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Readers in the interent communities
Košinská, Eva ; Trávníček, Jiří (advisor) ; Piorecký, Karel (referee)
This MA thesis deals with the readers of internet literary servers in the Czech context. This topic is not thoroughly dealt with in secondary literature; therefore we will base our research mainly on observation of the problem. In the first part of the thesis, we will give account of the three most prominent Czech literary servers - Totem, Pismak and Literra. First of all, we will explain their historical genesis and differences which exist among them. Next, we will concentrate more generally on the advantages and disadvantages of publishing online and on the life of an internet community. We will present the ways of publishing on the internet and the level of its criticism. We will try to define terms such as "internet literature" and "graphomania". Finally, we will introduce some of the members of the new generation of authors, who originally began publishing on a literary server and now have their first successful publication in print. In the second part of the thesis, we will present the results of our survey, which was responded by students of the faculty of arts, authors publishing on literary servers and Czech writers. We will try to interpret their views on internet-based literature. This type of literature is regarded with general distrust and we will attempt to explain the reasons for it. To...
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Paratexts to Non-Linear Media Texts: Paratextuality in Video Games Culture
Švelch, Jan ; Dvořák, Tomáš (advisor) ; Slussareff, Michaela (referee) ; Piorecký, Karel (referee)
Paratexts to Non-Linear Media Texts: Paratextuality in Video Game Culture Jan Švelch Abstract The thesis explores paratextuality in the video game culture. This concept coined in 1982 by Gérard Genette in the context of literary publishing has been throughout the last thirty-five years adopted by other fields, including television and film studies, and game studies. However, the recent appropriations of the paratextual framework significantly deviate from its original conceptualization and cause terminological confusion. Still, paratextuality has the potential to provide a unique insight into cultural practices across various cultural industries, including video games. Figuratively described as a threshold, the concept of paratextuality deals with often overlooked elements of media ecosystems, such as promotional materials or instruction manuals. In the thesis, I present a thorough critical review of the current state of paratextual research. Due to its unsatisfactory state, I propose an updated paratextual framework, which builds on the theoretical foundations of textual transcendence. Its more practical dimensions then acknowledge the cultural specificities of the video game cultural industry. In the empirical part of the thesis, I focus on video game trailers and analyze both their formal qualities as...
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Readers in the interent communities
Košinská, Eva ; Piorecký, Karel (referee) ; Trávníček, Jiří (advisor)
This MA thesis deals with the readers of internet literary servers in the Czech context. This topic is not thoroughly dealt with in secondary literature; therefore we will base our research mainly on observation of the problem. In the first part of the thesis, we will give account of the three most prominent Czech literary servers - Totem, Pismak and Literra. First of all, we will explain their historical genesis and differences which exist among them. Next, we will concentrate more generally on the advantages and disadvantages of publishing online and on the life of an internet community. We will present the ways of publishing on the internet and the level of its criticism. We will try to define terms such as "internet literature" and "graphomania". Finally, we will introduce some of the members of the new generation of authors, who originally began publishing on a literary server and now have their first successful publication in print. In the second part of the thesis, we will present the results of our survey, which was responded by students of the faculty of arts, authors publishing on literary servers and Czech writers. We will try to interpret their views on internet-based literature. This type of literature is regarded with general distrust and we will attempt to explain the reasons for it. To...
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The Work of Libuše Moníková in the Context of Contemporary Czech Literature
Zikmundová, Martina ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Piorecký, Karel (referee)
Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit Libuše Moníková, ihrem Werk und dessen Wahrnehmung in dem sowohl deutschen, als auch tschechischen Kontext. Während sie in Deutschland als anerkannte und auch bekannte Schriftstellerin angesehen wird, muss man lediglich konstatieren, dass sie in ihrer Heimat solche Anerkennung immer noch nicht gefunden hat. Das hängt auch damit zusammen, dass es lange fast keine Übersetzungen ihrer Werke ins Tschechische gegeben hat. Nach Deutschland ist sie nach dem Jahre 1968 noch als völlig unbekannte Frau gegangen; dort hat sie zuerst auf tschechisch mit ihrer literarischen Tätigkeit begonnen, bald ist sie jedoch auf das deutsche, das ihr grö3ere Distanz zu den behandelten Themen anbietete, übergangen. Sie ist Autorin von mehreren von der Kritik hoch geschätzten Prosa-Werken, von denen vor allem Die Fassade hervorragt (in zwölf Sprachen übersetzt). Daneben hat sie auch eine Menge von Essays geschrieben, die mit ihrer Prosa-Tätigkeit eng zusammenhängen. Ihr Prosa-Werk hat einen starken autobiographischen Charakter. Die Autorin beschäftigt sich fast ausschlie31ich mit ihrer Heimat: eine wichtige Rolle spielt ihre Geschichte (vor allem Jahre 1938 und 1968 als Jahre des "Verrats"), eine typische Figur ist ein tschechischer Exulant und Intelektueller, der durch die Welt zieht und keine Ruhe...
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The young poetry of the 1990s
PIORECKÝ, Karel
The submitted work is oriented towards the writing of young poets who made their authorial debuts into literary communication in the 1990s. It regards the creation of authors unburdered by experience with the cutural politics valid before November 1989, and therefore creation born in the complicated context of the post-totalitarian cultural situation in which very different traditions were combined, including traditions which were banned from public communication during the previous decades. Parallel with this process the young poetry of the 1990s was born, whose character was inevitably marked by the period interest in everything from the past that had been until recently forbidden. The work begins with an independent chapter devoted to the literary-critrical reception of young poetry in the 1990s. Aspects analyzed include the language, framework of values, criteria and expectations which were valid for contemporary literary criticism of young poetry in the 1990s. It is demonstrated that the key question for young poetry to answer was the question of what traditions it should draw upon in the changed and democratized cultural and social conditions. Expectations were oriented in the direction of the past, towards a connection with one of the worthy and newly non-proscribed traditions, rather than towards a neo-avantgarde seach for new expressive registers. The subsequent three chapters follow three expressive currents within the framework of young poetry of the 1990s {--} spiritual poetry, objective poetry and imaginative poetry. Analytical and interpretational explorations of these three currents are linked by a common point of view, which is a focus on the lyrical subject and the form of its stylization. This methodological point of departure leans on Červenka's theory of the the lyric subject, to which is devoted the independent theoretically oriented chapter in the introductory part of the work. This unified focus of attention on the lyric subject made it possible in the conclusion of this work to create a typology of the form of the lyric subject and to follow basic tendencies characteristic for subjectivity in the young poetry of the 1990s. It was demonstrated that the young poetry of the 1990s was willing to accept the three traditional lyrical modes and expressive registers, but it removes from them any kind of programmatic and ideological accents. Traditional lyrical modes, after their transplantation into a post-totalitarian and also post-modern situation, stop being part of a master narrative and therefore their original metanarrative character is eliminated (from spiritual poetry the explicit confessionality is lost, imaginative poetry removes surrealistic revolutionarity and psychologism, the poetry of objectivity eliminates the pathos regarding necessary developmental change, with it this lyrical mode was applied by Skupina 42). Traditions therefore do not continue to evolve in their original forms, but are selectively used with a view to the current state of culture and thought.
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Resonances of Mácha. Fourth Congress of World Czech Literary Studies: Other Czech Literature (?)
Piorecký, Karel ; Křivánek, Vladimír ; Charypar, Michal ; Fořt, Bohumil ; Hrbata, Zdeněk ; Ibrahim, Robert ; Koten, Jiří ; Sládek, Ondřej ; Sgallová, K. ; Šerlaimova, S. ; Berkes, T. ; Budagova, L. ; Čolakova, Ž. ; Galmiche, X. ; Grigorov, D. ; Melnyčenko, I. ; Procházka, M. ; Valcerová, A.
Arranged every five years at the initiative of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Institute of Czech Literature, the congress brought together some 150 researchers from all over the world this year. Discussions over “otherness” in Czech literature were divided into four subject areas. In view of the anniversary of Karel Hynek Mácha’s birth in 2010, one of the proceedings was called Resonances of Mácha. The studies included in this collection focus primarily on the work of poets and prose writers whose work forms part of Mácha’s legacy and derives inspiration from him. Another way to understand the importance of Mácha’s work is offered by contributions that place it in the context of European and particularly Central European romanticism. The opportunity also presents itself to consider the influence of interpretations of his texts on the formation of Prague literary studies structuralism.
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