scholarly journals D’une étonnante dextérité dans l’art de l’enquête

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (1-2-3) ◽  
pp. 137-146
Author(s):  
Bertrand Gervais
Keyword(s):  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Auguste Dupin

Quelle est la particularité de ces enquêteurs qui envahissent l’écran de télévision aux heures de grande écoute? Ils multiplient les raisonnements à l’emporte-pièce, armés de dispositifs techniques ultrasophistiqués qui leur servent d’arguments d’autorité. Je me propose dans ce bref article d’examiner les fondements sémiotiques des raisonnements de ces enquêteurs. En me servant d’un cas d’espèce, en l’occurrence le travail de Dexter Morgan, dans la série américaine Dexter, j’examinerai les stratégies mises de l’avant dans ces enquêtes policières à caractère scientifique. Elles sont fondées sur ce que C. S. Peirce a nommé l’abduction. Comme l’avaient bien compris Edgar Allan Poe et Conan Doyle, en créant Auguste Dupin et Sherlock Holmes, l’abduction en acte permet le spectacle d’un esprit qui, lorsqu’en pleine possession de ses moyens, est capable d’inférer rapidement et efficacement les bonnes hypothèses, celles permettant d’attraper le coupable. Ces raisonnements sont évidemment truqués; mais, comme pour tout tour de magie, l’art de feindre a non seulement ses vertus esthétiques, mais surtout ses propres leçons à donner sur les modalités de perception et d’interprétation du monde.

scholarly journals From Hamlet to Holmes: literary detective tradition

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. 

Der Krimi in Literatur, Film und Serie

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Neuhaus
Keyword(s):  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Friedrich Schiller ◽  
Sherlock Holmes

Ein Blick in die Programme von Verlagen, Fernsehsendern und Filmanbietern zeigt, dass es kein populäreres Genre gibt als den Krimi. Allein von Agatha Christies Romanen wurden über zwei Milliarden Exemplare verkauft. Die Figur Sherlock Holmes gehört zu den frühesten Film- und Serienhelden und am Anfang der modernen Krimiliteratur stehen Erzählungen nicht nur von Edgar Allan Poe, sondern auch von Friedrich Schiller und E.T.A. Hoffmann. Erstmals wird der Versuch gewagt, an exemplarischen Beispielen aus Literatur, Film und Serie in den ‚ganzen‘ Krimi einzuführen – in Merkmale, Geschichte und Entwicklung. Die englischsprachige Krimitradition wird in die Darstellung mit einbezogen. Bisher hat sich die Forschung selten mit dem als trivial geltenden Genre beschäftigt. Ein genauerer Blick zeigt aber, dass der Krimi genauso anspruchsvolle Beispiele bereithält wie andere Genres.

British Detective Fiction in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Humpherys
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Detective Fiction ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Auguste Dupin ◽  
Agatha Christie ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Critical Interest

From ancient Greece on, fictional narratives have entailed deciphering mystery. Sophocles’ Oedipus must solve the mystery of the plague decimating Thebes; the play is a dramatization of how he ultimately “detects” the culprit responsible for the plague, who turns out to be Oedipus himself. In the Poetics, Aristotle defines a successful plot as one that has a conflict (which can include, and often does include, a “mystery”) that rises to a climax, followed by a resolution of the conflict, a plot line that describes not only Oedipus Rex but also every Sherlock Holmes story. A particular genre of mystery writing is defined by the mystery at the center of the story that is crucially, definitively solved by a particular person known as a detective, either private or police, who by ratiocination (close observation coupled with logical patterns of thought based on material evidence) uncovers and sorts out the relevant facts essential to a determination of who did the crime and how and why. The form of detective fiction throughout most of the 19th century was the short story published in various periodicals of the period. A few longer detective fictions were published as separate books in the 19th century, but book-length detective fiction, such as that by Agatha Christie, was really a product of the 20th century. Most critics of detective fiction see the beginning of the genre in the three stories of Edgar Allan Poe which feature his amateur detective, Auguste Dupin, and were published in the 1840s. Although Poe’s 1840s stories as well as Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, which first appeared in the 1880s, are probably the most well known of 19th-century detective fictions, a number of other writers of generically recognizable detective fiction published stories in the almost fifty years between Poe and Conan Doyle, including a number that featured female detectives. Finally, from the 1890s into the early 20th century, a plethora of new detective fictions, still in short-story form for the most part, appeared not only in Britain but also in France and the United States. Detective fiction has always been popular, but serious critical interest in the genre only developed in the 20th century. In the second half of that century, this critical interest expanded into the academic world. The popularity of the genre has only continued to grow. Both detective fictions (now nearly all novel length) and critical interest in the genre from a variety of perspectives are now an international phenomenon, and detective novels dominate many best-seller lists.

scholarly journals O conto policial e as origens da psicanálise

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-136
Author(s):  
Prado de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Da Vinci ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Sherlock Holmes

A lenda de Édipo é a primeira aventura "policial" de nossa história e uma das mais modernas: um homem busca um assassino sem saber que é, ele próprio, este assassino. Freud ignora Sherlock Holmes, mas é para este que a reflexão ideal exige luz baixa e se recostar em um divã. Alguns contos de Edgar Allan Poe se tornaram passagens obrigatórias do pensamento psicanalítico francês, não sem problemas. Desde os primeiros estudos de Freud sobre Leonardo Da Vinci, a psicanálise aplicada sempre encontrou dificuldades, que talvez não sejam estranhas à técnica psicanalítica individual. Este artigo as examina.

scholarly journals A GROTESQUERIE PARISIENSE: TRAÇOS DO INSÓLITO NA NARRATIVA POLICIAL DE EDGAR ALLAN POE

Abusões ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinicius Santos Loureiro
Keyword(s):  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
De Se ◽  
Auguste Dupin

Edgar Allan Poe foi o criador de uma obra cuja grandeza artística é proporcional à heterogeneidade que a compõe. Fora do mérito de se tratar de um dos inventores da narrativa detetivesca, o autor legou à posteridade uma série de contos, poemas, ensaios e correspondências, tangendo desde os temas clássicos da literatura fantástica até uma produção humorística e tantos exemplos de ficção à moda especulativa de caráter filosófico. Por tanta variedade, não foram poucas as tentativas de segmentar sua obra conforme seus temas. Em meio a esse esforço de classificação, tornou-se habitual que se considerasse que os contos de raciocínio, grupo que reuniria os três relatos do detetive C. Auguste Dupin e alguns outros afins, estaria destacado dos demais. A justificativa passa, em alguma medida, pela defesa do contraste provocado pela aura de esclarecimento que permeia o conto policial, reflexo de um mundo desejoso de se organizar pelo conhecimento e pelos desenvolvimentos tecnológicos, contra os impulsos nervosos herdados pela influência gótica, influindo especialmente sobre seus contos de horror. Entretanto, a narrativa que perpassa os acontecimentos que circundam o assassinato brutal de mãe e filha em uma Paris em plena ebulição ressoa em outros contos do autor, seja pela criação de atmosfera, seja pelas impressões comunicadas pelos respectivos narradores-testemunhas. O objetivo deste artigo será o de refletir a respeito das semelhanças entre a narrativa detetivesca de Edgar Allan Poe, a partir do conto “Os assassinatos na rua Morgue”, e algumas de suas narrativas fantásticas.

How Sherlock Holmes Got His Start

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.

Dupin’s Descendants in Print and on Screen

2018 ◽  
pp. 658-675
Author(s):  
John Gruesser
Keyword(s):  
Computer Games ◽  
Comic Books ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Sexual Orientations ◽  
Auguste Dupin ◽  
Nonprint Media

Edgar Allan Poe envisions detection as competition, staging contests between characters, constructing plots so as to outwit readers, and in effect competing with himself in the two sequels to “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” By striving to outdo what he has already done, Poe weaves authorial competition into the fabric of detection, inspiring a diverse range of writers to bring innovations to the form. He would likely be amazed to find that the descendants of Auguste Dupin have come in an array of shapes, sizes, nationalities, genders, socioeconomic classes, sexual orientations, subject positions, and ethnic and racial backgrounds. Moreover, even his vivid imagination could not have conceived of detection’s impact on various print and nonprint media in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including comic books, graphic novels, animation, computer games, television, and film.

scholarly journals The types of the chronotope in the short story «The Murders in the Rue Morgue» by Edgar Poe

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Psychological Factor ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Auguste Dupin ◽  
The Right ◽  
The 19Th Century

The article is devoted to the analysis of the time and space peculiarities in the short story «The Murders in the Rue Morgue» by the American writer of the 19th century Edgar Allan Poe. The aim of the article is a analysis of artistic chronotope as a special way of influencing the reader and distinguishing the features of time and space in the analyzed work. E. Poe was the initiator of the «detective short story», the genre features of which are the description of the deduction of the character, the analysis of the event, generalized logical, mathematically accurate reasoning. The image of detective Auguste Dupin is the main in the short story. There are the real and historical chronotope in this detective short story. The author repeatedly focuses on spatial topos that form a unique authorial style. The character, through the perspective of the narrator's vision, is portrayed in detail, with the psychological factor closer to the finale intensifying, which allows to distinguish the features of personal chronotope. Real historical chronotope uses fictional topos or objects that represent a certain space that carry a symbolic load (the non-existent streets of Paris, the library, the room, etc.). The author skillfully combines real and fictional events to create a unique detective story. All topos are interconnected and complementary, leading to a deep understanding of artistic reality. Real, mystical, historical and social chronotopes are associated with deep psychology, which makes it possible to recreate events and find the right solution to solve the crime. The perspectives of the narrator and the short story's characters on the same event extend the boundaries of the chronotope, giving it additional features. This interconnection of chronotopes in the short story not only shapes the complex artistic world of the nineteenth century, but also makes it possible to refer the analyzed work to the literature of romanticism.

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