scholarly journals “Make What You Can of It If You Are a Philosopher”: An Essay on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Christian Spiritualism”

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 1015
Author(s):  
Adam Barkman
Keyword(s):  
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Short Piece ◽  
Arthur Conan Doyle

A number of years ago, renowned English biographer Andrew Lycett wrote a short piece about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that highlighted the seemingly irreconcilable tension between Doyle the creator of the “super-rational” detective Sherlock Holmes, and Doyle the passionate defender of “Christian Spiritualism”. In this essay, I aim to explore this alleged tension, ultimately arguing that these two Doyles need not be in tension—the only true tension being between the two terms in Doyle’s preferred philosophy, “Christian Spiritualism”.

scholarly journals de Bruijn notation as a nested datatype

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
RICHARD S. BIRD ◽  
ROSS PATERSON
Keyword(s):  
Natural Number ◽  
Type System ◽  
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Arthur Conan Doyle ◽  
De Bruijn ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
System Programming

“I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesde Bruijn notation is a coding of lambda terms in which each occurrence of a bound variable x is replaced by a natural number, indicating the ‘distance’ from the occurrence to the abstraction that introduced x. One might suppose that in any datatype for representing de Bruijn terms, the distance restriction on numbers would have to be maintained as an explicit datatype invariant. However, by using a nested (or non-regular) datatype, we can define a representation in which all terms are well-formed, so that the invariant is enforced automatically by the type system. Programming with nested types is only a little more difficult than programming with regular types, provided we stick to well-established structuring techniques. These involve expressing inductively defined functions in terms of an appropriate fold function for the type, and using fusion laws to establish their properties. In particular, the definition of lambda abstraction and beta reduction is particularly simple, and the proof of their associated properties is entirely mechanical.

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Conan Doyle
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
General Editor ◽  
Arthur Conan Doyle ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
Biographical Study ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The University ◽  
Murder Weapon

In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written, and he can be seen to take advantage of new, more open conventions in fiction. Suicide as a murder weapon and homosexual incest are some of the psychological tragedies whose consequences are unravelled by the mind of Holmes before the eyes of Watson. That said, the collection also includes some of the best turns of wit in the series, and indeed in the whole of English literature. The editor of this volume, W.W. Robson, is Emeritus David Masson, Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh and the author of Modern English Literature. The general editor of the Oxford Sherlock Holmes, Owen Dudley Edwards, is Reader in History at the University of Edinburgh and author of The Quest for Sherlock Holmes. A Biographical Study of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Vilifications

2019 ◽  
pp. 156-171
Author(s):  
Hannah Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Arthur Conan Doyle ◽  
The Way

Much the way Sherlock Holmes was one of the inspirations for Batman, so Catwoman may also have roots in the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Irene Adler, famous as “the woman” in the Holmes saga, appears to be a model for the Cat (as she was first known). The connection includes comparable personalities and the parallels between the Holmes/Adler and Batman/Catwoman relationships, as well as the way both Adler and Catwoman defy gender stereotypes in taking power in cultures where men have dominated. Although Adler’s fame rests on a single Holmes story, “A Scandal in Bohemia,” and Catwoman was banished from Batman’s world for more than a decade, both have long fascinated readers, leading to new interpretations and renditions which continue to underscore the originals’ connections.

THE IMAGE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH-AMERICAN FICTION

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 276-280
Author(s):  
Alexey Germanovich Melikhov ◽  
Olga Olegovna Nesmelova ◽  
Yuri Viktorovich Stulov
Keyword(s):  
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ◽  
American Fiction ◽  
Primary Method ◽  
World Culture ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Neil Gaiman ◽  
The World ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Arthur Conan Doyle ◽  
The One

Purpose: The article analyzes the image of Sherlock Holmes in the works of some of the contemporary authors. The great detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had a major impact not only on literature but on the world culture as a whole. This image spawned a lot of works featuring similar characters or even himself long before the series became public domain, and after that point, the number of works featuring Sherlock Holmes raised drastically. Methodology: The primary method is comparative analysis; we use it to compare the original image of Sherlock Homes with later versions Result: As one would assume, the perception of the image is different from author to author and therefore is different from the original created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In this article, we will analyze several works of fiction of contemporary authors (for example, Neil Gaiman and Mitch Cullen), the image of the great detective presented in then and compare it with the one from the original literature series. In conclusion we will discuss Sherlock Holmes as a modern archetype and its most prominent features. Applications: This research can be used for universities, teachers, and students. Novelty/Originality: In this research, the model of The Image of Sherlock Holmes in Contemporary British-American Fiction is presented in a comprehensive and complete manner.

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