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Iser's concept of Implied Reader and Children's Literature
Piwowarská, Veronika ; Kaplický, Martin (advisor) ; Kubalík, Štěpán (referee)
This bachelor's thesis introduces the concept of the so-called implied reader, which was introduced first by the literal theoretician Wolfgang Iser in the 1970s'. This thesis defines Iser's concept of the implied reader, for instance the advantages of the implied reader for understanding the process of reading, and furthering the understanding of readers themselves. In light of these elemental understandings, the thesis further indicates whether and how the concept of the implied reader can be used to characterise and understand children's literature. The matters in question of children's literature are mainly analysed in the style of Jana Segi Lukavská and Karin Lesnik-Obersteinová. The further evaluation of the child implied reader is based on the work of Aidan Chambers. Keywords implied reader, reader, children's literature, child reader, child implied reader, Wolfgang Iser, Aidan Chambers, Jana Segi Lukavská, Karin Lesnik-Oberstein
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Experimental Aesthetics of Otakar Zich
Bělohradská, Anna ; Dykast, Roman (advisor) ; Kaplický, Martin (referee)
The bachelor's thesis focuses on the part of the scientific legacy of the important Czech aesthetician Otakar Zich (1879-1934), in which he formulates the principles of the use of experiment in the research of some aesthetic questions, the solution of which he considered controversial. Zich's research work, thus focused, belongs to his early period, in which he primarily dealt with the question of the relationship between music and emotions (moods) and the issue of what belongs to the aesthetic perception of music. The main source for the subject of the thesis is Zich's work Aesthetic Perception of Music, in which he draws on a number of suggestions and proposals from experimental research in the field of psychology and aesthetics as it took shape during the second half of the 19th century, while consciously following the suggestions of his teacher Otakar Hostinský. In the thesis, these stimuli are monitored, evaluated and placed in the context of the formation of Zich's experimental aesthetics. The aim of the thesis is to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the method with the help of which Zich, based on the results of his experimental research, formulated a theory of the semantic image in music and interpreted feelings and moods in relation to music in a completely new way, including...
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The Concept of Reader in Wolfgang Iser's and Stanley Fish's Literary Theory
Vavřičková, Hana ; Kaplický, Martin (advisor) ; Kubalík, Štěpán (referee)
Since the 1970s, concepts exploring reader-response theories of literature have been developing in literary aesthetics and literary theory. Although these theories share a reader-orientation, they often differ significantly from one another, attempt to answer different research questions, and emphasize different aspects of reader response. This can also be said of the literary theory of Stanley Fish and Wolfgang Iser. The commissioned bachelor's thesis will attempt to show both the points of contact between the two theories and their differences. The introduction to both theories will be an introduction to the concept of the reader with which both theories work. In the case of Iser it is the implied reader, in the case of Fish the informed reader.
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Patocka's aesthetic interpretations of Hegel's philosophical and aesthetic thoughts
Vydrová, Tereza ; Ševčík, Miloš (advisor) ; Kaplický, Martin (referee)
In the thesis I deal with Patočka's conception of art on the basis of temporality. In his philosophy of art, Patočka relates to Hegel's thesis on the past nature of art and, with references to Hegel's philosophy of time and Hegel's description of the experience of the beautiful object, formulates a theory of art based on original temporality. Later, however, he challenges this conception, which offers a space for reflection on the nature of art and, above all, on the ways in which art has changed in the course of human development. I use Patočka's notion of subjectivity, myth, drama and epicness to address this issue, which I discuss on the basis of Patočka's notion of time as a unity of temporal dimensions. In the last part of the thesis, I focus on Patočka's statements about contemporary art, its proximity to life, and the not entirely clear thesis about the potential of contemporary art to break free from epic binding.
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Body, clothing and fashion from the viewpoint of philosophy and aesthetics
Beerová, Petra ; Jarošová, Helena (advisor) ; Kaplický, Martin (referee)
The submitted thesis will not be interested in the personality of people which are interested in the news from the fashion world but in all human beings for whom it is proper to cover their otherwise naked body. Since the Middle Ages the human body has been related to fashion. In the first step, we will investigate what the body is (phenomenological interpretation). This part serves the reader to connect the wider context. In the second part, we will clarify how to characterize clothing, what is its significance and its origin. In the third thematic circle we will connect the two previous levels of the issue and nowhere else than in the field of philosophy. This is the work in the less researched area of philosophy. The objective of the thesis we set is to map and describe the connections between body, clothing, and fashion within aesthetics concepts. We will try to answer the question why it is important to deal more with clothing within the framework of aesthetic and philosophical research.
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The motive of sport in Robert Musil's literary work (Aesthetic aspect)
Šafrová, Kateřina ; Hlobil, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kaplický, Martin (referee)
This thesis investigates the motive of sport and physicality in the literary work of Robert Musil, especially its philosophical and aesthetic aspect. The aim of the first part is to capture the existing knowledge on this subject in the secondary literature. Based on these findings the second part of this work develops a hypothesis by Hanns- Marcus Müller on the context of the concepts of physicality and sport by Friedrich Nietzsche and Robert Musil. My bachelor thesis concludes with a comprehensive concept of sport in Robert Musil's thinking, which refutes the view of apparent internal inconsistencies of Musil's claims, currently prevailing in the expert community.
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Pragmatic moments in the dissertation of Karel Čapek
Váchová, Michaela ; Dadejík, Ondřej (advisor) ; Kaplický, Martin (referee)
Karel Čapek is known as a pragmatist of the Czech philosophical background. The truth is that the pragmatism had in the Czech philosophical background several idealistic followers in the 1st middle of the 20th century (Emanuel Rádl, Karel Vorovka, T. G. Masaryk). However the majority of them desinterpreted the idea of American pragmatism and they just proceeded via this philosophical tendence to the another one. My thesis deals with pragmatic moments in the Aesthetics of Karel Čapek because he finished his studies by the dissertation Objective Method in the Aesthetics regarding visual arts. Through the comparison with John Dewey's Art as Experience it's clear there's a pragmatic inspiration in the aesthetics too. However it is possible to speak just about the pragmatic moments, not about the pragmatic aesthetics.
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Aesthetic Factor in John Dewey's Conception of an Experience Aesthetic Relevance demonstrated by Example of Snowbording
Vyhnánková, Klára ; Kaplický, Martin (advisor) ; Dadejík, Ondřej (referee)
This diploma thesis examines John Dewey's concept of experience, focusing especially on his notion that an aesthetic factor is present in every complete and consummatory experience. It deals with the differences between a common experience and "an experience" and examines how an aesthetic factor works in them. The indispensable role of the aesthetic factor is intentionally demonstrated on the non-artistic example of experiences of snowboarding. The most important findings are developed through the approach of Richard Shusterman's somaesthetics. The theories of these two philosophers support the main idea of this thesis, namely that dynamic movements of the body can bring aesthetic experiences to their actor. Thus, some of the reasons that explain the attractiveness of this modern sport come to light that are not apparent at first glance.
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The aesthetic experience of ruins
Pechoušková, Klára ; Dadejík, Ondřej (advisor) ; Kaplický, Martin (referee)
Bachelor project follows the basic definition of ruins, dilapidated objects as specific object of aesthetics. Visitors are attracted by such places for many reasons and one of them is traditionally the hunt for a specific aesthetic experience. The goal of the project is to identify the quality of this experience through comparison with two basic types of aesthetic objects: artworks and natural aesthetic objects. Nature and culture are often considered two divided fields. A ruin is an object which doesn't fully belong to the area of artifacts but neither is a fully natural element. Primary literature bases on contemporary environmental aesthetics and is complemented by basic titles of so-called "aesthetics of ruins" or "aesthetics of decay". The end of the project discuss the use of the achieved findings in exploration of the aesthetic specificity of modern ruins like abandoned factories, hospitals, schools, hotels etc. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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The Notion of Aesthetic Experience in American Philosophy after John Dewey
Špryňarová, Denisa ; Dadejík, Ondřej (advisor) ; Kaplický, Martin (referee)
John Dewey's philosophical work was establishing a continuum between human behavior and nature. Dewey advanced the theory that everything we experience comes through interaction with our surroundings - and articulating our experience by this interaction. Dewey uses experience even in the framework of art - and he stresses the importance of combining art and esthetic experience into our everyday life. The first part of my paper is meant to explain Dewey's philosophical concepts, his view on the issues relating to the common world, his analysis of normal/everyday experience, and his analysis of what he termed esthetic experience. Part two is a comparison between Dewey's philosophy of esthetic experience and Jerome Stolnitz's, another known aesthetic philosopher, and their theories on esthetics. The basic question I seek to answer is whether, despite their differences in theories, Stolnitz was coming from a different theoretical background with different traditions and assumptions, one can still trace certain consensus and mutually shared territory in which their theories merge. And so, I attempt to answer the question, can we find characteristics of esthetic experience that would be plausible to both of them? Or is it rather that their understanding of esthetic experience was so different, that we...
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