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Ana Teresa Pereira: Karen
Tietzová, Anna ; Grauová, Šárka (advisor) ; Válová, Karolina (referee)
This masters thesis focuses on the work of Ana Teresa Pereira, a contemporary Madeiran author, introducing parts of Karen, her most famous novel so far, to the Czech literary audience. The thesis sets Pereira's proses within the Portuguese and world literature context, examines main characteristics of the work and presents key inspirational sources thereof. The work describes specifics of A. T. Pereira's poetics in relation to the genre of fantastic literature and unveils her narrative strategy with respect to the concept of repetition. The focal point of the thesis consists in translations of selected passages of the novel, accompanied by a study analyzing the author's fictional universe and outlining possible interpretations of the text concerned in connection with intersectionist discourse and multiplication of subject.
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Spiritism in Brazil: History and Presence
Puskásová, Lucie ; Grauová, Šárka (advisor) ; Svobodová, Petra (referee)
The present master's thesis deals with the characteristics and development of spiritism in Brazil. It presents the main ideas and a brief overview of the precursors of the spiritist movement. It describes in detail the life and work of Allan Kardec, a representative of modern spiritism, whose work has influenced contemporary Brazilian spiritism. It also deals with historical development and the first researchers in different Brazilian regions. The thesis also overviews the most important representatives, various ways of spreading of this movement, the organization of spiritist centers, constant changes and attempts to unify Brazilian spiritism. It describes the current form of Brazilian spiritism, presents the main mediums and their activities and deals with the charitable activities provided by spiritist centers in Brazil on a large scale.
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Portrayal of female characters in the prose Maiden and Modest by Bernardim Ribeiro
Hrušková, Julie ; Válová, Karolina (advisor) ; Grauová, Šárka (referee)
This bachelor thesis analyses the female characters in the prose Maiden and Modest by the Portuguese Renaissance poet and novelist Bernardim Ribeiro. The novel is shrouded in ambiguity regarding its various editions and surrounded by legends about the author's life. In my thesis, I have focused on the distinct pro-woman perspective that can be observed in Maiden and Modest. The theoretical part of the thesis provides a summary of the historical and literary circumstances of the work's creation, including a chapter on the position of women in European society during the Renaissance. In the methodological part of the thesis there is an outline of the theory of literary character analysis, which I have applied to examine the female characters in the practical part. In it, in addition to a comprehensive comparison of female and male characters, there is also an analysis of the motif and meaning of beauty in the novel. It then concludes with a comparison of Bernardim Ribeiro's depiction of women with the way Renaissance women used to live in Europe and especially in the Iberian Peninsula.
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The Polarity of Good and Evil in Sophie de Mello Breyner Andresen's Exemplary Stories
Roubínková, Sofie ; Válová, Karolina (advisor) ; Grauová, Šárka (referee)
The bachelor's thesis The Polarity of Good and Evil in Sophie de Mello Breyner Andresen's Exemplary Stories is focused mainly on the short stories "Dinner with the Bishop", "Journey" and "Man" from the book Contos Exemplares written in 1962, where the Portuguese writer Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen used medieval exemplum as one of the creative literary methods. However, the thesis also takes into account the author's short stories such as ''Beach" and ''Homer" and tries to define the good and the evil aspects in them, which can be often hard to find. Methodologically, the bachelor's thesis is above all based on the Portuguese study "Para uma Leitura dos Contos Exemplares" (2001) by Clara Rocha and the book Man, Good and Evil (1993) by Erazim Kohák.
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Eça de Queirós and Machado de Assis: a controversy over the novel
Benešová, Adéla ; Grauová, Šárka (advisor) ; Válová, Karolina (referee)
The subject of this bachelor thesis is a criticism of the Brazilian author Machado de Assis, focusing on the novels of Eça de Queirós. First, it is necessary to place both authors in a literary context and briefly characterize their works. The thesis focuses on one of the novels under criticism, Cousin Bazilio, which is described and interpreted. Other chapters deal directly with Machado's criticism. Two critical articles related to the Portuguese novelist's work are presented in depth. The reception of these articles is also included, demonstrating the possible reasons for such severe criticism and the elements that Machado did not mention. The characters in both authors' works are also briefly compared. The thesis also includes the author's own assessment, in which she briefly presents and comments on the findings from the previous chapters.
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The Polarity of Good and Evil in Sophie de Mello Breyner Andresen's Exemplary Stories
Roubínková, Sofie ; Válová, Karolina (advisor) ; Grauová, Šárka (referee)
The bachelor's thesis The Polarity of Good and Evil in Sophie de Mello Breyner Andresen's Exemplary Stories is focused mainly on the short stories "Journey" and "Man" from the book Contos Exemplares written in 1962, where the Portuguese writer Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen used medieval exemplum as one of the creative literary methods. However, the thesis also takes into account the author's short stories such as "Dinner with the Bishop'', ''Beach" and ''Homer" and tries to define the good and the evil aspects in them, which can be often hard to find. Methodologically, the bachelor's thesis is above all based on the Portuguese study "Para uma Leitura dos Contos Exemplares" (2001) by Clara Rocha and the book Man, Good and Evil (1993) by Erazim Kohák.
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Jan Klecanda - Havlasa, his life and relation to Brazil
Kratochvílová, Lucie ; Binková, Simona (advisor) ; Grauová, Šárka (referee)
Jan Havlasa was the first Ambassador of Czechoslovakia to Brazil, a distinguished writer and explorer. The purpose of this thesis is to present the explorer's life. Havlasa visited Slovakia after finishing secondary school, and soon after he travelled also to Italy; Saint Louis, Missouri; or the island of Tahiti. After the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, Havlasa served as the Ambassador of Czechoslovakia to Brazil (1920-1924); in 1943, Czechoslovak president Edvard Beneš called him back into diplomatic service, this time as the Ambassador to Chile. Among his most important formative experiences we can find his membership in the Opium Commission of the League of Nations. Despite the fact that Havlasa spent most of his life abroad, he never relinquished his homeland: he took interest in the situation of Czechoslovakia and fought for its independence on the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. His extensive lecturing activities, as well as his treatise Colonial Policy in Relation to the Great War earned him one year of gaol in Vienna. The thesis also takes into account Havlasa's extensive literary work and his lectures, which took place all over Czechoslovakia and during which he presented his books, photographs and travel experience to his readers and listeners.
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Masculine and feminine view of the Colonial War. (António Lobo Antunes and Lídia Jorge)
Márföldi, Nicole ; Dufková, Vlasta (advisor) ; Grauová, Šárka (referee)
The present thesis, "Masculine and Feminine View of the Colonial War (António Lobo Antunes and Lídia Jorge)" concerns the peculiarity of the masculine and feminine view of the colonial war in Portuguese colonies in Africa. This thesis focuses on two world-wide known novels: Os cus de Judas by António Lobo Antunes and A costa dos murmúrios by Lídia Jorge. The aim is to reveal that the standpoint was influenced by different social status that women and men held in Salazarian Portugal and in the colonial war itself. The introductory section is devoted to a brief summary of the Portuguese history which had a major impact on the contemporary national identity. The era of the Estado Novo, the Colonial War and the Carnation Revolution was outlined. The literary situation in Portugal after the Revolution was also shortly observed. The main part began with the introduction of António Lobo Antunes & Lídia Jorge and listed out their principal writings, concentrating primarily on Os cus de Judas and A costa dos murmúrios. Afterwards the focus turns to the different position of the women and men in the colonial war, comparing how it influenced their respective lives. While Lídia Jorge observes the destructive impact of the war on its surroundings, António Lobo Antunes views the injustice on the personal basis....
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The Rebel in Graciliano Ramos 'prose works
Homolková, Petra ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (advisor) ; Grauová, Šárka (referee)
The main objective of this research is to study the affinities between Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos (1892-1953) and French philosopher and writer Albert Camus (1913-1961). More precisely, we tend to explores the reflections of camusian revolt in three Ramos' prose works: Barren Lives (1938), Anguish (1936) and São Bernardo (1933). The literary and philosophical direction of existentialism is outlined at the beginning of the thesis. Therefore, the first chapter is devoted to an explanation of Camusian existentialism and his philosophical concept of revolt, not only in his philosophical works, but also in his novels. The subsequent chapter focuses on the life and work of Graciliano Ramos. Thereafter the three aforementioned Ramos' novels are analyzed in order to uncover in them motives of existentialism solitude, anguish, revolt against society ─ all of the more or less interlinked by the problem of incommunicability. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Portuguese folklore lyric tetrameter
Henčová, Romana ; Housková, Anna (advisor) ; Grauová, Šárka (referee)
Předmětem této práce je portugalské lidové lyrické čtyřverší,10 jejím cílem je jeho popis formální i obsahový, tedy zkoumání povahy z hlediska vnější i vnitřní struktury textu. Jaké povahy jsou útvary lidové slovesnosti? Jaké jsou jejich charakteristické vlastnosti a čím se liší od literatury umělé? Tyto útvary existují ve formě mluvené i psané. Forma psaná je buď reflexí formy mluvené, či tvoří samostatný korpus, do něhož náleží kramářská literatura a rovněž "folhas volantes" - volně prodejné listy. Forma mluvená je však, dá se říci, formou pro tento druh literatury typickou.
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