|
|
The language and the world. Literary and art work of Jiří Kolář
Gemrothová, Adéla ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
The literary and art work of Jiří Kolář make one integral entirety. Built up by one author's concept, specific artistic intention, which manifest itself as coherent in operation with different meidums of expression at the sphere of naturallanguage as well as at the sphere of visual images. There is in a same way apllied a princip of paraphrase and variacy, a multiplication of perspective, exploitation of authentic, assumed material, citation, aleathoric princip etc. Kolář is aimed at evident character of a reality and at the matter, how we experience it by understanding a world, particularly through the mediation of language. This effort motivate a permanent searching for a divers constructives methods. So the subject of author (a speaker), instead of own artistic representation ofworld, constitute a pluralistic, multilateraů work, which inquire possibilities of an attitude between a work of art and a real world, his participation on it.
|
|
|
Literature, human being and the world according to Přemysl Blažíček
Šimák, Petr ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
In the thesis, the author tries to trace throughout Blazicek's monographies and other texts a unified approach to methods of literary interpretation. In this, he concerns on immanent interpretation of texts based on pointing out how the world-view expressed in a text differs from reader's consciousness. It forces the reader to give up categorial schemes of understanding the actual world. Thus the reader must grasp the world in the stage of its creating or genesis - it means the world made of artefacts. The reader's standpoint is enriched by that and he/she finds the meaning of reality illusive and constructed, not given.
|
|
|
(The sadomasochistic) signs and melancholy
Vaněk, Tomáš ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee)
Vymezení Melancholie se střetává s jejím vymizením. Melancholie může být vymezována přeneseně, ale sama o sobě se zpřítomňuje s vymizením (činného) vymezení. Pokus o charakteristiku Melancholie musí být básnický. Neurčitelnost v plynoucí hmotě dává zahlédnout její hladinu. Naproti tomu v strukturovaném textu formální vědy není možné dotknout se podstaty Melancholie, je možné jen opisovat její hranice v prostředí (textově) tělesném, (textově) duševním, (textově) řečovém atp. Hranice se pak zmnožují spolu s pohybem náplně, kterou vymezují. S přihlédnutím k osobním zkušenostem, s použitím formulačních zvyklostí, s důvěrou ve společná místa... lze Melancholii připisovat (k čemu?, na co? kde je to, na co píšeme a jak to vypadá?)
|
|
|
Literature of architextual tension. Poetics of the sacred
Šidák, Pavel ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
The dissertation deals with the literature influenced by religious experience. We do not attempt an overall solution of the issue of the relationship between aesthetics and theology; our goal is to describe the so-called "Catholic" literature as one of the possible models of "religious" literature. An ideal example of this model and the material basis of the thesis is Jan Čep's book Zeměžluč (Centaury, 1931). The study is divided into three parts: the first one summarizes the existing discussion of the problem in general (chapter 1), in theology and literary criticism (chapters 2 and 4), and it examines the usability of the term "ideology" (chapter 3). The second part develops our theoretical basis, the theory of intertextuality and interdiscursivity (chapter 6). The subject of this study is not a literary-historical era nor a genre in the traditional sense. We see it as a coalescence of two textual (semiotic) areas. The theory of interdiscursivity allows us to follow the textualization of religion: the mechanism through which real Catholicism as a religious fact turns into a system of signs, i.e. into a text, which is subject to the general laws and possibilities of a text description (Lotman, Piatigorski) (chapter 7). We regard the resulting area of a literary structure as a homogenous phenomenon of...
|
|
|
In search of illegible body. The body as means of understanding literature
Klimeš, Ondřej ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee) ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor)
The work discusses the relation between the body and literature. Interpreting selected works of 19th and 20th centuries, it both explores and refines the presumption of the body presenting for literature not merely a theme or a motif, but, and in some cases primarily, a problem of writing. The body, also, as a shifting, culturally and historically determined concept yields to the same legibility as the language by which it is described. When interpreting works that embrace peripheral, inhuman bodies surpassing the established concepts, these are not - as various symptoms of illegibility - dismissed as failures: they are rather understood as the key stylization writing strategies, motivated by the endeavor to draw nearer to the body, description of which surpasses the language structure of the period. The vanishing point of the survey is thus neither a compact interpretation of the works, nor their contextualization in the literary or cultural history of the body, but rather the body as an inexplicable image that drives the language to the frontier of intelligibility, and beyond. Such approach focuses not on the literary work as semantically and formally compact unit, but rather on writing as a movement that passes through the work. The question is asked, then, whether this movement - while leaving...
|
|
|
Myši Natálie Mooshabrové: repetitiveness, game, and narration
Šebek, Josef ; Špirit, Michael (referee) ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor)
Román Myši Natálie Mooshabrové (1970) má specifické místo mezi vrcholnými prózami Ladislava Fukse, publikovanými ve druhé polovině šedesátých a na začátku sedmdesátých let. V Myších autor opustil ukotvení příběhu ve vnějších dějinách a/nebo v subjektivní historii postavy, které bylo typické jak pro introspektivní, zčásti autobiografické Variace pro temnou strunu (1966), tak pro Spalovače mrtvol (1968) a většinu próz ve Smrti morčete (1969), a vydal se žánrově na pole fantastiky, utopie a detektivního románu.1 Tato žánrová fúze je v Myších provedena velmi originálně a je spojena s nebývale masivním a propracovaným uplatněním stylových a narativních postupů, určujících již od předchozích děl charakter Fuksových textů. Myši jsou provokativním a dráždivě mnohoznačným textem - slibným předmětem literárněinterpretačních snah.
|
|
| |
|
|
Towards the sources of poetry: theory of the genesis of literary work by Jacques Maritain
Jelínková, Klára ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Jiráček, Pavel (referee)
This dissertation deals with the Maritain's art theory from the point of view of its potential contribution to the theory of literature. The contribution is considered to concentrate particularly in the definition of the artistic work as such on the basis of the specific poetic knowledge. Poetic knowledge is a special non-conceptional kind of knowledge, which takes place through emotions, through which the artist by means of his subjectivity portrays some unique aspect of the existence. Maritain's theory of inspiration portrays the artistic work from the very beginning, from the moment the creative intuition is born in the spirit of the artist until the final embodying of this intuition in the given art work. This theory marks also the way of passing the sense of the art work to the spectator. In the first part of the dissertation, wider context of the Maritain's philosophy is presented with particular emphasis on the philosophy of the history and on epistemology - areas, which are closely connected with the Maritain's art theory. Epistemology - because Maritain defines the art particularly by the special way of knowledge, philosophy of the history - particularly in relation to the theory of self-awareness of the poetry. The dissertation is furthermore focused first on the general definition of the fine...
|
|
|
Literature and the inhuman. Alain Robbe-Grillet and posthumanist criticism
Sýkora, Ondřej ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
The work has launched out from reading Alain Robbe-Grillet texts within the framework of Posthumanist criticism in literature and the arts. It reaches, however, beyond the enclosed context of the "Nouveau Roman", toward broader aesthetic and philosophical nexus: French Structuralism and Post-Structuralism in particular. The work falls into two parts, representing two approaches that reflect and complement each other. The first part, "Viewpoint and Non-Human Object of Art", critically approaches humanism, existentialism, and visual aspects of Robbe-Grillet's texts. Robbe-Grillet's critique of anthropomorphic metaphor and Barthes' "Writing Degree Zero" are linked with Ortega y Gasset's modernist concept of "The Dehumanization of Art". Comparison of Jealousy with Sartre's Nausea expounds Robbe-Grillet's approach of impersonal description. Consequently, the paper discusses the relation between speech, rhetoric and ontology (in Foucault's interpretation of Roussel), Deleuze's "structure of the Other", the reading process, and the technique of literary and cinematic angle and image. Final chapter interprets Robbe-Grillet's "stage", comparing it to Duchamp's Etant donées as a strongly visualized object that changes the perception and attitude toward a text. The second part, "Literature, death, technique" discusses...
|
|
|
"I accept gladly, what is being done for my salvation" - Christianism and existencialism in work of Eugen Liška
Liška, Eugen ; Wiendl, Jan (referee) ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor)
This text concerns on virtually uknown literary work of Eugen Liška - the Czech catholic writer of second half of the 20th century. First chapter introduces unpublished text of Liška's debut, short stories book with the title "Čas bez lásky" ("Time Without Love"), which was not published because of the beginning of communist dictatorship in 1948. We seek and find connections of Liška's short stories to European existencialism and present term "Christian existencialism" with help of the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel, comparison with work of Albert Camus and reconstruction of the Liška's lecture of Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton. Second rather descriptive chapter presents Liška's life work - novel trilogy. Only first novel could be published in 1970. This trilogy above all restores Christian paradigm of history of human kind as history of salvation. Third and last chapter shows similarities of themes of Liška's and Heinrich Böll's books (mainly of the first ones). We analyze the ways how the Sacredness emerges in the texts of both authors.
|
guest ::
