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The Man With The Twisted Lip

Page history last edited by William Patrick Wend 11 years ago

 

Biography 

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Journal

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About

  • Published in 1891 as part of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  • Set in 1889
  • Opium was legal, but hushed, in London 

Summary

Questions?

  • Why do you think St. Claire would fake his death rather than confess his secret?
  • Do you think his disguise was that good or was it caused by her lack of familiarity with him in the first place? His wife does not know where he works and what he does.  

Analysis

  • Watson is just along for the ride
  • St. Clair and Holmes are both actors portraying very male privileged disguises in this story 

Characters

Symbolism

Gender

Point of View

Irony

Ending

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Adaptations

Wordle

Bibliography

  • Belsey, Catherine. "Deconstructing The Text: Sherlock Holmes." Critical Practice. London: Methuen, 1980. Print.  
  • Caprettini, Gian Paolo. "Sherlock Holmes: Ethics, Logic, & The Mask." Ed. Umberto Eco and Thomas A. Sebeok. The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1983. Print.
  • Doyle, Arthur Conan. Sherlock Holmes: the Major Stories with Contemporary Critical Essays. Ed. John A. Hodgson. Boston: Bedford of St. Martin, 1994. Print. 
  • Jaffe, Audrey. "Detecting The Beggar: Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Mayhew, and "The Man With The Twisted Lip"" Representations 31 (Summer 1990): 96-117. Print. 
  • Knight, Stephen. "The Case Of The Great Detective." Meanjin 40.2 (1981): 175-85. Print.  

 

  1. Something we discussed in class was the role of colonialism and how it affected British writers like Doyle. Is there prejudice in the stories we read? Talk about how that affects your close reading.  
  2. Do a psychoanalytic close reading of at least two characters in the stories we read. How does this psychological character analysis affect how you close read the stories?
  3. How does the restrictions placed on women during this time period play a role in the stories we read. How is gender depicted?
  4. In The Man With The Twisted Lip, what role does the very male ideas of anonymity affect close reading? 
  5. How does modern ideas about the role of men and women in marriage change how we close read these stories?  

 

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