Sökning: "Detective stories"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 25 uppsatser innehållade orden Detective stories.

  1. 1. Exposing Masculinities : Reframing the Hardboiled Detective in Lehane’s Shutter Island

    Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Författare :Payvand Behnam Nikou; [2022]
    Nyckelord :noir fiction; masculinity; hardboiled; gender; Shutter Island;

    Sammanfattning : This literary study examines the relationship between the hardboiled detective and the 2003 detective novel Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane. Known for his thought provoking stories as a crime novelist, Lehane exemplifies the desire of a current literary shift from stoic patriarchal constructs of detective archetypes towards a more feminist perspective. LÄS MER

  3. 2. 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. 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"

    Magister-uppsats, Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

    Författare :Frida Junker; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Delay; Sherlock Holmes; Forensics; Development; Format;

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Från oövervinnelig till oigenkännlig : En komparativ genusstudie av hur Irene Adler porträtteras I Arthur Conan Doyles ”A Scandal in Bohemia” och BBC:s adaption ”A Scandal in Belgravia”

    Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Författare :Marlene Lindberg; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Irene Adler; Sherlock Holmes; Arthur Conan Doyle; gender theory; adaptation; male gaze; stereotype; post feminism; Irene Adler; Sherlock Holmes; Arthur Conan Doyle; genusteori; adaption; manlig blick; stereotyp; postfeminism;

    Sammanfattning : Abstract The great detective Sherlock Holmes casts a long shadow on the previous research on the short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, where Mr. Holmes has been given the main attention. On the periphery, however, a woman named Irene Adler is recognizable. LÄS MER

  7. 5. 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

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

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

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER