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Ladislav Klíma. His Reception in Czech Culture
Klíma, Matěj ; Vojtěch, Daniel (advisor) ; Kosák, Michal (referee) ; Málek, Petr (referee)
The thesis deals with the reception of Ladislav Klíma's work and personality in Czech culture. It is divided into four sections. In the first one we focus on the reactions to his work during his lifetime. In addition to the reflection on the plays and published books, we also follow small magazine polemics and partially explain the biographical background of published books. In the second section we examine the changes in the perception of Klíma after his death in 1928 until 1948. We present reviews of posthumously published books, obituaries and key interpretations of Klíma's thought. We examine the relations of avant-garde artists to Klíma and the personalities who significantly influenced the fate of his work. The third part presents reflections on Klíma's work after the communist coup in 1948 until the revolution in 1989. We look at the efforts to eradicate the author's name from cultural consciousness, marxist interpretations of his thought, the prominent authors of Czech literature who were influenced by him, interpretations from the 1960s, and the reception of his work in the alternative culture in the 1970s and 1980s. In the final section, we examine the situation of Klíma's reception after 1989, disputes over the approach to publishing Klíma's texts, selected interpretations and...
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The Genesis of Ladislav Grosman's Novel Z pekla štěstí and its Interpretation
Janošík, Milan ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Kosák, Michal (referee)
The thesis deals with five successively emerging versions of Ladislav Grosman's novel Lucky as Hell (Z pekla štěstí), which were created between 1979 and 1980: Border (Hranice), How I was smuggled into Hungary (Jak jsem byl propašován do Maďarska), the third untitled version, The smallest refugee in the world (Nejmenší uprchlík světa) and Lucky as Hell (Z pekla štěstí). Based on the professional literature of Oldřich Králík, Miroslav Červenka and Milan Jankovič dedicated to the study of versions and variants, this work will confront individual texts in terms of language and style, theme, gradual changes of selected characters, composition and scope of individual versions and narration. The goal will be the interpretation of this hitherto little-known novel in the context of a naive child narrator and Shoah-themed literature taking place in Slovakia. The subject of this work will also be the monitoring of the changes of the narrator and his premature coming of age on the basis of a violently terminated childhood. We will also focus on prominent motifs that pervade this work (e.g. fear, death, love, guilt) and we will also mention the elements of humor that are present in the novel.
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Jiří Weil's Life and Work after 1939
Hříbková, Hana ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Špirit, Michael (referee) ; Kosák, Michal (referee)
The dissertation summarises the life and work of renowned Czech Jewish writer, translator, journalist and scientist Jiří Weil (1900-1959) in the reference period 1939-1959. It presents the results of research conducted in more than twenty, both domestic and foreign archives (Literary Archive of the Museum of National Literature, Security Services Archive, National Archive, Archive of the Jewish Museum in Prague, Beroun Archive, Central Military Archive, Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History and others), accompanied by the accounts of selected eyewitnesses, placing events in a narrower historical context and presenting the life and work of Jiří Weil from a hitherto unknown perspective. Based on surviving archival material, Jiří Weil is presented not only as a hitherto well-known prosaist, but also as a translator of Polish and Hebrew, a poet, playwright, scientist and editor of a world-famous non-literary work that became the inspiration for other artistic transpositions (e.g. a play, film), Dětské kresby na zastávce k smrti 1942-1945 (Children's Drawings and Poems. Terezín 1942-1945). Brief analyses of the writer's selected published works, written and published in the reference period from 1939 to 1959, as well as unpublished works not yet known to the public, are also examined in a...
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On contemporary editions of Peter Bezruč's works
Kosák, Michal ; Flaišman, Jiří
Our contribution is based on the material revision during the editorial preparation of the Critical hybrid edition of Silesian songs. In addition, this article informs about new-found authorial manuscripts, losses, and deficits in archival treatments. The article focuses on the further steps in the publication of Bezruč’s work. These goals will have been presented in the new prepared correspondence edition incorporated in the publication of Silesian songs Critical hybrid edition on the internet and the anthology of reflections on Bezruč.
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Collected Works of Jan Patočka as an Editorial Problem
Petruželková, Adéla ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Brabec, Jiří (referee) ; Kosák, Michal (referee)
The dissertation thesis Collected Works of Jan Patočka as an Editorial Problem deals with both the samizdat and the printed versions of the collected works of Czech philosopher Jan Patočka (1907 - 1977) and other domestic as well as foreign editions of his work. The Archival Collection of Jan Patočka's Work emerged as the side product, to some extent uncoordinated and intuitive, of the sorting of the author's legacy in the years 1977 - 1989. Nevertheless, the 27 volumes of this unpublished edition represent a fully-fledged attempt to organize a critical edition of Patočka's collected works. At the end of the 1980's, an exile edition was intended, as the outcome of the cooperation of domestic, exiled and foreign community of researchers. The post-revolution Collected Works of Jan Patočka have been published since 1996 and, contrary to the previous series, represent a re-arranged and amended edition. The paper follows the process of scientific reflection, which has accompanied the edition of Patočka's works (both edition series were assembled by the same editorial team of Patočka's disciples.) We describe the use of thematic, chronological and other criteria in the course of the organization of the collected works, the transformation and scope of editorial commentaries, especially when dealing with the areas...
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Samizdat in terms of textology and editorial work
Fučíková, Zuzana ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Kosák, Michal (referee)
The thesis examines the production of the Czechoslovak samizdat "edition" of the 70's and 80's of the 20th century. It focuses mainly on textual and editorial care given to samizdat typescripts. The first part describes the samizdat self-reflection in the articles from the typewritten periodical Kritický sborník from the 80's. The second part engages in samizdat Edice Expedice and examines how its production was processed by publishers under publishing conditions after the year 1989. It analyzes mainly two aspects - handling with samizdat sources described in editorial comments, possibly what it means for the textual quality of samizdat publications, and if the authentic literary historical context of the works is properly conveyed in the new published books. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Oldřich Králík, textual critic and editor (based on Bezruč material)
Kosák, Michal ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee) ; Opelík, Jiří (referee)
Based on Bezruč material, the present thesis entitled Oldřich Králík, Textual Critic and Editor chronologically follows the establishing and development of textological concepts and editorial approaches ofthe said scholar. The central topic is dosely connected with terms of Králík's stratigraphy, synchrony and diachrony, as well as the genetic method. Králík's method is built on temp oral attribution; therefore, the problem of the dating of Bezruč' s work is of crucial importance for the thesis' argument. The thesis also confronts Oldřich Králík' s textological and editorial views with those ofhis opponents. In the series of scholarly disputes, Czech textual criticism defined its subject matter, attempting to define its position within the context of other sciences and humanities, especially linguistics, philology and literary theory, as well as taking its stand in regard to historiography. Simultaneously, fundamental working modes were formulated. Exceeding the home field, the disputes moved to the intemationallevel through the textological/editorial department ofthe Intemational Commitiee ofSlavic Languages. Among others, the debates resulted in the so-called manual of practical text criticism, Editor and Text, published in 1971, which has strongly influenced Czech editorial practice to the present day.
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The possibilities digital edition
Kosák, Michal ; Flaišman, Jiří
This article presents an analysis of the particular features of the digital scholarly edition with regard to the possibilities of presentation, the conception of its organization, methodology, and the tools of editorial work. The article therefore first assesses the relationship between the traditional printed scholarly edition and the digital edition. It then presents an analysis of the topic of the digital publication of a text, and charts out the theoretical and the practical approaches to digital editions, particularly more complicatedly conceived ones, such as databases, archives, and scholarly editions. It does so while bearing in mind the possibilities and limitations of digital publishing. Different types of digital editions are then classified from the perspective of the discipline of editing, and basic terms from the discipline are judged, including the concepts of the choice of urtext, the canonical text, the forms of critical apparatus, and commentary. The article then considers the possibilities of digital processing for the needs of special textual analyses. The article is based on actual experience with the planning and preparing of digital editions, for example, the full-text databases of the Česká elektronická knihovna (Czech digital library) and the Kritické hybridní edice (Critical scholarly editions) — namely, the works of František Gellner (2014) and an electronic edition (2015) of Richard Weiner’s Rozcestí (Crossroads, 1918).
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