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Characters in Vasil Bykav's works
Koliášová, Jana ; Kosáková, Hana (advisor) ; Ulbrechtová, Helena (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with literary analysis of characters in works of Belarusian writer Vasil Bykaŭ. Despite numerous translations, his works are not yet thoroughly researched in czech context. Primary this thesis is focused on contribution of the current narrative analysis which has been neglected. First chapter outlines Bykaŭ's works with emphasis on his approach to shaping the characters in the broader context of the main tendencies of Soviet war literature of the second half of the 20th century. The following chapter explains the most common procedures of the construction of Bykaŭ's characters and describes an analysis of other narrative categories which are essential for complete character modeling. The third chapter focuses on a brief typology of the characters appearing across Bykaŭ's works; in the centre of attention, there are the ways in which the author transforms and enriches the canonical index of socialist realism (war literature) characters.
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The Concept of Magic Realism in Russian and Latin American Literature
Honcová, Kateřina ; Ulbrechtová, Helena (advisor) ; Chlaňová, Tereza (referee)
The work dedicates to the conception of movement of magical realism in Russian literature in the second half of the past century. By way of introduction it defines magical realism from the chronological point of view, the model shape of its expression in Latin American literature in the middle of the past century. Afterwards it compares mentioned part with the schema of period literary scene in USSR and its supposed manifestations of magical fiction. In its analytical part the work by way of crucial storyline's motives of Chingiz Aitmatov's novel The day lasts more than a hundred years characterizes the connection between Kyrgyz author's artistic methods and Latin American literature of magical realism. Especially it concentrates on the polemic question whether it is possible from the formal point of view consider Aimatov's cited novel as a peculiar demonstration of Kyrgyz variant of magical fiction, parallel to paradigm of Latin American magical realism.
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Provocation and breaking the stereotypes in the works of Juriy Vynnychuk
Danylyuk, Myroslava ; Chlaňová, Tereza (advisor) ; Ulbrechtová, Helena (referee)
This bachelor work is devoted to the personality of contemporary Ukrainian writer Yuriy Vynnychuk. Particular attention is focused on that part of his work and his non-literary activities which are characterised by using provocation, mystification and breaking stereotypes. The aim of this thesis is, on the basis of these three key areas, to map all of his works which feature provocative elements, to attempt to create their typology and make a deeper analysis of selected works. The introductory chapter presents a detailed analysis of the current literary process, particularly of the elements that are focused on the destruction of the traditional canon. Based on this analysis Vynnychuk's works are included in the context of the current literature. The main part analyses specific works and Vynnychuk's approach is compared with other authors dealing with similar issues. At the end his exceptionality and contribution to contemporary literature is evaluated.
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Nina Sadur as a playwright
Dvořáková, Iva ; Ulbrechtová, Helena (advisor) ; Ryčlová, Ivana (referee)
The thesis deals with dramatic work of a contemporary Russian author Nina Sadur (writing since the mid-eighties). Its object is to present main features of her poetics primarily by interpretation of two selected plays - Morokob and Milenkii, ryzhenkii. The first play could be conceived as a metaphysic drama. Its analysis pays attention to two mutually connected levels - those of and of . The second play is based on an older Sadur's subject transposed from the former novel to a radio play. The thesis is concerned with the shifts of meaning caused by this transposition as well as with a critical discussion issued in 2003 and titled Who Is the Cute Little Redhead? exploring various layers of meaning of the novel/radio play. The next part summarizes the available secondary literature, specifies the focus of scholar interest, contains the essential bibliographic data of the author as well as the chronology of her dramas and it lastly mentions the issue of her subsumption under one of the literary movements appearing in Russia since the end of the seventies.
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Arkadij Averchenko's humoristic proses
Tománková, Marie ; Kitzlerová, Jana (advisor) ; Ulbrechtová, Helena (referee)
The thesis consists of an analysis of two selected humoristic stories by A. T. Averchenko and a critical discussion of their translations. The aim of the thesis is to compare two relatively new translations of the stories by Alena Moravkova (translation from 1998) and Libor Dvorak (translation from 2005). The attention is mainly given to the means of expressivity in the stories, analysed first in the original and then in the selected translations. The second chapter is devoted to the life and work of A. T. Avercenko. The third chapter is theoretical and focuses on the means of expressivity in colloquial Russian. The following chapters of the thesis draw on theoretical conclusions made in the theoretical chapter. The fourth chapter analyses the original text of the story A Stone on the Neck with a special focus upon the lexical, syntactical and morphological levels of expressivity used in the story. An attention is also given to the sources of humour in the story. The fifth and sixth chapter deal with the translations by A. Moravkova and L. Dvorak respectively. They present a critical discussion of the translations. The discussion is divided into sections dealing with the source of humour in the story and with the lexical, syntactical and morphological aspects of the story. Similar in its structure to the...
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Intepretation possibilities of the last four plays of A. P. Chekhov focused on Chekhov's reflection of Marcus Aurelius' philosophy
Kálalová, Zuzana ; Ulbrechtová, Helena (advisor) ; Nykl, Hanuš (referee)
This diploma paper deals with Memories, the personal writings of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, and their influence on the last four plays of A. P. Chekhov, which are The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. It is insisting on the fact that Chekhov possessed and read an exemplar of Marcus Aurelius' Memories and enriched it with his personal comments and notes. The diploma paper is investigating philosophical schools of stoicism and platonism, the personality of Marcus Aurelius and his writings Memories, A. P. Chekhov both as an artist and a thinker, and it is investigating possibilities of revealing Marcus Aurelius' thoughts in the last four plays of Chekhov. It focuses on topics of cosmopolitism and atomization, work and inactiveness, good and evil, the ideas of future and meaning of life.
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Genre and Thematic Specification of Russian Prose of the Nineties of the 20th Century
Kastnerová, Erika ; Ulbrechtová, Helena (advisor) ; Chlaňová, Tereza (referee)
The desintegration of the USSR, the resulting release of censorship, and the related publication of earlier prohibited texts, as well as the new charakter of the book market entirely tranformed the shape of the literary field of the nineties. This thesis concerns itself with a specific segment of the professional literary production of this period. With its topic, this work aspires to contribute to the serious research of the little explored postcommunist period in the Russian literature. In order to assess and interpret the evolution of opininions in this period of time, the chosen method is the one of commented overview of literary criticism and of literary-theoretical texts published mainly between 1986 and 2000 in Russian publications (mostly in so-called "thick magazines"). The thesis focuses on studies interested in the work of the middle and younger generation of the Russian prose writers, and more precisely on studies concerning the structural aspects of the literary situation in the nineties. On the background of the specific cultural and social situation, the method of the ample commentary is an appropriate way regarding how to interpret the literary theorists' basis of thoughts and opinions, and at the same time how to affect these experts' relationship to the new tendencies in the...
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Selecting aspects in prosaic writing by Ljudmila Ulickaja
Skálová, Jana ; Nykl, Hanuš (referee) ; Ulbrechtová, Helena (advisor)
My intention to devote oneself to write about prosaic writing by Ljudmila Ulickaja arose, when I wrote her fiction Meoea u ee oemu. Although following books are much worse, I am convinced, that Ljudmila Ulickaj a has got a original voice in the russian literature these days, and it costs to speak about her. In my Bachelor-essay I first show analytic survey of history Soviet Union fro111 the year 1953. And I speak there about the main movements in the russian literature these years. Than I show selecting critical views from russian joumals and papers, which analyse various aspects prosaic writing by Ljudmila Ulickaja. I divided these views into three groups based on motives, which they choose - universal Vlew, sociological-psychological approach and religious component. Than I attempted to aplicate these views on my own critical analyse. I took three of short stories by Ljudmila Ulickaja and showed my remarks. 54
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