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Objects in Modern Lyric
Hankiewicz, Jakub ; Hrdlička, Josef (advisor) ; Pajak, Aleksandra (referee) ; Jareš, Michal (referee)
Objects in Modern Lyric Mgr. Jakub Hankiewicz Abstract At the beginning of the 20th century, there is a shift toward objects in poetry. Traditionally, its beginning is marked by Rilke's New Poems. Everyday objects had been present in poetry before this shift; however, what differed in comparison with previous generations was the way the new tendency portrayed mundane things. This dissertation describes some of the aspects of this change using Bill Brown's theory of objects. The common thread of the work is specific poetic tools that evoke such focus on an object that reveals its mysteriousness and estrangement. A thing is always also something else than what it appears to be in a given moment, and poets use their tools so that the reader experiences this fact while reading poetry about objects. The material for this dissertation is the work of Czech and Polish poets of the 1940s and 1950s. It is a period in which the shift to objects peaks in central European lyric, and it is also obvious across national literatures. Whereas in Poland, authors of this tendency are commonly interpreted in the context of the shift to objects, in the Czech Republic there have not until recently been many studies on poetry about objects. As a side goal, this thesis illustrates manifestations of the tendency of the shift to the...
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The Transformation of Reality by Text
Hankiewicz, Jakub ; Pokorný, Martin (advisor) ; Hrdlička, Josef (referee)
This thesis presents transformation as the key principle of production, as well as reception of a literary text. As far as production is concerned, the thesis takes off from the passing nature of any moment, any element of reality, and it perceives a literary text as a way to save and conserve that element. It is obvious that should the given element of the physical reality - perishable in its true character - survive in a text, it needs to undergo a change, a transformation: what needs to change in order for it to survive? By analyzing authors who discuss this nature of the text in their works, the thesis comes to understanding the production of a text as a discovery of such an environment within the text, which would allow the element of reality to be conserved. As far as reception is concerned, the thesis studies the influence a literary text has on our experience of reality. The problem is not only tackled as a perception of the world via a certain literary work, which was for example the case with the literary characters of Don Quixote or Madame Bovary, but the thesis tries to describe the deep transformation of our perception of reality caused by a poetic outlook on elements of the real world.
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