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Holmes & his commentators.(Sherlock Holmes' characterization and works of journalists)
According to Hazlitt, if we wish to know the force of human genius, we have only to read Shakespeare, but if we wish to know the futility of human learning, we have only to read his commentators.
Something similar might almost be said--almost, but not quite--of Sherlock Holmes and his commentators. The gulf is not nearly as great as that between Shakespeare and his critics, of course, but if literary genius is required in order to create a mythological world that is more real and alluring to readers than any reality itself, that once read is never forgotten, that for a century has inspired the devotion of the literary and the unliterary unlike, and that is vastly ...
- The case of Sherlock Holmes ; A program at the Harvard Film Archive will offer...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe July 19, 2009 700+ words
...half century - the way, say, Sherlock Holmes has for well over a century...t it a case of there being Sherlock Holmes - and then every other detective...Film Archive next weekend. "Sherlock Holmes and Friends" consists of six...
- What kind of chemist was Sherlock Holmes?
- Magazine article from: Chemistry and Industry O'Brien, James F. June 7, 1993 700+ words
...highly rated of all detectives, Sherlock Holmes was also a practicing chemist...this science was he? The first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet...public automatically thinks 'Sherlock Holmes'. Old movies run on television...
- Sherlock Holmes: The Montana Chronicles.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch September 1, 2008 700+ words
Sherlock Holmes: The Montana Chronicles John H. Watson...Arthur Conan Doyle's famous sleuth Sherlock Holmes is the best known and most popular...Baker Street Irregulars is a major Sherlock Holmes fan club whose members have written...
- Living with and annotating Sherlock Holmes.(The New Annotated Sherlock...
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Whittington-Egan, Richard February 1, 2005 700+ words
...published in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. There are, scattered throughout...volumes of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, edited with a Foreword and...life. As Irene Adler was to Sherlock Holmes, ever remembered as the woman...
- CSI: Sherlock Holmes? How the fictional detective meshed with the forensic...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor April 11, 2006 700+ words
...world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes. But many may not know that...fascinating book, The Science of Sherlock Holmes, Wagner juxtaposes some of Holmes...butler did it." "The Science of Sherlock Holmes" also investigates high-profile...
- Sherlockian wordplay & "SH" puzzle.(Sherlock Holmes)(Critical essay)
- Magazine article from: Word Ways Tanaka, Tomoyuki August 1, 2008 700+ words
...How much wordplay is in the "Sherlock Holmes" stories by Arthur Conan Doyle...168) hinted that the name Sherlock Holmes suggests protective and censorious...considered to be a major influence on Sherlock Holmes. In French, "Monsieur" is...
- Sherlock Holmes breaks new ground in `Case of Evil'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service McCollum, Charlie October 24, 2002 700+ words
...creations, Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes has proved to be among the most...from John Barrymore (1922's "Sherlock Holmes") to John Cleese ("The Strange...Wilder's "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Younger Brother" in 1975...
- Sherlock Holmes breaks new ground in `Case of Evil'.
- Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) October 23, 2002 700+ words
...creations, Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes has proved to be among the most...from John Barrymore (1922's "Sherlock Holmes") to John Cleese ("The Strange...Wilder's "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Younger Brother" in 1975...
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