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Space and Locations in Czech Poetism
Nováková, Barbora ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
The bachelor thesis aims to describe the processes and possible motivations for the creation of fictional environments by the authors of the Devetsil group in the 1920s. It will particularly focus on the environments that, by using proper names of places belonging to the sphere of the real world (e.g. Paris, Prague, New York, Russia, Java, Italy, etc.), thematise the relationship between it and the fictional environment as its variant. For individual environments situated in different places, it traces what is selected as their proxy features and what is suppressed, how this selection of features and their meanings affects the resulting images of environments, how these features are combined within and across environments, and how images of environments are transformed as a result. Based on their comparison, it observes what the environments have in common, how they influence and converge with each other, how the preferences of different ones evolve over the decades, and how they relate to environments referred to as Prague or domestic. It relates these findings to the aesthetic and ideological tendencies of poetism, as well as to contemporary attitudes to travel, and relationships to and orientation in space-time. Keywords poetism, representation, exotism, exotic environment, urban environment,...
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Character-Artist in 1940's novel
Fráňa, Jakub ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Šebek, Josef (referee)
(in English): The thesis analyses mainly two novels about art written and published in the 1940s, Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus [1947] and Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game [1943]. In three parts, I gradually present a methodological ground, prominently focused on the character in the narrative considering its dimension of values and in the form of the artist; then the intermedial aspect of the novels, characterized mainly by musicality and intertextuality and denoting a wider cultural field; and the reflexive element, which both questions the character type and its cultural world and thus actualizes it. The text thus presents a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which fictional texts thematise art and its role in society, which is analysed as a historically conditioned phenomenon of the period of "crisis", but also as an universal principle of cultural continuity.
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Blending of Opposites: Jaroslav Kolman Cassius' Love Ballads
Klaus, Jan ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
The master's thesis Blending of Opposites: Jaroslav Kolman Cassius' love ballads aims to bring attention to the mentioned Czech writer and journalist, whom I consider unfairly overlooked. It focuses on the late phase of his work, i.e. the love ballad, and tries to describe the reasons that lie in the structure of the work, thanks to which they arouse aesthetic pleasure in its readers. It is above all the poet's register of motifs, which are deeply rooted in the tradition of love ballads, but here they function on the principle of contrasts taken to the extreme and on the basis of combinations and permutations permeate entire collections, making individual ballads, with a few exceptions, "variations on one theme". The thesis pays attention not only to said polar contrasts, but also to sudden exceptions and their effect in the structure of the work. In addition to intratextual analysis, attention is also paid to the relationship of Kolman's work to the tradition of the ballad as a genre (with a focus on the Czech interwar ballad) and works with literature dealing directly with the discourse of love relationships themselves.
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"Immense Beauty, Tremendous Trap": the Roman Journeys of Josef Svatopluk Machar and Jaroslav Durych
Horský, Jan ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee)
This thesis deals with the tradition of literary reflections on journeys to Rome and Italy by comparing two Czech essayistic travelogues that fall into this tradition - Josef Svatopluk Machar's Rome and Jaroslav Durych's Roman Journey. Both of these texts present very specific and contrasting representations of the traveller's experience and stay in the "eternal city". On the basis of the genre and Italian-travel contextualization of both works and the theoretical conceptualization of the two basic themes (the issue of movement in travel writing and the concept of Rome as a text or palimpsest), it was possible to analyze the common features of both works as well as significant differences in a comprehensive way. Both author-travelers bring with them to Rome their own, very specific and highly exacerbated view of Italy, history, art or religion, and these dispositions are strongly manifested in the way they elaborate their experience of travel and Rome in their texts. Josef Svatopluk Machar traverses Roman history, creating a strong opposition between antiquity and Christianity, and is completely captivated by Rome. Jaroslav Durych seeks his place in an incomprehensible world through intimate, poetic reflections. Both travelogues, with their distinctive portrayals of Rome, continue the tradition of...
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Semantics of space in the late poetic work of Bohuslav Reynek
Teclová, Barbora ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
The bachelor's thesis deals with the poetics and construction of the microworld around the house in Petrkov in the late poetry of Bohuslav Reynek, specifically in his three last collections of poetry, Sníh na zápraží, Mráz v okně and Odlet vlaštovek. Firstly, the thesis outlines the background of the house no. 13 in Petrkov, both in terms of Reynek's personal history and the resulting connection with the house, and in terms of the political and social events that affected both the house and the poet. Furthermore, we focus on literary-scientific methods of reflecting on the poetics of places, in particular topoanalysis based on Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Space, which the thesis links with findings on Petrkov. At the core of the thesis are analyses of the poems and the creation of a typology of motifs from which the rural microcosm is constructed. In the analysis, the thesis focuses on the constellation of inner space in relation to the outside world, which in Reynek's work of the 1950s takes the form of a hostile and anti-human space. KEY WORDS Petrkov, Bohuslav Reynek, poetics of space, microcosm, topoanalysis.
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Changes of Karel Toman's Work
Dočkalová, Anna ; Merhaut, Luboš (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
The bachelor's thesis focuses on the transformations of poetics and the distinctiveness of Karel Toman's poetry. It aims to analyze the author's poetic work from its beginnings, influenced by the poetics of Decadent symbolism, and to trace Toman's gradual revision of decadent poetics, his generational inclination towards the ideals of anarchism and vagrancy, and his search for a balanced and unique expression in connection with the changing contemporary context. The analysis and comparison of individual poetry collections focus primarily on the motivic level, on a poetic image and its form and meaning. In addition to collections, the thesis also considers poems not included in the collective work.
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The theme of threat to human existence in poems at the turn of the 1940s and 1950s
Janečková, Karolína ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
The bachelor thesis presents and compares three poetic compositions that thematize the threat to human existence: Atlantis by Vladimír Vokolek, Znamení moci by Jan Zahradníček, and Symfonie XX. století by Miloš Dvořák. In addition to the formal and compositional level of the texts, the thematic and motivic level is analysed. Consideration is also given to those poetic devices that co-create the image of a vision of the world in which the certainty of human existence is questioned. In the conclusion there is a comparison of the texts, presenting their identical and different moments.
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Poetry of Josef Hora in the late 1920s and in 1930s
Krátký, Aleš ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
The bachelor thesis focuses on the poetic work of Josef Hora (1891-1945), specifically on the poetry collections contained in the collection Kniha času a ticha edited by Antonín Matěj Píša, which define a specific poetic line within Hora's work called the poetics of time and silence. The thesis is divided into two parts, the first part works with contemporary critical texts which create the first concepts of poetics time and silence. The second interpretive part seeks to outline the basic principles of the poetic image, which are the same for all the collections identified. The interpretative part is divided into three segments. The first section of the interpretative part focuses on the four basic elements as the basic motifs of the poetic image. The second chapter focuses on the relationship of the lyric subject to the space of the poems and the third on the thematization of dream and art in perspective of the function it occupies within the poetics of time and silence. In addition to the literary historical texts devoted to Josef Hora, Zdeněk Neubauer's and Tomáš Škrdlant's Skrytá pravda země: Živly jako archetypy ekologického myšlení and the work of the philosopher Gaston Bachelard will also provide support for the interpretative section. KEYWORDS Josef Hora (1891-1945), poetics of time and...
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Prose Works of Milada Součková (with Emphasis on Analysis of Amor a Psyché)
Martanová, Petra ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
This thesis deals with Milada Součková's novel Amor a Psyché, which was published as the author's second work in 1937. The focus is on the analysis of the internal relations of the work and the key elements of its construction. Attention is paid to the narrating subject and its intratextual transformations, including issues of unreliability and gender. Subsequently, the thesis examines self-reflexivity, focusing on the novel's anti-illusional elements. Another aspect examined is the characterisation of the characters and their progressive marionetisation. Spatio- temporal dimensions and key motifs as integral parts of the novel are also analysed.
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Kinship of Sorrow or Kafka in the (inter)textual folds of Winfried Georg Sebald's Vertigo
Prouzová, Mariana ; Činátlová, Blanka (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to to analyse the way W. G. Sebald operates with intertextuality and literary legacy of selected writers. specificaly with regard to presce of Franz Kafka's life and work in Sebald's first prose novel Vertigo. The thesis focuses on a detailed analysis of the novel with regard to the theory of intertextuality (J. Kristeva, R. Lachmann, R. Barthes, etc. ), on the other hand, it intends to examine Sebald's specific literary style in the context of his own work (The Apartment in the Country House, Kafka Studies), and compares it with selected novels of twentieth-century world literature (P. Demetz: 1909: Aeroplanes over Brescia, J. Barnes: Flaubert's Parrot)
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