arthur conan doyle. A narrative and structural study of the text will show how the myth is born in the langage, and is built around an initiatic discourse that totally upsets the temporal sequence : the text spins out a continuous present, and erases the frontier between reality and fiction. A typology of recurrent symbols will prove that the same aim informs the form and the content of doyle's work, i. E. Winning the battle against mutability. Afirst movement consist in taking up arms against dreadful time, and in turning sherlock holmes into an immortal climbing hero : such a conflict against the forces of evil, which constitutes the acknowledged norm of the text, lies on schizomorphic structures that bring about a general pathology of obsessional neurosis. Through the looking-glass, doyle develops a dissident structure, an other scene,in which conflict becomes absorption and osmosis, through a melting of the different reigns of nature that creates a pathological but euphoric loss of any differential sensitivity. After being subjected by sheer force, chronological, transient time disappears for a <> that is absolutely non historic, archetypal of antenatal quiet, and brings about a ritual transmutation of langage into myth
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Dickason, Robert. "Les Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : étude narratologique et adaptations audiovisuelles." Rennes 2, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994REN20011.
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Le mythe holmésien ne cesse de prendre de l'ampleur. Le phénomène du grand détective repose, en partie, sur ses considérations narratologiques. Une stratégie narrative réunissant intrigues, personnages, narrateur et lecteur s'allie à des techniques littéraires caractéristiques du genre du nouveau détective. L'évolution du mythe de nos jours se traduit par des adaptations "fidèles" des adventures of Sherlock Holmes diffusées à la radio et à la télévisionThe myth of Sherlock Hholmes is still growing. This phenomenon has its origins, in part, in the narrative technique of conan doyle which combines a commercial strategy covering plot, character, narrator and reader with literary devices typical of the detective story. Beyond the written text the myth is furthered by recent faithful radio and television adaptations of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the first series of twelve short stories
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Beck, David Michael. "'I see you have quite gone over to the supernaturalists' : the spiritual and scientific Arthur Conan Doyle." Thesis, University of Hull, 2012. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:6864.
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This thesis examines the mistaken premise that Arthur Conan Doyle abandoned rational enquiry in order to embrace the supernatural, including spiritualism. It explores how Doyle’s diverse fiction and non-fiction define potentially supernatural phenomena as originating in the natural world. Consequently, for Doyle, the supernatural did not exist. This thesis investigates how Doyle advocated that new undetected natural laws could be investigated by science to establish unusual phenomena, including the existence of fairies and spiritualism. Through a reading of Doyle’s autobiographical, medical, detective, imperial and science fictions this thesis traces his scientific trajectory from gothicised supernatural to spiritualism. It considers how mental illness and addiction can provide heightened perceptions of potentially supernatural visions. It also examines how Doyle’s interpretation of medical realism gothicised sexual transgression that eventually led to him challenging his early creation of a religious schema that incorporated natural selection. At the core of this thesis is a metaphor from ‘Lot No. 249’ that demonstrates Doyle’s belief that the shadows that darken the limits of the natural world could be illuminated by science. This thesis uses Doyle’s metaphor to examine Sherlock Holmes’s role in The Hound of the Baskervilles that provides the detective with a method to investigate unusual phenomena. Doyle’s romance of imperial exploration and scientific medical self-experimentation merge with his interest in unusual phenomena. This enables an examination of Watson’s experience with a deadly drug in ‘The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot’ that can be read as an encounter with a spirit-entity. This thesis continues by examining Doyle’s science fiction stories that include his belief that circumstantial evidence and eye witness testimony should be utilised to sway scientific scepticism. The thesis concludes by noting how the author finally embraced spiritualism through ideas of spiritual salvation amidst a world doomed by their material pleasures, before briefly examining Doyle’s belief that science could still explain unusual phenomena by adapting technology.
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Favor, Lesli J. "Interactions Between Texts, Illustrations, and Readers: The Empiricist, Imperialist Narratives and Polemics of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279069/.
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While literary critics heretofore have subordinated Conan Doyle to more "canonical" writers, the author argues that his writings enrich our understanding of the ways in which Victorians and Edwardians constructed their identity as imperialists and that we therefore cannot afford to overlook Conan Doyle's work.
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Machinal, Hélène. "De Sherlock Holmes au professeur challenger : inquiétant, fantastique et fiction spéculative dans l'oeuvre de sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)." Paris 10, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA100056.
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Cette etude s'attache a trois genres specifiques dont le point commun est le questionnement d'un auteur qui engendre non seulement la recurrence de certains themes mais egalement une dynamique dans lareflexion et la creation. Doyle tente ainsi une exploration de l'inconnu grace a trois modes d'ecritures qui se croisent et se recoupent mais tentent tous d'approcher l'autre sous toutes ses formes. L'ecrivain commence a ecrire des recits fantastiques des 1883, c'est-a-dire quatre ans avant la publication de la premiere nouvelle holmesienne. En outre, c'est au moment ou holmes est au faite de sa gloire que doyle le precipite du haut des chutes du reichenbach. Cette execution sommaire entraine une augmentation tres marquee de la production de textes fantastiques. On a alors le sentiment qu'entre 1893 et 1903, une ecriture mettant en scene le desordre et l'irruption de l'inadmissible prend possession de la plume d'un auteur qui s'aventure des lors dans un inconnu de loin plus vertigineux et tenebreux. D'une alterite exterieure a soi, et qui, dans les recits policiers, pouvait etre transcrite dans l'architecture urbaine, dans la construction d'un espace geographique ou sociologique, nous passons a un affrontement direct et a une plongee dans la geographie intime de l'etre humain. Cette exploration des strates internes au sujet n'a cependant qu'un temps, et des 1912, l'auteur se tourne vers la fiction speculative qui lui permet d'eloigner des espaces interieurs revelant peut-etre des abimes trop vertigineux pour que l'explorateur s'aventure plus avant. Aussi doyle ecrit-il, a partir de 1912, des recits de fiction speculative dans lesquels l'inconnu devient en quelque sorte domestique et inscrit dans des espaces geographiques et ideologiques precis. Toutefois, l'alterite et l'inconnu ne se laissent pas evincer aussi aisement. Des fissures que le detective tentait de colmater enigme apres enigme aux fragments fantastiques qui resurgissent dans la fiction speculative, doyle n'en finit jamais vraiment avec un inconnu qui fait inlassablement retourThis study focuses on three specific genres which have in common a constant questioning of the author which, in turn, creates the recurrence of a number of themes as well as a dynamic movement of reflection and creation. Thus doyle attempts an exploration of the unknown through three modes of writing which overlap and intersect but all tend to approach otherness in its different forms. The writer starts writing fantastic tales as early as 1883, that is four years previous to the publication of the first holmes tale. Besides, doyle chooses the moment when holmes is at the height of his fame to hurl him down the reichenbach falls. This summary execution triggers a decisive increase in the production of fantastic tales. We then have the feeling that between 1893 and 1903, a mode of writing picturing disorder and the irruption of the inadmissible take hold of the author's pen. He then steps in unknown regions which are by far breathtakingly deeper and more tenebrous. From an external alterity which, in detective tales, could be translated in urban architecture, in the construction a geographical or sociological space, we pass on to a direct facing and a dive down intimous regions of the human being. This exploration of internal strata does not last and as early as 1912, the author writes speculative fiction which allows him to put at a distance an laterity too breathtaking for him to dare further exploration. From 1912 onward, doyle writes tales in which alterity and the unknown are as if domesticated and circumscribed to precise geographical and ideological spaces. However, alterity and the unknown are not easily let aside. From the cracks which the detective tried to plaster enigma after enigma to the fragments of the uncanny which reappear in speculative fiction, doyle is forever haunted by an unknown which endlessly comes back to him
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Iwai, Marcia Miyuki. "O romance de aventura europeu e a construção do outro: uma análise de O mundo perdido (1912), de Arthur Conan Doyle." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2010. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/4206.
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This monograph intends to investigate the genre adventure novel of the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, and the ways in which this genre builds the images of the Other. Considering that this Historical moment corresponds to the period of expansion of the European colonial empires, and of organization of the working class and feminist movements, the intension of this study is to make a reflection about the representations of workers, women, colonized peoples, and Nature in the adventure novels, as well as to think about the images of the Self, or of the heroes in these books men, Europeans, bourgeois, and colonizers. Starting with the analysis of the novel The Lost World, written in 1912 by Arthur Conan Doyle, we firstly studied the themes of the discovery of a new land, its exploitations, and the relations between the heroes and the inhabitants of this land. Secondly, we analyzed the weapons used by the heroes to conquer this land: Science, War, and Word. In a third moment, we made reflections about the images of the Feminine in the novel: the feminine identity of the land, the absence or the vilanization of the feminine characters, and the production and consumption of the adventure novel (which is usually described as a masculine genre) as the rejection of a so-called Feminine Literature. Finally, we studied the protagonists of the novel, or the virile heroes, and the world that they intend to build. Thus, from the analysis of The Lost World, which we regard as a model adventure novel, we made comparisons with other novels in the same genre, so that we could establish themes, rules, and conventions which can characterize the genre adventure novel
Esta dissertação se propõe a investigar o gênero romance de aventura do fim do século XIX e início do século XX, e as maneiras como esse gênero constrói as imagens do Outro. Considerando-se que a fase de sua produção corresponde ao período de expansão dos impérios coloniais e de organização dos movimentos operários e feministas europeus, a intenção deste trabalho é refletir sobre as representações presentes nesse gênero romanesco sobre as classes trabalhadoras, as mulheres, os povos colonizados e a Natureza, bem como pensar a imagem do Eu, ou dos heróis dessas obras homens, europeus, burgueses e colonizadores. A partir da análise do romance de aventura O mundo perdido, escrito em 1912 por Arthur Conan Doyle, foram estudadas, em primeiro lugar, as questões do descobrimento de uma nova terra pelos heróis, a sua exploração e a relação desses heróis com os habitantes desse lugar. Em segundo lugar, foram analisadas as armas usadas pelos protagonistas para a conquista do território a Ciência, a Guerra, a Palavra. Em terceiro lugar, foi feita uma reflexão acerca da imagem feminina no romance: o caráter feminino do território, a vilanização ou a ausência de personagens femininas, a escritura e leitura do romance de aventura (que se descreve como um gênero masculino) como rejeição a uma literatura considerada feminina. Por fim, foram estudadas as próprias personagens dos heróis viris e o mundo que eles constroem. Dessa maneira, partindo da análise de O mundo perdido, visto como um romance de aventura modelar, foram feitas comparações com outros romances do mesmo gênero, para que possam ser levantados temas, regras e convenções que caracterizem o gênero romance de aventura
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Kapetangiorgi, Nathalie. ""Det är skrämmande när en novell skriven för över 120 år sedan har bättre genuspolitik än sin moderna nytolkning" : En analys av kvinnorna i BBCs nytolkande serie "Sherlock", baserad på Sir Arthur Conan Doyles verk." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-17034.
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Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur kvinnorna i BBCs serie ”Sherlock” representeras och förhåller sig till traditionella könsroller. Då serien är en nytolkande version som utspelar sig på 2000-talet till skillnad från originalen som utspelar sig drygt 100 år tidigare blir det intressant att undersöka hur mycket som förändras från originalen av Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Karaktärerna har genomgått stor förändring genom denna nytolkning, och även nya karaktärer har skapats för serien. I analysen kommer bland annat Connells teorier om genus att användas för att definiera genus och fastställa hur en man och kvinna bör vara enligt samhällets normer, detta kompletteras med D.H Meehans definierade stereotyper. Två avsnitt av serien kommer att användas i analysen, med fokus på tre kvinnliga karaktärer: En som återfinns i originalen, samt två nya. Dessa karaktärer kommer att analyseras genom att undersöka utvalda scener där de samspelar med Sherlock Holmes. Analysen sker genom en semiotisk analys, samt kvalitativ textanalys. Jag använder mig av Roland Barthes begrepp denotation och konnotation vid scenanalysen, detta för att undersöka vad som utmärker kvinnorna i serien. Egenskaperna dessa kvinnor besitter kommer sedan att ställas mot mina valda teorier, detta för att fastställa hur väl karaktärernas genusmönster överensstämmer med stereotypiska tolkningar, slutligen kommer de valda avsnitten att analyseras och jämföras bredvid originalen av Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. En kvalitativ textanalys kommer att göras av två utvalda texter om serien i fråga, en som anser att serien är sexistisk och mansdominerad och en som talar mot detta. Textanalysen görs för att undersöka publikens tolkningar och för att förstå varför serien väckt debatt. I mitt resultat har jag funnit vissa egenskaper för karaktärerna som stämmer överens med den teoretiska ramen, även om alla egenskaper inte kunde appliceras på karaktärerna i fråga. Kvinnorna framställs ofta som känslosamma, emotionellt splittrade och även beroende av männen omkring dem. De nya karaktärerna identifieras ofta som känslosamma och genom sitt förhållande till männen, medan Irene Adler som uppgraderats från originalen portträtteras som en emotionell och känslostyrd kvinna som behöver mannens beskydd. Jag har funnit gränsöverskridande i vissa karaktärer, där manliga och kvinnliga egenskaper blandats. Slutsatsen blir att det finns mönster för hur genus porträtteras i serien som återfinns i mediestereotyper. Även textanalysen bidrog till att stärka denna teori, då det varit viktigt att förstå vilka frågor serien väckt och varför. Nyckelord: BBC Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Semiotisk analys, textanalys
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Bolzinger-Meyer, Dominique. "L'amateur d'indices ou la méthode clinique du détective dans les romans de Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie et Georges Simenon." Mulhouse, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001MULH0645.
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La méthode des enquêteurs dans les romans policiers classiques se fonde sur le modèle holmésien lui-même issu de la formation médicale de Conan Doyle. L'étude de la méthode d'investigation de trois enquêteurs emblématiques - Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot et le commissaire Maigret - se fait en deux temps. D'abord un inventaire des modèles du détective - lecteur, chasseur, savant, médecin - qui fait de Holmes un médecin spécialiste tente par les sciences psychiques et montre l'importance fonctionnelle du médecin dans les récits de détection. Puis une étude synthétique de la méthode à partir du modèle d'investigation de la clinique hippocratique : observation, raisonnement, savoir. L'observation, fondée sur une représentation de l'indice en' lésion, est parcourue par l'imaginaire de l'autopsie ; le raisonnement, qui consiste à établir des liens, s'appuie sur un savoir préétabli qui fonctionne comme un intertexte. Le savoir, envisage du point de vue du compagnon de l'enquêteur, l'ami médecin, inscrit l'investigation dans la dynamique de la rivalité fraternelle et situe les récits de détection dans le mythe gémellaire. On voit ainsi qu'à la suite d'un Holmes médecin et sorcier, situé à l'intersection de la découverte des micro-organismes et de l'émergence des sciences psychiques, Poirot pratique une clinique holmésienne systématiquement appliquée, puis déviée vers l'étude des discours, tandis que Maigret met en œuvre une clinique inversée. La méthode scientifique du détective est en fait un art ancestral, la clinique, qui influe significativement sur la forme et l'écriture des récits de détection.
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Chan, Lit-chung. "Sherlock Holmes, The secret agent, and ideas of justice." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31643462.
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Lindberg, Marlene. "Från oövervinnelig till oigenkännlig : En komparativ genusstudie av hur Irene Adler porträtteras I Arthur Conan Doyles ”A Scandal in Bohemia” och BBC:s adaption ”A Scandal in Belgravia”." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-70985.
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Abstract The great detective Sherlock Holmes casts a long shadow on the previous research on the short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, where Mr. Holmes has been given the main attention. On the periphery, however, a woman named Irene Adler is recognizable. Adler makes her single entrance in the Sherlock Universe in “A Scandal in Bohemia” from 1891 when she outsmarts Mr. Holmes and makes him reconsider the entire female sex as a consequence. In the BBC adaptation Sherlock, the case is however different for the early feminist icon Adler. The portrayal of Adler in the episode “A Scandal in Belgravia” from 2012 is mainly focusing on her sexuality, nudity and seductive personality when meeting Holmes, which has resulted in this essay that aims to study the transformation of Adler from text to screen from a gender perspective. By conducting a comparative study based on gender theory and adaptation theory, the essay finds that there has been a sexualisation and diminishing of independence on behalf of Adler, which relates to common stereotypes in the portrayal of women in film. Through a successive degradation of the female character, it is possible to detect a form of reversed emancipation where the hundred year older predecessor shows greater feminist characteristics than the modern adaptation.Sammanfattning Mästerdetektiven Sherlock Holmes kastar en lång skugga efter sig och har stått i centrum för majoriteten av forskningen om Sir Arthur Conan Doyles noveller. I periferin återfinns emellertid en kvinna vid namn Irene Adler som i ”A Scandal in Bohemia” från 1891 överlistar Holmes och får honom att omdefiniera hela sin syn på det kvinnliga könet på grund av Adlers intelligens och agens. I BBC:s filmatisering av den berömde detektiven i serien Sherlock har dock stora förändringar skett i transformationen av den feministiska förgrundsgestalten Adler. Porträtteringen av Adler i avsnittet ”A Scandal in Belgravia” från 2012 fokuserar till stor del på hennes sexualitet, avkläddhet och förföriska person i mötet med Holmes, vilket också föranlett denna uppsats vars syfte är att studera porträtteringen av Adler från text till filmduk ur ett genusperspektiv. Genom en komparativ metod grundad i genusteori och adaptionsteori finner uppsatsen att det skett en sexualisering och ett osjälvständiggörande av Adler som överensstämmer väl med många av de vanligt förekommande stereotypiska porträtteringarna av kvinnor på filmduken. Genom en successiv nedbrytning av den kvinnliga karaktären kan ett slags omvänd emancipation skönjas, där den hundra år äldre förlagan visar starkare feministiska förtecken än den moderna adaptionen.
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Menegheti, Pollyanna Souza [UNESP]. "De Holmes a Poirot: relações entre literatura e história na narrativa policial britânica." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/115731.
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Esta dissertação tem como objetivo analisar a ficção policial inglesa entre o período do fim do século XIX e início do século XX, em sua historicidade, levando em consideração a importância dos conceitos de representação e verossimilhança para o gênero romance, além de evidentemente, considerar os elementos específicos da ficção policial, como as noções de enigma e investigação, que formam as bases da literatura policial. Sendo assim, retornamos à origem do gênero policial, buscando suas raízes, até que este se desenvolva na forma do romance que conhecemos nos dias atuais. Todas as modificações ocorridas na estrutura da narrativa policial podem ser entendidas como um reflexo das próprias mudanças sociais e culturais que ocorriam neste importante período de transição histórica, visto que a estrutura da narrativa era modificada de acordo com as exigências do público leitor, que buscava sempre ser representada em tal narrativa. O simples fato de a estrutura da narrativa policial poder ser alterada sem perder seus elementos característicos, explica como este gênero não apenas foi capaz de se manter popular até os dias atuais, como também deixam claro como foi possível o surgimento de uma grande quantidade de subgêneros, que acabam por se enquadrar dentro do grande termo ficção criminal. Para realizar tal estudo, foram selecionadas três obras de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, criador do famoso detetive Sherlock Holmes e três obras de Agatha Christie, sendo que estas tem como protagonista seu mais famoso personagem, o detetive belga Hercule Poirot. As obras selecionadas demonstram justamente a adaptação não apenas da estrutura da trama, mas também do personagem principal, o detetive, às mais diversas situações a que é apresentado. O papel do narrador também se mostra fundamental neste estudo, justamente por ser sua figura que guia os leitores pela narrativa, e que se compromete a conceder todas as...
This dissertation aims to analyse the detective story between the end of the nineteenth-century and the beginning of the twentieth-century, in its historicity, taking into consideration the importance of the concepts of representation and verisimilitude for the novel genre, besides evidently take into consideration the specific elements of the detective story, like the notions of riddle and detection, that make the base of the crime fiction. Thus, we return to the origin of the detective story, searching for its roots until that it develops into the form of the detective story we know today. All the modification that happened in the structure of the detective story can be understand as a reflex of the social and cultural modifications that happened in this important time of historical transition, seeing that the structure of the narrative was modified according to the demands of the reading public, that aimed to always be represented in such narratives. The mere fact that the structure of the detective novel can be altered without losing its most characteristic elements explain how this genre was not only able to keep its popularity until today, as it also makes it clear how it was possible for a big quantity of subgenres to rise and be framed into the umbrella term 'crime fiction'. To fulfill such study, three works by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes, were selected, such as three works from Agatha Christie, which are protagonised by her most famous character, the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The selected works show precisely the adaptation not only of the structure of the plot, but also the adaptation of the main character, the detective, to the most diverse situations that he is presented to. The role of the narrator also proves itself to be crucial in this study, justly because it is its figure that guides the readers through the narrative and that...
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Rotunno, Laura Elizabeth. "Readdressed : correspondence culture and nineteenth century British fiction /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3099627.
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Girard, Romain. "Portrait des "professionals" en tant que narrateurs dans la fiction courte victorienne et édouardienne : les discours de pouvoir des médecins, des hommes d’église et des hommes de loi dans les nouvelles de Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Wilkie Collins et Arthur Conan Doyle." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015BOR30044/document.
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Les membres de la classe des professions, qu'ils soient narrateurs ou personnages, occupent une place à la fois centrale et équivoque dans le texte victorien, dans sa construction, sa composition. En effet, si cette place prépondérante paraît indiquer une prise de pouvoir de ces derniers, elle s'accompagne fréquemment d'une mise en question, voire d'une mise en danger de leur statut au sein du récit. Cette position paradoxale semble être le résultat du lien quasi-systématique (mais souvent sous-jacent) entre l'apparition d'un narrateur ou d'un personnage issu des professions et la déstabilisation des notions de signification et de vérité dans l'ensemble du texte. Nous étudierons les modalités et les outils de cette déstabilisation, mais aussi ses conséquences sur le corps du texte. Pour ce faire, nous nous concentrerons sur le support de la nouvelle véhiculée par les périodiques pour son caractère propice à l'expérimentation et sa grande diffusion auprès du lectorat victorien. Par ailleurs, nous avons centré notre corpus de textes sur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins et Le Fanu car ces derniers ont participé activement à la diffusion dans la littérature des idées propres aux classes moyennes et ont abondamment illustré les mutations sociales de cette classe durant la seconde moitié du XIXème siècle. Cela s’est fait à travers leurs nouvelles notamment, qui apparaissent comme le lieu privilégié de l’expression des interrogations concernant l'instabilité de certains discours structurants de la société : loi, religion et médecine. Ainsi, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, fils d’un homme d’église et féru de théologie, Arthur Conan Doyle, lui-même médecin de formation et William Wilkie Collins, homme de lettres portant un grand intérêt à la chose scientifique (comme le suggère son long roman didactique Heart and Science paru en 1883) ont tous trois contribué à la définition des relations particulières entre les membres des professions et le reste de la société victorienne. De plus, leur participation active à la publication des périodiques les plus lus de leur époque atteste de leur contribution importante à la définition de la pensée victorienneMembers of the middle class, particularly clergymen, doctors, and lawyers occupy a central place in Victorian literature, both as narrators and characters. However, it seems that this prominent place fosters questioning as much as empowerment. This paradoxical position seems to stem from the recurrent appearance of members of the professions in texts within which the principles of truth and meaning are undermined. Therefore, we will show how members of the professions, both as narrators and characters, put forward discursive strategies which allow them to manipulate the notion of truth and to destabilize meaning. In order to do so, we will study predominantly short stories, as this genre was favoured by Victorian writers as the locus of narrative and literary experimentation. Besides, this genre was widely read by Victorian audiences and can be seen as a privileged media for authors to express their doubts and commentaries on contemporary society. We have chosen to study the works of three authors in particular, who played a vital role in the bringing of the middle classes on the forefront of Victorian literary representation. Indeed, we will focus on Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, the son of a clergyman and a man fascinated by the arcana of theology, Arthur Conan Doyle, a doctor himself, before he became a writer and William Wilkie Collins, who had a passion for science and the transformations its growing influence imposed on Victorian society. What is more, these three writers' active role in the establishment of the most popular Victorian periodicals attests to their vast contribution to the development of Victorian values
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Polasek, Ashley D. "The evolution of Sherlock Holmes : adapting character across time and text." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/11076.
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The aim of this thesis is to introduce, justify, and apply a better framework for analysing Sherlock Holmes, one of the most adapted characters of all time. The project works to resituate the focus of those involved in studying adaptations of Sherlock Holmes from an examination of the discrete transition of a text from page to screen, to the evolution of the character as it changes across various intertexts and through time. The purpose is to show that it is the character specifically, and not the literary text with its narrative, genric, and aesthetic qualifications, that is being adapted, and that with this in mind, studying adaptations of Sherlock Holmes should involve a study of the various processes, pressures, and mechanisms that shape, change, and define the character throughout its hundreds of screen afterlives. This thesis then analyses many of these processes with the aim of contributing to our understanding of how a character like Holmes is moulded through remediation. It takes into account how the character’s indices shift and accumulate as they are variously performed. It also considers how the mechanisms of selection function to privilege certain incarnations of the character, and how that privileging becomes a part of future readings. Finally, it addresses how reception and perception by audiences influence how the character is read, and thus how it is understood. By considering all of these aspects of the evolutionary process, and by avoiding a chronological or even a linear organization of the texts under scrutiny, this work seeks to offer a more complete answer to the question of how a single source can support a multitude of varied, even contradictory adaptations and remain relevant and interesting through the years.
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Carli, Eduarda de. "The role of adaptations in the reconfiguration of Dr. John Watson within the Sherlock Holmes canon." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/170417.
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As histórias de Sherlock Holmes cativam inúmeros leitores desde que o primeiro romance foi publicado em 1887 pelo autor escocês Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. As aventuras vividas pelo grande detetive Sherlock Holmes e seu companheiro Dr. John Watson têm sido adaptadas para outras mídias desde 1890, e épocas diferentes apresentam diferentes interpretações das personagens. Duas das mais recentes adaptações televisivas, Sherlock (2010 –), da BBC, e Elementary (2012 –), da CBS, se passam na contemporaneidade, inspirando uma reconfiguração das personagens, principalmente a de John Watson, considerando o fato de que ele não é mais o principal narrador das histórias na mídia audiovisual – o narrador fílmico é quem cumpre esse papel –, abrindo novas possibilidades para os papéis da personagem. Tais possibilidades motivam esta dissertação, que propõe um estudo da caracterização da personagem literária nos romances Um estudo em vermelho (1887) e O cão dos Baskerville (1902), para então considerar sua nova caracterização nas duas séries televisivas mencionadas acima. O trabalho, portanto, está dividido em quatro capítulos. O primeiro apresenta uma introdução ao autor e a relação com sua própria obra, além de um panorama histórico das adaptações fílmicas e televisivas, enfatizando as caracterizações de Watson nelas. O segundo apresenta as teorias que alicerçam a análise, particularmente a narratologia literária de Mieke Bal (2009), a narratologia fílmica de Peter Verstraten (2009), e as considerações de Jason Mittell (2015) acerca da personagem televisiva. Os capítulos três e quatro trazem as análises dos romances e séries de televisão respectivamente, focando nas (re)configurações da personagem Watson. Ao final deste trabalho, esperamos ter contribuído para um aprofundamento e diversificação dos estudos de personagem a partir de referenciais narratológicos, linha de estudos pouco desenvolvida, especialmente no Brasil. Da mesma forma, pretendemos demonstrar como adaptações televisivas exploram e amplificam o papel de personagens-narradoras, dando a elas e a outras personagens mais autonomia na obra audiovisual.The Sherlock Holmes stories have captivated innumerous readers since the first novel was published in 1887 by Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The adventures lived by the Great Detective Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. John Watson have been adapted to other media from as early as 1890, and different times present different portrayals of the characters. Two of the latest television adaptations, BBC’s Sherlock (2010 –) and CBS’s Elementary (2012 –), are set in contemporary times, inspiring a reconfiguration of the characters, especially John Watson, considering the fact that he is not the main narrator of the stories in the audiovisual medium – the filmic narrator fulfills that function –, opening new possibilities for the character’s roles. These possibilities motivate this thesis, and we propose a study of the characterization of the literary character in the novels A Study in Scarlet (1887) and The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), so that we can consider the new Watson’s characterization in the two television series aforementioned. Therefore, the thesis is divided into four chapters. The first presents an introduction to the author and his relation to his own work, along with a historical overview of film and television adaptations, emphasizing Watson’s characterization. The second presents the theoretical framework of the analyses, particularly the literary narratology as proposed by Mieke Bal (2009), film narratology as proposed by Peter Verstraten (2009), and Jason Mittell’s (2015) considerations about television characters. Chapters three and four are dedicated to the analyses of the novels and television series respectively, focusing on Watson’s (re)configurations. By the end of this work, we hope to have contributed to the further development and diversification of character studies with the use of narratological references, an undeveloped line of studies, especially in Brazil. In addition, we hope to demonstrate how television adaptations explore and amplify the role of character-narrators, giving them and other characters more autonomy in the audiovisual work.
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Schultz, Andrew B. "Holmes, Alice, and Ezeulu : Western rationality in the context of British colonialism and Western modernity /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2007. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2034.pdf.
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Coupaye, Anne. "La méthode médico-légale et criminalistique de Sherlock Holmes." Bordeaux 2, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992BOR2M194.
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Oxenhall, Johan. "Three Hounds of the Baskervilles." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-75419.
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Sherlock Holmes har adapterats till film i över hundra år. Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att genomföra en studie om adaptioner av Sherlock Holmes romanen The Hound of the Baskerville har anpassats för sin samtid mellan 1939 och 2012. Analysen utgår därmed ifrån Sidney Lanfields adaption ifrån 1939 med Basil Rathbone, Terence Fishers adaption ifrån 1959 med Peter Cushing. Slutligen TV-serien Sherlocks adaption ifrån 2012 med Benedict Cumberbatch i rollen som Holmes. Den grundläggande teorin för uppsatsen är adaptionsteori, för att få fram hur Sir Arthur Conan Doyles roman har ändrats och anpassats för att bli lämplig för sin samtida publik. Analysen är uppdelad i tre kapitel, i vilka olika delar av det som har adapterats analyseras. De olika kapitlen handlar om filmskaparna har omarbetat och tolkat Doyles roman för sin samtid? Har de tolkat och omarbetat de kvinnliga karaktärerna för sin samtids publik? Har Sherlock själv utvecklats mellan de tre adaptionerna? Slutsats omfattar sedan en diskussion om uppsatsens resultat, baserad på Linda Hutcheons teori om adaption.Sherlock Holmes have been adapted to film for over a hundred years. The purpose with this essay is to conduct a study of how adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles have been adjusted between 1939 and 2012, to make the story more appropriate for their contemporary audience. The analysis is based on Sidney Lanfields 1939 adaptation with Basil Rathbone, the 1959 Terence Fisher adaptation with Peter Cushing and the 2012 adaptation for the TV series Sherlock. The Essay is based in adaption theory, to determine how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel has been changed and adjusted to make the story more appropriate for the contemporary audience of the adaptation in question. The analysis is divided into three chapters, which examines different aspects of what has been adapted. The different chapters analyze how the filmmakers have reworked and interpreted Doyle’s novel for their time, how they have interpreted and reworked the female characters and how Sherlock himself has evolved between the three adaptations.
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D'Andrea, Patrizia. "Littérature et spiritisme au tournant du siècle (1865-1913) : études des formes narratives d'inspiration spirite : France, Italie et Angleterre." Paris 4, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA040125.
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Notre perspective d’analyse est axée sur le langage et l’écriture : quelle est l’incidence de l’inspiration spirite sur la constitution du texte ? Cinq thématiques majeures, qui constituent les cinq parties de notre travail, nous permettent de rendre compte des stratégies narratives issues de l’interaction entre les deux domaines. Dans la première partie, la thématique fantastique, définie par le modèle de référence Spirite de Théophile Gautier (1865), montre le rôle poétique du spiritisme en tant que pratique d’écriture avec l’au-delà. La deuxième est centrée sur la thématique de l’amour spirite, constituée par un réseau d’influences intertextuelles, esthétiques et philosophiques que nous mettons en évidence. La troisième traite de l’influence des sciences occultes et des procédés d’amalgame propres à ce type de discours. La quatrième considère le traitement du spiritisme en littérature par le biais du genre comique. La cinquième partie analyse les tentatives de définir le spiritisme dans une approche psychophysiologique et les mêmes diagnostics portés sur l’écriture. Les conséquences serontdécisives pour la remise en question de la littérature elle-mêmeOur field of analysis focussed on language and literary writings : What was the impact of spiritualist influences on how texts were constituted? The five major thematics making up the five sections of our work, enabled us to grasp the strategies employed in narratives arising from interactions between the two fields. The first section, named the “ Fantastique” (Uncanny Thematic) was defined by the reference model, Spirite by Théophile Gautier (1865). It demonstrates the poetic role played by spiritualism in the practice of writing with respect to the hereafter. The second focussed on the “Amour Spirite” (Spiritualism & Love) thematic. It comprises of a network of inter-textual, aesthetic and philosophical influences that we have highlighted. The third deals with the influence of occult science and the processes through which amalgams are made by this type of treatise. The fourth considered how spiritualism was treated via the comic literary genre. Finally, the fifth section analysed the attempts made to define spiritualism in a psycho-psychological approach and how the same diagnostics were applied to writings. The consequences were to play a decisive role when questioning the literature itself
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Winterkvist, Frida. "”There is Nothing More Deceptive than an Obvious Fact” : A Feminist Study of the Detective Work by Miss Marple and Sherlock Holmes." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Engelska, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-32473.
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This comparative study focuses on the detective genre and is conducted through literary analysis with a feminist critical perspective of two of its most iconic protagonists, Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887 and Agatha Christie in 1930 respectively. The purpose is to attempt to establish the effect of the gender differences on these two protagonists. Both Holmes and Miss Marple are deemed as iconic in the detective genre, but the protagonists do not have similar experiences and are created by authors of different genders. Thus, the focus is to explore how gender differences are represented in the literary texts A Study in Scarlet (1887), “A Scandal in Bohemia” (1891), and The Murder at the Vicarage (1930) when it comes to their work as detectives. By using a feminist critical perspective and with the help of previous research, the differences in three central issues, that is, work methods, attitudes and method of disguise, are established. The most prominent result from the analysis is that Miss Marple has to work independently from the police force and trust another character, Leonard Clement, with what she knows hoping that Clement will use her observations to make the case move forward. By contrast, Holmes is approached by clients and even assists the police force in investigations, while Miss Marple is dismissed because of gender discrimination and ageism when she reaches out to the police force. Miss Marple is clearly a victim of gender discrimination and ageism, while Holmes is seen as eccentric but fully competent as a detective. Holmes is even described as having “extraordinary powers” while Miss Marple is described as an “old pussy” in a derogatory manner. Therefore, the results are that there is a significant difference in attitude where Holmes as a man encounters more positive attitudes and Miss Marple as a woman encounters more negative attitudes, all because of gender discrimination and ageism. These results are of great importance as it reveals what gender differences Holmes and Miss Marple encounter in their literary texts. It opens up the opportunity for more research in gender differences and gender discrimination in comparisons between protagonists. That Miss Marple is successful in the end, however, functions as a feminist statement.
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Ghosh, Arundhati. "From Holmes to Sherlock: Confession, Surveillance, and the Detective." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1376495997.
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O'Dell, Benjamin Daniel. "Henry Jekyll, Sherlock Holmes, and Dorian Gray: Narrative Politics and the Representation of Character in Late-Victorian Gothic Romance." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1215048065.
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Camp, Nathan. "Not So Elementary: An Examination of Trends in a Century of Sherlock Holmes Adaptations." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1157536/.
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This study examines changes over time in 40 different Sherlock Holmes films and 39 television series and movies spanning from 1900 to 2017. Quantitative observations were mixed with a qualitative examination. Perceptions of law enforcement became more positive over time, the types of crime did not vary, and representation of race and gender improved over time with incrementally positive changes in the representation of queer, mentally ill, and physically handicapped individuals. The exact nature of these trends is discussed. Additionally, the trends of different decades are explored and compared. Sherlock Holmes is mostly used as a vehicle for storytelling rather than for the salacious crimes that he solves, making the identification of perceptions of crime in different decades difficult. The reasons for why different Sherlock Holmes projects were created in different eras and for different purposes are discussed.
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Bacon, Edwin Bruce. "Confronting eternity : strange (im)mortalities, and states of undying in popular fiction." Thesis, University of Canterbury. English, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9680.
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When the meritless scrabble for the bauble of deity, they ironically set their human lives at the “pin’s fee” to which Shakespeare’s Hamlet refers. This thesis focuses on these undeserving individuals in premillennial and postmillennial fiction, who seek immortality at the expense of both their humanities, and their natural mortalities.
I will analyse an array of popular modern characters, paying particular attention to the precursors of immortal personages. I will inaugurate these analyses with an examination of fan favourite series
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Dormer, Mia Emilie. "A hidden life : how EAS (Era Appropriate Science) and professional investigators are marginalised in detective and historical detective fiction." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/33257.
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This by-practice project is the first to provide an extensive investigation of the marginalisation of era appropriate science (EAS) and professional investigators by detective and historical detective fiction authors. The purpose of the thesis is to analyse specific detective fiction authors from the earliest formats of the nineteenth century through to the 1990s and contemporary, selected historical detective fiction authors. Its aim is to examine the creation, development and perpetuation of the marginalisation tradition. This generic trend can be read as the authors privileging their detective’s innate skillset, metonymic connectivity and deductive abilities, while underplaying and belittling EAS and professional investigators. Chapter One establishes the project’s critique of the generic trend by considering parental authors, E. T. A Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe, Émile Gaboriau and Wilkie Collins. Reading how these authors instigated and purposed the downplaying demonstrates its founding within detective fiction at the earliest point. By comparing how the authors sidelined and omitted specific EAS and professional investigators, alongside science available at the time, this thesis provides a framework for examining how it continued in detective fiction. In following chapters, the framework established in Chapter One and the theoretical views of Charles Rzepka, Lee Horsley, Stephen Knight and Martin Priestman, are used to discuss how minimising EAS and professional investigators developed into a tradition; and became a generic trend in the recognised detective fiction formula that was used by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Freeman Wills Crofts, H. C. Bailey, R. Austin Freeman, Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell and P. D. James. I then examine how the device transferred to historical detective fiction, using the framework to consider Ellis Peters, Umberto Eco and other selected contemporary authors of historical detective fiction. Throughout, the critical aspect considers how the trivialisation developed and perpetuated through a generic trend. The research concludes that there is a trend embedded within detective and historical detective fiction. One that was created, developed and perpetuated by authors to augment their fictional detective’s innate skillset and to help produce narratives using it is a creative process. It further concludes that the trend can be reimagined to plausibly use EAS and professional investigators in detective and historical detective fiction. The aim of the creative aspect of the project is to employ the research and demonstrate how the tradition can be successfully reinterpreted. To do so, the historical detective fiction novel A Hidden Life uses traditional features of the detective fiction formula to support and strengthen plausible EAS and professional investigators within the narrative. The end result is a historical detective fiction novel. One that proves the thesis conclusion and is fundamentally crafted by the critical research.
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Liu, Ruo-Xuan, and 劉若璇. "The Flâneur in Literature: Walter Benjamin Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ju8q5s.
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This thesis will mainly discuss flâneur’s position in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Man of The Crowd” and Arthur Conan Doyle’s “A Scandal in Bohemia”. On the other words, this thesis suggests examining two kinds of relationships: the relationship between the flâneur and the detective character and the relationship between the detective character and the writer. Baudelaire’s concept of flâneur will use as an important ideal while examining the two kinds of relationships. Chapter one will introduces both Benjamin and Baudelaire’s concept of flâneur. Benjamin considers that flâneur appears with the rise of arcade and they enjoy strolling around the crowd. On the contrary, Baudelaire’s flâneur is more alienated than Benjamin’s flâneur. They are isolated while being with the crowd. Moreover, Benjamin also mentions that Poe uses the image of flâneur in his short story and considers that flâneur is the one who full with guilt. The second chapter and the third chapter will mainly discuss the relationship between the detective character and the flâneur, and the relationship between the writer himself and the detective character. Writers are the reflection of the flâneur and they use words to show what they’ve observed in the world. Moreover, writers merges themselves into the character and creates character form their observation of the crowd. This thesis concludes by suggesting that flâneur, character in the literature, and writer himself are related to each other. Writers embody the flâneur and the character in their works is the reflections of the writer and the flâneur.
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KONEČNÝ, Adam. "Knižní ilustrace ke zvolené literární předloze: Muž s dýmkou a houslemi - Arthur Conan Doyle." Master's thesis, 2007. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-46819.
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This diploma thesis contains theoretical and practical parts: 1. Practical part: - contains a collection of nine illustrations to the book {\clqq} A Man with a Pipe and Violin`` by Arthur Conan Doyle ( original number of ten works was decreased because of incogruity of separate stories {--} the book is the choice carried out differently compared to original intention of the autor and the higher number seemed to affect the general composition to the prejudice of uniformity. - Illustrations are performed by combined technique - They are presented free (without passe-partout) - Preparatory sketches and experimental prints are enclosed in practical part 2. Theoretical part: - Contains three parts - Essay on illustration field - Analysis of the book and the reasoning of inspiratory impacts
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Cauley, Helen. "Influences of the Scottish Enlightenment in the Sherlock Holmes Stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle." 2017. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_diss/179.
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Scotland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries produced some of the most renowned thinkers and scholars whose works are still widely read and admired. This cadre of enlightened philosophers established a framework for critical thinking and reasoning, as well as a foundation for composition studies. One of the literary geniuses whose work drew on this expertise was Arthur Conan Doyle, best known for giving the world Sherlock Holmes in the late 1880s. But Doyle’s contributions are more than mere stories; the Edinburgh native endowed his character with the philosophy he himself gleaned growing up in a culture that prized reasoning, critical thinking, elocution, and elegant composition. This dissertation explores the influences Doyle drew from the great minds of the Scottish Enlightenment and connects them to the character of Sherlock Holmes. In addition, it proposes that Holmes’s philosophy establishes a basis for composition classes, where students are introduced to the concepts of critical thinking, reasoning, and logic, and the key role these concepts play in argumentative writing.
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Gehrke, Constanze [Verfasser]. "Schema und Variation in den Sherlock-Holmes-Stories von Arthur Conan Doyle / vorgelegt von Constanze Gehrke." 2003. http://d-nb.info/971957231/34.
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Diogo, Ana Cristina Antunes Serigado de Oliveira. "A relação racionalismo vs sobrenatural nas obras de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle : The Hound of the Baskevilles e “The Sussex Vampire"." Master's thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/448.
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Kalčák, Filip. "Adaptace románu Pes baskervillský: Triumf seriálového sociopata." Master's thesis, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-448324.
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This thesis focuses on the various adaptations of Arthur Conan Doyles novel The Hound of the Baskerville and accentuate the episode The Hounds of Baskervilles from the BBC TV series Sherlock. Thus, this thesis is decribing the theme, which was not fully covered in Czech literature. The author used different sources, books, internet pages and cinematographic pieces. The thesis consists of two parts. In the first part the author is focusing on the theory of adaptation, Doyle's life and art, The Hound of the Baskervilles book and the TV series Sherlock. In the practical part the author narrates about the episode The Hounds of the Baskervilles and searching for definition of the adaptation process, which the makers of this episode used. This part also answers the question, why is this episode so popular and key for the whole series. The crucial final part of the thesis summarizes the main principles, which authors and film makers can use during the process of the adaptation. Keywords Adaptation, television series, Arthur Conan Doyle, BBC, Sherlock, The Hound of the Baskervilles Title/název práce Adaptations of the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles: The triumph of the television series's sociopath
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Abbott, Stacey G. Faulk Barry. "The fantasy of victorian cross-dressing." 2004. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04102004-140036.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2004.Advisor: Dr. Barry Faulk, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed June 16, 2004). Includes bibliographical references.
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Housholder, Aaron J. "The (re)mystification of London : revelations of contested space, concealed identity and moving menace in late-Victorian Gothic fiction." 2012. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1697794.
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This project asserts that much of the cultural anxiety found in Gothic-infused late-Victorian fiction derives from literary revelations of the nested spaces, shifting identities, and spontaneous connections inherent to the late-Victorian metropolis. The three literary texts studied here – The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman by E.W. Hornung, and The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan – all depict London as fundamentally suitable for those who seek to evade the disciplinary gaze and to pursue menacing schemes of criminality and invasion. Doyle’s text illustrates the interconnectedness of the spaces within London as well as the passable threshold between London and the English countryside; both the villain Stapleton and the hero Sherlock Holmes use these connections to attack and defend, respectively, the city and its inhabitants. Hornung’s stories depict the machinations employed by the gentleman-thief Raffles as he alters his identity and his codes of behaviour in order to free himself to pursue criminal ends and thus as he challenges cultural barriers. Buchan’s text, building on the others, explores the dissolution of cultural boundaries and identities incumbent upon the spontaneous connections made between those who attack English culture and those, like Richard Hannay, who defend it. There emerges in these texts a vision of London (and by extension Great Britain) as a swirling vortex of motion, an unknowable labyrinth perpetually threatened by menacing agents from without and within. I have employed Victor Turner’s theories of liminality and communitas to describe how criminal agents, and their equally menacing “good-guy” pursuers, separate themselves from structured society in order to move freely and to gain access to the contested thresholds they seek to infiltrate. I also invoke theories of the Gothic, surveillance, and travel, as well as Jeffrey Cohen’s monster theory, to characterize the anxiety embedded in such invasions.The transformation of contested space : Baker Street, Grimpen Mire and the battle for thresholds in The hound of the Baskervilles -- Hornung's code-switching monster : threatening ambiguity and liminoid mobility in Raffles, the amateur cracksman -- Towards a more inclusive Britishness : Richard Hannay's transformative connections and evolving identity in The thrity-nine steps.
Department of English