Oldie’s “sherlock holmes vs. The martians”: Influence of western literature and cinema

Abstract

© 2020, Universidad del Zulia. All rights reserved. Contemporary literature is heavily influenced by postmodern consciousness, a variety of art forms, including cinematography, the internet and treating literature as a source of income. For this reason, new genres combining all previously mentioned elements are emerging. The most prominent examples are mashup and crossover. A striking example of the combination of mashup and crossover fiction is a novel by russian-speaking Ukrainian writers Henry Lion Oldie “Sherlock Holmes vs. the Martians” (2014). The title of the novel itself suggests that the main characters come from books by Arthur Conan Doyle and Herbert Wells.