Okabe 1 Tentative Reading Schedule: Sherlock Holmes and the Transcultural Imagination Winter 2017 Week 1: Introduction “Sherlock Holmes from Past to Present” January 9th: An introduction to the course January 11th: What is detective fiction? What we are studying! January 13th: Edgar Allan Poe “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (eClass) Week 2: “The Game is afoot!” The Beginning of Sherlock Holmes January 16th: Doyle A Study in Scarlet January 18th: Doyle A Study in Scarlet continued January 20th: Guest Lecture by Edmonton’s Wisteria Lodgers Week 3: Short Stories January 23rd: Doyle “The Adventure of Speckled Band” and “The Adventure of the Dancing Men” January 25th: Doyle “The Final Problem” and “The Adventure of the Second Stain” January 27th: Pair presentations Week 4: “There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before:” Lecture on Adaptation and Issues of Fidelity & Authenticity January 30th: Brian McFarlane excerpt from Novel to Film: An Introduction to the Theory of Adaptation (eClass) Linda Hutcheon “Beginning to Theorize Adaptation: What? Who? Why? How? Where? When?” from A Theory of Adaptation (eClass) February 1st: Dirk Vanderbeke “Out of the gutter: comics and adaptations. It Was the Best of Two Worlds, It Was the Worst of Two Worlds: The Adaptation of Novels in Comics and Graphic Novels” (eClass) & Thomas M Leitch “Twelve Fallacies in Contemporary Adaptation Theory” (eClass) February 3rd: Pair presentations Week 5: From A Study in Scarlet to “A Study in Pink” Holmes in Contemporary Media February 6th: Screening of BBC A Study in Pink (2010) February 8th: Screening of BBC A Study in Pink (2010) continued February 10th: Discussion and Lecture on BBC “A Study in Pink” Neil McCaw “Sherlock Holmes and a Politics of Adaptations” and Bran Nicol “Sherlock Holmes Version 2.0: Adapting Doyle in the Twenty-First Century” (eClass) Week 6: Outwitted by the Gentlemen Thief: Sherlock Holmes in France February 13th: Leblanc Arsène Lupin vs Sherlock Holmes The Blonde Phantom February 15th: Leblanc Arsène Lupin vs. Sherlock Holmes The Blonde Phantom continued Midterm preparation February 17th: Pair presentations Okabe 2 Week 7: Reading Week. No Classes. February 21st~24th Week 8: Women in the Canon: A Feminist Revision of Sherlock Holmes in America February 27th: Midterm March 1st: Doyle “A Scandal in Bohemia” March 3rd: Ellen F. Higgins “The Female Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Alternative Sleuths, Alternative Heroes,” Sabine Vanacker “Sherlock’s Progress throughout History: Feminist Revisions of Holmes” (eClass) Week 9: Women in the Canon: A Feminist Revision of Sherlock Holmes in America March 6th : Essay Proposal Due (Hardcopy accepted only) Douglas Goodnight Mr. Holmes: An Irene Adler Novel March 8th : Douglas Goodnight Mr. Holmes: An Irene Adler Novel continued March 10th: Pair presentations Week 10: Rewriting the Colonial Detective: Sherlock Holmes in India March 13th: Screening of Detective Byomkesh Bakshy (cinematic adaptation of Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay’s Satyanweshi and Arthamanartham) March 15th: Watch remainder of the film March 17st: Watch remainder of the film & discussion on Detective Byomkesh Bakshy March 20th: Lecture on Detective Byomkesh Bakshy Week 11: The Sherlockian Detective in Japan: Ranpo’s Akechi Kogoro March 22nd : Edogawa Ranpo “The Case of the Murder on D. Hill” (pg.1-28) March 24th: Essay Due (Hardcopy accepted only) Edogawa Ranpo “The Dwarf” Week 12: Nostalgia and Detection: Okamoto Kido’s Inspector Hanshichi March 27th: Kido “The Ghost of Ofumi” from The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi: Detective Stories of Old Edo March 29th: Kido “The Stone Lantern” The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi: Detective Stories of Old Edo March 31st : Pair presentations Week 13: Sherlock Holmes Anthropomorphised?! April 3rd: Selections from Eve Titus’ Basil of Baker Street April 5th: Screening of Miyazaki Hayao and Kyousuke Mikuriya Sherlock Hound (Episode 1) Lecture on Sherlock Hound April 7th: Sherlock Hound continued Week 14: Sherlock Holmes in the Graphic Canon April 10th: Aoyama Case Closed Volume I April 12th: Aoyama Case Closed Volume I continued Okabe 3 Final Project Due (Must be submitted in class) Final Exam Preparation .