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Luigi Pirandello and Sicily
Sevald, Václav ; Flemrová, Alice (advisor) ; Pelán, Jiří (referee)
The introduction familiarizes us with basic characteristics of Sicily and its inhabitants, as well as biographical facts regarding Luigi Pirandello's period of life during which he lived there. Subsequently, based on analysis of author's selected writings, we try to find out to what extent has Pirandello's work been influenced by the Sicilian environment, history, inhabitants and veristic themes. For the analysis we will make use of three stories (Certificate, Amphora, Pensaci, Giacomino!), two plays (Il berretto a sonagli, Liolà) and the novel I vecchi e i giovani. In the end we summarize the results of the analysis to determine the degree of influence on Luigi Pirandello's work. Keywords Luigi Pirandello, Sicily, modern italian prose, italian theatre.
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Antonio Fogazzaro's Little World of the Past
Jarošková, Karolína ; Flemrová, Alice (advisor) ; Pelán, Jiří (referee)
Antonio Fogazzaro's best-known novel The Little World of the Past, which was published in 1895 and deals with the love story which takes place in the vicinity of lake Lugano in northern Italy on the background of Italian unification called Risorgimento and evolves themes of belief and of conflict of different views of life. The novel is put into the European cultural and intellectual context, in which The Decadent movement was the main stream of this period. It is concentrated on the Italian history and literary movements as well. Furthermore there is the introduction of the author - Antonio Fogazzaro, which is focused mainly on his life and works. The main part of this thesis is dedicated to the novel itself and to its analysis like plot, the characters of the protagonists and the main themes, such as the occultism, the Catholicism, the conflict between belief and reason, and the conflict between progress and tradition. In conclusion there is the summary of the observations of the analysis and estimation of the contribution of the novel to Italian society.
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Céline in Bohemia
Kareninová, Anna ; Pohorský, Aleš (advisor) ; Pelán, Jiří (referee) ; Jamek, Václav (referee)
Céline in Bohemia The thesis presents a chronological documentary testimony about the process of acceptance and rejection of one of the most controversial figures of modern literature - not only in Bohemia. The corpus consisting of correspondence discovered, contemporary responses, photos and other documents, built on the base of Céline's life and work, follows the reception of all his writings since the debut to the present. The Czech critical reception (F. X. Šalda, F. Peroutka, J. Vašica, R. Weiner, K. Čapek, B. Hrabal, M. Kundera, underground, etc.) is being set in the international context. The thesis observes the historical and biographical circumstances in which originated Céline's work and that marked Céline's personal story. References to the circumstances, effects and responses in the background are not a complete and systematic thinning: important or interesting célinien sequences are mainly meant to expand and give the possibility of comparison. These Céline's portrait finally shows the shape of the Czech literary atmosphere during the eighty years since the Journey to the End of the Night (1932) until 2010. The first translation of the Céline's first published book Voyage au bout de la nuit was the Czech one (1933), response was huge. But while today Céline is discussed in relation to its...
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Carlo Goldoní's comedies
Slečková, Jana ; Pelán, Jiří (advisor) ; Flemrová, Alice (referee)
The abstract and key words The aim of the thesis "Carlo Goldoni's comedies" is a literally analysis of three comedies which belong into three different groups. The introduction is focused on Goldoni's period, i.e. 18th century. The second part describes the playwright's life and gives an overview of his most popular works. The subsequent chapters analyze each of the three comedies in detail. The first one is dealing with Il Servitore di due padroni (The Servant of Two Masters) which is influenced by Commedia dell'arte. The second comedy, La Locandiera (The Mistress of the Inn) is devoted to the character's comedy. The last one, La Bottega del caffè (The Coffee Shop) represents typical example of the comedy of ambience. The closing chapter is focused on the evolutional tendencies of Goldoni's dramatic production. Key words: Carlo Goldoni, The Servant of Two Masters, The Mistress of the Inn, The Coffee Shop, Commedia dell'arte
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Italo Calvino the story-teller
Vítková, Iva ; Pelán, Jiří (advisor) ; Flemrová, Alice (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the work of important italian writer of twenteeth centrury - Italo Calvino. First part presents life and work of this writer. Central part of this work are analysis of three Calvino's works. The Path to the Nest of Spiders is writer's debut published in 1947. Calvino's inspiration comes from second word war, when he belonged to guerrilla's group. It's a story of a young boy living in one of these groups and describing a life in this epoche. Second analysed book are Cosmicomics. It's a book of short stories published in the sixties. Stories take place in universe and are recounted by tranforming being Qfwfq. Calvino intention was to create new myths. Last analysis belongs to If on a winter's night a traveler, the work from his experiental period. In the conlusion part are identified constant and changing elements in Calvino's writing. As repeating elements were indicated game, fairytale, myth, space of narration, components of autobiography. On the other way as changing elements were found theme, genre and inspiration. The aim of this thesis is to introduce original style of Italo Calvino and point out how special and privileged was his position in cultural life in Italy in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Translation as a Cultural Phenomenon. Geirge Steiner: After Babel.
Grauová, Šárka ; Housková, Anna (advisor) ; Svatoň, Vladimír (referee) ; Pelán, Jiří (referee)
The thesis is based on the translation of a seminal work by George Steiner After Babel (1975), published in Triáda Publishing in 2010. The study presented in this volume is divided into three parts: the first one sketches a general portrait of George Steiner as a literary and cultural critic, language philosopher and a Jewish thinker much of his thought is dedicated to the Shoah. The second part traces Steiners intellectual profile with regards to his life story. The third part introduces Steiner's poetics and ethics of translation, paying attention especially to the phenomenon of translation in the colonial and postcolonial world. It maps the succession of metaphorical images Steiner uses to pinpoint translation and interpretation in general, especially the metafor of war and of hospitality. It concludes that a metaphorical use of the term "translation" for the whole field of understanding, interpretation and cultural tradition is not of much help in our apprehension of what translation proper is.
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Italo Svevo's novels
Sklenářová, Simona ; Pelán, Jiří (advisor) ; Flemrová, Alice (referee)
This thesis aims to introduce the Italian writer Italo Svevo and his three key novels: Una vita (A Life), Senilità (As a man grows older) and La coscienza di Zeno (Zeno's Conscience). At the beginning I briefly summarize the history of multicultural Trieste, which had considerable influence on the author and which is the setting of the three novels. The bio- bibliographical section will chronologically portray Svevo's personal and professional life and his literary and dramatic works. The connecting point of his works is "inettitudine", or indifference, ineptitude and passivity of the main characters lives. Further, one of Svevo's topics handled repeatedly is the family, relations between its individual members, love and rivalry. The work focuses on Svevo's novels. Finally, I try to compare all three works, to find differences between them and summarize the overall continuity and transformation of Svevo's heroes.
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Boccacccio's Pastorals
Lukášová, Denisa ; Pelán, Jiří (advisor) ; Flemrová, Alice (referee)
The objective of this bachelor thesis "Boccaccio's Pastorals" is to introduce two works of an Italian writer from Renaissance, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), which are from one point of view similar, but from the other one are mostly distinct. The first book, Commedia delle ninfe fiorentine, was written between 1341-42 during an author's sojourn in Florence, the second, Ninfale fiesolano, between 1344-46. Both works are linked with pastoral themes, as it is evident from the title of this thesis, and then with some mythological elements. This is explained in the first part of the thesis, where we mainly concentrate on Boccaccio's live and his writings and then on three ancient authors that influenced him so much, that they became a source of inspiration for his own works. In the sphere of pastoral topic it refers to Theocritus, who in his idylls presented scenes from shepherd's lives, their vocal disputes and beauty of nature. Secondly it refers to Virgil, who, in the collected poems Eclogues, followed the Greek predecessor and enriched his own poems with hidden allegory. Boccaccio derived the mythological elements from Ovid and his Metamorphoses. Especially in Ninfale fiesolano we can find a lot of references or rephrasings to single parts of this latin work. From the analysis we discover, that...
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Alessandro Baricco's postmodern novels
Přívozníková, Pavla ; Flemrová, Alice (advisor) ; Pelán, Jiří (referee)
Tato diplomová práce zmapuje románovou tvorbu současného italského spisovatele Alessandra Baricca. Úvodem bude představen autor v kontextu současné italské prózy. V další části práce nastíníme charakteristiku postmoderního románu, zejména pokud jde o tříštění či dekompozici prostoru, času, příběhu a s tím související žánrovou heterogennost textu. V centrální části práce rozebereme jednotlivá díla, přičemž se budeme soustředit jak na příběh, jeho hlavní motivy a témata, tak na jeho kompozici a strukturu. Ve čtvrté kapitole využijeme dílčích analýz jako východiska ke komparativnímu přístupu k textům a pokusíme se najít společné i odlišné konstrukční principy jejich výstavby a návratná témata či motivické konstanty Bariccových próz. Závěrem zhodnotíme přínos tvorby Alessandra Baricca pro současnou italskou prózu.
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