Arthur Conan Doyle

Rationality has since long been one of the central been issues in the discourse of management. Among the classics voices propagating a reductionist rationalism dominated and there are still many contexts where such a view is taken for granted. On the other hand, critics since the times of classics have been arguing for a less linear approach to management and management thinking. However, little attention has been paid to some of the di erent dimensions of management rationality, such as imagination. is paper sets out to address this gap in knowledge through presenting a narrative study focused on a literary character well known for his rationality, Sherlock Holmes, and revealing that this, to many, very epitome of rationality is actually an example of an extended type of rationality, including imagination. Following the ctional protagonist of our study, we consider some aspects of its relevance for management thought and practice.

'Nietzsche's Flowers' was presented under the title 'The Poison Garden: Nietzsche's Flowers', at the Australasian Society of Continental Philosophy (ASCP) Conference held at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, on 7-10 December 2016. I spoke alongside Amy Ireland and Suzi Elhafez on a themed panel concerning Nietzsche and the Eternal Return.

I look at the relationship between journalism, detective fiction, and the creation of an official detective force in Victorian England and examine the role of class, literacy, and self education in promoting detectives as professional men and women.

Due to its formulaic nature, detective fiction is not only highly interesting with regard to generic change in its own right, but also an indication of, or, one might say, a clue to cultural change. In such a vast field, my interest here lies specifically in the significance of the sidekick narrator of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes narratives, namely John H. Watson, M.D., whose importance for the genre is almost proverbial and yet who has so far been granted relatively little extended scholarly scrutiny.

It is 1887. A doctor recently returned to London from Afghanistan is looking for modest lodgings. He is introduced, via a mutual friend, to a rather singular stranger. Within moments, that stranger -not himself a medical man -begins musing aloud about the properties of haemoglobin, and proceeds, rather alarmingly, one might say almost histrionically, to take blood from himself by inserting a slender dagger, of the sort known as a bodkin, into his finger. He draws off a few drops into a pipette and subsequently dissolves them in water. But the experiment does not end there:

The Worst Man in London: A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of “Charles Augustus Milverton” by Arthur Conan Doyle, with Annotations and Commentary. Ed. Daniel Stashower and Constantine Rossakis. New York: The Baker Street Irregulars, 2019. 165-70. Print.

Una nuova poderosa trattazione che sviscera le relazioni tra le donne del Canone, Holmes e, inevitabilmente, Conan Doyle. Questo lavoro si discosta dal Grande Gioco per approfondire le ragioni storiche, sociali e  letterarie della natura e dello sviluppo dei personaggi femminili rappresentati nelle storie canoniche.

A discussion of Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories’ history of reception. This paper gives a general overview  of a collection of articles, published by literary journalists in intellectual weeklies, which gave birth to the Sherlockian movement at the end of the 1920s and early 1930s. That historical sequence can be considered as its Golden Age (1927-34).

Amusement, acumen, and the joy to explore literary puzzles were the main components of the early studies on Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The higher criticism of the Sherlock Holmes stories, scrutinizing every detail of the text with methods borrowed from literary and textual criticism gave birth to a unique and vivid scholarship.

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Printed version in Clausson, N. (ed.), Re-examining Arthur Conan Doyle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tye, 2021, pp. 141-161.

The Strange Case of the Creeping Man

Arthur Conan Doyle’s story of 1923, “The Creeping Man”, has been described as “a weak reworking of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”. This paper looks at continuities and differences between the two tales, both of which tell the story of a brilliant scientist whose secretive behavior alarms his friends and household, and who is discovered to have fallen, as a result of his scientific researches, into dangerous atavism and violence. Both stories participate in contemporary discussions of evolution and degeneration, repression and sexuality, science and scandal, and human and animal nature. In the Conan Doyle tale it is Sherlock Holmes, the scientific detective, who provides the explanation of this scientific aberration. “When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it,” is his verdict on the case. “The Creeping Man” has attracted little critical notice, appearing to be a fairly humdrum Watson-narrated Sherlock Holmes tale and certainly lacking the aesthetic and intellectual radicalism of Dr Jekyll. But this paper will argue that it repays attention, and that in the regressions of Professor Presbury, the creeping man of the title, we can find a fictional figure thematically linked not just to Dr Jekyll but to Sherlock Holmes himself, and also to Dracula, Dorian Gray, Peter Pan and the Kaiser.

Doyle’s novel 'The Lost World' (1912) is one of his most influential works, establishing dinosaurs in fiction and inspiring later science fiction, but also giving birth to Professor Challenger, one of the most memorable scientists in literature. Doyle’s scientific romance combines a thrilling adventure plot with scientific concepts and debates of his time, particularly ideas on evolution. Professor Challenger is not only an expert in evolutionary science but also a man of action, organizing an expedition to a strange plateau in the Amazon rain forest, which turns out to be a lost world with dinosaurs and ape-men. Prehistory comes alive, and like actors in a living natural history museum extinct species participate again in the struggle for survival. Through his fictional microcosm Doyle locates ancient creatures and modern man in the meta-narrative of evolution, drawing inspiration from a wide range of sources, including earlier science fiction, travel accounts and fossil finds near his Sussex home, but especially the innovative fusion of palaeontology and Darwinism and ideas of a ‘missing link’ at the turn of the century. This paper explores evolutionary ideas, their scientific basis and ambivalent narrative reflection in 'The Lost World', providing greater insight into Arthur Conan Doyle as science fiction writer and the literary discourse on evolution.

A newly identified contemporary legend. A professional (doctor, executioner, mason, midwife, priest...) is brought, typically blindfolded, to a place where a crime is committed in their presence. He or she help the criminals according to their professions. They are then brought back to their homes and subsequently try and identify the place of the crime. Oh and there are fairies...

Paper presented at Tel-Aviv University's Department of English Literature's Graduate Conference - Invention and Convention: Authors and Their Work in the Literary Traditions of British Culture (2016).
Is Sherlock Holmes real? This paper is an attempt to separate the factual from the fictional in the great, mythological figure of Sherlock Holmes. I'm asking: who is Sherlock Holmes? and how do we know who he is?  Like the great detective himself, we will try searching for the truth: defining what the truth it, and separating it from fiction, if it is at all possible to separate reality from the representation of reality. Discussing both Arthur Conan Doyle's original Holmes stories and Mitch Cullin's 2005 novel A Slight Trick of the Mind.

This drafts gives an overview over major steps in the shift of use of society-building pagan concepts as displayed in Insular Celtic literature to their oppressive abuse by Norman-Christian conquerors. The re-interpretation of pagan  concepts as expressed in literary motifs formed part of the ideological discourse to ensure the establishment of a much more hierarchical feudal society..

This piece analyses the character of Sherlock Holmes comparing the literary and media version of this individual. It explores Cumberbatch and how he uses the source text to create an entirely new character style and form. It also analyses Irene Adler and her portrayal.

Simpson, E., ed. The Adventure of the Illustrious Scholar: Papers Presented to Oscar White Muscarella. Leiden: Brill, 2018.

The Adventure of the Illustrious Scholar: Papers Presented to Oscar White Muscarella, edited by Elizabeth Simpson, is a Festschrift celebrating the career of one of the foremost archaeologists of the ancient Near East. Oscar Muscarella is a former curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a formidable scholar who has excavated at sites in Turkey, Iran, and the United States. He has published eight books and nearly 200 articles, excavation reports, and reviews on topics ranging from the arts of antiquity and the importance of connoisseurship, to the difficulties of dating and the problems of forgeries, the looting of ancient sites, and the antiquities trade. The forty-seven contributors are experts in the areas of Muscarella's interests and are major scholars in their fields. This volume constitutes an unusual, important, and timely addition to the archaeological and art historical literature.

Une étude sur les "Études sur la Littérature de Sherlock Holmes" (1912) de Ronald Knox en deux parties:

1) Examen du jeu d’esprit littéraire produit par Knox, mêlant fiction et réalité, dont on montre qu'il est autorisé par le texte même de Doyle ;

2) Knox utilise les ressources et les débats de la critique littéraire et philologique, qui lui sont contemporains, en les travestissant et en donnant ainsi de la dignité à des récits qui ont toujours été considérés comme de la pure littérature d’évasion.

Nous montrons que l’interprétation du texte de Knox proposée depuis des décénnies-comme étant une satire de la critique biblique– n’a pas de fondement sérieux et qu’il faut se tourner vers les études shakespeariennes et homériques afin d’expliquer l’aspect satirique et humoristique de ses "Études sur la Littérature de Sherlock Holmes".
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This essay will examine how the use of perspective in Arthur Conan-Doyle's, A Study in Scarlet, affects the manner in which the reader engages with the text. It will be achieved through the analysis and comparison of the language used in both parts, with the aim of showing how the use of different literary conventions add to the tone of suspense and mystery.

Sherlock Holmes is “the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen” (Doyle 3), but as a lover, he restraints his emotions. Does he have to choose either reason or emotions? Would the combination of two fail to maintain the earned abilities? Should this dichotomy always be in contrast with each other? It is understood from the story that there is only one woman, Irene Adler, that threats Holmes’ investment in reason. To Sherlock Holmes, Irene “is always the woman”. The emphasis on “the”, here, refers to the only threat for his trained reason. If Holmes admits “such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament”, it would be “to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results”. Suggests that one should choose either reason or emotion. The balance, the harmony is out of question for an individual like Holmes. But is that so? Ending of the story messages a transformation for Holmes’ character, his investment in reason, his inner self. While he exposes every meaning beneath the surfaces, his inner self mostly remains dark. This story is especially important with this respect, as it sheds light on the character of Sherlock Holmes.

Con questo saggio ho deciso di prendere in esame tre figure di detective, molto diversi fra di loro, ma che
presentano allo stesso tempo alcune somiglianze. La mia intenzione è quella di dimostrare come i personaggi più di
successo abbiano influenzato altri personaggi successivi, e come gli autori di romanzi e racconti gialli siano
perfettamente a conoscenza degli autori che li hanno preceduti, e delle caratteristiche dei personaggi da loro creati. In
alcuni casi le somiglianze sono sottili, in altri più evidenti: ma tutti e tre i personaggi che ho deciso di analizzare
(Sherlock Holmes, Guglielmo da Baskerville e Philip Marlowe) presentano alcune cose in comune, e sono ese

The Sign of Four rationalized, reordered and recoded through narrative the complexities of familial (Empire) betrayal in the events and figurations of nineteenth-century India. Set like Doyle's novel in the Andaman Islands, India, and London, Lee Langley's work is also focally about betrayal, Empire and family. Superficially, too, it is a 'boys own' adventure, its protagonist James Oakley. But by focusing on the psychology of this Englishman born in the Andamans, Langley unmasks the strategic narrative inversions and slippages in Doyle's work, using those tropes of the (spectral) woman, the Andaman 'savage,' and their figural alliance through disappearance to lay bare the fabric of nineteenth-century Empire narrative.

An analysis of Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmesian Canon in the light of the scientific theorizations of his time is here proposed, aimed at highlighting how they shape the use of Gothic spatial tropes in the representation of London. The city, seen in its double capacity of capital of the Empire and positivistic rational environment, is internally disrupted in many of its facets, from the microcosm of the house, to the urban fabric, to the composition of its social body. Introduced by deviant individuals or polluting substances, the atavistic or degenerative threat invades the metropolis, materializing the anxieties underlying the late Victorian psyche: the persistence of the past in the present, and the possibility of reversion. The detective, armed with the tools that rationality and the scientific method itself offer, is tasked with the almost impossible duty of fighting Nature with its own means: his taxonomical organization of London is the ultimate attempt at normalising what eschews categorisation. Yet in so doing, he also reveals the contradictions and disruptions of the society he is trying to protect, effectively disclosing the very items it wishes to repress. Among the many disturbances that rippled through the purportedly smooth surface of Victorian and Edwardian life, scientific advancement and the consequential development of a scientistic mindset were two of the most pervasive and uncanny. Innovative means of communication consolidated Britain's position as head of an empire, immensely speeding the trading of goods and people with the most remote outskirts of its dominions and the exchange of information both at a domestic and at an international level. At the same time, they also rendered the "motherland" permeable to centripetal forces forever altering its sense of wholeness and unblem-ished isolation. New scientific (or pseudo-scientific) theorizations escalated, rather than rationalized , this profound unease, offering perhaps the greatest shock to Victorian psyche.

This essay, the final version of which was published as ‘Sherlock Holmes Version 2.0: Adapting Doyle in the Twenty-First Century’ in Sabine Vanacker & Catherine Wynne, eds., Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle: Multi-Media Afterlives (London: Palgrave, Crime Files Series 2013), pp.124-139, considers the enduring interest in Sherlock Holmes in the Twenty-First Century and analyses, in particular, the 2009 movie Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr., and the first series of BBC Television's Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch.

The famous poet and writer, Sylvia Plath, is sadly perhaps better known for her tragic suicide rather than her genius. My book, Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2014) looks at Plath’s involvement with the occult and approaches her poems through the lens of mysticism rather than her autobiography. Through this perspective, Plath’s poems yield some surprising –and wildly new interpretations.  Sylvia Plath’s poem, “The Detective,” has never been one of her most famous, in part because of its difficulty. It is generally assumed to be about the collapse of her marriage. Yet viewed through an occult lens, the poem is most clearly a tribute to the Sherlock Holmes stories, and most especially to The Hound of the Baskervilles. In the tale, a hellish hound attacks in the setting of Dartmoor, England, near where Plath and Hughes lived in Devon. The Hound of the Baskervilles has been listed by the BBC as the United Kingdom’s “Best-Loved Novel.”  [See pages 13-15 of attached PDF] Fall 2015 issue of Canadian Holmes magazine

The present article provides insight into the uses and functions of selected costumes in the BBC television series Sherlock (2010), analysing clothes as part of re-enacted fetish performances, in which gender roles are investigated or questioned in order to cope with cultural fears and anxieties. Drawing upon specific studies on fashion, clothing fetishism and visual culture, I explore the representational politics of the clothes of the detective and various icons of femininity, including the dominatrix, wife, bride, and sister. It will become clear that clothes actively participate in the act of reliving the past, highlighting conflicts related to a construction of identities that is suspended between past and present.

Introduction and Thesis Statement

This essay will compare a range of literary texts from the traditional detective genre and the Postmodern detective genre to illustrate and critically assess their similarities and differences. Mystery, playfulness, incoherence, and fragmentation are characteristics shared by both the traditional and Postmodern detective genre, these established characteristics are not, however, idly adopted by the postmodernist, rather, they are adapted and modified. This essay will argue that by analysing these deviations from the traditional genre, one can perceive within the text a postmodern attitude with regards to mystery, truth, reality, art, and philosophy. The Postmodern detective fictions that will be analysed are Samuel Beckett’s Molloy (1955) and Jorge Luis Borges’ ‘Death and the Compass’ (1965), both in their English translation. Jacques Derrida's ‘Différance' (in translation 1978), Umberto Ero’s ‘Postmodernism, Irony, and The Enjoyable’ (in translation 1985), and Jean Baudrillard’s Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? (in translation 2009), among other theoretical Postmodern literature will be used to discuss Postmodern attitudes and philosophy together with these detective fictions. Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) will be the primary traditional detective fiction that will be compared and contrasted with its Postmodern descendants to illustrate their similarities and differences. This essay will be split into two sections. The first section will focus primarily on Beckett’s Molloy, and will demonstrate and analyse how the postmodernist approach to treatment of ‘the mystery', both by the detective of the tale and within the text more generally reveals: the Postmodern understanding of reality and truth as fragmented. The second section will focus primarily on Borges’ ‘Death and the Compass’, and will look at how the postmodernists revisit this genre with irony: simultaneously accepting and rejecting the traditional detective genre.

This thesis offers a study of a particular period (1884-1899) in Britain in which Fantastic literature revealed itself as a convergence point of multiple anxieties of late nineteenth-century society. Fantastic literature is a genre often mistaken for Gothic, Fantasy or the like, that in fact has its own particular' rhetoric and literary conventions. In this study I present some of the most important social and literary elements of the context in which Fantastic literature emerged in Britain - the conventions of Gothic literature, a short history of Spiritualism, the scientific organizations devoted to the study of paranormal phenomena, such as the Society for Psychical Research, and a brief summary of the social evolutionist ideas of Thomas Huxley and H.G. Wells. By examining the context and some representative works of Fantastic literature, like R.L. Stevenson's 'Olalla' (1884), Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Parasite' (1895), Henry James's The Turn of the Screw (1898) and H.G. Wells's When the Sleeper Wakes (1899), we get a better idea of essential characteristics of Fantastic literature, that is, of the elements within these stories that reflect some important issues of late Victorian society. One can see that the rhetoric of the Fantastic sheds light on phenomena linked with uncertainty and fear in late nineteenth-century society, such·as occultism, supernatural sightings, haunted houses and spiritualism. During the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Fantastic literature has survived alongside Fantasy literature (J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings), magical realism (Salman Rushdie's Midnight Children or Garda Marquez's One Hundred Years ofSolitude) and children's literature (J. K. Rawling's Harry Potter) preserving its own identity and rhetoric. Italo Calvina's The Rampant Baron, J.L. Borges's 'The Aleph' and Haruki Murakami's The Wind-up Bird Chronicle indicate that Fantastic literature still has its place in literature because it expresses a particular kind of ideas that cannot find expression in other genres. This is an analysis of those ideas through the study of some of the first Fantastic literary works written in Britain.

Título original: THE VALLEY OF FEAR Traductor: FRANCISCO CUSO Diseño portada: B. CABERO MORAN-NIÑO Primera edición: noviembre de 1980 © de la presente traducción y edición EDITORIAL FONTAMARA, S. A. Entenza, 116, 3°, 3ª -Barcelona, 15 Tel. 325 16 83 Reservados todos los derechos conforme a la ley ISBN: 84-7367-142-2 Depósito legal: B. 36904-1980 Impreso en España Alfonso Impresores, S. A. -Recaredo, 4. Barcelona.

Advisor: Professor James Hopkins
Master of Arts conferred May 14, 2016
Dissertation completed April 15, 2016
Southern Methodist University

Today’s popular culture is inundated with adaptations of and references to Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories about Great Britain’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. But the private detective’s impact on the Victorian society into which he was born is much more pervasive and far reaching, then and now, than a visit to the little flat on Baker Street could possibly convey. Examining the history of the British private detective both in fiction and in life shows that the figure has been used as a metaphorical plumb-line for English self-conception since the Victorian era. This thesis looks at the British private detective from different points of view– the police, government officials, the public, literature, media, and detectives themselves – and shows how the figure can serve as a compelling historical lens through which to view changes in British culture in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Review Essay in Victorian Literature and Culture (2017) of books and articles, including among others: The Sky of Our Manufacture, by Jesse Oak Taylor; Green Victorians, by Vicky Albritton and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson; and Chaos and Cosmos, by Heidi C. M. Scott.

This paper, written in the course of a Research Master specializing in English studies, questions a wide-ranging literary
phenomenon: the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. This reflection is based on the observation of this character’s
permanency and universality, whose identity transcended, throughout the years, the strict scope of its creation. This
research paper considersthe reasons of such a universal success, for a character who is referenced just about everywhere,
whatever the time and place, who takes multiple forms in both our daily lives and in the diverse shapes taken by culture
(Literature, art, cinema, television…). This study relies on the reading of the original short stories written by Arthur Conan
Doyle, his autobiography, as well as the analysis of the various adaptations and pastiches that were made after the
detective’s adventures generated such a huge enthusiasm. In addition to these readings and viewings, this paper is
complemented by previous reflections on the character and his author. This research work was furthermore completed
thanks to the reading of documents regarding Sherlock Holmes’ context of creation, the Victorian era, as this period had
a very important role to play in the understanding of the character. The main idea that came out of this reflection is that
Sherlock Holmes is no longer, nowadays, only a character of fiction. He is an idea, a concept, a symbol, which makes him
seem so omnipresent.

There is something uncanny about one of the first scenes of A Study in Scarlet, the novel in which Arthur Conan Doyle introduces his consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes. The setting is late-Victorian London, “that great cesspool” Conan Doyle writes “into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained”.

In the scene I have in mind one such idler, Dr John Watson, is seated beside Holmes in a hansom cab which is taking them to a vacant house on Brixton Road where the Metropolitan Police have identified the corpse of an American gentleman. Asked by Watson what he is thinking, Holmes snaps that he has “no data yet”. “You will have your data soon”, Watson says soothingly.

Watson’s reply now reads like a sort of prophecy. In the last decade, IBM has invested roughly 1 billion euros in a front-wave computing platform called Watson. Whatever IBM’s Watson may lack – a mind, or at least, a blood-suffused brain in a warm body – this “cognitive” entity can mine, and scan, and sift, and analyse titanic, oceanic amounts of data. Or, as IBM’s brand-consultants prefer to put it, “Watson can ingest, enrich and normalize a wide variety of data types”. ....