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The Composition of Three Novels by Jan Otčenášek
Soukupová, Veronika ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
This bachelor thesis concerns with the composition of selected novels by Jan Otčenášek. It tries to demonstrate author's homogeneous method of arranging the actions, which lead from exposition, a hero's crisis and a following act to a shift in his opinion and lastly to his final attitude. Besides the common constructing principles, the thesis also reflects features which enrich his later works. The applied interpretative and analytical method is based on a briefly described definition of the term composition.
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Changes of Poetics in Josef Topol's Literary Works
Horník, Ondřej ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
1 This bachelor thesis analyses several major topics across the dramatic works of Josef Topol. It mainly deals with conflicts of worldviews of main characters of each play and explores similarities in these worldviews across Topol's plays. It examines the consistency of words and deeds of the characters in relation their attitudes. It shows gradual shift of Topol's focus from conflicts of the individual with society to relationships between characters themselves. The thesis hereby aims to prove that the playwright is exploring his topics increasingly, as time passes, as universal human themes and not as specific conflicts of particular persons determined by their place in society. It also shows that the pessimism present in the artist's late works may be only partially attributed to his forced displacement from active cultural life; roots of this pessimism are present even in his early works.
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National identity in the Czech contemporary drama
Bábková, Markéta ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
The goal of the master thesis "National identity in contemporary Czech theatre plays" is to analyse some chosen features of the contemporary Czech national identity based on examples from texts written by David Drábek and Miroslav Bambušek. In the first part, some basic categories are interpreted, that create the Czech identity, from the historical and sociological point of view. The chosen features of the Czech identity are analysed in the second part with regard to the theatre plays by two authors mentioned above. A summary of these features follows, as well as a characteristics of the tools both authors use to interpret topics related to this master thesis.
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Innovative Historical Novels in the Sixties
Fürstová, Alena ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Hošna, Jiří (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to explore the author's approach to the past in selected innovative historical novels in the Sixties. The subject of analysis is the novel by Karel Michal Čest a sláva and Oldřich Daněk Král utíká z boje. The thesis examines how the authors' approach to the past influences various components of their work, mainly the composition, approach to language and style and creation of characters. Key words: historical novel, Sixties, Karel Michal, Oldřich Daněk
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Construction of the novel by Josef Škvorecký Obyčejné životy
Horák, Ondřej ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
(in English): The aim of this thesis is to observe the composition of Josef Škvorecký' s novel Obyčejné životy (Ordinary Lives). The backbone of the novel is the division of the whole text into two time-distinguished narrative zones (the narrator's present and past). The thesis readers' attention is also drawn in the third section of the book called "Notes and Explanatory Notes". Not only does the thesis focus the use of the italics in the book and other highlighted texts throughout the whole novel but it also analyzes its use in other masterpieces (Sedmiramenný svícen - The Menorah, Příběh inženýra lidských duší - The Engineer of Human Souls, Scherzo Capriccioso - Dvorak in Love, Nevěsta z Texasu - The Bride of Texas). The specific non-exhaustive examples of the use of the six types of the italics are implemented into the assessment.
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Anti-Semitic Reviews Vlajka and Národní republika
Borůvková, Marianna ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
Summary: The bachelor thesis deals with the anti-Semitic journals Vlajka and Národní republika between the years 1933 and 1938. It focuses on the negative stereotypes of Jews and forms of their depiction and evaluation (expressive style, allusiveness, generalization, escalation of contrasts, comparison with animals etc.). The bachelor thesis follows and describes the development of anti-Semitic stereotypes in the above mentioned period in relation with Nazi movement in Germany. Key words: anti-Semitism, Image of a Jew, Thirties of 20th Century
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Stanislav Zedníček: The Miserable Seeker
Čeplová, Miroslava ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
This work, focusing on the person of Stanislav Zedníček, delineates poet's position in literal context of his and so of our time through study of extant documents, correspondence and other archives. The aim of this work is also to found specifics of Zedníček's poetry and to relate his work with group of authors like Jakub Deml, Vladimír Holan, František Halas, Jan Čep, Jan Zahradníček and Jaroslav Durych.
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The Anti-Semitic Stereotypes and the review Arijský boj
Matějková, Anna ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to explore the role of anti-Semitic stereotypes in Czech literature, in anti-Semitic propaganda particularly in the Thirties and the Forties of the 20th century especially in review Arijský boj and some of the same topic reviews. It is aimed at the anti- Semitic point of view in works of Jan Neruda, Jakub Deml and Jaroslav Durych and at anti- Semitic stereotypes such are Jews the Murderers, the Tempters, the Usurers, the Conspirators and the Eternal Jew. Keywords: stereotypes, anti-Semitism in literature, review Arijský boj
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The Detective Trilogy of Josef Škvorecký
Bálková, Anna ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to find out how the central character Josef Borůvka in books Smutek poručíka Borůvky, Konec poručíka Borůvky a Hříchy pro pátera Knoxe approximates an ideal of The Big detective. The central character of novels was compared with the characteristics of The Big detective who was described in the secondary sources. In the second part of the thesis, the literature works are compared with the films. The results show that lieutenant Borůvka can be considered The Big detective, however, there are some differences. The thesis discovers that Josef Škvorecký as an author of these Czech literature works made a literature type of the detective who is popular in the world literature and he meets the requirements for the detective genre. Keywords Josef Škvorecký, detective genre, lieutenant Borůvka, Big detective, trails
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In The Light of Kabbalah: Jewish Mistique in Polish Literature in The Interwar Period
Benešová, Michala ; Poslední, Petr (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee) ; Sobotková, Marie (referee)
Thesis In the Light of Kabbalah: Jewish Mystique in Polish Literature in the Interwar Period deals with different models of reflection of Jewish religious and mystical tradition in the Polish interwar literature (on the example of three authors representing different ways of perceiving their own Jewish roots as well as the processing of themes based on the tradition of Jewish mysticism). Aleksander Wat, originally a futurist, was critical of the Jewish religious tradition - but still cannot his own "Jewishness" escape; prose writer Bruno Schulz offers an unique vision of cosmogony and eschatology reminiscent of - besides other things - selected concepts of Kabbalah; Bolesław Leśmianʼs relationship to this tradition is the looses, but on the other hand his method of working with motives which can interpreted in the context of the Jewish religious tradition is very original. Literary work of all three - as the heirs to the "people of the Book" - is marked by a specific relationship to language and the written word. In addition to this theme we deal with e.g. the Golem motive, the idea of the creation of the world or the idea of God. These analytical chapters are preceded by a theoretical and methodological introduction based on the traditions of literary hermeneutics, but also on selected concepts of...
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