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Semantics of space in the late poetic work of Bohuslav Reynek
Teclová, Barbora ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
The bachelor's thesis deals with the poetics and construction of the microworld around the house in Petrkov in the late poetry of Bohuslav Reynek, specifically in his three last collections of poetry, Sníh na zápraží, Mráz v okně and Odlet vlaštovek. Firstly, the thesis outlines the background of the house no. 13 in Petrkov, both in terms of Reynek's personal history and the resulting connection with the house, and in terms of the political and social events that affected both the house and the poet. Furthermore, we focus on literary-scientific methods of reflecting on the poetics of places, in particular topoanalysis based on Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Space, which the thesis links with findings on Petrkov. At the core of the thesis are analyses of the poems and the creation of a typology of motifs from which the rural microcosm is constructed. In the analysis, the thesis focuses on the constellation of inner space in relation to the outside world, which in Reynek's work of the 1950s takes the form of a hostile and anti-human space. KEY WORDS Petrkov, Bohuslav Reynek, poetics of space, microcosm, topoanalysis.
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Changes of Karel Toman's Work
Dočkalová, Anna ; Merhaut, Luboš (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
The bachelor's thesis focuses on the transformations of poetics and the distinctiveness of Karel Toman's poetry. It aims to analyze the author's poetic work from its beginnings, influenced by the poetics of Decadent symbolism, and to trace Toman's gradual revision of decadent poetics, his generational inclination towards the ideals of anarchism and vagrancy, and his search for a balanced and unique expression in connection with the changing contemporary context. The analysis and comparison of individual poetry collections focus primarily on the motivic level, on a poetic image and its form and meaning. In addition to collections, the thesis also considers poems not included in the collective work.
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The theme of threat to human existence in poems at the turn of the 1940s and 1950s
Janečková, Karolína ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
The bachelor thesis presents and compares three poetic compositions that thematize the threat to human existence: Atlantis by Vladimír Vokolek, Znamení moci by Jan Zahradníček, and Symfonie XX. století by Miloš Dvořák. In addition to the formal and compositional level of the texts, the thematic and motivic level is analysed. Consideration is also given to those poetic devices that co-create the image of a vision of the world in which the certainty of human existence is questioned. In the conclusion there is a comparison of the texts, presenting their identical and different moments.
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Poetry of Josef Hora in the late 1920s and in 1930s
Krátký, Aleš ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
The bachelor thesis focuses on the poetic work of Josef Hora (1891-1945), specifically on the poetry collections contained in the collection Kniha času a ticha edited by Antonín Matěj Píša, which define a specific poetic line within Hora's work called the poetics of time and silence. The thesis is divided into two parts, the first part works with contemporary critical texts which create the first concepts of poetics time and silence. The second interpretive part seeks to outline the basic principles of the poetic image, which are the same for all the collections identified. The interpretative part is divided into three segments. The first section of the interpretative part focuses on the four basic elements as the basic motifs of the poetic image. The second chapter focuses on the relationship of the lyric subject to the space of the poems and the third on the thematization of dream and art in perspective of the function it occupies within the poetics of time and silence. In addition to the literary historical texts devoted to Josef Hora, Zdeněk Neubauer's and Tomáš Škrdlant's Skrytá pravda země: Živly jako archetypy ekologického myšlení and the work of the philosopher Gaston Bachelard will also provide support for the interpretative section. KEYWORDS Josef Hora (1891-1945), poetics of time and...
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Prose Works of Milada Součková (with Emphasis on Analysis of Amor a Psyché)
Martanová, Petra ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
This thesis deals with Milada Součková's novel Amor a Psyché, which was published as the author's second work in 1937. The focus is on the analysis of the internal relations of the work and the key elements of its construction. Attention is paid to the narrating subject and its intratextual transformations, including issues of unreliability and gender. Subsequently, the thesis examines self-reflexivity, focusing on the novel's anti-illusional elements. Another aspect examined is the characterisation of the characters and their progressive marionetisation. Spatio- temporal dimensions and key motifs as integral parts of the novel are also analysed.
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Kinship of Sorrow or Kafka in the (inter)textual folds of Winfried Georg Sebald's Vertigo
Prouzová, Mariana ; Činátlová, Blanka (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to to analyse the way W. G. Sebald operates with intertextuality and literary legacy of selected writers. specificaly with regard to presce of Franz Kafka's life and work in Sebald's first prose novel Vertigo. The thesis focuses on a detailed analysis of the novel with regard to the theory of intertextuality (J. Kristeva, R. Lachmann, R. Barthes, etc. ), on the other hand, it intends to examine Sebald's specific literary style in the context of his own work (The Apartment in the Country House, Kafka Studies), and compares it with selected novels of twentieth-century world literature (P. Demetz: 1909: Aeroplanes over Brescia, J. Barnes: Flaubert's Parrot)
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Love in Jan Němec's novel
Kříženecká, Michaela ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Králíková, Andrea (referee)
This thesis aims to analyse the manifestation of the love phenomenon in Jan Ne0mec's autofictional novel The Possibilities of the Romance Novel. The experience of love - defying scientific knowledge - has consistently served as a source of inspiration, emotional hurt, and individual growth. This dynamic is also at play within the novel's narrator, who acts as both the author and one of the characters. Attempting to comprehend his current circumstances, the narrator turns back to his past. However, as memories are revisited, a question arises, whether the present is not just an inevitable outcome and development of something that could be observed earlier. Literature, in its essence, provides an individual, who is communicating through text, a platform to resurrect, scrutinize, and integrate the past, simultaneously assigning it a sense of lasting validity by weaving it into a network of other texts. The focus of this thesis will not only be on the theory of autofiction but will also extend to the distinct techniques inherent to the text. We will base our consideration of intertextuality on Renate Lachmann's concept of memory and recollection, in the field of phenomenology of love we will start from the ideas of Niklas Luhmann, Gilles Deleuze or Denis de Rougemont.
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.The Truth Needs a Body. The Broken Mirror of Modernity in theWork of Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic
Sirovátka, Štěpán ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee) ; Kolařík, Karel (referee)
The dissertation deals with decadent poetics from the point of view of the so-called "macromodern" (inspired by the collection of Silvio Vietta and Dirk Kemper Ästhetische Moderne in Europa, based on the historical concept of "longue durée" by the French historian Fernando Braudel). The phenomena of modernism or modern poetics are treated with regard to continuity with the whole modernization process and the Enlightenment project. The modernization process is divided into "rational modernity" (Enlightenment science, positivism) and "aesthetic modernity" (modern art from German Romanticism around 1800 and dating back to postmodernism), where the latter one creates a critical corrective to the rational modernity, and thus creates the "broken mirror" of modernity. The work is based on Adornoʼs conception of the dialectic of the Enlightenment and negative dialectics, but also on other post-Kantian philosophers, such as Husserl, Bergson, Deleuze or Patočka. The dissertation deals with the whole work of Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic in terms of a specific, partial "micromodern" implementation of this process, i.e. the Czech decadence. In this context, his reception of "anti-enlightenment" phenomena is examined, such as the phenomenon of corporeality and affectivity, Baroque mysticism (Theresa of Avila or John...
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Vladimír Holan's metaphor in the collections Vanutí and Na postupu in the light of Ricœur's "live" metaphor
Koryntová, Lucie ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee) ; Langerová, Marie (referee)
The collections Vanutí (1932) and Na postupu (poems written in 1943-1948, published in 1964) are both of particular importance within the development of the poetry written by Vladimír Holan (1905-1980). The collection Vanutí, full of strongly bound, hermetic verses put together into intimate, lyrical compositions is a direct counterpoint to the collection Na postupu, written in free verse and accompanied by clearer expression of epic nature, orientated towards historical and everyday topics of the society. With respect to the relation between poetry and reality and as far as the way of creating meaning goes, the key notion is the metaphor. However, theoretical foundations of classical metaphor are unsatisfactory in this case - they cannot describe the originality of Holan's poetry sufficiently. By applying the theory of "live" metaphor, formulated by Paul Ricœur in his essays La Métaphore vive (1975) and Interpretation theory: discourse and the surplus of meaning (1976), we can achieve the most detailed description of typical metaphors in both collections. Thanks to Ricœur's pattern X is/is not Y, which expresses ambivalent predication present in live metaphor schematically, a peculiar dynamics of emerging sense (typical for each collection) is established. Metaphors that can be found in the...
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Josef Capek's and Carl Einstein's Theory of Art
Michlová, Hana ; Petříček, Miroslav (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee) ; Winter, Tomáš (referee)
Independently on each other, the painter Josef Čapek and the art critic Carl Einstein begin to write a book on African sculpture. Both authors are led by their experience with African sculpture to cubism and start to consider the singularity of the space of the artwork. This doctoral thesis therefore traces and compares the thinking about art and its philosophical overlap of these two authors. They write about modern, non-European or amateur art from the modernist position of "man after the loss of God". Therefore, they cannot explain the validity of art on the basis of no longer valid conventions and canons. Modern works can no longer derive their power, validity, and intelligibility from the divine, the objective, and the immutable, but, as we shall see, artworks will derive their power from the personal, the ephemeral, and the biased.
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