Scottishness in the Detective Fiction of Josephine Tey

Bc. Tomáš Bačík

Master's thesis

Abstract:

Tato práce se pokouší analyzovat téma skotské národní identity v detektivní fikci skotské spisovatelky Josephine Teyové. Text je rozdělen do dvou sekcí, první z nichž se skládá ze dvou samostatných kapitol, které se zabývají detektivní fikcí Josephine Teyové a tématem skotské národní identity a jeho využití v literatuře. Druhá sekce je kompletně věnovaná analýze dvou detektivních titulů Josephine Teyové, The Man in the Queue a The Singing Sands.

Abstract:

The thesis attempts to expose and analyse the theme of Scottishness in the detective fiction of Josephine Tey. The text is divided into two major sections. The first section consists of two theoretical chapters, separately dealing with the detective fiction of Josephine Tey and the theme of Scottishness as a literary device defining a unique national character of Scotland. The second part of the thesis is utterly dedicated to the analysis of two detective novels by Josephine Tey, The Man in the Queue and The Singing Sands.

Keywords

Josephine Tey, The Singing Sand, The Man in the Queue, John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps, Neil Gunn, The Lost Chart, Scottishness, Englishness, Scottish national identity, Scottish literary renaissance, Inspector Grant, detective fiction, Gordon Daviot, Elizabeth Mackintosh

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 23. 5. 2016

Thesis defence

• Date of defence: 20. 6. 2016
• Supervisor: Ph.D. Stephen Paul Hardy
• Reader: PhDr. Lidia Kyzlinková, CSc.

Masaryk University

Faculty of Arts

Master programme / field:
Philology / English Language and Literature