The Consulting ArtistNotes on the Hermeneutics of Detection in the Sherlock Holmes Canon

  1. Eduardo Valls Oyarzun 1
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

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Revista:
Babel A.F.I.A.L.: Aspectos de filología inglesa y alemana

ISSN: 1132-7332

Año de publicación: 2018

Número: 27

Páginas: 181-205

Tipo: Artículo

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Resumen

El artículo aborda el canon de Sherlock Holmes indagando en la naturaleza hermenéutica del sistema de detección que lo articula. A partir de una serie de consideraciones sobre el acto de “revelar,” se exploran las estrategias que conducen a interpretar el personaje de Holmes, no como un detective, sino como un artista, en concreto, un artista decadente, a la manera esteticista de Oscar Wilde. Esta redefinición global del personaje sirve, además, para descubrir el principio postmoderno que gobierna buena parte del movimiento decadentista en general, y del canon de Holmes en particular. Por último, el artículo plantea un análisis de la novela The Sign of Four (1890) a fin de ilustrar cómo los principios aquí analizados integran parte del atractivo que el personaje de Holmes mantiene en la actualidad.

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