Code：G2B45304 / Instructor：YAMAGUCHI Kazuhiko
Course Description
Out of all the Holmes texts—comprising four novels and 56 short stories—this course focuses on the original texts, accompanied by illustrations by
Sidney Paget, of the most important short stories (these short stories were serialized in The Strand Magazine, which propelled their popularity). Group
work will also be conducted. Students will be asked to fully utilize English-Japanese dictionaries, Japanese dictionaries, and various other dictionaries
to express the contents and flavor of the English texts in Japanese. We will also ask students to watch some of the well-known film adaptations
produced by Granada Television in the UK and compare them with the original texts.
Keywords
Sherlock Holmes, reading the
original texts, group work
Course Plan
Class 1: Guidance
Class 2: Background of the Holmes stories (1)
Class 3: Text reading (1) and the background of the work (2)
Class 4: Text reading (2) and a biography of the author (1)
Class 5: Text reading (3) and a biography of the author (2)
Class 6: Text reading (4) and the Holmes novels
Class 7: Text reading (5) and the Holmes short stories
Class 8: Text reading (6) and The Strand Magazine
Class 9: Text reading (7) and Holmes' reasoning
Class 10: Text reading (8) and the fin de siècle
Class 11: Text reading (9) and art supremacy
Class 12: Text reading (10) and dandyism
Class 13: Text reading (11) and Holmes's character (1)
Class 14: Text reading (11) and Holmes's character (2)
Class 15: Summary: Holmes's character (3) and film adaptations
Class 16: Final exam
*The lesson plan may be subject to change based on the students' level of understanding.
