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Affect, Expression, Performance: Transformation of Melodramatic Excess in the Work of Werner Schroeter
Anger, Jiří ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Svatoňová, Kateřina (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with various possible ways in which the formalized expression of emotions that is characteristic of the melodramatic mode can be reinterpreted in the context of experimental cinema, with the work of the director Werner Schroeter being used as a main (but not exclusive) example. The main argument is based on two interrelated ideas. First, the melodramatic mode as a genre-bending category offers a wide repertory of stylistic features designed to express extreme emotional states or situations which can be encompassed by the term "melodramatic excess". This type of excess manifests itself most visibly in moments of intense passion when the plot breaks down and freezes in a static or symbolic arrangement, either through close-up or tableau vivant. All attention is thereby focused on the heroes' gestures and poses which express their emotional state face to face with an intense situation for which they cannot yet find an adequate response. Second, certain experimental films manage to transform the melodramatic excess through "expressive and performative operations" with filmic space, time and bodies, turning the exterior representation of emotions into the immanent expression of affects. In this case, affect is understood as a certain variation of emotions which demonstrates the...
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Zwischenraum and Denkraum in the context of ascent and fall in the Mnemosyne Atlas of Aby M. Warburg
Váša, Ondřej ; Petříček, Miroslav (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee) ; Konečný, Lubomír (referee)
The doctoral thesis focuses on the Warburg's concept of thought space [Denkraum] and the related concept of artistic creation as an interface between the affections and abstract thinking [Zwischenraum], representing the key concepts of his late work (especially between the years 1920- 1929), culminating in the pictorial atlas Mnemosyne. In this context, the thesis focuses on the motive of ascent as well, and concludes that the pathos formula of ascent plays a crucial historical role in the constitution of modern Denkraum and forms one of the fundamental constitutive parameters of the thought-space, whose own metaphorical perspective is the contemporary aviation. For an adequate reflection of the historical development of this Denkraum, Warburg turns to the physical models of thought and artistic creation, including an attempt to use Einstein's theories of relativity. The key role of the motive of ascent in the constitution of Denkraum subsequently shapes this thought space within the confines of Renaissance humanism.
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Two concepts of poetism. Karel Teige and E. F. Burian
Rozbořilová, Adéla ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
This thesis characterises E. F. Burian's early conception of Poetism in contrast to Teige's "mainstream" avantgarde conception, focusing on the period of Burian's stay in Prague between 1924 and 1930. The crucial aspect of the problem is Burian's emphasis on acoustics and tonality in poetry, opposed to Teige's optical poems based on visuality. First, the main ideas of Teige's program are set up. The thesis then follows Burian's artistic progression, analysing all Burian's fundamental writings (Polydynamika, Idioteon etc.) and explains his idea of polydynamics. The aim is to explicate Burian's vision of poetism and its application in contemporary cultural environment, based on what Burian reflects in his writings. Keywords: Emil František Burian, Karel Teige, Poetism, tonality, visuality, optical poetry, voiceband, polydynamics
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Karel Teige, Jan Mukařovský and Bohuslav Brouk as Theorists of Surrealism
Kuchařová, Markéta ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
The content of the thesis is the surrealistic object and its reflection among the czech theorists. The first part of the thesis describes the problematic of surrealistic object and subject-objective relations in surrealism. Breton's philosophical approach is introduced, as well as his concept of object's crisis. The first part also outlines the meaning of found object, concept of convulsive beauty and Dali's paranoic-critical method as a source of surrealistic imagery. The second part of the thesis is focused on the reflection of surrealistic object presentation and on relations between arts and reality according to the concepts of Jan Mukařovský. The third part of the thesis is dedicated to conceptualization of aesthetics of Bohuslav Brouk in the light of surrealism. In this part the scope of Brouk's understanding of subject-objective relations is briefly described, as well his interpretation of surrealistic object.The last part of the thesis outlines the Teige's conception of surrealistic work in the terms of the sources of surrealistic imagination.
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Motives of fire and blood in Bohuslav Reynek's Thirsts and in Pierre Jean Jouve's Les Noces
Raušerová, Andrea ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Hrdlička, Josef (referee)
AN ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE This diploma thesis regards poems of Bohuslav Reynek and Pierre Jean Jouve with a prism of fire and blood motives. The analysis is focused on their early works, i.e. on Bohuslav Reynek's Thirsts and Pierre Jean Jouve's Les Noces. The diploma thesis is divided into two parts, the theoretical and the practical ones. The theoretical part gives the view into problematics of blood and fire motives. It is encouraged with several theories, such as literary (Bachelard), psychoanalytic (Jung) and theological (Spidlik). The second chapter of theoretical part sums up already existing perception of the analysed texts, with the main focal point on the motives. This aim fulfils either Med's and Putna's interpretations of Reynek or Pic's and Kelly's interpretations of Jouve. The main part of the diploma thesis is then seen in the analysis of motives itself. The author of the diploma thesis searches for different representations of these motives, e.g. flaming tongues of fire (the symbol of the Holy Spirit), a pierced heart of Jesus Christ and Virgin Mary equally as their mixing, such as flaming heart, bloody sun etc. In the results of this diploma thesis there is summarised the analysis of these topoi - fire and blood and their different realisations in each work of the poets. Their attitude...
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Technology of morbid in fairy tales
Prokopová, Eliška ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
(in English): The diploma thesis deals with the specific conception of body and corporeality in fairy tales, especially with morbid elements which are often reflected as non-fairy tale. The fairy tales of Karel Jaromír Erben, Hans Christian Andersen and Oscar Wilde are the main focus. The thesis also introduces the theory of the Swiss scholar Max Lüthi formulated in The European Folktale: Form and Nature into the Czech context. The thesis is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical section provides a complex explication of Max Lüthi's theory of the fairy tale. It examines the main terms that Luthi defined for the fairy tale: One-dimensionality, Depthlessness, Abstract Style, Isolation and Universal Interconnection, Sublimation and All-Inclusiveness. Then the frame of this theory is extended into the field of the authorial fairy tale. The diploma thesis then sums up the differences and the points of contact between those two subgenres using The Story of the Eldest Princess as an example. The practical part focuses on relevant strategies of handling the body and corporeality in fairy tales. The last chapter deals with techniques of breaking the surface of the fairy tale characters' bodies, with internal destruction of the body and with the elements in between. All is...
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Tradition and Country in the Czech interwar literature
Holeček, Lukáš ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Brabec, Jiří (referee) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
The submitted thesis focuses on traditionalist conceptions in the Czech interwar literature. In the First Chapter were considered some literary theories, mainly distinctions between continuity and discontinuity in literary history (modernism and anti-modernism). Author consider tradition in the dialogue with the hermeneutic theories (mainly Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paul Ricoeur and New Historicism) regarding tradition as a problem of historical meaning opposite sociological conception of tradition. Tradition suggests interdependence of anti-modern and modern art. The Second Chapter focuses on the polemic about tradition around 1928. Polemics about tradition related with discussions about philosophical sense of the Czech history, revision state and national traditions and also with the traditional character of literature. Further chapter consider tradition in the context of rural literature (ruralismus) and rural novel published in rural library Hlasy země (conception and varieties of time in novels - progress, ancestral continuity, eternity). In this contemporary negotiations over rural themes had an important role regional literature (regionalismus) as a specific variant of the rural novels. On the basis of theoretical disputes and reviews of reception of the French regionalism (Giono, Ramuz, Pourrat)...
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Baudelaire on the Threshold of Modernity
Hošnová, Mariana ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Petříček, Miroslav (referee)
Cílem této práce je prozkoumat Baudelairův vztah k jeho době. Prozkoumat, jaké soudobé fenomény nejvíce ovlivnily jeho dílo, a jak. Abychom tohoto cíle dosáhli, budeme postupně zkoumat čtyři obasti - politickou situaci, tvářnost města, novinový provoz a umění ve Francii devatenáctého století. Budeme se snažit v těchto oblastech umístit Baudelairovu osobu a zrekonstruovat vliv, který na Baudelaira a jeho dílo tyto oblasti měly. Sledovat budeme zejména dvě baudelairovské studie - esej Paříž druhého císařství u Baudelaira Waltera Benjmaina a knihu Baudelaire. L' irreductible Antoina Compagnona. Oba interpreti zdůrazňují, že pro náležité uchopení Baudelairova díla je nezbytné právě projasnění Baudelairova postoje k výše uvedeným oblastem. Problematickým, ale ústředním pojmem této práce je pojem modernité. Jelikož je tento pojem vztažen jak k Baudelairově době, tak k jeho postoji k této době, není možné jej jednoduše definovat a není to ani cílem této práce. Cílem je spíše v rozmanitých fenoménech devatenáctého století, stejně jako v Baudelairově postojích a dílu, rozpoznat to, co je s pojmem modernité slučitelné, alespoň v určitém z jejích významů. Uvidíme, že jak básníkova doba tak jeho dílo v sobě nese mnoho rozporů, nebudeme se však snažit tyto rozpory překlenout, ale naopak se je pokusíme...
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Popular Culture Patterns in Poetism
Čepec, Richard ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
Popular Culture Patterns in Poetism (abstract) This text aims to describe fundamental manifestations of poetism through the perspectives of actual pop culture science and previous approach of the 1920s. Poetism as a specific viewing method of the world developed in the region of Czechoslovakia in the first half of the 1920s (artistic union Devetsil). Popular culture elements have their own role and function in the new rendering of reality and democratization process in the literature. Karel Teige and Vitezslav Nezval are considered as the key figures of the concept. In the first section text points to the research of popular culture mainly in the second half of the 20th century and also points to the Teige's essential theoretical bases from the first half of the 20s. With awareness of Teige's multilateral and interdisciplinary orientation, this text stresses his essays about literature and cinematography. The conclusion of this section is that the terms pop culture and popular culture are not the same, the first is a source of new elements and themes not fully theoretically described in the 1920s. The second terme is a socioeconomic a cultural complex fully integrated in the capitalistic society and usually interconnected with the so called "high culture". Teige's concept is based on a poetic reconstruction...
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