Jak se detektivka stala detektivkou
How the detective story became the detective story

A survey of the development of genre awareness in Czech literary cultureat the turn of the 20th century

Summary/Abstract: This study focuses on the history of the detective story genre, but its aim is notto reformulate the “objective” history of the genre, based on a text-centredanalysis, but to enhance it by including the reception aspect in order to providea model highlighting the “subjective” element of the genre, which we refer to asgenre awareness. We chart its development by means of surveys of the receptionresponse to works, on the basis of which we construct nodal points in the genesis ofawareness, resulting in the stabilization of the specific genre within the environmentof Czech literary culture, which is understood in the broad sense to involve textscommunicated in Czech, both original and in translation.

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