Sökning: "Conan"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 22 uppsatser innehållade ordet Conan.

  1. 1. She Can Go Where She Will : Representations of Female Bicyclists in Late 19th-Century and Early 20th-Century Literature by H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy Richardson, Grant Allen, George F. Hall, and Alice Meynell

    Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet

    Författare :Anna Gustafsson; [2024]
    Nyckelord :bicycling women characters; late 19th-century and early 20th-century British and American literature; freedom; emancipation; feminism; gender; the New Woman; cyklande kvinnliga karaktärer; sen 1800-tals- och tidig 1900-talslitteratur från Storbritannien och USA; frihet; frigörelse; feminism; genus; the New Woman;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this essay is to investigate how representations of bicycling women in literary works by H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy Richardson, Grant Allen, George F. Hall, and Alice Meynell express mental and physical freedoms that had previously been denied women due to archaic societal norms. LÄS MER

  2. 2. An Exploration of Social Dimensions Through Sherlock Holmes : A Historicist Interpretation and Teaching of Sherlock Holmes’ First and Last Adventure

    Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Författare :Marija Suvejkic; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Literature; Social Dimensions; New Historicism; Sherlock Holmes; Upper Secondary School; EFL;

    Sammanfattning : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s short stories about the character Sherlock Holmes are known by many people, they excited readers when he first released the stories in different magazines, and they still excite readers to this day. This essay aims to explore the social dimensions in Conan Doyle’s first and last Sherlock Holmes story by searching for indications of social status and formality. LÄS MER

  3. 3. Where is the "New Woman"? A study of women characters in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Författare :Hanna Nilsson; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Sherlock Holmes; Women; Feminism; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : Detective stories are a common part of our society today through literature and television, and the most famous detective of all is undoubtedly Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes stories narrate several mysteries set in the late 19th to mid 20th century, and through the mysteries a large number of men and women are presented. LÄS MER

  4. 4. Is That Really You, Sherlock Holmes? : A Corpus Stylistic and Comparative Literary Analysis Investigating the Survival of the Authentic Holmes in Contemporary Pastiches

    Master-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Författare :Amanda Silfver; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Corpus Stylistics; Cognitive Stylistics; Narratology; Characterisation; Authenticity; Period Pastiche; Sherlock Holmes;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis has conducted an extensive character analysis of Sherlock Holmes by comparing the original, authentic detective, as he appears in a corpus consisting of Conan Doyle’s collected works about Holmes, to the characterisation in three select period pastiches. The aim was to analyse to what extent the true characterisation of the famous sleuth has survived in contemporary adaptations, more specifically in the three texts, Sherlock Vs. LÄS MER

  5. 5. The Influence of Forensic Science and Law Enforcement on the Sherlock Holmes Stories

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Författare :Leonardo Al-Shennag; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : Sherlock Holmes is one of the most famous protagonists in the literary genre of crime, but how he came to be is not often discussed. The stories about Holmes were written in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Arthur Conan Doyle during a period when British society was developing in matters of human rights, law, and science. LÄS MER