04783nam a22005895i 4500 978-3-031-53184-2 DE-He213 20251030111738.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240322s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031531842 978-3-031-53184-2 10.1007/978-3-031-53184-2 doi PN760.5-769 DSBF bicssc LIT024040 bisacsh DSBF thema Krawczyk-Żywko, Lucyna. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 73747 Holmes and the Ripper [electronic resource] : Versus Narratives / by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. X, 214 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Crime Files, 2947-8359 Chapter 1. Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper -- Chapter 2. Enter Holmes and Jack -- Chapter 3. Parallel Culture-Texts -- Chapter 4. The Versus Storyworld -- Chapter 5. Palimpsestuous Holmes -- Chapter 6. Polymorphous Jack -- Chapter 7. (Mis)Remembering Secondary Characters -- Chapter 8. Neo-Casting or Decentring the Great Detective -- Chapter 9. Detective Doyle. "Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko’s ambitious study pursues the endlessly intriguing parallel textual lives of Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper. The strange case that she sets out to solve is the extensive but neglected corpus of versus narratives: texts in which the great detective sets out to defeat the Whitechapel murderer. Krawczyk-Żywko convincingly reads these works as part of a rich textual constellation influenced by the overlapping Sherlockian and Ripperological culture texts. Her book’s focus will inevitably intrigue aficionados of Holmes and its insights into aspects of adaptation, neo-Victorianism and biofiction mean it will also appeal strongly to scholars in these areas." —Dr Chris Louttit, Radboud University, The Netherlands In versus narratives Sherlock Holmes is fighting or otherwise engaging Jack the Ripper. These texts pit the archetypal detective against the archetypal serial killer using established formulas as well as new narrative and generic features, a combination that results in their mass appeal among authors and audiences alike. The list of primary sources includes 120 titles – novels, short stories, plays, fanfiction, ‘Grand Game’ studies, movies, TV shows, video and board games – which are treated as a dialogic network of transfictional and transmedial texts. This study unpacks the versus corpus in its media dispersal by analysing Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper as serial figures and culture-texts emphasising the increasing palimpsestousness of the former and the multidirectional polymorphousness of the latter, and tracing the overlapping Doylean culture-text. It also addresses the way character constellations are represented, negotiated, and fed back into the versus network, contextualising them within the coalescence of fact and fiction, Gothic and crime fiction frames, cultural memory, neo-Victorianism, and biofiction. Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. She coordinates the research group 'From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria' and initiated the Changing Narratives conference series. Her research combines neo-Victorian, crime fiction, and adaptation studies and focuses on the rewritings of Victorian villains and detectives. Literature, Modern 19th century. Literature, Modern 20th century. Literature, Modern 21st century. 66700 Ethnology Great Britain. 68605 Culture. 59159 Mass media and crime. 73748 Nineteenth-Century Literature. Contemporary Literature. 66702 British Culture. 68607 Crime and the Media. 73749 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031531835 Printed edition: 9783031531859 Printed edition: 9783031531866 Crime Files, 2947-8359 73750 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53184-2 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 58572 58572