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(Sur)reality in Work of Mikulas Medek
Pišanová, Andrea ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Murár, Tomáš (referee)
This thesis follows the artistic and literary work of Mikuláš Medek in the period of the fifties of twentieth century in the contemporary literary context, with the area of analogies and divisions we explored not being limited by the boundaries of the scope of surrealist artists. The testimonials of the situation people found themselves in after the year 1948, the complexities and contradictions of the meaning of human existence - it is from these subjects that both the ethical dimensions of Medek's work and sort of kinship with the work of the other poet-artist Jiří Kolář grow. Humor, irony, the struggle with the legacy of surrealism, the demand for harsh realism - all these artistic bases overlap, to a degree, with those of artists who gathered around Edice Půlnoc. The focus of the work presents an analysis of selected motifs (violence and everydayness), through which Medek relates to the "world we live in". Key words Mikulas Medek, literature, violence, existence, ideology
Words, that shine. On the problem of synesthesia in Karel Teige's manifestos
Harcuba, Tomáš ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
This paper examines the role of synaesthesia in Karel Teige's manifestos from the 1920s. The first part is devoted to the theoretical grasp of synaesthesia as a metaphor, in contrast to the notion of synaesthesia in the psychological sense. First, the concept of synaesthesia as used in psychology is briefly defined. Then the theory of conceptual metaphors is introduced. After describing the general functioning of metaphors, the theory is used to define synesthesia as a metaphor. The second part deals with the theoretical thinking of Karl Teige in the 1920s. Using selected texts, the chronological approach attempts to outline the development of Teige's theoretical thinking from the first texts around the founding of Devětsil in 1920 to the 1928 Manifesto of Poetism. In the analysis of Teige's texts, synaesthesia is considered from two view-potins. Firstly, as a theme, and secondly, as a linguistic figure frequently used by Teige. The relation of the two occurances is discussed as well. A certain amount of attention is also given to the theoretical and artistic texts of other authors to show the connection between Teigo's programme and the theoretical thinking of other members of Devětsil and their artistic production.
Two Approaches to Folk Narratives: Emanuel Horký a Josef Štefan Kubín
Čechová, Lucie ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
The work will deal with the processing of folk tales from Podkrkonoší on the one hand and the processing of folk tales from the Vysočina region (Humpolec, Polná and Havlíčkův Brod regions) on the other hand. It will use the material collected by Josef Štefan Kubín (Lidové povídky z Podkrkonoší) and Emanuel Horký (Z kraje Šimona kouzelníka). The aim will be to confront the two contrasting approaches in terms of language, style and subject matter, but also in terms of a more general approach to folklore.
Aesthetics of the Crack-Up: Digital Kříženecký and the Autonomous Creativity of Archival Footage
Anger, Jiří ; Česálková, Lucie (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee) ; Denson, Shane (referee)
Would it be possible to do film theory "from below," from the perspective of a film object, of its multifarious details and facets, however marginal, unintentional, or aleatory they might be? Could we treat figurative and material accidents in moving images as full-fledged actors with distinctive aesthetic forms, functions, and effects and discernible origins and genealogies? The body of work that poses these kinds of questions surfaced with the digitization of the "first Czech films," made by Jan Kříženecký between 1898 and 1911. While the digitized films benefit from high-definition picture quality, achieved by scanning the materials in 4K, the deformations present in the materials were not effaced but made all the more visible in the image. Thus, formerly analog elements impinge upon the form and content of the moving images to such an extent that they create speculatively and aesthetically generative figures and shapes. With the help of digital technology, we can isolate and zoom in on these features yet also experiment with how they can be reimagined. The aim of this dissertation is to account for the weird shapes that emerge when the material elements interact with the figurative content of the moving image. In Kříženecký's films, the individual deformations (including the intrinsic features...
Media Image of Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria
Zapotilová, Tereza ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Činátlová, Blanka (referee)
The topic of this thesis is the image of the Austrian Empress Elisabeth (1837-1898) within the framework of fictional narratives. Elizabeth of Bavaria is a constant subject of interest for historians and artists, as evidenced by, among other things, a number of historiographic and fictional works dealing with the lives of her and her close relatives. In my work, I analyse how the Empress is presented in 16 selected historical novels, films, series and theatrical productions, of which she is a major or minor, but important figure of the story. The theoretical basis for me is the question of the relationship between fiction and non-fiction and the issue of fictional works with historical themes. I then examine the image of the Austrian Empress in five chapters, each focusing on one key aspect of her life, one of the "roles" she has played over the course of her life, and in each of these chapters I on the one hand compare how the authors of the fiction deal with the topic, on the other hand I equate this fictional picture with how the professional historiographic discourse approaches this issue. In the end, I then deal with the issue of the Empress's image within fictional narratives in general, and I also deal with the means and methods by which the authors of fiction deliberately deviate from the...
Interpretation of fairy tales authored by Josef Štefan Kubín
Vojtíšek, Ondřej ; Vaněk, Václav (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
Interpretation of fairy tales authored by Josef Štefan Kubín Ondřej Vojtíšek Abstract: This bachelor's thesis deals with interpretation of Josef Štefan Kubín's author fairy tales both in theory and application. Its goal is to describe options of interpretation of children's literature and to demonstrate these options by means of Kubín's literal work. As a result, this bachelor's thesis also highlights semantics riches and valuable qualities of this part of Kubín's work, which is being neglected by publishers nowadays. In its theoretical part, the thesis addresses several issues: different ways of interpretation of fairy tales, specification of the term "author fairy tale" and the different forms of Kubín's fairy tales. As a method of interpretation, synthesis of several approaches (Franz, Šmahelová, Urbanová, and others) was used and each of these approaches was described by one example. This synthesis provides insight into the meaning of fairy tales that can be therefore understood as representation of situations outlined not only with help of motives but with help of specific expressions as well. Collections of fairy tales authored by Kubín are analyzed in respect to the amount of Kubín's own invention compared with the quantity of folk motives. This analysis is accompanied by brief Kubín's biography and...
Physiognomy of Writing: In the Folds of Literary Ornament
Jirsa, Tomáš ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee) ; Fulka, Josef (referee)
My PhD. thesis "Physiognomy of Writing: In the Folds of Literary Ornament" deals with the relation between literature and ornament. It interconnects the sphere of literary history and literary theory with that of visuality. Ornament is analyzed and interpreted as a theoretical figure which allows an examination of literature from the point of view of its visuality and its movement. This approach, elaborated and applied here, labeled "physiognomy of writing", offers a possibility of a visual reading of literature; it represents a way to read literary texts not only in terms of their meaning and message, but also from the point of view of their visual and figural performance. In the first part I outline the concept of ornament in its historical, esthetic and philosophical frames, and explain how to use it in order to interpret literature. The second part offers readings of several 20th century literary texts (Franz Kafka, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Samuel Beckett, Louis Wolfson and Blanche T.) from the perspective of the affinity of their literary speech and particular ornamental manifestations.
Literature and the inhuman. Alain Robbe-Grillet and posthumanist criticism
Sýkora, Ondřej ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
The work has launched out from reading Alain Robbe-Grillet texts within the framework of Posthumanist criticism in literature and the arts. It reaches, however, beyond the enclosed context of the "Nouveau Roman", toward broader aesthetic and philosophical nexus: French Structuralism and Post-Structuralism in particular. The work falls into two parts, representing two approaches that reflect and complement each other. The first part, "Viewpoint and Non-Human Object of Art", critically approaches humanism, existentialism, and visual aspects of Robbe-Grillet's texts. Robbe-Grillet's critique of anthropomorphic metaphor and Barthes' "Writing Degree Zero" are linked with Ortega y Gasset's modernist concept of "The Dehumanization of Art". Comparison of Jealousy with Sartre's Nausea expounds Robbe-Grillet's approach of impersonal description. Consequently, the paper discusses the relation between speech, rhetoric and ontology (in Foucault's interpretation of Roussel), Deleuze's "structure of the Other", the reading process, and the technique of literary and cinematic angle and image. Final chapter interprets Robbe-Grillet's "stage", comparing it to Duchamp's Etant donées as a strongly visualized object that changes the perception and attitude toward a text. The second part, "Literature, death, technique" discusses...
Melancholy in the poetry of Antonín Sova
Urbanová, Martina ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Vaněk, Václav (referee)
The main theme of this thesis is a literary motive of melancholy in the poetry of a Czech poet Antonín Sova. The end of 19th century and the beginning of 20th century we can consider as a specifically melancholic and it is possible to see it especially in pieces of writing of many authors. The rare situation happened in the Czech lands. The Czechs were ready to deal with new issues, but their expectation did not come true. The frustration of all the situation is noticeable mainly in works of Czech decadents, but we can also see it in the poetry of Antonín Sova. It is obvious in his Vybouřené smutky and then in Ještě jednou se vrátíme... which follows and we chose it as a basic text for our interpretation of melancholic motive in Sova's poetry. It was published in time of culminating expectations of some changes in the field of social situation, which was becoming unbearable. It is impossible to omit melancholic feeling in Ještě jednou se vrátíme..., but it is somehow modified, especially in his lyric poetry, which does not sound unambiguously tragical, but on the contrary it offers particular hopes. For the purpose of getting to know the motive of melancholy we researched a concept of melancholy during its history. It enabled us to point out some typical features of melancholy like e. g. involvement in the...
"I accept gladly, what is being done for my salvation" - Christianism and existencialism in work of Eugen Liška
Liška, Eugen ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
This text concerns on virtually uknown literary work of Eugen Liška - the Czech catholic writer of second half of the 20th century. First chapter introduces unpublished text of Liška's debut, short stories book with the title "Čas bez lásky" ("Time Without Love"), which was not published because of the beginning of communist dictatorship in 1948. We seek and find connections of Liška's short stories to European existencialism and present term "Christian existencialism" with help of the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel, comparison with work of Albert Camus and reconstruction of the Liška's lecture of Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton. Second rather descriptive chapter presents Liška's life work - novel trilogy. Only first novel could be published in 1970. This trilogy above all restores Christian paradigm of history of human kind as history of salvation. Third and last chapter shows similarities of themes of Liška's and Heinrich Böll's books (mainly of the first ones). We analyze the ways how the Sacredness emerges in the texts of both authors.

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