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"The end of the Nylon age" novella from the year 1950 and its critical edition
Poledňáková, Barbora ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the novella The end of the nylon age written by Josef Škvorecký in 1950. It explores the text from a literary historical, literary theoretical and literary "practical", editorial point of view. After the introduction of author's work in necessary period and factual context the thesis focuses on the iterpretation of the novella, its narrative situation and the resulting structure of the text. The thesis then deals with dialogues and dialogic characteristics of the novella. The closing part pays attention to the textological issues - creating of an annotation system to the book. The novella is being related to other artist's work within each theme throughout the entire thesis.
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"Jesus Kind" Egon Bondy as Bohumil Hrabal's inspiration
Marek, Jakub ; Schmarc, Vít (advisor) ; Špirit, Michael (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with Egon Bondy's influence upon Bohumil Hrabal. First of all it sketches their relationship which was very friendly and which took place mainly in the fifties of the twentieth century. In the next section there is presented in two ways the influence of Egon Bondy on Bohumil Hrabal's literary works. As the first way is intended the influence of Bondy's concept of total realism upon Hrabal's early texts (see especially the story Jarmilka, also e.g. the story Blitzkrieg or the text collage Mrtvomat), the second way shows how was Egon Bondy used as a literary figure by Hrabal (e.g. the story Zamilovaná or prose Něžný barbar). The first point of interest is therefore origination and evolution of mythology of Bondy how it was processed by Hrabal in his proses and poems. Concurrently, this thesis tries to refer to works of other authors in which the Bondy's figure also occurs and then compare it with Hrabal's texts. In next part this thesis deals with Hrabal's inspiration coming from Bondy's poetic method of total realism which served him as a proper way of depiction of "estranged" reality of the fifties.
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Lyrics of so-called normalization period (1970-1977)
Marková, Eva ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee)
The purpose of this bachelor essay is to offer quite complete view to poetry of so-called normalization period, which was in Czechoslovakia published 1970-1977. It is viewed through the reflexion of poetry in the contemporary press (Literární m sí ník, Rudé právo, Tvorba). Theoretically is the essay based on the field theory from P. Bourdieu and it attempts to describe the literary criticism of 70's and its role in the literary life. The bachelor essay contains information about 70's cultural and political situation, which influenced the poets and critics.
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Intertextual Relations in The Engineer of Human Souls
Pácalt, Tomáš ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Špirit, Michael (referee)
The bachelor thesis is based on the analysis of the role writers' images and particular fragments of English and American writers (Poe, Hawthorne, Twaine, Crane, Fitzgerald, Conrad, Lovecraft) have in the novel The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Skvorecky. This relationship is to be interpreted according to the theory of intertextuality with a goal to analyse a value that these intertextual connections have in the Skvorecky novel. The thesis aims at some of the basic themes in The Engineer of Human Souls with a connection to the English and American writers. The thesis also references to the works of Premysl Blazicek. These references should discuss cognitive functions of a work of art.
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Orientace, 1966-1967. Literature, art and criticism.
Děkanovská, Lucie ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
This work discusses the first two years of the magazine Orientace (1966, 1967). It describes how this bimonthly issued magazine works towards outside environment - how it communicates with the public and other magazines and how they react back. It also focuses on describing the structure of the journal - whether it has fixed sections, editors, topics for analysis, what disappeared from the contents during years 1966/67 and on the other hand what was added. The continuous formats of the magazine such as: Kulatý stůl, 1 + 1 = 2, Slovo má..., Kritický metr na metr knih are analysed more in detail. The magazine Orientace itself serves as a main source, next contemporary reactions and criticism in other periodicals and cited professional literature were used. The contribution of this thesis is the enclosure - annotated bibliography of the first two years with the authors and subject index.
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Jiřina Hauková - publicist
Tregerová, Dana ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the journalistic activities of the Czech poet Jirina Haukova in Obzor journal and Lidove newspaper (including magazine Eve) over the period from 1935 to 1942. The text consists of two parts, each of which focuses primarily on the content aspect of the articles. The first part of the work refers to the formal attributes of Haukova's articles, especially regarding the reviews and exceptionally some other journalistic texts. Besides reviews, the focus is exclusively on literary genres. In the second part of the thesis I describe the anchoring of opinion in matters of Dahlias Haukova's views of the matters of modern women behavior. This part also concerns with other specific features that characterize the journalistic activity of Hauková in Lidove newspaper.
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Listy, čtvrtletník pro umění a filosofii 1946-1948 (The History and Development of the Review, bibliography)
Hladík, Jakub ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
The present thesis deals with three volumes of Listy, review for arts and philosophy, edited by Jindřich Chalupecký and, subsequently, co-edited by Jan Grossman and the undisclosed editorial board, published in 1946-48 first as a quarterly, later as a monthly. The main focus of the thesis is on the description of single issues, their analysis, outline of the articles and general depiction of the goals the editorial board attempted to fulfill. Furthermore, the thesis analyzes the contemporary literary context and the place of Listy within it. The thesis also includes the review's annotated bibliography with the author and subject indexes.
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"The Strange Weapons Wielding Polemist." Literary Criticism of Aloys Skoumal.
Beníšková, Edita ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Špirit, Michael (referee)
The present thesis aims to describe and, subsequently, analyze the essayistic oeuvre of Aloys Skoumal, focusing on the author's critical engagement. The prerequisite for such an analysis is a thorough research in Skoumal's articles, essays, prologues, epilogues, editorials and reviews, published in newspapers and journals from the mid1920s to the late 1970s. A substantial part of the thesis is the bibliography of articles, various journal contributions, prologues and epilogues by Aloys Skoumal.
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Representations of the Czech Historical Era of 1950s in Contemporary Czech Literature
Dobrý, Marek ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Špirit, Michael (referee)
The thesis deals with the literary production reflecting the 1950s in Czechoslovakia in terms of books published within the years 2000 to 2010. Based on the dominant discourse's analysis, reflection of this period in print media compares the way discourse penetrates the literary speech and also the way of their contrast. The author, giving the wide cross-section of released books, tries to maintain the opinion that projection of the 1950s is happening thanks to a myth created contrary to the construction myth. For this reason the literary speech is being called the re-mythologization reflection of the 1950s. Another goal of this work is to find neuralgic points of the myth and to decode their function - whether ideological or social. During the mapping of the books concerning in 1950s the attentions is paid to the texts that try to disturb the re-mythologization dominant literary speech described in detail. In connection with a slight representation of resembling texts author attempts to discover the causes of the non-existent need to see a different point of view in history through literature. Key words: 1950s, literary speech, discourse, myth, power, ideology, function
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