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One hundred years of Švejk: tranformation of the critical reception of Jaroslav Hašek's novel
Mašek, Filip ; Malý, Radek (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
This thesis deals with one century of Czech critical reflection on Jaroslav Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Švejk, i.e. the period from the publication of the first volume in 1921 to 2021. Using reviews in the press, literary critical polemics, selected literary and scientific studies and relevant articles we follow the transformation of the critical discourse about the mentioned novel. The mutual coherence of the viewed sources is ensured by the emphasis on intratextuality, the overview character of the work is complemented by references to other works. This work then not only collects individual texts in the form of bibliographic records and recapitulations of key theses, but also places them in a cultural, historical or social context using interpretive blocks. Using interpretations, we create a narrative culminating in the conclusion when we report on the evolution of the work's critical reception. After its publication, the book is accepted by a wide readership, but literary criticism ignores it with only few exceptions. The work saw rehabilitation in the second half of the 20s of the 20th century thanks to the critical polemics of the time. Since then, the novel has undergone several revisions - in the 1930s it was interpreted as a proletarian novel, during the Second World War it was banned...
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Our man from elsewhere Ludvík Vaculík
Iwashita, Daniela
The paper summarizes the importance of Brumov, Prague and Dobřichovice as a native place, arena and asylum in the autobiographical work of Ludvík Vaculík. It also notes the different roles that the protagonist of the work takes on in these three places.
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The Case Cervanova: from reality, newspaper news to feature film and film reviews.
Zajíčková, Monika ; Novotný, David Jan (advisor) ; Štoll, Martin (referee)
The master thesis "The Case Cervanova: from reality and newspaper to feature film and film reviews" deals with a criminal case that happened in the summer of 1976. Young student Ľudmila Cervanová was kidnapped, raped and killed. The perpetrators were caught in 1981 and the judicial process lasted until 2006. Several literary works have been written and two films have been made, Bolero and Kauza Cervanová. The work focuses on literary works and on both films where it examines the context in which the authors presented the story and how they worked with the facts. In both films, emphasis is also placed on how they were received and judged by the media and the public, thus the work examines the reviews and opinions of the audience. Emphasis is also placed on newspaper of that time and their interpretation of the case. The research sample contains all the relevant dates. That is, from June 1981 to October 1982 (the period of detention and conviction of the offenders), together with April 1983 (decision of the appeal court). The research sample of this period includes four main daily newspapers of that time: Mladá fronta: deník mladých lidí; Lidová demokracie: Orgán československé strany lidové; Rudé právo: Orgán Československé sociálně demokratické strany dělnické a Svobodné slovo. Another relevant...
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