Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment: Detection, Reason, and Genius in Tales of Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle

Greg Sevik

doi:10.3172/clu.31.2.20

El crimen en la novela negra latinoamericana. "Entre la fascinación y la memoria"

Poligramas ◽

10.25100/poligramas.v0i42.4421 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 75

Author(s):

James Valderrama Rengifo

Keyword(s):

Edgar Allan Poe ◽

Ricardo Piglia ◽

Arthur Conan Doyle ◽

Abril Rojo ◽

Novela Negra

En el presente artículo académico se realiza un acercamiento a la novela negra Latinoamérica desde dos perspectivas: la fascinación y la memoria. El artículo establece una secuencia crítica que da cuenta de la evolución del género: sus regularidades y sus cambios literarios desde Edgar Allan Poe y Arthur Conan Doyle hasta los más destacados representantes del género negro en Latinoamérica, marcando la condición contemporánea de esta apropiación y desarrollo de este tipo de novelas. Posteriormente se postulan las claves de su análisis tomando referencias obras como Abril rojo del peruano Santiago Roncangliolo, Scorpio City del colombiano Mario Mendoza y Plata quemada de Ricardo Piglia, de Argentina. Estas obras finalmente se proponen como un ejercicio de memoria donde ocurre un choque de ficciones en el que los hechos pasados adquieren un orden distinto porque aparecen otras voces, otros informes, testimonios, otros crímenes, otras víctimas, otros asesinos, otros detectives, etc. En este orden distinto, las marcas previas de la memoria chocan con las marcas nuevas que propone el relato. El centelleo resultante de ese choque de ficciones permite el acceso a otro conocimiento sobre el pasado y sus deudas con el presente y el futuro.

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Reproduction of encrypted messages in fiction from English into Russian

RESEARCH RESULT Theoretical and Applied Linguistics ◽

10.18413/2313-8912-2021-7-3-0-5 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 57-71

Author(s):

Alexis A. Streltsov ◽

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

Da Vinci ◽

Edgar Allan Poe ◽

Target Language ◽

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ◽

Text Steganography ◽

Fiction Writers ◽

Arthur Conan Doyle ◽

Agatha Christie ◽

Multiple Translations

This article examines cases where translators are confronted with messagesm whose meaning is obscured by a simple cipher. Russian translators had to overcome certain difficulties while translating certain passages in the works of British (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie) and American (Edgar Allan Poe, Dan Brown) fiction writers. Substitution code (―The Gold-Bug‖, ―The Adventure of the Dancing Men‖), anagrams (―The da Vinci Code‖), as well as different kinds of text steganography (―The Gloria Scott‖, ―The Four Suspects‖) can be used to encrypt the information. Each case is illustrated with two examples. The translator has to depict not only the very process of deciphering a message, but also render its cryptic nature with the means of a target language (Russian). We show, that in half of the cases it is a mere translation of the deciphered text. It is a simpler way, because there is no need to create an analogue thereof. The grand purpose, however, remains unachieved. In two instances there were multiple translations of the same text (6 of ―The Gold-Bug‖ by E.A Poe and 9 of ―The Four Suspects‖ by A. Christie). This phenomenon can be explained not only by the popularity of the stories, but by the relatively small circulation of certain editions. We have undertaken a comparative analysis of these translations and have revealed discrepancies, concerning more and less significant translation units and, in some cases minor errors.

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How Sherlock Holmes Got His Start

The Scientific Sherlock Holmes ◽

10.1093/oso/9780199794966.003.0008 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

James O'Brien

Keyword(s):

Edgar Allan Poe ◽

Great Influence ◽

Sherlock Holmes ◽

Extensive Reading ◽

Drinking Problem ◽

Arthur Conan Doyle ◽

University Of Edinburgh ◽

Detective Stories ◽

Jesuit College ◽

Catholic Schooling

One can achieve somewhat of an understanding of how Sherlock Holmes came to exist by looking at the contributions of three people: Conan Doyle himself, Edgar Allan Poe, and Conan Doyle’s mentor in medical school, Dr. Joseph Bell. First we shall look at Conan Doyle, focusing on those aspects of his life that led to his writing of the Sherlock Holmes stories. Arthur Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, was English and his mother, Mary Foley, was Irish. His father had a drinking problem and was consequently less a factor in Conan Doyle’s upbringing than was his mother. Charles would eventually end up in a lunatic asylum (Stashower 1999, 24). Mary Doyle instilled in her son a love of reading (Symons 1979, 37; Miller 2008, 25) that would later lead him to conceive of Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle’s extensive reading had a great influence on the Sherlock Holmes stories (Edwards 1993). He was raised a Catholic and attended Jesuit schools at Hodder (1868–1870) and Stonyhurst (1870–1875), which he found to be quite harsh. Compassion and warmth were less favored than “the threat of corporal punishment and ritual humiliation” (Coren 1995, 15). Next he spent a year at Stella Matutina, a Jesuit college in Feldkirch, Austria (Miller 2008, 40). As Conan Doyle’s alcoholic father had little income, wealthy uncles paid for this education. By the end of his Catholic schooling, he is said to have rejected Christianity (Stashower 1999, 49). At the less strict Feldkirch school, his drift away from religion turned toward reason and science (Booth 1997, 60). At this time he also read the writings of Edgar Allan Poe, including his detective stories. So, although Sherlockians debate the “birthplace” of Holmes, a claim can be made that Holmes was conceived in Austria. In 1876, Conan Doyle began his medical studies at the highly respected University of Edinburgh. These years also played a large role in shaping the Holmes stories. One obvious factor was his continued exposure to science.

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From Hamlet to Holmes: literary detective tradition

Linguistics and Culture Review ◽

10.21744/lingcure.v5ns1.1494 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (S1) ◽

pp. 1087-1099

Author(s):

SeyedehZahra Nozen ◽

Hamlet Isaxanli ◽

Bahman Amani

Keyword(s):

Edgar Allan Poe ◽

The Other ◽

The Novel ◽

Sherlock Holmes ◽

Fyodor Dostoevsky ◽

The Public ◽

Crime And Punishment ◽

Auguste Dupin ◽

Arthur Conan Doyle ◽

Agatha Christie

Exposed to the mystery of his father’s suspicious death, young Hamlet followed the riddle of solving it in the longest tragedy of Shakespeare. By suspension and the lengthy nature of detective works, Shakespeare seems to have initiated a new subgenre in drama which may have later on been converted into an independent subgenre in the novel by Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Agatha Christie through their imaginative characters, Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes and the pair of Hercules Poirot with Miss Marple respectively. Fyodor Dostoevsky may have also spread the net of Hamletian subtext in his Crime and Punishment. Plotting a perfect crime by the murderers and the public approval of the plan, on one hand, and the inconvincible mind of the hero which ultimately undo the seemingly unsolvable puzzle, on the other, construct the very core of all aforementioned works of Shakespeare, Poe, and Doyle. The unanticipated and unpredicted findings of either Holmes or Hamlet defeat the expectations of the audience and bring the runaway justice back to her groom.

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