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The reception of František Gellner's work in the context of Czech history of literature
Hejlová, Tereza ; Wiendl, Jan (referee) ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor)
The aim of the work is to summarize the Czech literary historians' ideas and opinions of the Gellner's poetry and compare them with the author's own ideas. The work is divided into two parts. The first part summarizes the main ideas of the Gellner's work. At first, he was criticized by Arne Novák and other reviewers for taboo themes in his poetry. After Gellner's disappearance at the beginning of the First World War, his friends wrote lots of articles not only about his poetry, but also about his characters and qualities. There is a big change in the understanding Gellner's work at the beginning of the 50's, when communistic ideology affected others' opinions. František Buriánek's studies are the most famous ones. He tried to explain Gellner' s ideas in the way of communistic propaganda. As far as form and structure are concemed, probably the most important study was written by Miroslav Červenka. After the communistic era there are only a few articles about the problem ofthe interpretation ofthe Gellner's poetry (Křivánek, Justl, Pohorský), that is not sufficient. ln the second part of the work, there is an attempt to interpret Gellner' s poetry in the author's own way. The author puts stress on problems in the interpretation that she finds the most relevant and important, as a distinguishing between poetry...
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The probing of the poetry at the turn of the 10. and 20. years of the 20. century
Hlaváčková, Eva ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee) ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor)
This thesis is primarily focused on the analysis and interpretation of chosen authors of czech poetry at the turn of the 10. and 20. years of the 20. century. To be specificic, these authors are Jiří Wolker, Zdeněk Kalista, Antonín Matěj Píša, Svatopluk Kadlec a František Němec, who were entering the literary and artistic context in connection with the coming of early post-war avant-garde. The period cultural and social situation including a brief characteristic of the poetics of this tendency in poetry and also the literary context is described in the introduction chapter. The main part of the thesis is given to the comprehensive analysis of the representative books of poetry concerned, whereas the motivic analyse is accented. The last part is composed of the respect to the conterporary critical reception of literary works concemed.
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Karel Sabina as imitator and creative artist. Text kinship as a source of meaning and knowledge about Sabina's work and its relationship to the works of other authors, especially K.H.Mácha
Charypar, Michal ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Hrbata, Zdeněk (referee) ; Haman, Aleš (referee)
The text has the character of a monograph about the literary work of Karel Sabina, which should function as a supplement and a counterpart of the hitherto published "Sabinian" text s focusing mainly on K. Sabina' s "moral profile". It i s a series of interpretations interconnected by a consistent methodical approach- the conception of intertextuality, based especially on Harold Bloom's and Mojmír Otruba' s theories. The main goal ofthe application ofthis method is noetic, i.e. to gain new information about Sabina' s work (in relation to the works of other authors) and with the help ofthe information to attempt to redefine Sabina' s position in the Czech literature and literary history. The text shows Karel Sabina from a new perspective as an extraordinarily talented writer deeply involved in most of the important events forming the total cultural progress ofhis time (late 1830s to early 1870s), and gives thus also a new image about the Czech romanticism. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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The language and the world. Literary and art work of Jiří Kolář
Petruželková, 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.
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The reception of antiquity in the poetry of Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic (in comparison with Stanislav Kostka Neumann)
Sirovátka, Štěpán ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee)
The end of the nineteenth century is in European art clearly marked with the return to antiquity. This work deals with the reception and reevaluation of the ancient tradition within the poetic work of Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic and Stanislav Kostka Neumann. The early, decadent, period of Karásek's work is characterized as a Daedalic-Dionysian model, Neumann's decadent poetry as a Dionysian-Daedalic model and the second period of Karásek's work, marked with a classicizing tendency, as an Apollonian model. These models of reception are considered complementary. As an interpretation clue to all three models the author has chosen Hocke's and Curtius' theory of a Great Mannerism, i. e. changing of manneristic and classic periods in European cultural history, and Nietzsche's dichotomy of classical antiquity as a combination of Dionysian and Apollonian element. The neomanneristic interpretation of Karásek's work is supported by the interpretation of the decadent poetics as a new gnosis, although peculiarly reciped. Therefore, in this case, reception of antiquity may be viewed very broadly as a search for a common root, a cultural or anthropological constant extending through history; not strictly as a plain reception of ancient motifs.
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Melancholy in the poetry of Antonín Sova
Urbanová, Martina ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Vaněk, Václav (referee)
The main theme of this thesis is a literary motive of melancholy in the poetry of a Czech poet Antonín Sova. The end of 19th century and the beginning of 20th century we can consider as a specifically melancholic and it is possible to see it especially in pieces of writing of many authors. The rare situation happened in the Czech lands. The Czechs were ready to deal with new issues, but their expectation did not come true. The frustration of all the situation is noticeable mainly in works of Czech decadents, but we can also see it in the poetry of Antonín Sova. It is obvious in his Vybouřené smutky and then in Ještě jednou se vrátíme... which follows and we chose it as a basic text for our interpretation of melancholic motive in Sova's poetry. It was published in time of culminating expectations of some changes in the field of social situation, which was becoming unbearable. It is impossible to omit melancholic feeling in Ještě jednou se vrátíme..., but it is somehow modified, especially in his lyric poetry, which does not sound unambiguously tragical, but on the contrary it offers particular hopes. For the purpose of getting to know the motive of melancholy we researched a concept of melancholy during its history. It enabled us to point out some typical features of melancholy like e. g. involvement in the...
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Vratislav Effenberger's poetry and its ideologic context
Caňko, Miloslav ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee)
This study contains an analysis of the poetry of Vratislav Effenberger and the context of its ideas. The first two sections are devoted to the ideology of Czech surrealism, with which Effenberger is indelibly linked as a leading theoretician and which determined his direction for several long decades. The Introduction carries basic information about the history of Czech surrealism, the general problems of its theory and creative practice and the personality of the author in question. The following part examines in detail one aspect of the fundamental shift that occurred in Czech surrealism during its post-war developments: the shift from attempts at achieving a general disruption of the spirit (European rationalist thought), bringing about a total "crisis of consciousness," to mapping this crisis as a depressing problem of the contemporary world. This change is related to the different position of Czech surrealists regarding psychoanalysis: In this context, the author of this study refers to the two-member development scheme of Jean Michel Rabaté, according to which it is possible to distinguish between "hysterical" and "paranoid" discourse within surrealism, and proposes that it be supplemented by a third member - "analytical" discourse. The remaining sections of the whole study are focused on...
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Literature of architextual tension
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...
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The contexts of the "aesthetic mentality" of the early avant-garde
Beracková, Dáša ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Papoušek, Vladimír (referee) ; Zajac, Peter (referee)
The doctoral thesis The Contexts of the 'Aesthetic Mentality' of the Early Avant-garde takes a close look at the philosophical and aesthetic concepts that formed a paradigmatic change in the art and literature discourse at the beginning of the 20th Century, identified with the birth of the avant-garde aesthetic. With an analysis of the unclear term of Expressionism, traditionally used to describe the character of Czech early avant-garde literature, the thesis refers to contemporary research about the relationship between the avant-gardists and philosophical reflections on the search for an essence of reality. This critique on the fin de sicle spirit at the turn of the century formed a new kind of art and literature discourse where aesthetic strategies were often identified with a philosophical method. In this context an affinity can be seen between Josef Čapek's concept of modernity and the theory of artistic creativity by Wilhelm Worringer, and Karel Čapek's critique on Bergson's concept of life and his liking for Georg Simmels' philosophy of "perspective relativism". The subsequent step to an acceptance of the avant-garde concept is represented by the motif of the "intelligent eye" in J. Čapek's short prose works for the Almanach na rok 1914 (Almanac for 1914). These texts relate to a key topic of the...
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ln the tension of contrasts - the reception of G.K. Chesterton in the Czech culture between WW1 and WW2
Lukavec, Jan ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Med, Jaroslav (referee) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
I distinguished several contradictory aspects of Chesterton o s work: polysemiotics - ideological monosemiotics, movement to negation of reality and order - movement to affirmation of reality and order. Different interpretations emphasized unilateraly m relation to different horizons of expectation individua! aspects of Chesterton o s work. Chesterton's reception in Czechoslovakia was very heterogeneous. "The Pragmatic Generation" (Karel Čapek, Ferdinand Peroutka, Miroslav Rutte) read Chesterton in the pragmatic context (Chesterton was praisefully quoted by William James, but abroad he was not taken for pragmatist, neither by himself). Through influence of these authors was the interpretation of Chesterton as pragmatist quite expanded by us (Arne Novák). Peroutka looked for basis for his liberalism by Chesterton (Chesterton was more conservative, and they both had sympathies to socialism), and Catholic Chesterton was one of his most cited authors, on the other hand Peroutka fought against the Catholic Church and Chesterton's religious attitudes Peroutka left out. His reception was very selective and it is a good example of creative misreading. Rutte estimated Chesterton as a founder of pragmatic aesthetics. Čapek was inspired with both political and fictitious work of Chesterton. Chesterton was for all of...
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