John Watson have been adapted to other media from as early as 1890, and different times present different portrayals of the characters. The adventures lived by the Great Detective Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. The Sherlock Holmes stories have captivated innumerous readers since the first novel was published in 1887 by Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. These complex discourse blends turn out to have much the same capacity for entrenchment and semantic change as any grammatical construction. The history of this stance among its practitioners is then shown to be an example of the routinization of a blend within a discourse community. In the Sherlockian tradition, something very like the naïve believer stance independently emerges from this playful and parodic novel blend. This is followed by an analysis of the early ‘Sherlockian’ essays, criticism operating under the pretense of a historical Holmes and a historical Watson who recorded his adventures with varying accuracy. First, it examines the case of the numerous and diverse historical readers who took these fictional texts to be non-fiction, and how their conceptions mirror and diverge from the ways readers become immersed in texts they know to be fiction. This article takes a historical view of the conceptual blends involved in a range of different literary interpretations generated by different groups of readers of a single set of texts, the Sherlock Holmes detective stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. He is an idea, a concept, a symbol, which makes him seem so omnipresent. The main idea that came out of this reflection is that Sherlock Holmes is no longer, nowadays, only a character of fiction. This research work was furthermore completed thanks to the reading of documents regarding Sherlock Holmes’ context of creation, the Victorian era, as this period had a very important role to play in the understanding of the character. In addition to these readings and viewings, this paper is complemented by previous reflections on the character and his author. This study relies on the reading of the original short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle, his autobiography, as well as the analysis of the various adaptations and pastiches that were made after the detective’s adventures generated such a huge enthusiasm. This research paper considersthe reasons of such a universal success, for a character who is referenced just about everywhere, whatever the time and place, who takes multiple forms in both our daily lives and in the diverse shapes taken by culture (Literature, art, cinema, television…). This reflection is based on the observation of this character’s permanency and universality, whose identity transcended, throughout the years, the strict scope of its creation. This paper, written in the course of a Research Master specializing in English studies, questions a wide-ranging literary phenomenon: the famous detective Sherlock Holmes.
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