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Existential Anxiety and Death in the Early Works by Dino Buzzati
Barteľová, Tatiana ; Flemrová, Alice (advisor) ; Pelán, Jiří (referee)
The main theme of this thesis is the existential anxiety and the motive of death in the early prosaic texts of the Italian author Dino Buzzati. The first chapter is dedicated to the author's biography where mainly the early years of his literary career are emphasized. After this introductory session follows an overview of the main features of existentialism as well as its place in the context of 20th century European literature and philosophy. In the last section of the theoretical part of the thesis we comment on the possible analogies between the literary work of Dino Buzzati and those of Franz Kafka, which were noticed by the contemporary literary criticism. The analytical part of the thesis is dedicated to the literary analysis of the primary texts: the novel The Tartar Steppe and selected short stories of the collection The Seven Messengers. In the last section we draw conclusions on the literary style of Dino Buzzati based on the previous analysis of the literary texts.
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Italian Modernism and its forms in the magazines from the beginning of the 20th century
Polišenská, Vladimíra ; Pelán, Jiří (advisor) ; Pechar, Jiří (referee) ; Flemrová, Alice (referee)
The aim of this work is to present Italian modernism and its forms as we can find them in the magazines from the beginning of the 20th century. Due to their long-term activity magazines are a useful mean for studying social processes. For our analysis four magazines were chosen from which everyone represents a specific area: Leonardo magazine offers an overview of modern philosophic thoughts, Il Rinnovamento magazine reports on modernist movement within the Catholic Church, Lacerba magazine represents area of modernist art and literature and finally La Voce magazine can be considered a synthesis of topics with regard to processes going on in the Italian society at the beginning of the 20th century. After introductory part with description of historical and culture context the attention is focused on the magazines themselves explaining what was the motivation of their origin, how their program declaration developed and especially offering thematic analysis of their content. One of the examined areas is also described with regard to the concrete magazine and the effect it had on it. At the very end of the analytic part there is an evaluation of the magazines and their influence within the social transformation. Conclusion part offers an answer to the initial question, whether the word "modernism" is...
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Boundaries of the labyrinth. Literary Space in the Italian Postmodern Novels
Čaplyginová, Olga ; Flemrová, Alice (advisor) ; Pelán, Jiří (referee) ; Pechar, Jiří (referee)
The Phd thesis titled Boundaries of the labyrinth and subtitled Literary space in the Italian postmodern novels strives for specification and closer definition of the genre of post-modern novel through the analysis of literary space. Formally, the thesis is divided into three parts. The first part aims to provide a theoretical introduction into the problems of three areas related to the given topic, namely the definition of postmodernity and postmodernism, the genre of the novel itself and last but not least the study of space in literature. The content of the second part is the actual literary and scientific analysis of the selected novels (Città invisibili and Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore by Italo Calvino, Notturno indiano by Antonio Tabucchi, Comici spaventati guerrieri by Stefano Benni and Oceano mare and City by Alessandro Baricco) which follows three basic and most frequent spacial topoi occurring in these novels, namely the topos of the city, the house-hotel and the road. The third and final section sums up the observed aspects and characteristics and strives to use them as a basis for determining a certain and generalizing spacial and temporal principle which would facilitate at least a partial characterization of the postmodern novel as an independent genre.
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The Jewish Memory and Identity in Italian Contemporary Literature
Grigeľová, Eva ; Flemrová, Alice (advisor) ; Pelán, Jiří (referee)
The object of our diploma thesis was Jewish memory and identity in contemporary Italian literature. The work is divided into two parts. The first theoretical part in its historical introduction which deals with the Shoah in Europe. This will be a brief introduction to the european situation. The work continues by introducing more specific roots of anti-Semitism in Italy, its continuation until 1945 and describes the situation after 1945. In the next chapter, we will reflect about the relationship between memory and literature. What are the processes discussed and what is the relationship of memory and the Shoah. After that, we will also mention the complexity of Jewish identity and on her way how it is perceived. The next chapter will present medallions of individual authors whose works will be devoted to the practical part. The second practical part is divided into two main chapters. The first is devoted to the search for identity in three works by Alessandro Piperno- Con le peggiori Intenzion Elena Loewenthal- Lo strappo nell'anima and Silvia Ballestra- La seconda Dora. The second main chapter is devoted to tendencies that prevail in the individual authors - forgetting vs. remembering. The chapter is divided into two subsections that address specific perspective 2nd and 3rd generation. Separately...
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Thematic Constants in Pirandello's works through Intertextuality
Borovanová, Lenka ; Flemrová, Alice (advisor) ; Sieglová, Tereza (referee)
The aim of the thesis called Thematic constants of Pirandello's literary production through intertextuality is to illustrate inner thematic and mental interconnection of Pirandello's writing with intertextuality quotations which can be found in whole production of Luigi Pirandello across all genres to which he devoted. The main text will be the essay On humor, particularly the second part, wherein the author declares his poetics. The dissertation will observe the inception of his poetics in the texts preceding the essay (e.g. The Late Mattia Pascal) but also developing of the essay in texts created in period between two versions of On humor (e.g. So It Is, If You Think So), and also texts which were written after 1921 (Six Characters In Search of an Author, Henry IV, One, No one and One Hundred Thousand). In this work, we will focus on thematic constants which come from Pirandello's poetics of humour. I will also pay attention to exceeding or demolishing of borders between the genres: essay-prose-drama and also shifts as a result of transition (rewrite) from one genre to another one (e.g. short story Leonora, addio! → drama Tonight We Improvise; novel The Notebooks of Sarafino Gubbio, Cinematograph Operator → drama Each In His Own Way, and the like).
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Florence through the ages in selected works of Vasco Pratolini
Straková, Michaela ; Flemrová, Alice (advisor) ; Pelán, Jiří (referee)
The subject and main aim of this master's thesis, "Florence through the ages in selected works of Vasco Pratolini" is to introduce author writing in the 20th century, and his native city - Florence. We observe which means the author create the image of the city (places, characters, atmosphere, but also events) and how the image is changing over time, especially due to the historical - political context. We gradually introduce several faces of city of Florence. This thesis is based on three major works, three novels: Il quartiere (1943), Cronaca familiare (1947), Metello (1955). Key words Vasco Pratolini, Florence, quarter, Il quartiere, Cronaca familiare, Metello, transformation, city, inhabitants, political influences, unification, fascism
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The topic of concentration camp in Italian women's memoir literature
Bílkovská, Eva Tereza ; Flemrová, Alice (advisor) ; Čaplyginová, Olga (referee)
(in English): The topic of the master's thesis is Italian women's memoir literature which deals with the theme of concentration camp. The factual part is devoted not only to the situation of Jews in the 30th and 40th years of the 20th century, but especially women's memoirs literature and its specific features. The analytical part is focused on live and work of three writers and holocaust survivors: Luciana Nissim, Liana Millu and Giuliana Tedeschi. The final part of the thesis is devoted to a comparison of the women writers and their literary work in the context of "concentration literature".
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Opera dei pupi
Jarošková, Karolína ; Flemrová, Alice (advisor) ; Sieglová, Tereza (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to introduce the popular puppet theatre called Opera dei Pupi, which was developed mainly in Sicily in the second half of the 19th century. The first part desrcibes literary influences that nourished this tradition, from which puppeteers derived topics for their repertoire. These stories were primarily about the French king Charlemagne and his knights and were called paladins. I am trying to map the form of an adaptation of this topic for Opera dei Pupi needs and the way of connection with oral tradition. Furthermore I am going to mention the secondary repertoire of the theatre for example farce. Next chapter focuses on a formal side of the Opera dei Pupi including puppeteer's personality, his work and activities, structure of the theatre itself, characteristics of puppets and handling them. Furthermore this section also describes a specific concept of everyday's performances "to be continued" and how were these performaces organized in practice. The analytical part focuses on a process of putting plot on a scene, which includes both improvisation and fixed rules approach. The principal theme of this part is the so-called copione, which are the puppeteer's own handwritten notes, on which the show was based. This section also includes numerous excerpts not only from copione but also...
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The Sisters Materassi by Aldo Palazzeschi: between Avantgarde and Tradition
Vostrovská, Linda ; Flemrová, Alice (advisor) ; Přívozníková, Pavla (referee)
The subject of this thesis is a presentation of a work of art, The Materassi Sisters novel, written by an Italian writer, Aldo Palazzeschi, in which the author focused, in a remarkable way, to the class structure of Italian bourgeois society during the beginning of the 20th century. The introduction of this work guides through the life's career of the author in the historical and artistic context, briefly describes and characterizes his entire artistic production, and the way of thinking and seeing the world, in which the author moved and worked. This work contains also an outline of the trends of the futurism artistic direction, to which the author was invited at one time of his artistic creation and the ideas of which he joined. The second part of the thesis is devoted to the period of experimental novels of the author, that preceded The Materassi Sisters novel. The main part is devoted to the analysis of the Palazzeschi's novel, The Materassi Sisters, which represents the peak of his literary and artistic creation.
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Thematic constants in Palazzeschi's novels
Hendrychová, Jana ; Flemrová, Alice (advisor) ; Pelán, Jiří (referee)
This diploma thesis is concentrated on the novel production of the original author of the 20th century Aldo Palazzeschi (1885 - 1974). The aim of the thesis is to reveal the common thematic motives and attributes in his three novels: Il codice di Perelà (Man of smoke, 1911), Sorelle Materassi (Materassi sisters, 1934) and Il doge (The doge, 1967). Firstly the thesis acquaints with its aim, subsequently submits the chronology of the author's biography. Then briefly outlines the important events of the 20th century. Afterwards the thesis offers a summary of the evolution of Aldo Palazzeschi's production in the cultural-aesthetic context of the 20th century. The thesis is mainly devoted to the textual analysis of the three above mentioned novels. The analysis are focused on the function of the protagonists and on the main thematic motives. In the final chapter are summarized the common thematic motives and attributes of the three novels - abstract character and isolation of the main protagonists, conformity of the masses, dramatic attributes of the novels, opposition between anarchy and rules, provocation of the provincial moral, criticism of the prejudice or the absurd. The appendix brings the photos of Aldo Palazzeschi.
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