... HOLMES BORROWS A PLOT By JOHN ROBERTMOO RE^ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, experimenting with many kinds of fiction, frequently attempted to alter the pattern which his admirers expected of him. But his was perhaps the most exacting reading public which has shaped...

...Urban T. Holmes, Jr. Maurice Silver. New York: Privately printed, 1942. Pp. 212. Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 488 Reviews development, but several of the Pense‘es resemble closely passages in Hobbes’ De Cive-in fact, almost paraphrase its...

...Urban T. Holmes, Jr. Cedric Edward Pickford. Paris: A. G. Nizet, 1959. pp. 368. Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 282 Reviews L’Evolution du romarthurien en prose vers la fin du moyen-dge d’apr2s le manuscrit 112 du fonds francais de la...

...Urban T. Holmes, Jr Alan M. F. Gunn. Lubbock: Texas Tech Press, 1952, Pp. 592. $5.25. Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 John c. Lapp 465 women and subterranean springs ; despite this, and adversity, he...

... intersect. A Study in Scarlet , the novella that introduced Sherlock Holmes, offers the first meditation on distant reading. A split double plot that anticipates generic fissures within crime fiction broadly conceived, A Study in Scarlet creates a data-centric detective intelligence in dialogue with late...

...David C. Fowler T. Holmes, Jr Urban, M. Amelia Sister, and O. P. Klenke Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1959. Pp. x + 230 $5.00. Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 388 Reviews objective reality and imaginative response...

... its central purpose was clarified. One of the classic articulations of free speech doctrine that Lewis appropriately recycles was that of Oliver Wendell Holmes in the 1929 case United States v. Schwimmer. Rosika Schwimmer was a pacifist who emigrated from Hungary and applied for United...

... brought to my graduate seminar about twenty detective stories of Conan Doyle’s times; we combed them for clues, and the results are 7 On the significance of clues see Victor Shklovsky, “Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery Story,” in Theory of Prose, trans...

...A. Emerson Creore Edited by U. T. Holmes, Jr., C. Lyons, and R. W. Linker. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1940. Pp. 576. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 336 The IXorks of Gwillaume De Sallustc Sieur Du Bartas, Vol. 111. Edited by U. T...

... “The Slaughterhouse of Literature” appeared (2000), he had arrived at a question that might be empirically tested: why did Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories survive their many competitors in the Strand magazine in the 1880s? Moretti proposes that it was because Doyle developed the clue in its canonical...

...” rooms also destabilize the relationship of figure to interior, man to possession. The Sherlock Holmes stories by Conan Doyle, in comparison with Collins, meditate on the interior in relatively calm, rational terms. Pri- vate interiors are repeatedly...

... a ring off her finger. While she weeps, he sits down and eats her food, and, after stuffing himself, he departs, commending her to God. Now it is entirely possible for a poet, and especially ChrCtien, to use comedy for a serious purpose. But what, according to Holmes and Sister Amelia...

... to psychological gamesmanship. An even colder form of deductive reasoning can be seen in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Levay’s second practitioner of “modernist detection” (26). More detached than Dupin, Holmes indulges in sensory distractions merely to fortify his machine-like processes of analysis...

... of the antivisionary, supreme fictions. Thus the mute innocence of photography carried with it a plurality of signifying ends that it could not encompass or articulate. In one essay on photography Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. describes how it achieves the commodified innocence described here. His inter...

... identical conclusions, appeared within a month of each other, as far back as 1955. Despite the testimony of Hebrews ix, Holmes is taken to task because Fowler believes that Chrdtien’s sententiu is in no way “constructed on the analogy of scriptural exegesis” (pp. 7, 69) ! Consequently...

... in AUMLA, No. 15 (l%l), pp. 109-110;by Siegfried Grosse in Archiv, CXCVIII (1%1), 176-178;brief notice by George T. Gillespie in Germnistik, 11 (1961), 62-63. 5050. Hoffman, Stanton de V. “The Structure of the Conte &el Graul.” RR, LII (1%1), 81-98. 4690. Holmes, Urban T., Jr., and Sister...

... (editor). The Victorians. New York: Holmes 8c Meier, The Con- text of English Literature, 1978. xii + 228 pp. $18.50, cloth; $9.50, paper. McMaster, Juliet. Jane Austen on Love. Victoria, B.C., Canada: University of Victoria, English Literary Studies, Monograph Series, 13, 1978. 85 pp...

... Chrktien, Troyes, and the Grail. By URBANT. HOLMES,JR., and SISTERM. AMELIAKLENKE, O.P. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1959. Pp. x 4- 230. $5.00. The earliest of all Grail romances was the Perceval, or Conte del Graal, composed in the last quarter of the twelfth...

...C. D. Brenner H. Carrington Lancaster. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1953. Pp. x + 181. $5.00. Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 Urban T. Holmes, Jr. 467 will try to avoid. We wish for Dr. Gunn that he could have...

...Norman Holmes Pearson Andrew Hilen. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1956. Pp. xxxv + 304. $5.00. Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 184 Reviews methods or results, presenting them only as supplementary aids to understanding...