In the article the author analyses the typology of the central character in the Czech crime novel in its “renaissance” period (1958–1969), taking into account main tendencies of the production of the said period (socialist crime novel and leaning towards the Western tradition of crime fiction), which had great influence on the appearance and character of the leading protagonist. Taking into account those tendencies, the author discusses the frequency of the worldly known “Poirot” type of the “great detective”, a wise and an experienced old man who sees crime as a logical puzzle, and tries to prove how the production of the period was marked by the reduction of the typological image of the main hero.
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V článku se analyzuje typologie ústředních postav v české detektivce 1958–1969 se zřetelem k dvěma hlavním tendencím v dobové produkci (socialistická detektivka a vliv západní tradice). Na základě vybraných děl se autor snaží odpovědět na otázku, do jaké míry se v dobové detektivní próze prosadil tzv. poirotovský typ „velkého detektiva“, moudrého a zkušeného starce, který se zločinem zabývá jako logickou hrou, ale také i proč lze mluvit o určité redukci typologie hlavních postav.
The object of consideration in this article are TV series present on the Polish media market, produced since the 1990s until today. The series are both American and Polish. In this article they are considered as symbolic communities. I scrutinize the characters presented in each of the series to demonstrate that they impersonate television myths belonging to a wider symbolic process of creating television mythologies. By conceiving series’ characters as symbolic constructions I attempt to answer the question, what those popular series myths tell us and what kind of communities emerge around them.
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