Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2026) Encountering Holmes: Adaptation, Appropriation and Cultural Memory. In: Trifles: a quarterly for devotees of Sherlock Holmes. Vol.1, Issue 3. Foolscap and Quill

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Abstract

This reflective essay explores the enduring cultural presence of Sherlock Holmes through the interconnected concepts of adaptation, appropriation, and cultural memory. Drawing on personal experiences of encountering Holmes through audio recordings, film, television, and theatre before fully engaging with Conan Doyle’s original texts, the article argues that Holmes functions as an extra-textual cultural figure whose identity is shaped as much by adaptation as by the literary canon itself. The essay suggests that Holmes endures because he exists as a continually rewritten cultural palimpsest, exemplifying the dynamic relationship between literature, popular culture, and collective memory.

Item Type:	Book Section
Status:	Published
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PR English literature
School/Department:	School of Humanities
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/15818

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