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Meanings of Literary Childhood Spaces: The Garden in Twentieth-Century Literature
Izdná, Petra ; Hrbata, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee) ; Hrdlička, Josef (referee)
Meanings of Literary Childhood Spaces: The Garden in Twentieth-Century Literature focuses on the analysis of selected twentieth-century childhood novels for adults with regard to the relationship between child character and fictional space, and reflects generally accepted cultural concept of paradisal childhood and its images in literature. In theory, the dissertation is inspired by the treatises on spatiality of human existence by phenomenologists, such as Martin Heidegger, Jan Patočka, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and O. F. Bollnow. It also elaborates insights of the Garden archetype in literary history. The critical reading of selected works examines phenomenological issues, such as child specific perception of space, nature as an extension of the human consciousness, sacred space, home, intimacy of space and death of space. Furthermore, it describes features the literary garden acquires by the union with the child in twentieth-century literature (childhood paradisal gardens, character of divine chid, character of child hermaphrodite, dynamism between fictional house and garden, garden as a miniature of the universe and children games as the imitation of Creation).
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The Forms of Autobiography. Přestupný rok - Disiecta membra - Let let
Stejskalová, Anna ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee) ; Tuckerová, Veronika (referee)
This doctoral thesis is concerned with autobiographical forms, their general characteristics as well as with three examples of Czech works of art that prove how difficult it is to make that general characteristics and show various kinds of autobiographical narrative. It aims to show the often heterogeneous character of the so- called autobiographical genres, and present some approaches in their study. In the opening chapter, we define the term autobiography or autobiographical form in regard to literary history and theory, and special attention to Czech research in this field. We concentrate on the genre specifics of autobiographical forms, the opposition of "literary" and "authentic" diary, the term "autobiographical pact" coined by Philippe Lejeune and several patterns of autobiographical memory introduced by James Olney. The key aspect of our study is the nature of autobiographical form derived from the subject's style and illocutionary acts, i. e. stylization as defined by John Searle followed by Jean Starobinski or Paul de Man. Out of the wide spectrum of issues connected with autobiography we focus on the description of the subject's narrative structure, mainly on its language, style, frequent motifs, its memory and relationship to other characters in its text. The complexity of the very...
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Allegory of fashion (Luisa Zikova's Case)
Chochrunová, Ivana ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee)
This bachelor thesis concentrates on the issue of the relationship of fashion and literature in the period of fin de siècle. The allegory of fashion, as it was brought to life by Charles Baudelaire in "The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays" and subsequently developed by Oscar Wilde, is one of the results of Luisa Zikova's analysis, the prematurely deceased writer of the 90s of the 19st century. This thesis follows the overall change in the literary methods based on the analyses of her short stories, both published and from estate, in the relation to categories of transiency and permanency, outside and inside, consciousness and unconsciousness. It will stem from the theoretical and historical principles of the Czech modernism of Petr Málek, Michal Topor, Robert Pynset and others.
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Karel Kamínek as a Prose Writer
Brázdová, Kateřina ; Merhaut, Luboš (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
The thesis deals with short proses of Karel Kamínek - author of Modern revue circuit. The first part is dedicated to environment of Czech decadency in 19th and 20th centuries, its French roots and European sources of inspiration. The second part deals with the person of Karel Kamínek itself. It begins with basic biographical data and presents selected projects in which Kamínek participated. The third part analyses the author's short proses. We focus on Dies Irae and other stories and on Disonance also on short stories published in magazines. We approach Kamínek's work chronologically; divide it into sections with related poetics, while respecting the framework of book units. Selected short stories are closer discussed. The aim is to remind forgiven author, try to determine the specifics of his prose, capture its development and to put his work into the context of Czech literature.
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Literary Critic F. V. Krejčí in Rozhledy Review
Pečenková, Aneta ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
The topic of this master thesis is F. V. Krejci's literary criticism. It analyses not only his approach to literary criticism as presented in his major as well as minor texts, but also his own output in the Rozhledy revue, presumably the best representative of modern literary-critical tendencies of the 1890s. The Rozhledy revue and F. V. Krejci's literary- critical output (including his monographs) both help us understand the literature of the second half of 19th century with its diversities as well as the way how the young generation of literary critics used to form their methodological aspects. The body of this master thesis is created by the complete and annotated bibliography of F. V. Krejci's texts published in Rozhledy. The research was based on both - the detailed study and analysis of the main sources and the author bibliography provided by the Institute of Czech Literature AS CR. In Rozhledy, F. V. Krejci published various political and literary articles. He also reviewed a few books. In his reviews, he usually wrote a non-detailed foreword and introduction. After that, he commented on a few aspects of the particular book. There are four topics he was interested about the reviewed masterpiece and that is its plot, message, overall meaning and its social impact. He also published some...
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Changes of religiousness in the Ještěd Prose by Karolina Světlá
Kamenická, Andrea ; Vaněk, Václav (referee) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
The dissertation entitled "Changes of religiousness in the Ještěd Prose by Karolina Světlá" deals with an analysis of the Ještěd Novels by the author Karolina Světlá. It characterises the depiction of vernacular devoutness in the novels by means of an analysis of the changes in thecharacters' religious consciousness and their subsequent interpretation. The objective of the paper is to shed light on the progressive qualitative changes in Karolina Světlá's works of prose and interpret them against the backdrop of the defined problem area, which is the period concept of devoutness and attitudes to faith as such. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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A Child, an Adult, and an Elder in the Literary Work of Jan Čep
Hájek, Matěj ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
The bachelor's thesis focuses on character in early short stories of Jan Čep. It studies the character from the standpoint of narratological categories as well as factual and inner content. It pursues typologization of the characters - from the formal as well as contentual point of view. Further the physicality is explained and structured as another creative principal of Čep's poetics. Two chosen short stories are subject to a coherent and careful interpretation.
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The types of a joy in Ivan Slavík's work of poetry
Snopková, Marie ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
This work aims at an ideological and motivational analysis of the poetry of the catholic-oriented Czech poet Ivan Slavík from the point of view of types of joy. Based on the interpretation of partial motives connected with joy which concern particular domains of reality, eg: the material existence, the human goodness, the goodness of God, the existence of being and the goodness as they are. This work abstracts the ideological system of sources of joy and their hierarchy in the whole of Slavík's work. The primary source of joy for Slavík's lyrical subject is the good and the being as they are. The absoluteness of which is connected to God and this absoluteness also results in the goodness of man and material realities. Slavík creates in his poetry a complex picture of the good that is identified with the being itself which is essentially manifested as love. The work partially deals with the problem of the way of comprehending the category of "catholic poetry" and also with the placement of Slavík's poetry regarding joy of goodness point of views. It is done in literary- historical context by developing Czech catholic lyrics in the 20th century.
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Japan in the work of Jan Havlasa
Jirkal, Martin ; Vaněk, Václav (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
The main focus of my bachelor's thesis is a presentation and analysis of the works of a Czech writer Jan Havlasa that thematize Japan. The first chapter serves as an introduction on the life of the author, focusing on the two sojourn in Japan described in his four travelogues. The second chapter consists of a characterization of the body of Havlasa's prose work about Japan. The last chapter is of a purely analytic and interpretive nature and the proses are analyzed from a variety of perspectives (construction of the narrative, the narrator, image of Japan in Havlasa's works and thematization of arts). Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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