Rathbone

Case Study #3: Rathbone & Brett

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The twenty-sixth Sherlock Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was titled, The Adventure of the Final Problem (1893) (The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia ).   Watson writes the narrative sharing the events that led to Sherlock Holmes’s demise at the hands of his nemesis, Professor Moriarty. Doyle hoped the death of Sherlock Holmes would … [Read more…]

Doyle’s signs

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This Victorian textuality is evident in the stories written during this time period. This paper explores the topic of Foucault’s authorship-function as illustrated by Doyle’s “signs” in three canonical Sherlock stories and their cinema and television adaptations spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.  This concept defines where signs and signifiers are embedded and informed by … [Read more…]