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Holmes and the Ripper : Versus Narratives
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- Creator
- Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Cham, Switzerland : Macmillan Palgrave, [2024]
- ©2024
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (218 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9783031531842, 3031531841, 3031531833
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper -- The Versus Narratives -- Themes and Structure -- References -- Chapter 2: Enter Holmes and Jack -- Between Hard Facts and Pure Fiction -- Further Episodes -- References -- Chapter 3: Parallel Culture-Texts -- Transcending Textualities -- The Signs of the Two -- On the Trail -- Studies in Scarlet and Crimson -- References -- Chapter 4: The Versus Storyworld -- The Holmesian Pattern and the Ripper Puzzle -- The Versus Gothicisms -- The Case of the Whitechapel Killer -- References -- Chapter 5: Palimpsestuous Holmes -- Duality and Doubles -- (Un)Masking the Murderer -- Sherlock the Ripper -- The Versus Holmes -- References -- Chapter 6: Polymorphous Jack -- Monster of the Week -- The Usual Suspects -- The Whitechapel Irregulars -- Numerous Faces of the Whitechapel Killer -- References -- Chapter 7: (Mis)Remembering Secondary Characters -- Cultural Memory -- The Victims: Dis/Re-membering -- The Police: De/Recentring -- The Misremembered and the Overshadowed -- References -- Chapter 8: Neo-Casting or Decentring the Great Detective -- Neo-Casting -- "Sister" Sleuths -- Stepping Out of the Shadow -- Holmes Recentred -- References -- Chapter 9: Detective Doyle -- Conan Doyle the Culture-Text -- The Conspicuous Absence -- Arthur the Sleuth and Conan the Killer -- Case Permanently (Re)Open(ed) -- References -- Appendix -- The Versus Corpus -- Index