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The Gestalt Shift in Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Stories

Michael J. Crowe
This book analyzes the four novels and fifty-six stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle describing the adventures and discoveries of Sherlock Holmes. Michael J. Crowe suggests that nearly all the Holmes stories exhibit the pattern known as a Gestalt shift, in which suddenly Holmes¿s efforts reveal a new perspective on the case, typically identifying the culprit(s) and resolving the case. Drawing on ideas presented by Thomas S. Kuhn in his famous Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), Crowe argues that similar to the way that Kuhn applied the idea of a Gestalt shift to the history of science, this approach can be used to reveal the structure of the Holmes stories and possibly be applied to some other areas of fiction.
Autor: Crowe, Michael J.
EAN: 9783319982908
Auflage: 001
Sprache: Englisch
Seitenzahl: 244
Produktart: Gebunden
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 20.10.2018
Schlagworte: Literaturtheorie Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000 SherlockHolmes; SirArthurConanDoyle; Gestaltshift; ThomasKuhn; HistoryofScience; historyofphilosophy; Crimefiction; detectivefiction; ParadigmShift
Größe: 18 × 153 × 216
Gewicht: 433 g

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