There seems to be no end to the reinventions of Sherlock Holmes, in print and on the screen, and a research project in English focuses on the work of the famous detective's creator, Arthur Conan Doyle. Besides the Holmes stories, Conan Doyle was a prolific writer of stories of adventure and the supernatural, historical and science fiction, journalism and history, and memoirs. Professor Douglas Kerr has made a comprehensive study of all of Conan Doyle's work and investigates him as a maker of culture and an important interpreter of the times he lived in, especially in the spheres of sport, medicine, science, law and order, army and empire, and spirituality. His findings are published in an Oxford University Press book entitled
Conan Doyle: Writing, Profession and Practice (2013), reviewed in the
Times Literary Supplement as "erudite and arresting".
Kerr is a director and former Chairman of the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, and besides enabling conversation between Hong Kong readers and writers from all over the world, he has given talks about his own work on Conan Doyle and other 20th-century writers to academic and non-academic audiences in Mainland China, Asia and Europe. He also hosts the RTHK programme,
The Big Idea, where he talks to locals and visitors on subjects ranging from "Romanticism" to "Cancer". He next turns his attention to a very different English writer, George Orwell.
(Text reproduced from
Faculty of Arts 100: A Century in Words and Images.)
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