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- Title
Watson Falls Asleep: Narrative Frustration and Sherlock Holmes.
- Authors
Krasner, James
- Abstract
Explores the functions of anxiety in the Sherlock Holmes detective stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Reasons behind the popularity of Sherlock Holmes stories; Narrative structure of the stories that revealed a certain extent of frustrations; Method used by Holmes that elevates him as a representative of social order; Main descriptive technique used by the character of Watson in the stories.
- Subjects
ANXIETY in literature; DOYLE, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930; MYSTERY fiction; HOLMES, Sherlock (Fictional character); FRUSTRATION in literature; SOCIAL order
- Publication
English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 1997, Vol 40, Issue 4, p424
- ISSN
0013-8339
- Publication type
Literary Criticism