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...
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2015-06-01
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| Series: | Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/cve/1984 |
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