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Silence in Comics
Klabanová, Tereza ; Činátlová, Blanka (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee)
(in English): This study focuses on displaying silence in narrative comics. It attempts to affirm or disprove the question if wordless panels always signify silence in the story. Wordless panels are understood as those, which do not include a text bubble with character or narrator speech. Due to this, the study is largely devoted to wordless/silent comics and their usage of sound within the story. The text is divided into two parts. The first is a theoretical-methodological portion and it summarises the most up to date knowledge regarding the mediality of comics, wordless comics and methods of comic narration with a focus on time in the story and types of closure. The second part analyses specific examples of displaying silence in three comic works: Sojčák (2016), Řeka (2015) and the series Usagi Yojimbo. The analysis uses two approaches. The first is Semiotic analysis described by Michal Uhl and the second is a neoformalist approach of Kristin Thompson taken from film studies.
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Media Image of Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria
Zapotilová, Tereza ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Činátlová, Blanka (referee)
The topic of this thesis is the image of the Austrian Empress Elisabeth (1837-1898) within the framework of fictional narratives. Elizabeth of Bavaria is a constant subject of interest for historians and artists, as evidenced by, among other things, a number of historiographic and fictional works dealing with the lives of her and her close relatives. In my work, I analyse how the Empress is presented in 16 selected historical novels, films, series and theatrical productions, of which she is a major or minor, but important figure of the story. The theoretical basis for me is the question of the relationship between fiction and non-fiction and the issue of fictional works with historical themes. I then examine the image of the Austrian Empress in five chapters, each focusing on one key aspect of her life, one of the "roles" she has played over the course of her life, and in each of these chapters I on the one hand compare how the authors of the fiction deal with the topic, on the other hand I equate this fictional picture with how the professional historiographic discourse approaches this issue. In the end, I then deal with the issue of the Empress's image within fictional narratives in general, and I also deal with the means and methods by which the authors of fiction deliberately deviate from the...
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Modernity as Monstrosity: Sociological Testimony of the Modern Auctorial Myth 2011
Lošťák, Dalibor ; Činátlová, Blanka (advisor) ; Storchová, Barbara (referee)
This paper presents the methodology and theory needed for a narratologically and linguistically oriented comparation of chosen texts that belong to different declared genres, eventhough they do share a substancial amount of characteristics in the author's opinion. This methodological and linguistic apparatus is then used for a brief pilot study of the specific texts with a special regard to correspondence and difference in the language and narration of these texts. The key metodological instrument presented in this paper is the contruction of the continuum defined by the abstract opposites of "instrumental" and "literary" language and then relating of this continuum to the theory of information. The paper presents narratological approach oriented towards the relation of science, narration and society as a theoretical basis for the study of character of narration in the chosen texts. The outcome of the pilot comparation, based on this theoretical and methodological apparatus, is in the grasping of language and narration in the compared texts with regard to the idea of ideal text and its characteristics. Keywords: sociology, novel, language, narration
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The Employ of the Gothic Novel in Czech Prose of the First Half of the 20th Century: analogies and variations of the genre.
Petrová, Zuzana ; Činátlová, Blanka (advisor) ; Mravcová, Marie (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to define the genre of the English gothic novel, a historically-conditioned phenomenon, which is revived whenever a specific cultural and social situation occurs. The presence of the genre in the Czech prose of the first half of the twentieth century is traced and discovered in the works of Vítězslav Nezval and Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic. Along with the inspiration drawn from the gothic novel goes the literary background particular for each author - surrealism (Nezval) and decadence (Karásek). Despite the gothic novel balancing on the edge of the trivial, its position in the literary tradition has been stable for several hundreds of years. It has affected many other genres which have carried on its tradition until today.
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Facing the loss: Loss figures in the postwar central european literature
Petránková, Michaela ; Činátlová, Blanka (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee)
My paper will focus upon the theme of loss in postwar Central European literature in works of Nabokov, Bachmann, Bernhard, Handke, Esterhazy, and Chwin, which are narrated as a modern subject's testimony of loss. My goal is to make a collection of loss figures (inspired by Roland Barthes's Fragments of a Lover's Discourse) to examine the nature of testimony in relation to the acts of writing. Any analytical inquiry that focuses itself on the literary testimony as a work of art will have to deal with these textual mechanisms: transparency, suppression, deleting, distancing, turning over, heaviness and reduction.
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The conception of hero in fantasy literature
Zbiejczuková, Irena ; Vaněk, Václav (advisor) ; Činátlová, Blanka (referee)
ZBIEJCZUKOVÁ, I. The conception of hero in fantasy literature. Diploma thesis. Prague: ÚČLLV FF UK, 2010-2011. This diploma thesis deals with typology of heroes and heroins in fantasy literature, with special regard to heroic quest from the point of view of literally composition. One part of the thesis applies to the defition and history of fantasy genre in both anglo-saxon and czech environment. The thesis therefore uses and cites both czech and foreign fantasy literally works. The aim of the thesis is to point to archetypical neomythic structure of fantasy texts and to their tendency to recreate heroism using particular examples of fantasy literature.
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30 cases of major Zeman (film version and short stories based on the film) and its aspects of mythization
Hřibová, Tereza ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Činátlová, Blanka (referee)
This thesis aims to analyze a number of mythmaking procedures in the narratives of major Zeman. Its main sources are both the TV series "30 Cases of Major Zeman" and the later adaptations o some of these cases into literary form. The thesis draws inspiration primarily from the theoretical concept of modern mythologies by Roland Bathes, the available analysis of the ideological discourse of normalization and the basic terminology of cultural studies. Its goal is to recognize various mechanisms of signification that embed symbolic meanings that establish the secondary mythical level of individual subjects. The interpretative part of the text focuses on an analysis of the modes of representation of "enemies" and the problematization of allusion and intertextuality as mythmaking instruments.
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Mythology of the body
Činátlová, Blanka ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee)
Toto poněkud velkorysé (ostatně to k žánru - mýtu, nikoli snad diplomové práce - patří) putování napříč časem i prostorem si na počátku kladlo za cíl hledat přítomnost a význam těla a tělesného v mýtickém vyprávění. Pokud přijmeme fenomenologický kontext těla jako mezního horizontu lidského pobytu ve světě a Neubaurovu charakteristiku mýtu jako příběhu, který nás slaďuje se světem a současně nás v něm zabydluje, pak nemůžeme nalézt sobě bližší témata než je právě mythos a tělo. Jako určující princip mýtické tělesnosti se ukázala především zjevnost. Ve všech třech stěžejních kontextech funguje mýtické tělo jako symbol. Ba co víc, ukazuje původní sílu tradičně chápaného symbolu. Dnes máme kvůli (nebo možní díky) zkušenosti moderního, symbolistního umění vnímat symbolické sdělení jako cosi co odkazuje buď na něco nejednoznačného nebo mnohoznačného. Původně však označoval symbol části celku, dvě poloviny rozlomeného předmětu (řecky "symbal1ein" - házím dohromady, spojuji). Spojením obou částí mohl tento symbol sloužit jako poznávací znamení; vlastník jedné části se prokázal jako posel, host, ztracený příbuzný. Symbol tedy v tomto kontextu funguje jako znamení sestávající ze dvou částí, které je viditelné až po spojení obou částí v jeden celek. Právě tímto způsobem bychom měli číst význam těla v mýtických...
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Superman: The Semantics, Evolution Poetics and Socio-cultural Specificities of the Superhero Comics.
Cibulčík, Jaroslav ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Činátlová, Blanka (referee)
This bachelor thesis considers the genre of superhero comics since its appearance in 1938 to the present time. The thesis, according to chosen comic books, tries to generally describe and interpret superhero discourse, in particular the evolution and various specificities. The main focus is on the comics narrativity and primary aspects of narration (narrator, intertextuality, characters, time of story). There is no analysis touching visual comics aspects. The only exception - the last chapter - examines the impressive evolution poetics of the title-pages.
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James Bond: the film series analysed from the point of narrative mythmaking
Pensdorfová, Olga ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Činátlová, Blanka (referee)
The diploma thesis James Bond: The Film Series Analysed from the Point of Narrative Mythmaking analyses the use of the verbal narrative categories in the film narrative, namely the film series with James Bond. It researches structure, story, types of characters and fictional worlds in these film narratives. The thesis shows that the composition of this narrative is based above all on the seriality principles. It also focuses on the film series with James Bond as a productive example of mythmaking via analyses of the ideological principles function within these narratives.
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