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Are Sherlock Holmes studies outdone? Has everything already been said and written about Baker Street, the Baskervilles, and the like? This volume answers these questions and dispels any doubts on the matter by presenting some of the most recent and original Italian scholarship focussing on the Sacred Canon and its long-lasting legacy in the international arena.
From coding strategies to collecting Sherlockiana, from war(s) in Afghanistan to literary tourism, from the TV series of the 1960s to today’s tweets, His Everlasting Bow marks the state-of-art studies in the field and opens new fascinating trajectories of interpretation and research.
The contribution of eminent scholars is matched by some outstanding pastiches and the experimental work of a group of young researchers.
Professor Stephen Knight’s foreword is simply the icing on the cake.
And a treat is in store for the Sherlock Holmes Society of Italy Uno Studio in Holmes, as this volume is intended as a gift on the occasion of its 30th birthday (Florence 1987). His Everlasting Bow is also dedicated to the memory of Nando Gazzolo (1928-2015), the only Italian actor who has ever interpreted the Great Detective.
Contributors (in order of appearance): Valerio Viviani, Gabriele Mazzoni, Caterina Marrone, Enrico Solito, Stella Mattioli, Enrico and Fabio Petrella, Alessandra Calanchi and Nando Gazzolo, Marco Grassi, Luca Sartori, Gian Italo Bischi, Raniero Bastianelli, Matteo Bischi, Ruben Costa, Luisa Fanucci, Elena Garbugli, Adele Guerra, Francesca Secci, Stefano Serafini.
the author
Gian Italo Bischi, classe 1960, laureato in Fisica a Bologna nel 1984, è professore ordinario di Matematica Generale nel corso di laurea triennale in Economia e Management e di e Sistemi Dinamici e Giochi Evolutivi nel corso di laurea magistrale in Economia presso l’Università di Urbino. Ha pubblicato articoli e libri sui modelli dinamici e le loro applicazioni alla descrizione di sistemi complessi. Si occupa anche di divulgazione, in particolare sulle connessioni fra la Matematica e gli altri campi del sapere.
Stephen Knight, formerly professor of English at the universities of Melbourne, Australia and Cardiff, Wales, is now in retirement an honorary research professor at Melbourne. He has published widely on medieval and modern literature, with a special interest in the non-canonical – books on Robin Hood, and the mythic – a book on Merlin and The Politics of Myth (2015). He has long been interested in the non-canonical myths of crime fiction, publishing in 1980 Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction, then Continent of Mystery: A Thematic History of Australian Crime Fiction (1997), Crime Fiction 1800-2000: Detection, Death, Diversity (2004) and The Mysteries of the Cities: Urban Crime Fiction in the Nineteenth-Century (2012). Towards Sherlock Holmes: Crime Fiction in the Nineteenth-Century World is expected in 2017. While at Cardiff he was a member of the Erasmus-funded research group based at Bologna and linked to this co-edited with Maurizio Ascari From the Sublime to City Crime (2014), on the early development of crime fiction.