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Paratexts to Non-Linear Media Texts: Paratextuality in Video Games Culture
Švelch, Jan ; Dvořák, Tomáš (advisor) ; Slussareff, Michaela (referee) ; Piorecký, Karel (referee)
Paratexts to Non-Linear Media Texts: Paratextuality in Video Game Culture Jan Švelch Abstract The thesis explores paratextuality in the video game culture. This concept coined in 1982 by Gérard Genette in the context of literary publishing has been throughout the last thirty-five years adopted by other fields, including television and film studies, and game studies. However, the recent appropriations of the paratextual framework significantly deviate from its original conceptualization and cause terminological confusion. Still, paratextuality has the potential to provide a unique insight into cultural practices across various cultural industries, including video games. Figuratively described as a threshold, the concept of paratextuality deals with often overlooked elements of media ecosystems, such as promotional materials or instruction manuals. In the thesis, I present a thorough critical review of the current state of paratextual research. Due to its unsatisfactory state, I propose an updated paratextual framework, which builds on the theoretical foundations of textual transcendence. Its more practical dimensions then acknowledge the cultural specificities of the video game cultural industry. In the empirical part of the thesis, I focus on video game trailers and analyze both their formal qualities as...
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Návrh nábytkového objektu pro společnost HON a.s.
Rožanská, Lucie
This thesis deals with design of new product in field of office furniture. The product should, firstly comply with trends of development and transformations of office environment and, secondly, be producible using up-to-date technological equipment a company. The aim is this thesis is to create a concept of product, together with a prototype which might be included in a product-portfolio HON a.s. company. My thesis includes six crucial parts: The first presents historical context containing tendencies in dealing with office space and environment. The second deals with environmental and behavioural background of office projects, and its principal output is presented as a design and realisation of one office using knowledge incoming from wide bibliography. Philosophy and strategy of HON a.s. company, as well as a furniture trade investigation are described in the third part. In the fourth part I describe technology equipment and used materials in the company. The fifth part deals with final design of furniture object. Herein I describe my mind process of creation of office reception desk as a furniture office supplement. The process is explained using mind maps, concepts, drafts and 3D visualisations resulting in a prototype output and also strategy of presentation. The sixth part includes discussion which deals with questions about use and assertion in the office trade and practice.
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Interiér lezeckého centra
Strnadová, Alice
The content of this work is interior design of particular sport center. The teoretical part deals with the historical context, the specifics of the area, the condition of current competitive spaces in Czech Republic and their problems. Small portion of the work is also dedicated to inspirational centers abroad. It further discusses materials, interior design standards and furniture standards. The practical part presents the design solution of the social and the sport section and sanitary facilities. It includes a ground plan, a drawing of electrical wiring, an item plan and drawings of atypical objects.
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The Reception of Irish Literature and Drama in Czech Translation
Laurincová, Alžběta ; Pilný, Ondřej (advisor) ; Markus, Radvan (referee)
1 Abstract The main aim of the thesis is to introduce the problematics of Czech translations from Irish literature published in the Czech Lands in the period between 1945 - 2014. The author of the thesis provides the list of the authors that were translated in the Czech Lands in that period, and comments upon the literary tradition related to it. Due to the extensive amount of works, the thesis is divided into several chapters, introducing four specific periods: 1945 - 1948 (the end of WWII - the beginning of the Soviet control), 1949 - 1968 (Soviet control - the occupation of the Troops of Warsaw Pact), 1969 - 1989 (the occupation - Velvet Revolution) and 1989 - 2014 (Velvet Revolution - "Velvet Divorce" - the present day). In each chapter the historic introduction is provided mainly to foreshadow the context of the whole era. The discussion about the translations from Irish literature consists from general list of works by individual authors and comments upon their presence at the Czech literary market, the frequency of publishing, the reception of individual authors etc. The author also considers the socio-political occurences that might have influenced the final shape of the Irish-Czech literary canon, and, when possible, tries to demonstrate the extent of such influence.
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Reflexion on the aesthetic of early videoart
Matoušová Peštová, Karolína ; Ševčík, Miloš (advisor) ; Jarošová, Helena (referee) ; Kubalík, Štěpán (referee)
This doctoral thesis treats of the early video art of the 1960s and 70s from four points of view: in chapter one the artistic and technological genesis of video art is analyzed; chapter two is dedicated to a scholarly analysis of video art on whose basis the relation of video art to other arts is determined (especially film and fine art), the chapter, furthermore, examines the properties of video as a medium; chapter three deals with the reception of video art by the audience, its mode of depiction and aesthetic properties which are demonstrated on specific examples; special attention is focused on temporality of video art; the final chapter is dedicated to feminist video art whose task it was to help emancipate women. The aim of the thesis is to present a comprehensive overview of early video art with emphasis on its artistic and aesthetic properties. The thesis does not merely rest on valid scholarly theories - it also analyzes specific art pieces which are documented in an extensive graphic appendix.
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The Czech translations of John Donne: a translator's poetics and its consequences
Šťastná, Zuzana ; Tobrmanová, Šárka (advisor) ; Hilský, Martin (referee) ; Beran, Zdeněk (referee)
The PhD thesis studies the translations and the overall reception of John Donneʼs poetry in the Czech literary culture. Its introduction explains the choice of the topic, outlines the structure of the text and the main question to be answered: to what extent Donne has become a significant presence in the Czech cultural context and how his work has been transplanted through translations. The first chapter gives a brief overview of the historical changes in the appreciation of Donneʼs poetry and, drawing on a range of Donnean literature, attempts to define the main features of his poetics. The second chapter traces the gradual building of an awareness of Donneʼs poetry among Czech readers through translations, translation paratexts and references in the works of Czech literary scholars. It introduces the Czech translators of Donne and discusses their motives for translating his work where these could be ascertained. The first part of Chapter 3 describes the method used in analyzing the Czech translations. It introduces the model of translation criticism presented by Antoine Berman in his analysis of French Donnean translations (Pour une critique des traductions: John Donne, 1995) and comments on its application in the study of the Czech translations. The second part sums up the findings of two...
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Reception Story of Novels by Miloš Urban
Budílková, Jitka ; Králíková, Andrea (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee)
The thesis deals with the author's personality and the novels of Miloš Urban. The aim was to map their existing reception, especially with regard to the development and reflection of author's style and appearance of the narrator. With respect that this is the current author and his work is not yet reflected in a separate monographic material consisted the thesis primarily of review works, both published in the literature review journals and those published by the daily press. Work focused on confrontation the perspective of the reviewers and my own critical reading of the author's novels.
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J.-M. G. Le Clézio: Histoire du pied et autres faintaisies - commented translation, the analysis of the reception of Le Clézio's writing in the context of the French and Czech litterature
Brunclíková, Kristýna ; Šotolová, Jovanka (advisor) ; Belisová, Šárka (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to present an annotated literary translation of two short stories (L'arbre Yama a Barsa, ou barsaq) from the collection Histoire du pied et autres fantaisies by French author and Nobel Prize for literature winner J. M. G. Le Clézio. The first part of this thesis contains a translation of the two short stories. The second part, a commentary on the translation, includes information about the choice of the text, the author and his work, main stylistic and thematic features of the two translated texts, a list of main translation problems and strategies to solve them, the choice of the translation method and conception, the reception of Le Clézio's work in Czech literary context and an analysis of a survey among Czech publishers.
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The Concept of Implied Reader in Wolfgang Iser's theory
Berková, Pavlína ; Kaplický, Martin (advisor) ; Kubalík, Štěpán (referee)
The Bachelor thesis titled "The Concept of Implied Reader in Wolfgang's Iser Theory" aims to introduce the concept of implied reader, which played the key role in the theory of reception aesthetician Wolfgang Iser. In the beginning the thesis is focused on the context of Iser's works, i.e. the Constance School of reception aesthetics and its main ideas, then introduces the concept of implied reader itself. Iser is using this term to capture the nature of the interactions that take place in the process of reading. The thesis introduces not only the concept but also its role in the process of reading and in the constitution of a literary art work. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Gombrich theory of reception of representational works of art
Fejfarová, Tereza ; Ševčík, Miloš (advisor) ; Kubalík, Štěpán (referee)
The aim of my thesis is to introduce E. H. Gombrich's views on the nature of the reception of representational works of art. Firstly I describe the moments in Gombrich's life that contributed to the formation of his views on this topic. Subsequently, I focus on Gombrich's very concept of the reception of representational works of art. My thesis is divided into three parts, in which Gombrich's reflections on reception are thematized. The first part introduces reflections on the participation of the viewer in the process of the reception of works of art. This part demonstrates that the core of Gombrich's views create a distinction between two spheres: "vision" and "knowledge". The second part, in which I tematize Gombrich's concept of reception, introduces his views on the artist's role and discusses the manner and limits of artistic creation. The third part describes Gombrich's reflections on the development of reception, in relation to historical changes on artistic functions. My thesis analyzes Gombrich's reflection, which is that knowledge, experience and memory have a dicisive influence on the perception, interpretation and the creation itself of the work of art. In another part of my thesis, I paraphrase Gombrich's reflections of the perspective representation and I pay attention to the...
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