Sherlock (BBC 2010): un nouveau limier pour le XXIe siècle?

The BBC's recent Sherlock series has already renewed the narrative world created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. In present-day London, two young men using blogs, laptops and cell phones dash into new playful and serious adventures. Mar Gatiss and Steven Mo flat, the two creators and writers...

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Published in:	Etudes anglaises 2011-10, Vol.64 (4), p.402
Main Author:	Naugrette, Jean-Pierre
Format:	Article
Language:	eng ; fre
Subjects:	Authors Blogs British & Irish literature Cinema, Broadcasting, Interactive Media Computers Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930) Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir English Literature Intertextuality Literary criticism Mobile phones Nineteenth Century Novels Radio, Television, Interactive Media Self concept Sherlock (TV series) Writers
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Summary:	The BBC's recent Sherlock series has already renewed the narrative world created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. In present-day London, two young men using blogs, laptops and cell phones dash into new playful and serious adventures. Mar Gatiss and Steven Mo flat, the two creators and writers of the series, managed to transpose the well-known Victorian setting, and turn Sherlock Holmes and his faithful foil Dr Watson into our immediate contemporaries. While taking up, and toying with well-identified Doylian elements, Gatiss and Moffat often undermine, or divert them for their own purposes. In those three episodes where the detective is as dazzling as in the original, playfulness is a means of raising serious problems which deeply concern us today: how can one be Sherlock in the computer age, how is it possible to live with Dr Watson without being (or while being) a homosexual, how can one reach an identity of one's own if relationships with others are basically "transferential" (Peter Brooks)? [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:	0014-195X 1965-0159