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Feminism and femininity in the poems of Alfonsina Storni
Brányiková, Katarína ; Poláková, Dora (advisor) ; Sánchez Fernández, Juan Antonio (referee)
The work focuses on the work of Argentinean author Alfonsina Storni, especially in connection with the new wave of feminism at the beginning of the 20th century. The chosen topic will be set in a wider context, including social conditions, political situation and society's opinions of female authors at the beginning of the twentieth century in Latin America. All these factors will then be used in a detailed analysis of the author's verses. The aim of the work is to define the style of Alfonsina Storni and, based on the content of her poems, to get an overview of her femininity, her relationship to men and how she succeeded in linking modernism with feminism. To all this I will also add the differences between feminism in the life of Alfonsina Storni and the one of today. All this on the basis of her work. Key words: Alfonsina Storni, poetry, feminism, Argentina.
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La Lozana andaluza and the Literary Canon
Holub, Jiří ; Sánchez Fernández, Juan Antonio (advisor) ; Bellón Aguilera, José Luis (referee) ; Prokop, Josef (referee)
The theme of the dissertation is the important piece of 16th century Spanish prose, Retrato de la Lozana andaluza (Portrait of Lozana: The Lusty Andalusian Woman) by Francisco Delicado. Published anonymously in Venice around the year 1530, it fell into obscurity for the next three hundred years. The only known copy was discovered in the middle of the 19th century in Vienna. Over the next hundred and fifty years this literary curiosity gradually became recognized as an integral part of the Spanish literary canon. Still, the research of La Lozano andaluza continues to feature blank spaces and unresolved issues, and is at the same time characterized by its conflicting nature and the absence of a generally accepted consensus. The introduction of the thesis summarizes and evaluates the state and condition of present-day research and outlines the general problems of the literary canon and its exploration through the concept of a philological field. The aim of the first part of the thesis is to present all verified editing data and to focus on those aspects of the work that have been neglected. These include the typography and iconography of the original publication, the narrative structure and the overview and nature of the general meaning-making principles. Delicado's peculiar use of language, his...
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The Concept of Utopia in the Work of Alejo Carpentier
Mištríková, Jana ; Housková, Anna (advisor) ; Sánchez Fernández, Juan Antonio (referee)
The goal of this master's thesis was to focus on the presence of utopia in three works written by the Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier The Lost Steps (Los pasos perdidos), Explosion in a Cathedral (El siglo de las luces) and The Kingdom of this World (El reino de este mundo). It has been defined the characteristics of utopia as a literary genre, which have been subsequently applied to the novels mentioned above. The study devoted to the novel The Lost Steps was the most detailed one. Attention was also paid to writer's perceptions of Latin America through "marvelous real".
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Instinct and Society in Emilia Pardo Bazán's novels
Melmuková, Tereza ; Sánchez Fernández, Juan Antonio (advisor) ; Krátká, Tereza (referee)
(in English) The aim of this work is to analyze the selected aspects of the novel The House of Ulloa and The Mother Nature. The chosen aspects represent the motive of society and the motive of instinct. Thus, the thesis focuses on the description of the situations that arise from these two motives and subsequently tries to analyze them. This process relies on the movement of naturalism and the application of its methods explains the analyzed situations. It takes into account the different concepts of this movement that have been acquired in the country of the author of the novels in some aspects of different values than in the country from which the movement originated. This work first describes the basic characteristics of naturalism, briefly introduces the biographical data of the author of the novels, and then shortly introduces the analyzed novels that serve for a better orientation in the subject. That allows us to reach the core part of this work, namely the description and the analysis of the interactions between the motives of instinct and nature.
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Woman in post-war spanish literature: Nothing and Diamante Square
Daniššová, Alexandra ; Sánchez Fernández, Juan Antonio (advisor) ; Zaťko, Roman (referee)
DANIŠŠOVÁ, Alexandra: Woman in post-war literature: Nothing and Diamond square. [Bachelor thesis]. - Charles University. Faculty of Arts; Department of Romance studies. Hispanic studies. - Supervisor: doc. Juan Antonio Sánchez Fernández, Ph.D. Prague: FF UK, 2017. pp. 63 The theme of this bachelor thesis is a female character in Spanish post-war literature. The thesis concentrates on two significant works of this period: Nothing from an author Carmen Laforet and Diamond square, written by Mercé Rodoreda. Firstly, the thesis is dedicated to clarification of literary-historical context of Catalan and Spanish literature in which both novels emerge. It also points to historical-political situation as a background of narration of the novels. Secondly it examines female post-war literature with its representative authors from a global view. Further, it turns its attention to biographies of the authors as their novels contain autobiographical features. In the end, it analyses main characters of the novels from women's point of view that are tied up by social conventions and a patriarchal dictate. It shows women's everyday reality in its unidealized form where women are trying to find their place within a men's world. Key words Post-war literature; civil war; woman; conventions; society; emancipation;...
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Rosalía and Bécquer: intimate Romanticism
Stašová, Veronika ; Sánchez Fernández, Juan Antonio (advisor) ; Zatlkajová, Katarína (referee)
The thesis analyses the main themes in Rosalía de Castro's poetry (especially in her collections of poems Cantares gallegos, Follas novas and En las orillas del Sar) and Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer's Rimas, aiming to reveal both similarities and differences between them. First it situates the authors in the historical and literary context of the 19th century and goes on to discuss the major events of their lives that may have influenced their oeuvre. Then it offers detailed analyses of the key themes (love, death, loneliness, pain, nature, daydreaming). Each chapter is devoted to one of these topics and is meant to demonstrate the authors' attitudes to them by closely examining particular passages from their poetry. The last part deals with a comparison of the two poet's views.
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The theme of honour in Don Quixote
Novotná, Soňa ; Sánchez Fernández, Juan Antonio (advisor) ; Doležalová, Barbora (referee)
The topic of the present Bachelor thesis is honour, in particular its two facets that are distinguished in Spanish by the terms "honor" and "honra", in the Spanish Golden Age, and specifically as described in two works of art - the novella The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities by an anonymous author, and the novel The history of the valorous and wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. The aim is to describe how this social topic is mirrored in these two texts, and how the authors treat it. The first part of my work describes the historical context and social climate, the perception of "honor" and "honra" in the Golden Age. The second part is devoted to capturing the reflection of this theme in either work of art.
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"Sentimentalism" in the short stories of Leopoldo Alas "Clarín" (the reception of Arthur Schopenhauer)
Koubská, Kateřina ; Sánchez Fernández, Juan Antonio (advisor) ; Poláková, Dora (referee)
This thesis studies the relationship between Leopoldo Alas "Clarín" and German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, and examines how it is reflected in Clarín's literary work. This paper focuses primarily on his short stories. It comments on Schopenhauer's pessimistic philosophy, contemplates its influence over Spanish background and subsequently investigates how Clarín approaches the pessimistic philosophy and Schopenhauer himself. The object of this thesis is to prove, that Schopenhauer's perception had significant effect on Clarín's philosophical development, which is also reflected considerably in his stories and novels. In the analysis which is based on particular extracts from the work of both authors, the paper observes analogical thoughts in genuine Schopenhauerian topics such as: will, representation, time, transience, pain, boredom, solitude, love, compassion or art (music). At the same time it points out the fact, that the concurrence with Schopenhauer is the strongest in those stories in which the author displays exceptional deal of empathy with the endless pain of the human race. This study finds the key to Clarín's "sentimentalism" in this very honest compassion.
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Courtly Love in the context of ludic elements of courtly culture (Cantigas de Santa Maria and the troubadour chansonnier R)
Jaluška, Matouš ; Hrbata, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Nejedlý, Martin (referee) ; Sánchez Fernández, Juan Antonio (referee)
1./1 Courtly Love in the context of ludic elements of courtly culture (Cantigas de Santa Maria and the troubadour chansonnier R) Matouš Jaluška Abstract Dissertation Courtly Love in the context of ludic elements of courtly culture (Cantigas de Santa Maria and the troubadour chansonnier R) strives to refine on the common notion that the me- dieval courtly poetry is a kind of game. It is based in the tradition of thinking about playing, which is based on the essay Homo ludens of Johan Huizinga and continues through works of Roger Cailloise, Jacques Henriot and Eugen Fink to the current trend of Game Studies. Close reading of the authorities in the introductory chapter shows that each of them assigns an im- portant role to the notion of discontinuity or rupture that enables them to establish the game as a non-binding and safe world. The concept of troubadour poetic creation as a safe activity is explored in the second chapter based on the works of the two founding figures of the trouba- dour tradition, Guilhem de Peitieu ("the Count of Poitiers") and Marcabru. The comparison shows that the safety of troubadour poetry is closely connected with the idea of binding or non-binding language. Binding speech is strongly linked to the image of female power and the ability of women to breed offspring and thus to keep...
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The Influence of European Tradition on the Culture of Spanish America in the Essays of A. Reyes and P. Henríquez Ureña
Lukešová, Alice ; Poláková, Dora (referee) ; Sánchez Fernández, Juan Antonio (referee)
This thesis focuses on the transformation of European tradition in the multicultural Hispanic America, as reflected in the essays of Alfonso Reyes and Pedro Henríquez Ureña. The first part is devoted to the theory of essay. It analyzes utopia as a way of thinking, not a literary genre and gives an overview of the life of artists and their collaboration in Ateneo de la Juventud. The second part deals with selected essays. Different topics are divided into three areas.The first area deals with the specific way of the Spanish colonization of the Americas and concerns the attitude, which the newly created states adopted to that heritage. The second area focuses on the interconnection between the Hispanomerican culture and the European tradition; influence, transformation and new forms, which European culture receives in Hispanic America; questions related to European cultural heritage (imitate or create?); creating a distinctive culture; universalism and cultural synthesis. The third area is directed into the future. It highlights the importance of culture where the greatest sense of belonging among the countries is felt and stresses the demand to restore humanities in education. Finally, it demonstrates the maturity of American culture, which is not a mere imitator of Europe, but enriches the...
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