Oldřich Králík in academic folklore and detective novels Cover Image

Oldřich Králík v akademickém folkloru a v detektivkách
Oldřich Králík in academic folklore and detective novels

Author(s): Jiří Fiala
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Czech Literature
Published by: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Keywords: academic folklore; humorous life stories; Oldřich Králík; detective novels

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the characteristic of academic folklore as a folklore genre, supplemented by relevant examples of academic anecdotes and humorous life stories, humorous life stories concerning the personality of Professor Oldřich Králík, a literary scientist who worked in the years 1946–1975 at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Palacký University in Olomouc, Oldřich Králík as a masterpiece of Professor Ondřej Malík in the detective prose works of Václav Erben Denár v dívčí dlani (Denar in the Girl’s Loof (1980) and Poslední pád Mistra Materny (The Last Fall of Actor Materna (1987), and mentioned detective novels and TV adaptation of Denár v dívčí dlani as a remarkable use of intertextuality and intermediality.

  • Issue Year: 10/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 144-159
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Czech