Character and its representation in literature

The submitted bachelor thesis focuses on issues of literary character. First, it pursues the individual axis of research of a literary characters ? in their relation to the plot and its superiority or subordination, its way of existence as a textualized human being or as a text function inseparable from a literary work, in the final chapter then, it deals with the comparative study of literary characters and resulting various typologies formed by Edward Morgan Forster, Joseph Ewen and Daniela Hodrová. Before that, the thesis presents concepts of literary character of some significant authors, from Aristotle through Russian formalists, French structuralists and Seymour Chatman to linguistically inspired narrative grammars of Vladimir Jakovlevič Propp and Julien Greimas. Afterwards, the contributions of Tzvetan Todorov, Gérard Genette, Franz Karl Stanzel and Seymour Chatman to the problem of focalization are concerned. In chapter seven the thesis deals with the ways of characterization of characters in literary works or art. Finally, in the last chapter it sees the literary character at background of theory of fictional worlds