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Short Stories Milan Jariš' (Oni přijdou) and E. F. Burian's (Osm odtamtud): Theirs Versions
Vlková, Kateřina ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Špirit, Michael (referee)
This master's thesis focuses on two collections of short stories that have not been analyzed enough so far, which deal with the period of Nazi occupation and persecution. Both are based on the authors' own experiences: They Will Come (orig. Oni přijdou; first published in 1948) by Milan Jariš and Eight Stories from Over There (orig. Osm odtamtud; first published in 1954) by E. F. Burian. The main attention will be focused on the textual comparison of the different versions of these titles (for Jariš, new versions in 1949, 1953, 1956 and 1985; for Burian, new version in 1956). The theoretical starting points will be the studies of Oldřich Králík and Miroslav Červenka examining different variants and versions of specific literary works.
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Novels of Josef Škvorecký in translations by Paul Wilson
Junek, Václav ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
(in English): The aim of this thesis is the comparison of three novels by Josef Škvorecký -Příběh inženýra lidských duší, Scherzo capriccioso and Tankový prapor - with their English translations by Paul Wilson and the description of the differences in their composition. In the case of the translation of Scherza capricciosa, Paul Wilson noticed that the novel contains two basic reading horizons - one aimed at readers from the Czech cultural context, the other at readers from the Angloamerican cultural context - and when translating he intervened in the narrative discourse of the novel so that the resulting tone adapted to an Angloamerican audience. With this approach of Wilson's in mind, we also examine two other translated novels. The work is intended to be a contribution to the investigation of the work of Josef Škvorecký as an author creating for two cultural contexts.
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Theater Critic Václav Řezáč
Postlová, Lucie ; Vojtěch, Daniel (advisor) ; Špirit, Michael (referee)
The thesis maps the First Republic critical activity of Václav Řezáč. Its aim is to analyse Řezáč's theatre reviews and then to place them in the context of his writing activity. The thesis is based on a bibliography of articles published in the magazines such as: Eva, časopis moderní ženy, Český svět, ilustrovaný čtrnáctideník and Svět ve filmu a obrazech. In these magazines, Řezáč published dozens of critical essays between 1938 and 1934, before the publication of his first novel, Větrná setba.
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Motive of responsibility in the prose of Ladislav Dvořák
Bílková, Adéla ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
(in English): This bachelor's thesis examines the prose work of Ladislav Dvořák (1920-1983) with regard to the dimension of responsibility. It briefly describes the individual short story sets and their narrative situations according to the typology of Franz Karel Stanzel. The work focuses on the analysis of story situations in which responsibility appears as a motive. It touches the poetic work only marginally. Finally, it comments on the personality of Ladislav Dvořák and the dimension of responsibility in his life.
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Sports motifs in Bohumil Hrabal's short stories
Horský, Jan ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
This thesis focuses on sports motifs in Bohumil Hrabal's short story collections. Its core is Hrabal's collections Perlička na dně and Pábitelé. The thesis examines the concept of sport in literature, the development and depiction of sport motifs in the Czech literary tradition. It then examines in more detail the sports motifs in the individual texts of both collections, points out the differences in the treatment of sport in Hrabal's work and notes the various contexts and roles that sport plays in Hrabal's stories.
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Ferdinand Peroutka - literary crtitic and writer
Šnajdrová, Karolína ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Špirit, Michael (referee)
Svoji rigorózní práci jsem se rozhodla zaměřit na literární kritiky a vlastní literární tvorbu Ferdinanda Peroutky. Je třeba přitom mít především na zřeteli, že těžištěm Peroutkovy tvorby zůstává politická publicistika. Hodnocení literatury se tento autor nevěnoval systematicky, ale pouze příležitostně, pro činnost prozaickou a dramatickou nacházel ve svém životě čas až poté, co jej politické komentáře přestávaly plně zaměstnávat. Proto literárněkritická činnost například téměř ustala ve třicátých letech se stále se zhoršující politickou situací a s psaním Budování státu Peroutkova a proto se psaní beletrie rozhodl plně věnovat svůj čas až v období emigrace. Politickou žurnalistiku, včetně Budování státu, v této práci záměrně opomíjím, třebaže jsem si vědoma skutečnosti, že zcela oddělit tuto tvorbu u osobnosti natolik celistvé, jakou Peroutka byl, není možné a že se této stránky tvorby i v jeho činnosti literární a literárněkritické často budu dotýkat.
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The Existential Poetry and Jiří Orten
Veselka, Martin ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
The work is divided into two chapters. In the first one the World's and Czech poets (chosen on the basis of Orten's list of reading) are analyzed. Those authors could be understood as impersonators or predecessors of the existential tendencies and it's provable Orten knew their works well (i.a. Rilke, Rimbaud, Akhmatova, Mácha, Weiner, Halas, Holan, Zahradníček, Bonn and Daniel). The second and more voluminous chapter consists of the motives' and topics' analysis of Orten's literary work, focused mainly on the poetry and less on the other literary genres - notes, letters, prose. The most of his poems and notes is based on the factual life experience and their ethos is founded on both existential and Christian moral philosophy. There's also an influence of some other intellectual tendencies and artistic styles like folk literature, romanticism, impressionism, less intensively expressionism, naturalism, psychoanalysis, surrealism and naturism. To get the coherent interpretation of Orten's work it's necessary to reflect (beside the existential motives) the pathos of the intimate traumatic relationship to the father, the girl(friend)s and the unborn child as well as the deeply Christian understanding of reality (connected with the biblical /The Old Testament/ dialogical relation to the God, the...
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