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Phenomenon of Tramping in Czech Literature
Jíša, Martin ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Machek, Jakub (referee)
(English): The dissertation analyses the literature of subculture of tramping, its peculiarity and impact on Czech society during the era of the so called first republic. It deals with significant turning points of the genesis of this cultural phenomenon and utilizes them for the text interpretation. It also strives to express different possibilities of reception of its literature which germinated from tramping.
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Marie Pujmanová, Prescience
Eichlerová, Barbora ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Mravcová, Marie (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with an analysis of a novel by Marie Pujmanová (1893- 1958) Prescience (Předtucha). Focalization was chosen as the key methodological instrument and other narrative categories are mentioned only through focalization. The thesis focuses especially on its language aspect and also the ways of creating characters through focalization.
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Women writers in the decadent revue Moderní revue
Bártková, Kateřina ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Topor, Michal (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the period of Czech decadence in literature. Primary subjects of this thesis are four most published women authors in the magazine Moderní revue (Luisa Ziková, Edvard Klas, Růžena Jesenská, and Eva Jurčinová), particularly their minimalistic prose and poetry printed in this periodical, but also their published books. The interpretation of women in the modern culture in fin de siècle is especially stressed; furthermore, the works written by women authors are analyzed. One of the main focus areas is also the presence of art nouveau and decadent element and its appearance in these texts.
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Reader's barriers (Český snář and Dotazník)
Bůžková, Dominika ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
This bachelor essay deals with difficulties of comprehension in Český snář by Ludvík Vaculík and Dotazník by Jiří Gruša. These difficulties can be perceived as obstacles which a reader has to get over while reading these texts. This essay tries to notice passages, which make the comprehension more difficult and slower for a reader who is reading this text for the first time. This essay describes potential meanings of these barriers just as it describes a process how to cope with these barriers. This bachelor essay proceeds from our personal experiences with reading these books and with incomprehension which was caused by the composition, style and language of the book. Key words: reader, barrier, reading, narrator, author, Český snář, Dotazník
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Body parts in folk songs (The perspective of ethnoliguistics and cognitive poetics)
Zudová, Tereza ; Vaňková, Irena (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
(in English): This interdisciplinary thesis deals with the relation of oral tradition and somatic terms - words describing specific parts of the human body. The analysis is based on the ethnolinguistics, the theory of term's profile in particular, that deals with the question of which somatic terms serve as the inputs to semantic contexts and what is their dominant meaning. The thesis focuses on general interpretation of folk poetry, while aiming to those poetic methods and characteristics that are coherent to the main subject of the thesis. Next chapter describes ethno-linguistics and explains its methods and theory - the relation of language and culture, language stereotypes and mainly the theory of term's profile. The core of the thesis is the chapter dedicated to somatic terms: hands, eyes, blood, cheeks, mouth and face. Based on the collections Prostonárodní české písně a říkadla (National Czech songs and riddles) by K. J. Erben and Moravské národní písně (Moravian national songs) by F. Sušil, it determines the meaning profiles. In these it describes more closely in what meanings the terms mentioned above appear in folk songs.
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Ways of Breaking the Hegemonic Language Game in the Novels by Elfriede Jelinek, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Thomas Bernhard
Jakešová, Markéta ; Činátlová, Blanka (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
in English The aim of this diploma thesis is to compare novels by Elfriede Jelinek, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Thomas Bernhard on the grounds of each authors' different understanding of language and its limits. The first part is concerned with what I found typical of the novels: Bachmann's Malina (1971) describes and represents the search for (non-violent) language, Jelinek's The Piano Teacher (1983) makes use of violent language as a weapon against violence, and Bernhard's novels problematize the question of truth and objectivity by means of first-person narrators and nested testimonies. The second part uses Roman Jakobson's theory of language as a combination of metaphor and metonymy and shows the ways in which novels can emphasize one or the other pole and what it tells about the language as a whole. Especially in the case of the texts by Bachmann and Jelinek, the important methodological models for his paper are feminist theories: theories of language and means of expression (Drucilla Cornell, John Berger), theories of cultural conditionality of the body (Simone de Beauvoir, Iris Marion Young) and feminist texts which connect body and language (Beatrice Hanssen). On the contrary, in the novels and for their analysis, the approaches that allow for gender essentialism (Luce Irigaray) prove to be...
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Body, physicality and identity in Fight club novel
Alferyová, Jana ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Šebek, Josef (referee)
This thesis examines the issues of body, embodiment and indentity in relation to the novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. The duality between speech and embodiment is explored in depth, both in the story of the novel and in the author's narrative style. Furthermore, the issue of power in relation to the society as well as towards one's own identity is discussed.
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Image of Woman in Japanese Popular Culture in the 2nd half of the 20th century
Křivánková, Anna ; Sýkora, Jan (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee) ; Tirala, Martin (referee)
This thesis follows my previous studies of modern Japanese society and popular culture. I will especially focus on gender stereotypes, particularly negative stereotypes concerning women who refuse to bow to a substantial pressure from society endowed with a strong Confucian tradition. It was this very tradition - together with a foreign concept akin to the Western domesticity cult - what gave rise to the ideal of "good wife, wise mother" (rjósai kenbo), which at least in some form remains quite tangible even in contemporary Japanese society. One of the tasks this thesis wants to undertake is to describe how the negative stereotyping of women who stood in either conscious or natural opposition towards this ideal affected portrayal of women in Japanese popular culture (especially comics), which can be a very good perpetuator of all kinds of stereotypes. At the same time, I would like to find out whether it managed to partially subvert at least some of the negative images of women who refused to be good wives and wise mothers. Key words: gender stereotypes, Japan, popular culture, comics, rjósai kenbo, manga
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