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Symbol,Experiment and the Fantastic in the Dramas of Astrid Saalbach
Halounová, Lada ; Norup, Lis (advisor) ; Březinová, Helena (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to analyse the experimental construction of dramas by contemporary Danish playwright Astrid Saalbach as well as the fantastic and symbols in her plays. The theoretical-methodological introduction defines the literary term of symbol, allegory and sign with a brief introduction of the psychoanalytic reading of symbols. The second part of the theoretical opening introduces the term of the fantastic and also Tvzvetan Todorov's structural approach to this literary genre. The distinctions between different readings such as the poetry and the allegory, which both abolish the fantastic, are also pointed out in the introduction. The following definitions of literary genres of the uncanny and the marvellous focus on the narrow boundaries between these two genres and the fantastic, which is placed in between the marvellous and the uncanny. Furthermore, the introduction part also focuses on the genres of fantasy and science fiction, as they often mix or coincide with the fantastic in the literature of the 20th century. A shorter chapter also describes the term of Sigmund Freud's the uncanny (das Unheimliche), because it might be closer to the pure fantastic than to Thodorov's concept of the uncanny. The analysis of dramas focuses primarily on the construction, the fantastic and the...
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Symbol,Experiment and the Fantastic in the Dramas of Astrid Saalbach
Halounová, Lada ; Norup, Lis (advisor) ; Březinová, Helena (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to analyse the experimental construction of dramas by contemporary Danish playwright Astrid Saalbach as well as the fantastic and symbols in her plays. The theoretical-methodological introduction defines the literary term of symbol, allegory and sign with a brief introduction of the psychoanalytic reading of symbols. The second part of the theoretical opening introduces the term of the fantastic and also Tvzvetan Todorov's structural approach to this literary genre. The distinctions between different readings such as the poetry and the allegory, which both abolish the fantastic, are also pointed out in the introduction. The following definitions of literary genres of the uncanny and the marvellous focus on the narrow boundaries between these two genres and the fantastic, which is placed in between the marvellous and the uncanny. Furthermore, the introduction part also focuses on the genres of fantasy and science fiction, as they often mix or coincide with the fantastic in the literature of the 20th century. A shorter chapter also describes the term of Sigmund Freud's the uncanny (das Unheimliche), because it might be closer to the pure fantastic than to Thodorov's concept of the uncanny. The analysis of dramas focuses primarily on the construction, the fantastic and the...
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