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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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(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
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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