This thesis focuses on the Israeli detective genre. The Israeli detective genre is quite new in Israeli literature, not many works of the detective genre exist in Israel before 1980's, and even today, the detective genre is not so widespread in Israel. The thesis introduces four authors who represent the period from the beginnings of Israeli detective fiction until today. Batya Gur and Shulamit Lapid were chosen as representatives of the older period, Jair Lapid and Dror Mishani for the 21st century. The works chosen for the analysis are those which are parts of the detective series. Another criterion is the detective has to operate in Israel. The aim of the thesis is to outline the development of the detective novel in Israeli based on the example of selected works of these significant authors. In the opening, the thesis shortly presents a detective novel as a literary genre and also, as a literary genre in Israel. The main body of the thesis consists of four chapters on the authors and their approach to the detective genre while investigating several aspects. Firstly, it focuses on the characters who appear in the chosen novels as a detectives, criminals, and other characters. Secondly, the thesis concentrates on the background of the crime and investigation; where and under which circumstances...

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.

The objective of this work is the overall analysis of imaging the literary figures of journalists who appear in contemporary detective and crime novels in North America. Result of work is the creation of basic typology of literary figures journalists - detectives (men), who dominates in these novels. In the first part the author deals with the problems of literary characters and its analysis. Author presents a basic overview of the most significant literary figures of journalists who appeared in the literature across the provenances and history. In the second chapter Helena Eliášová deals with the history and main characteristics of detective and crime fiction. The third chapter is focused on the position of journalists in North America and briefly outlines the North American media system and the dominant elements in it. The fourth chapter presents the basic typology of journalists - a man in the contemporary criminal detective novel of North America. In the fifth chapter, the author deals with the problem of creating and eliminating myths of journalist as a detective character. It focuses on displaying his physiognomy and abilities and characteristics. In the final chapter, the author focuses on the stereotypes that are associated with the figure of the classic journalists and shows the variations...

(anglicky): In this thesis, two representative works of two post-war schools of Japanese detective fiction are analysed based on the knowledge of modern narratology. Two mentioned schools are so called social school of detective fiction (shakaiha 社会派), which appeared at the beginning of 60ties, and new authentic school of detective fiction (shin honkakuha 新本格派), which appeared at the beginning of 80ties. This thesis focuses on a theoretical understanding of the term "detective fiction", it describes the development of the detective genre in post-war Japan while focusing on the debates on "authentic" and "inauthentic" detective fiction and describes typical features of two previously mentioned schools. The by using a theoretical apparat suitable for analysing works of very schematic detective genre, two works - Points and lines (Ten to sen 点と線, 1958) written by Matsumoto Seichō 松本清張 (1909-1992) and Tokyo Zodiac Murders (Senseijutu satsujin jiken 占星術殺人事件, 1981) written by Shimada Sōji 島田荘司 (1948 - ) - are analysed. Analyses focus on composition schemes of both works and on the example translated from original works, existence or absence of elements typical for both schools are demonstrated while a different usage of these elements is showed.

The abstract Introducing part of the work is focused on development of literary genre noir in Italian context, especially on ca. last twenty years, introduces its authors in the area of Emilia- Romagna and Bologna as a city of crime. In the analytic part, the two of Lucarelli's noir series with commissioner Coliandro and inspector Negro are comparatively analised from following chosen aspects: the character of protagonist, the character of criminal, the type of a crime, investigative methods, settings, and in the end language, expression means and role of the narrator. In conclusion, the specifics of literary genre noir in settings of Bologna are described, including the relation between fiction and reality in Lucarelli's writings and the constants of the author's poetic are outlined on the basis of comparative analysis of the series.

This diploma thesis focuses on the most popular representative of the so-called "polar marseillais", which is Jean-Claude Izzo. The theoretical part briefly describes the development of the detective genre and the place of the detective novel in the framework of French literary production. It also deals with the position of the detective novel in the context of Czech literature and publishing. Secondly, Jean-Claude Izzo and his works will be presented in detail. Based on the information already presented, it will be possible to characterize the place of this author in connection to the French literary scene and to describe his function in the Czech environment. The main part of the work will be devoted to the translatological analysis and the critique of two Czech translations of Izzo's novels Totální chaos and Chourmo that together with Solea belong to his so-called 'Marseilles trilogy'.

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.

Petros Markaris's detective novel addresses the economic crisis, highlighting the economic, political and social crisis rather than the crime cases. In the first part of my master's thesis, the detective novel is addressed in the wider context of the greek contemporary literature and the development of the genre is briefly described. Thereafter, an analysis of the content of the trilogy regarding the crisis and the description of the main topics, such as unemployment, migration and far-right wing is carried out. In the next chapters, the common characteristics of all the novels are described. Furthermore, a research was conducted regarding the translations into German, Spanish and Italian to find out why Petros Markaris gained popularity abroad.