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The characteristics of the popular literature in the novel The mystery of the yellow room by GAston Leroux
Langová, Dana ; Listíková, Renáta (advisor) ; Jančík, Jiří (referee)
TITLE OF THESIS: The characteristics of the popular literature in the novel The mystery of the yellow room by Gaston Leroux SUPERVISOR: Dr. PhDr. Renáta Listíková, MCF AUTHOR: Dana Langová DEPARTMENT: Department of French Language and Literature ABSTRACT: The aim of this bachelor's thesis "The characteristics of the popular literature in the novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux" is to demonstrate why the popular literature is so popular among a broad audience and how it achieves this favour among the readers. The characteristics of the popular literature and its differentiation from belles-lettres are shown in the introductory part of the thesis. The next is a presentation of the main features that attract readers and make this literature so popular. The paratext, a secondary component of the book (title, author, edition, the appearance of the front page ...), the technique of the narration and the characters could be considered as those features. In order to demonstrate these features of popular literature, one representative has been chosen, namely a crime fiction novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux. The conclusions of this thesis should demonstrate how this literature reaches its popularity. KEYWORDS: popular literature, detective novel, paratext, Gaston Leroux, The...
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Detective stories in the sixties in Czech literature
Veselá, Jaroslava ; Janoušek, Pavel (advisor) ; Mocná, Dagmar (referee)
Sixties was a special period in the history of Czech literature, because during these years popular literature (especially the detective stories) was written as an artistic literature. During the sixties a lot of detective novels with artistic value were written. In the past (especially during the fifties), vacation literature was considered bad. In the first half of the sixties mainly socialist detective stories were written. There were important political opinions of the author. Socialist authors celebrated police work. In the late sixties detective stories under the Anglo-Saxon tradition were written. For authors, it was important to respect the rules of writing crime fiction. They thought that crime novels people read just for fun. At the end of the sixties detective stories have never had such a good position in the literature. KEYWORDS Czech literature in sixties, vacation literature, detective novel, Anglo-Saxon detective novel, socialist detective novel.
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Origin of the Czech Detective Novel
Šoltésová, Tereza ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee)
Abstact This bachelor thesis called Origin of the Czech Detective novel focuses on the genre of the Czech Detective novel in the beginning of its formation. The thesis includes the theoretical part which is an attempt to provide some definitions of the detective genre. The following part describes an evolution of the detective novel. It includes summarized history of the genre in international literature but is concentrated mostly on the Czech Detective fiction. Last part analyses the work of some specific authors who had crucial impact on the genre development in the Czech area. The thesis follows how the Czech Detective novel was evolving since the beginning of the twentieth century till 1960ˈs, its source of literal inspiration and the impact of Anglo-American Detective fiction. The work also analysis some Detective novels of Karel Čapek, Emil Vachek, Eduard Fiker, Jan Zábrana and Josef Škvorecký and describes their contribution to development of the Czech Detective novel. Some of their works are analysed more, it is focused mainly on the style of narration and the figures of detective and his assistant.
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Antonio Muñoz Molina's Novel
Kopuletá, Hana ; Sánchez Fernández, Juan Antonio (advisor) ; Housková, Anna (referee)
The aim of this work is to describe the development of literary works of well-known Spanish writer Antonio Muñoz Molina on the basis of an analysis of his selected novels, which were published in the period up to the year 2000. They are Beatus Ille, El invierno en Lisboa, Beltenebros, El jinete polaco, Ardor guerrero and Plenilunio. In the introductory part of this thesis we briefly summarize the development of the Spanish novel, which occurred between the sixties and the eighties of the 20th century. This theoretical part will be followed up with the analysis of the author's works. Selected novels will be divided into three groups, which also correspond to the three main creative periods through which Muñoz Molina's work has passed. Within each chapter, we first describe the specifics of the set creative periods and then analyze all the novels we have included in that chapter. When distributing the novels to individual units, the chronological order in which they were published will be preserved in order to obtain the most accurate picture of the development that the author's creation has undergone. In the end, we summarize the defined creative periods and set the trends that Antonio Muñoz Molina is constantly returning in his novels.
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Scandinavian crime fiction: Detective novel, social critism and thriller
Danielková, Pavla ; Píšová, Ina (advisor) ; Mocná, Dagmar (referee)
The thesis presented here with deals with an analysis and genre definition of the Nordic detective story, which is currently very popular in the Czech Republic. It is namely an interpretation of the works done by two contemporary Nordic authors in question, i.e. Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbø. With the first of the two authors I will be looking into the complete trilogy The Millenium containing volumes of Män som hatar kvinnor (2005), Flickan som lekte med elden (2006) and Luftslottet som sprängdes (2007). As regards in Nesbø's works, I have chosen a series of detective stories with detective Harry Hole as the main character, especially two of them Panserhjerte (2009) and Snømannen (2007) and which appear to be the most successful and the most typical. On the grounds of the analysis of the particular literary categories such as the character of a detective and their investigative techniques, the narrative pattern, the narrator, and the continuum which are compared with the similar categories within individual historical detective schools itemized in the theoretical part of the thesis, and compared as well with other genres, it is to be stated that the Nordic crime fiction might be located somewhere on the border line between the detective story, the critical social novel and the thriller, taking on at...
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The Millennium trilogy in the genre transformations
Hofmanová, Petra ; Kupcová, Helena (advisor) ; Med, Jaroslav (referee)
In the thesis I would like to focus on the very topical literary work: Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson who died in 2004. The trilogy consists of three parts: The girl with the dragon tattoo, The girl who played with fire and The girl who kicked the hornets' nest. The trilogy will be examined from the perspective of genre determination. With the professional literature I would like to describe each genre and it's possibility of use. I would also like to find a typical features of particular genre in different forms: situations, characters, conflicts, etc. One part of my thesis will be dedicated to the writer and his autobiography traits. I would also like to turn to the fourth part of the trilogy by David Lagercrantz. I will try to answer the question why the trilogy has been extended, what literature genre is characteristic for the writer and what changes have been made in content or formal features of the story. During my work I would like to compare the trilogy with other Nordic literature pieces to find the cause of increasing sale of this kind of literature nowadays.
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Origin of the Czech Detective Novel
Šoltésová, Tereza ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee)
Abstact This bachelor thesis called Origin of the Czech Detective novel focuses on the genre of the Czech Detective novel in the beginning of its formation. The thesis includes the theoretical part which is an attempt to provide some definitions of the detective genre. The following part describes an evolution of the detective novel. It includes summarized history of the genre in international literature but is concentrated mostly on the Czech Detective fiction. Last part analyses the work of some specific authors who had crucial impact on the genre development in the Czech area. The thesis follows how the Czech Detective novel was evolving since the beginning of the twentieth century till 1960ˈs, its source of literal inspiration and the impact of Anglo-American Detective fiction. The work also analysis some Detective novels of Karel Čapek, Emil Vachek, Eduard Fiker, Jan Zábrana and Josef Škvorecký and describes their contribution to development of the Czech Detective novel. Some of their works are analysed more, it is focused mainly on the style of narration and the figures of detective and his assistant.
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The Detective Trilogy of Josef Škvorecký
Bálková, Anna ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to find out how the central character Josef Borůvka in books Smutek poručíka Borůvky, Konec poručíka Borůvky a Hříchy pro pátera Knoxe approximates an ideal of The Big detective. The central character of novels was compared with the characteristics of The Big detective who was described in the secondary sources. In the second part of the thesis, the literature works are compared with the films. The results show that lieutenant Borůvka can be considered The Big detective, however, there are some differences. The thesis discovers that Josef Škvorecký as an author of these Czech literature works made a literature type of the detective who is popular in the world literature and he meets the requirements for the detective genre. Keywords Josef Škvorecký, detective genre, lieutenant Borůvka, Big detective, trails
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The characteristics of the popular literature in the novel The mystery of the yellow room by GAston Leroux
Langová, Dana ; Listíková, Renáta (advisor) ; Jančík, Jiří (referee)
TITLE OF THESIS: The characteristics of the popular literature in the novel The mystery of the yellow room by Gaston Leroux SUPERVISOR: Dr. PhDr. Renáta Listíková, MCF AUTHOR: Dana Langová DEPARTMENT: Department of French Language and Literature ABSTRACT: The aim of this bachelor's thesis "The characteristics of the popular literature in the novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux" is to demonstrate why the popular literature is so popular among a broad audience and how it achieves this favour among the readers. The characteristics of the popular literature and its differentiation from belles-lettres are shown in the introductory part of the thesis. The next is a presentation of the main features that attract readers and make this literature so popular. The paratext, a secondary component of the book (title, author, edition, the appearance of the front page ...), the technique of the narration and the characters could be considered as those features. In order to demonstrate these features of popular literature, one representative has been chosen, namely a crime fiction novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux. The conclusions of this thesis should demonstrate how this literature reaches its popularity. KEYWORDS: popular literature, detective novel, paratext, Gaston Leroux, The...
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The image of a journalist in the 20th century british novel
Horáčková, Ludmila ; Jirák, Jan (advisor) ; Čeňková, Jana (referee)
The aim of the diploma thesis The Picture of a Journalist in the 20th century British novel is to map the space dedicated to characters of journalists in literature, the 20th century British novels in particular. Depiction of the journalistic characters is based on fifteen selected literary works within three different novel types - comic novel, detective novel and social-critical novel. Using a detailed analysis of a sum of both the narrative and the extra-literary elements the thesis compares various characters of male and female journalists appearing in the selected novels. It tries to compare the differences as well as the similarities within portrayals of journalists in different novel types. As a conclusion the thesis evaluates the overall picture of journalists in these works and attempts to trace any similarities or recurring trends in depiction of journalists in literature.
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