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The paper examines how the detective stories of Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle use newspapers as a vehicle for narrative description that is defined for their readership.

Tags:doyle, poe, newspapers

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This paper discusses British writer, Arthur Conan Doyle and his most famous work, "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes". The author describes the several people in Doyle's life who influenced his style of writing: his mother, his teacher in medical school, Dr. Joseph Bell and Doyle's wife. The paper also examines how Doyle's literary career took a turn when he killed off his Sherlock Holmes character.

From the Paper
"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, written by Arthur Doyle, is a popular piece of work that is read and enjoyed by many. Countless individuals enjoy how the detective cracks cases and solves mysteries. Some may even consider these stories to be classics as many remember and share them with others. Several individuals who read Arthur's works report that their interest is grabbed and that they can't put the books down. There are several people in his life who have influenced his style of writing of which three will be discussed."

Tags:literature, author

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This paper reviews the literary work, "The Hound of the Baskervilles", written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The paper presents the unique technique employed by the writer in writing this book. The story is more than a mystery, and it is more than a gothic tale; it is a wonderful combination of both. The paper explores how Doyle utilizes the sense of the mysterious and supernatural to work against Holmes's natural inclinations, which adds to the suspense of the novel. In addition, the paper explains how Doyle is making a social commentary about gender and class with the characters and situations presented. The paper contends that by merging these different elements in the novel, Doyle creates a fantastic adventure that keeps the reader engaged until the very end.

From the Paper
"Doyle builds suspense in a traditional gothic style early in the novel with the tale of the family curse, the mysterious creature, and the setting of the story. In the document, we learn the mysterious creature is something almost completely indescribable. We read that it was "a foul thing, a great, black beast, shaped like a hound, yet larger than any hound that ever mortal eye has rested upon" (Chapter 2). Doyle foreshadows the mystery of Baskerville with dark, mysterious surroundings. For example, we read that "Over the green squares of the fields and the low curve of a wood there rose in the distance a gray, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the distance, like some fantastic landscape in a dream" (Chapter 6). In addition, Baskerville Hall is described with an air of mystery."

Tags:sherlock, holmes, detective

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The paper identifies Poe as the inventor of the genre of detective fiction, with his character C. Auguste Dupin, who was introduced in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". The paper compares Dupin's character with that of Sherlock Holmes, as Holmes is described by creator Doyle in "The Hound of the Baskervilles", and notes many similarities between the two fictional detectives. It then analyzes the claim that Sherlock Holmes was based on the real life doctor Joseph Bell, with whom Doyle was well acquainted. After returning to a comparison of Dupin and Holmes, the paper reviews the first person narrator of the Holmes stories, Dr. John Watson, and concludes that Doyle did not base his detective on Poe's work. The paper also reviews other early detective novels, going back to the Greek Herodotus and returning to 19th century Europe and America, before resuming its comparison of Poe and Doyle and finding the former to be a better writer. The paper quotes various Holmes stories, and discusses adaptations of those stories to stage and screen, noting Holmes' incredible popularity and lamenting the lack of same for Dupin. In conclusion, the paper finds Holmes to be Dupin's spiritual successor, if not actually drawn on him, and finds the similarities to be, in Holmes' words, "Elementary!"

From the Paper
"In fashioning the detective story, Poe eschewed the very ideal of most writers that truth is not necessarily the object of literature. Truth was very much the object in the short stories of C. Auguste Dupin. So why do critics say that Poe "invented" the detective story? Surely, there were detectives working prior to 1841, and surely, some of the stories before Poe had been about crime and criminals. The reasons given include the creation of classic rules of detective fiction that has survived through Doyle and Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, the two men who write under the name Ellery Queen, to Dashiell Hammett and even Mickey Spillane."

Tags:detective, genre, Bell, inspiration, Watson

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This paper examines the primarily dialogue-driven style of writing that Irish novelist and dramatist, Roddy Doyle uses in the short story "The Dinner". The paper explains that Doyle chooses to create and develop his characters, contrasting some (like Larry and Ben) and assimilating others (like Stephanie and her sisters) primarily through dialogue rather than through narration, description, action, or conflict. The paper points out that by giving some of them distinct voices and giving others similar voices, Doyle effectively and humorously emphasizes and aggravates the primary conflict at hand, and clearly expresses his theme, or thesis, about racial prejudice in a way that is resonant and memorable.

From the Paper
"While Larry displays his ignorance through dialogue with questions such as "What d'yis eat over in Nigeria, Ben?" (308), Ben is given a way of speaking that shows him to be diplomatic: "I have become used to these insults" (308). Moreover, Larry's constant use of contractions and slang also gives him an air of unsophistication: "D'yeh have spuds like them in Nigeria?" (308). Larry is also prone to swearing: "Get up yeh gobshite" (308). Contrastingly, Doyle carefully avoids using contractions, vulgarity or any form of slang when crafting Ben's dialogue. Rather, he chooses to give him a very formal tone: "I will not listen to this profanity. I find it most offensive" (309)."

Tags:slang, tone, profanity, offensive, development

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This paper examines Howard Engel's "Mr. Doyle and Dr. Bell" and Laurie R. King's " A Letter of Mary", which both make attempts to add to the Sherlockian canon. This paper analyzes the narrator, protagonist and setting of each novel, comparing them to Doyle's template, and then discuss briefly which is the more meritorious addition to the repertory.

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This paper explains that light and darkness are key focal points in learning the source and origins of the murders in these two short stories. The author points out that, by taking a logical and more scientific approach to diminishing superstition and hearsay, both of these authors offer an intelligible solution to the crimes they confronted in the 19th century. The paper relates that both Doyle and Poe use the almost gothic landscape of the English Moors to reflect the sinister evil of their plots.

From the Paper
"This literary study examines the use of light and darkness that Edgar Allen Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle use to solve various crimes in their short stories. By comparing the use of light and darkness within "The Murders at the Rue Morgue" by Poe and "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Doyle, one can understand how logic and pseudo-science deduce the perpetrators of these crimes. In the short story "The Hound of the Baskervilles" we can learn how darkness and light are effective ways for the main perpetrator of the murders is revealed. Doyle, like Poe, uses the almost gothic landscape of the English Moors to reflect the sinister evil that the Hound presents in this tale, but ultimately the darkness is merely a cloak for a more logical explanation to the murders."

Tags:poe, holmes, crime

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This paper explains that the character Joey "The Lips" Fagan from Roddy Doyle's short novel "The Commitments" is not the main character but he is one of the most compelling because, without him, the novel and the band would be quite different and not as interesting. The author points out that his role seems like a mentor, but in the end, he acts more like a destroyer because he allows the women to come between the band and the music and he cannot take the pressure or responsibility of a real life with real commitment. The paper relates that his most important contribution, which he brings to the band, is their success; his leadership teaches them that they can be a success and that they can make more out of their lives.

From the Paper
"Joey plays several different roles in the novel. He is a musician first of all, and a good one, so he acts as a teacher to the other band members, many of whom are just learning how to play or sing. He is a professional, and so the others want to be like him, so he is a type of mentor too. He has done what the teenagers want to do, and so he can show them the ropes and maybe make their lives a little easier. He is somewhat like a savior, creating something from nothing and watching it grow and mature, but he is also human, and he runs away when the going gets too tough. He is not honest, and he is odd, but he is also the reason the band was successful."

Tags:spiritual, band, leadership, destroyer, mentor

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The following paper discusses how Doyle and "Sherlock Holmes" entertained generations of readers with the pure delight of escapist detective fiction, paired with the historical diaries and documents written by actual "bobbies" of the day. The writer examines how these famous detective stories give us a vivid picture of how both an author and his major character were shaped by the time, the conditions and the crime of their days.

From the Paper
"When people moved from farming to city and industrial jobs, change came in the ways workers were compensated, in their levels of independence from, or interdependence on, their neighbors, and, probably most noticeable of all, in the sheer amount of space each man could call his own or maybe more precisely, the lack of space. Many of the teeming crowds in London's streets in the nineteenth century were made up of people living in dire poverty. And all too many were far too familiar with the dark side to this new form of civilization: the rise of more, and different, forms of crime."

Tags:London, newspapers, pickpockets, larceny, robbery, indoors, officials, police, government, political

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This paper compares the two works 'Antigone' by Sophocles and 'A Star Called Henry' by Roddy Doyle, as they define the failure of hierarchy within familial and governmental ideology. For Doyle, the basis of Henry Smart's rise to power as a leader within the IRA provides an individual sense of power, but one that is not applicable in the failure of the military institution to defeat the British. In this regard, Sophocles provides the familial hierarchy of the royal family of Thebes to illustrate the lack of solidarity in Creon's tyrannical rule.

From the Paper
"The aim of this literary study will focus on the problem of solidarity within hierarchical systems of government in 'Antigone' by Sophocles and 'A Star Called Henry' by Roddy Doyle. In many ways, Doyle's novel reflects the growing separatism that existed within the Irish Republican Army (IRA), which Henry Smart eventually joins as an adult. He constant infighting within the IRA helps to diffuse the notion that this nationalistic Irish trend had solidarity, as one can also find within Antigone. While Creon has the same chaotically organized hierarchy through his stewardship as King of Thebes, Sophocles also provides the failed format of familial hierarchical institutions. "

Tags:doyle, sophocles, social