anticipating Sherlock Holmes in a Slovene setting
Michelle Gadpaille (Author)

Abstract

The paper reevaluates an obscure, German-language crime novel from the nineteenth century and its better-known English translation: Carl Adolf Streckfuss's Das einsame Haus: nach den Tagebüchern des Herrn Professor Döllnitz: Roman (1888), translated as The Lonely House (1907). Although written in German by an author from Berlin, the novel is set on the territory of Slovenia. The paper situates the novel geographically and historically, while considering its place in the developing genres of crime and later detective fiction. Moreover, the novel's depiction of intra- ethnic tension in the Slovenian village where the crime occurs will be shown to reflect the ethnic tensions on the frontiers of Austro-Hungarian territory, and to align with later trends in English detective fiction towards the use of ethnic taxonomies in constructing and solving crime.

Keywords

English literature;detective fiction;crime fiction;19th cent.;

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Language: English
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Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization: UM FF - Faculty of Arts
UDC: 821.112.2.09-312.4
COBISS: 20702216 Link will open in a new window
ISSN: 1581-8918
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Secondary language: Slovenian
Secondary title: Osnove logičnega sklepanja
Secondary abstract: Prispevek z nove perspektive obravnava manj znan kriminalni roman iz devetnajstega stoletja, Das einsame Haus: nach den Tagebüchern des Herrn Professor Döllnitz: Roman (1888), napisan v nemškem jeziku, in njegov bolj znan angleški prevod, The Lonely House (Samotna hiša, 1907). Čeprav je njegov avtor iz Berlina, se odvija v Sloveniji. Prispevek predstavi geografski in zgodovinski okvir romana in ga žanrsko umesti med nastajajoči kriminalni roman in kasnejšo detektivsko pripoved. Na podlagi zločina, opisanega v romanu, ki se zgodi v slovenski vasi, zaznamovani s spori znotraj iste etnične skupnosti, prikaže med etnične napetosti na robu avstro-ogrskega ozemlja, ki se ujemajo s kasnejšimi trendi v angleški detektivski pripovedi, kjer se zločini načrtujejo in razrešujejo s pomočjo etničnih taksonomij.
Secondary keywords: angleška književnost;kriminalni roman;detektivska pripoved;19. st.;ne zaključna dela;Kriminalni romani;1800-1899;
URN: URN:NBN:SI
Type (COBISS): Article
Pages: str. 67-82
Issue: ǂVol. ǂ11
Chronology: Spring 2014
DOI: 10.4312/elope.11.1.67-82
ID: 9630228