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11	Holmes, Alice, and Ezeulu: Western Rationality in the Context of British Colonialism and Western Modernity Schultz, Andrew B. 19 July 2007 (has links) (PDF) 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 Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. I then explore the cultural studies critique of that characterization of modernity in the book Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe. Using the theory of Jean Francois Lyotard, Martin Heidegger, and Theodor Adorno, I look at Western rationality through its manifestation in British colonialism. I argue that colonialism is a site where rationality's negative legacy is manifest, and that the paradoxical representations of rationality in the books by Carroll and Doyle indicate a problem with the assumption that Western rationality was a universal epistemology. Contrary to the British's own ideas of their rationality, I find that Western rationality is ultimately a culturally-grounded discourse. Using Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God, I examine the intersection between Western rationality and other forms of cultural knowledge, an intersection that occurred through British colonialism. Achebe argues against the universal model of Western rationality and posits instead a relative valuing of each culture's methods of arriving at truth. I use his novel to illustrate the limits of Western rationality and its claim to universality. rationality rational enlightenment reason logic Western Rationality the West colonialism modernism modernity postcolonial postcolonialism eurocentrism ratiocentrism eurocentric ratiocentric Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Chinua Achebe Arrow of God Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle Hound of the Baskervilles English Language and Literature
12	Henry Jekyll, Sherlock Holmes, and Dorian Gray: Narrative Politics and the Representation of Character in Late-Victorian Gothic Romance O'Dell, Benjamin Daniel 15 July 2008 (has links) No description available. English literature Robert Louis Stevenson Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of Four Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray character fin de si&232 cle late Victorian gothic romance city London performance class
13	From Holmes to Sherlock: Confession, Surveillance, and the Detective Ghosh, Arundhati 18 December 2013 (has links) No description available. British and Irish Literature American Literature Detective fiction Confession Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Hercule Poirot Philip Marlowe Arthur Conan Doyle Agatha Christie Raymond Chandler Paul Auster Orhan Pamuk The Black Book The Long Goodbye The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
14	Трансформации при переводе рассказа А. К. Дойля «Скандал в Богемии» на русский язык : магистерская диссертация / Transformations within the russian translation in the short story “A scandal in Bohemia” by A. C. Doyle Рыбкин, П. Н., Rybkin, P. N. January 2021 (has links) Эта магистерская диссертация посвящена исследованию и сопоставлению переводческих трансформаций в рамках теорий Ж.-П. Вине и Ж. Дарбельне и Л. С. Бархударова с целью выявления особенностей каждой из них на фоне друг друга. Материалом сопоставительного анализа послужили монологи доктора Уотсона в первой главе рассказа А. К. Дойла «Скандал в Богемии». / This master’s thesis studies and compares translation transformations within the theories of J.-P. Vinay, J. Darbelnet and L. S. Barkhudarov in order to find out some of the peculiarities of said theories compared to one another. The analysis is based on comparing the translation of Dr. Watson’s monologues in the first chapter of the short story «A Scandal in Bohemia» by A. C. Doyle with the English source text. А. КОНАН ДОЙЛ «СКАНДАЛ В БОГЕМИИ» MASTER'S THESIS A. CONAN DOYLE TRANSLATION TRANSFORMATION “A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA” L. S. BARKHUDAROV’S TRANSLATION THEORY BELLES-LETTRES TRANSLATION
15	Confronting eternity : strange (im)mortalities, and states of undying in popular fiction. Bacon, Edwin Bruce January 2014 (has links) 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 Immortality Undeath Undying Magic Science Pseudoscience Life Death Eternity God Alchemy Phoenix Popular Fiction Pop Culture William Shakespeare Hamlet Doctor Who The Doctor The Master Buffy the Vampire Slayer Gulliver's Travels Struldbrugg Jonathan Swift Sherlock Holmes Moriarty Arthur Conan Doyle Merlin The Once and Future King T.H. White The Mask Batman The Joker Scream Ghostface Saw The Jigsaw Killer Hanz Lungwitz Breaking Bad Walter White Heroes Sylar A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Emily Dickinson Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Roger Ebert Judith Butler J.R.R Tolkien Dylan Thomas Robert Louis Stevenson
16	A hidden life : how EAS (Era Appropriate Science) and professional investigators are marginalised in detective and historical detective fiction Dormer, Mia Emilie January 2017 (has links) 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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