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Effi Briest, Mathilde Möhring. The Development of Theodor Fontane's Female Characters on the Background of Women Emancipation.
Holoubková, Simona ; Tvrdík, Milan (advisor) ; Zbytovský, Štěpán (referee)
Theodore Fontane is best known as the author of numerous women's novels, which he wrote in the last ten years of his life. This diploma thesis deals with the topic of women's emancipation on the basis of textual analysis of two latter novels by Theodore Fontane - Effi Briest and Mathilde Möhring. In the first part, it characterizes the topic of the period women's emancipation and puts the author's biography into context. In the second part, it creates the picture of position of the main women characters. The last part describes the personal development of the women characters, on the basis of which I determine how much the women's emancipation reflects in the author's work and what is his attitude towards it. This thesis deals with the interpretation of the author's intent to illustrate the creation of an advanced character like Mathilde Möhring. Key words: Theodore Fontane, women's emancipation, Effi Briest, Mathilde Möhring, development of women's characters, women's novels, interpretation, author's intent, counterpoint
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The mythologist of the early and high German romanticism. The concept of the myth in the beginning of the 19th Century
Nedbalová, Julia ; Starý, Jiří (advisor) ; Zbytovský, Štěpán (referee)
The thesis presents the mythological studies of the German Romantics. The research focuses on the four important mythologists - Johann Gottfried Herder, Friedrich Creuzer, Karl Otfried Müller and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling. The analysis of their work leads to their specific concept of the myth. The early enlightenment tendencies, which rejected the myths as stories about gods of the undeveloped men were replaced with the conception of the romantics. They disclosed the symbolic character of the myths and explained the origin and nationalization of the myth on the basis of the symbol theory. At the same time they award truth to the mythological process which the man necessarily goes through. The creation of God in the mind of man is clarified with the philosophy of mythology. This way the romantics contribute to the development of the mythology towards a critical historical science.
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Freudian psychoanalysis and the literature of Vienna's modern art in chosen texts by Arthur Schnitzler and Stefan Zweig.
Čepelková, Lucie ; Zbytovský, Štěpán (advisor) ; Weinberg, Manfred (referee)
Subject of the present thesis is an analysis of relations between Freudian psychoanalysis and the literature of Vienna's modern art in chosen texts by Arthur Schnitzler and Stefan Zweig. At first, thesis gives an overview of Freudian way to psychoanalysis, topic of sexuality and his attitude to Vienna and to anti-Semitism. These explanations are followed by a portrait of two Freudian compositions - Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming and Sexual Morality and Modern Nervosity (both 1908). Then Vienna's modern art and the authors Arthur Schnitzler and Stefan Zweig with their works Fraulein Else (1924) and Amok (1922) are explained. KEYWORDS Psychoanalysis, Vienna's modern Art, Stefan Zweig, Arthur Schnitzler, Sigmund Freud
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Josef Willomitzer (1849 - 1900). Life and Work of German Writing Author from Bohemia.
Hornofová, Anna ; Zbytovský, Štěpán (advisor) ; Hadwiger, Julia Nina Vanessa (referee)
Josef Willomitzer (1849 - 1900). Life and Work of German Writing Author from Bohemia. The bachelor theses deals with life and work of german writing author from Bohemia, Josef Willomitzer. The work describes as a introduction the social and culture situation in Prague in the end of 19. century. The following chapters concern Willomitzers life and work in context of the historical and political development of Bohemia. The work is based on information available from ressources such as lexicons, newspaper articles and archive ressources. Apart from his life is in this work described also his journalistic activity. In the last part is summarized Willomitzers literary work. The analysis of chosen works which correspond to certain historical topics is also involved. The purpose of this work is to draw up a compact biography of Josef Willomitzer and a summary of his work. Keywords: Josef Willomitzer, humoresque, journalism, Bohemia, German Prague in the end of 19. century
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What does Impressionism mean in Poetry?
Valčuhová, Jaroslava ; Weinberg, Manfred (advisor) ; Zbytovský, Štěpán (referee)
At first, impressionism will be presented in painting. Based on this, will be discussed what impressionistic features the literature (especially poetry) can have, whose precursor was the painting. On the example of a poem the main impressionistic features in the poetry will be shown, hereinafter how these features can be indentified in German poetry with individual authors. At the end, will be explained why the German impressionism in poetry cannot be viewed as an independent period (as in painting) and why it was subsumed to the symbolism. Key words impressionism - painting - Monet - poetry - Detlev von Liliencron - Hugo von Hofmannsthal - Stefan George - Rainer Maria Rilke
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Literature in the works of theologians - the example of Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann
Lis, Marek ; Zbytovský, Štěpán (advisor) ; Štefan, Jan (referee)
The aim of the proposed Bachelor thesis named Literature in the works of theologians - the example of Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann is to assess the significance of German literature in selected works of the aforementioned theologians. In the case of Karl Barth's, the analysis is concerned with the reception of classical German authors (Römerbrief, 1919) and Dostoevsky (Römerbrief, 1922). A separate part is devoted to examining the relevant excerpts from his correspondence with the German writer Carl Zuckmayer towards the end of the theologian's life. In Rudolf Bultmann's cas, the attention is pointed at broader hermeneutic contexts, especially at the relations of culture and religion after the World War I, and Bultmann's reaction to Deschner's criticism of the role of religion from the end of the 1950s, Furthermore, an analysis of a selection of homilies form after the World War I is included, along with a brief characterization the specifics of this particular discourse. Although the grounds of this work are based on selections, its conclusion essays to argue that the function of literature may both subordinate to the Christian revelation, which creates its intelligible context and is able to answer its questions, and wholly autonomous as well, wherein literature articulates a theological them...
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The topic of German's transfer in German novels in contrast with the Czech literature
Škubalová, Marta ; Petrbok, Václav (advisor) ; Zbytovský, Štěpán (referee)
English This study concerns the German language literary works in which the transfer of Germans from Czechoslovakia is the central theme with further comparison to Czech works. It centers on an analysis of the descriptive perspective of Gérard Genette and the question if the characters are portrayed stereotypically. As in the Czech, the German works exhibit a deviation from historical events and a similar tendency toward changes in the descriptive perspective from an external to internal focus. Most often, the German characters appear as involuntary heroes, not as Nazis. The fate of women and children is portrayed in a similar way - as victims of violence. However, in German works the ethnic background of the character plays no role.
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Jewish Identity in the Prose of Ludwig Winder
Prouzová, Johana ; Zbytovský, Štěpán (advisor) ; Hadwiger, Julia Nina Vanessa (referee)
The aim of this thesis is an interpretation of three prose works of a Prague Jewish German Author, Ludwig Winder (1889 - 1946). The introduction describes cultural and social milieu of the Jewish community in the beginning of the 20th century in Bohemia and Moravia.The Jewish identity was determined by three general factors: The assimilation of Jewish inhabitants arising from Enlightenments, anti-Semitism and birth of Zionism. The position of Czech Jewry was even more complicated due to the background of the society at the time, including Conflicts between Czechs and Germans in the multinational Monarchy and later on also in Czechoslovakia. Ludwig Winder deals with this subject in his book, 'Die Geschichte meines Vaters' (1946, published 2000). His novel, 'Die jüdische Orgel' (1922), talks about the specific discrepancies between the orthodox Jewish milieu of a small Moravian village and also a modern city at the turn of the 20th century. The novel points out a fight between the father and his son and the influence of rigid religious upbringings in relation of the protagonist to Judaism. In the short story 'Hugo. Tragödie eines Knaben' (1924), the work describes a lonely Jewish child, who no longer lives in his Jewish community, but in a secular society and outlines his upbringing and life....
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Czech- German cultural and political cooperation in the border region Euregio Egrensis.
Brychtová, Eva ; Tvrdík, Milan (advisor) ; Zbytovský, Štěpán (referee)
The goal of this bachelor's thesis is to map the activity of the border organization "Euregio Egrensis" within the purview of the project Ziel 3/Cíl 3. The bachelor's thesis is concentrated on concrete projects from 2007 to 2013. It is focused on positives and negatives benefits to the future. The theoretical part of the thesis is directed on the historical overview of the region "Egerland" and its influence on cooperation between the Czech and German countries. It is supposed to give an overview about the structure of "Euregio Egrensis" and its project Ziel 3/Cíl 3. Requirement of acquiring of grants will be demonstrated. In the practical part of the thesis the function of cooperation in the regions Bavaria, Bohemia and Saxony will be presented on several projects.
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Translations of German Expressionist Poetry into Czech. Analysis of Selected Poems of Jakob van Hoddis, Georg Trakl and Else Lasker-Schüler
Habartová, Martina ; Zbytovský, Štěpán (advisor) ; Tvrdík, Milan (referee)
Jakob van Hoddis, Georg Trakl together with Else Lasker-Schüler belong to the leading representatives of early expressionist poetry. This thesis deals with translation analysis of their selected poems into the Czech language. The first part of the thesis describes the birth, evolution and essential ideas of expressionism, but also significant centres of literary course of events of that period and reception of expressionism in Bohemia and Moravia. The issue of artistic translation is further outlined with focus on the question of equivalence. The second part of the thesis includes analysis of selected poems, which are ordered according to the author and date of issue. One chapter is devoted to each poet, it briefly introduces his life to help point out aspects which have influenced his production, followed by analysis of poems that document the circumstances of their creation and comparisons of their translations. Key words: expressionist poetry, translation analysis, Jakob van Hoddis, Georg Trakl, Else Lasker-Schüler
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