Don't miss the final Semiosalong of the year: Semiotics of Crime 4 with Mehmet Emir Uslu: Inference and Criminology in the Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Arguably the progenitor of the genre of detective fiction, Arthur Conan Doyle`s Sherlock Holmes is a fertile field that lends itself to semiotic analysis through detection and interpretation of seemingly disparate details and clues. Through the past century, Doyle`s Holmes depicted the essence of a detective / semiotician - insightful, imaginative and perceptive towards his surroundings. Methods of inference employed by Holmes constitute a basic methodology of criminal investigation. Conan Doyle`s works are also remarkable indicators of social structure of 19th century United Kingdom, as well as being precursor to later crime writers, from Agatha Christie to Colin Dexter and Rex Stout.
Arguably the progenitor of the genre of detective fiction, Arthur Conan Doyle`s Sherlock Holmes is a fertile field that lends itself to semiotic analysis through detection and interpretation of seemingly disparate details and clues. Through the past century, Doyle`s Holmes depicted the essence of a detective / semiotician - insightful, imaginative and perceptive towards his surroundings. Methods of inference employed by Holmes constitute a basic methodology of criminal investigation. Conan Doyle`s works are also remarkable indicators of social structure of 19th century United Kingdom, as well as being precursor to later crime writers, from Agatha Christie to Colin Dexter and Rex Stout.
