| The Gestalt Shift in Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Stories 2018 Edition Contributor(s): Crowe, Michael J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319982907 ISBN-13: 9783319982908 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $85.49 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 801 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.97 lbs) 229 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book analyzes the four novels and fifty-six stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle describing the adventures and discoveries of Sherlock Holmes. Michael J. Crowe suggests that nearly all the Holmes stories exhibit the pattern known as a Gestalt shift, in which suddenly Holmes's efforts reveal a new perspective on the case, typically identifying the culprit(s) and resolving the case. Drawing on ideas presented by Thomas S. Kuhn in his famous Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), Crowe argues that similar to the way that Kuhn applied the idea of a Gestalt shift to the history of science, this approach can be used to reveal the structure of the Holmes stories and possibly be applied to some other areas of fiction. |