Michael J. Crowe

The Gestalt Shift in Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Stories

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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 str… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-319-98290-8
EAN: 9783319982908
Produktnummer: 28031325
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 229 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.8 cm 433 g
Auflage: 2018
Abbildungen: Book; 21 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, Bibliographie
Gewicht: 433

Über den Autor

Michael J. Crowe is the Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C. Professor Emeritus in the Program of Liberal Studies and Graduate Program in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame, USA. This is the eleventh book he has published and his second book on Sherlock Holmes.