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    Deconstructing Doctor John Watson in Sherlock Holmes series
    (2023-09-01) Geracitano, Melisa Anabel; Mucci, María Rosa
    The character of John Watson is portrayed as the world-famous companion of the Great Detective, Sherlock Holmes. Yet, he is hardly ever thought as the detective who solves the cases, up to now. This idea has motivated this work, and the aim of this study is to confirm whether the character of John Watson fulfils the role of detective in the episode “The Hounds of Baskerville” from the television adaption Sherlock. This thesis has an introduction in which the emphasis is placed on the problem statement, the research question, and its hypotheses. Subsequently, it is divided into three chapters. In the first chapter, the theoretical framework of the analysis is presented, particularly Todorov´s typology of detective fiction and his concept of the fantastic; the literary narratology proposed by Mieke Bal and Propp’s ideas presented in his work Morphology of the Folktale. The second section is focused on the author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and his relation to his own work. In this regard, this second part is devoted to the scrutiny of the original version of the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles and its modern version- “The Hounds of Baskerville”- written by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, which is the episode chosen to prove the hypotheses of this work. Chapter three is dedicated to the study of the characterization of John Watson and his new role in the contemporary series aforementioned. Finally, this investigation reveals a new way of (re) configuring the character of John Watson.