Essays about: "A Study in Scarlet"

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  1. 1. The Continued Support of Patriarchal Ideologies in the Nancy Drew Series : A Comparative Study of Nancy Drew: The Scarlet Slipper Mystery & Nancy Drew Diaries: The Magician’s Secret

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad

    Author : Nathalie Green; [2022]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The well-loved Nancy Drew from 1930 has continued to solve mysteries in 1974 and 2015, though the series can no longer claim to be unconventional. Even though Nancy was a revolutionary character in 1930, the thought of a mystery-solving female is not as controversial anymore. READ MORE

  3. 2. ”There is Nothing More Deceptive than an Obvious Fact” : A Feminist Study of the Detective Work by Miss Marple and Sherlock Holmes

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

    Author : Frida Winterkvist; [2020]
    Keywords : female detectives; detective genre; Agatha Christie; sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Sherlock Holmes; Miss Marple; women’s rights; gender studies; gender differences; feminist criticism; A Study in Scarlet; “A Scandal in Bohemia”; The Murder at the Vicarage;

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE

  4. 3. Forensics as a Delay in Stories of Sherlock Holmes : "Although the Series is More Extendedly Delayed by Forensic Elements, the Difference is Not as Significant as Expected"

    University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Frida Junker; [2019]
    Keywords : Delay; Sherlock Holmes; Forensics; Development; Format;

    Abstract : The relationship between the development of real life forensics and fiction’s use of it is a close one, and it offers excitement and pleasure to follow investigations and unravel mysteries, clearly, both in real life and fiction. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional detective Sherlock Holmes has famously used advanced deductive methods to solve crimes since his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. READ MORE

  5. 4. Debunking the Detective: A Comparative Study on the Narratives Found in The Blanched Soldier, The Lion’s Mane and A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Geofina Andersson; [2018]
    Keywords : Sherlock Holmes; Watson; narratology; narrative frustration; narrator; suspense; reliability; point of view; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote 56 short stories in the Sherlock Holmes series, yet only two are told from the narrative perspective of Holmes himself. I attempted to compare and contrast Holmes’ narration in The Blanched Soldier and The Lion’sMane withWatson’s narration in A Study in Scarlet. READ MORE

  6. 5. Spineless Men and Irrepressible Women? : Gender Norm Destabilizing Performances in The Scarlet Letter and My Ántonia

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Sandra Johansson; [2015]
    Keywords : Gender performances; gender role norms; expectations; masculinization; feminization; feminism;

    Abstract : Both The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and My Ántonia by Willa Cather depict characters that perform non-traditional gender roles. In these novels, there are expectations about how women and men should act. READ MORE