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Leading the Story via Misleading. Levels of Deception in "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Master's Thesis, 2017

46 Pages, Grade: 1,3


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CONTENTS

Preface

1 Introduction: The Sherlock Holmes Phenomenon

2 The Haunting and Deceiving Text
2.1 Background and Summary
2.2 The Real Curse: Hound or Hoax?
2.3 The Motif of Deception
2.3.1 Deception Level I: The Author’s Deceiving Game
2.3.2 Deception Level II: The ‘Watsonian Narrator’
2.3.3 Deception Level III
2.3.3.1 Holmes and Dr Mortimer’s Walking Stick
2.3.3.2 No Time for Dartmoor
2.3.3.3 Stapleton and his Hound

3 Reading Pleasure
3.1 One of the Game’s Rules: ‘It Must Be Honest with the Reader’
3.2 The Irony Behind the Puzzle-solving Challenge

Conclusion

Bibliography

Appendix

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Title
Leading the Story via Misleading. Levels of Deception in "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
College
University of Bonn  (Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie)
Grade
1,3
Author
Year
2017
Pages
46
Catalog Number
V386176
ISBN (eBook)
9783668602991
ISBN (Book)
9783668603004
File size
641 KB
Language
English
Keywords
leading, story, misleading, levels, deception, hound, baskervilles, arthur, conan, doyle
Quote paper
Dipl. Archäologe / B. Ed. Michael Barkas (Author), 2017, Leading the Story via Misleading. Levels of Deception in "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/386176

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