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Arthur Ransome, (nejen) autor dětských knih o Vlaštovkách a Amazonkách
 ZMYKALO, Daniel
The subject of the bachelor's thesis will be the life and literary work of the English author Arthur Ransome. The work will first focus on a detailed description of the author's life and what led him to write a children's book series, even though he lived a bohemian life and had extraordinary interests in culture and politics. The aim of the thesis is to critically evaluate the contradictory destinies and vicissitudes of the author's life based on biographical and autobiographical sources (Brogan, Chambers, Hyland, Ransome) and try to capture the essence of children's adventure stories in England with a focus on the characteristics of the Lake District) and its cultural heritage. At the end of the work, it compares the critical response and cultural significance of Ransom's stories in the 20th century and the present.
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Nature as a sanctuary in selected poems of William Wordsworth
 Roučková, Pavla ; Higgins, Bernadette (advisor) ; Topolovská, Tereza (referee)
This thesis deals with the theme of nature as a sanctuary in selected poems of William Wordsworth. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate such aspects of Wordsworth's writings that portray the outdoors as a shelter, where one can escape from the industrial, urbanised society in order to reach a tranquil state of mind and through meditation and introspection find wisdom. The main features of Wordsworth's interpretation of a sanctuary that this thesis discusses are nature as a source of serenity, nature as a teacher and the superiority of nature over the city. This thesis also provides a factual background and insight into the life of the poet in order to investigate the motivations behind the choice of nature as the main subject in his writings. The thesis begins with the introduction of the romantic movement as a whole. In this part of the document, romanticism will be introduced and discussed by commenting on and contrasting works of other writers of that era with the works of William Wordsworth with the primary focus being on the theme of nature in order to establish the poet's position within the movement. The theoretical part also deals with the childhood and adolescent life of Wordsworth as a primary motivator for portraying the topics mentioned above in his poetry through studying The...
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