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Edgar Allan Poe as the Progenitor of the Modern Detective Tale
ŽIŽKA, Oldřich
This thesis focuses on detective stories by Edgar Allan Poe featuring the detective Dupin. It first delineates the development of the genre from early epics to contemporary authors, then takes a closer look at the key features of a detective story as they appear in the short stories 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', 'The Mystery of Marie Roget' and 'The Purloined Letter'. It also compares these short stories with the works of some later authors of detective fiction. Finally, it presents a novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt as a critical response to certain features of the genre.
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Detectives in the captivity of fans
NIKLOVÁ, Monika
This master's thesis will explore the ways in which the fictional and real world blends with detective stories readers. In the methodological part, the author will focus on theoretical problems associated with perception of cult literary works, readers' activity and further expansion of fictional worlds. The phenomena the author will explore are, for example, fan clubs, fan fiction, fan art, naming real entities according to fictional characters and places, and searching for fictional entities in the real world. The practical part of this thesis will be devoted to three detective stories authors - A. C. Doyle, A. Christie and M. Jennings, and their functioning as cultural phenomena both in the Czech and world context.
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