Doyle’s Diogenes Club: a Delightful Oddity Screening a Metatextual Clue
In this paper I propose to study Mycroft Holmes’s club in the Sherlock Holmes stories: the Diogenes Club is rather close to an oxymoron as the golden rule is that the members are not allowed to speak to one another. I will show how this textual detail, that eminently Doylian delicious paradox, can r...
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2015-06-01
|
Series: | Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens |
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cve/1984 |