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Myth and Literature: The Werewolf
Benešová, Anna ; Ébert-Zeminová, Catherine (advisor) ; Šuman, Záviš (referee)
anglicky: Title of the thesis: Myth and Literature: The Werewolf Keywords: myth, literature, mythology, mythodology, mythanalysis, mythocriticism, werewolf Abstract: This thesis deals with the relation between literature and myth. Literature transcribes the myth from a language of symbols to the language of literature. This process limits the multiplicity of meaning and the variety of renderings of a myth but at the same time makes it possible to preserve the elemental message and make it comprehensible for the socio-cultural reality of the author and subsequently for the reader. The objective of this thesis is to show on the example of the werewolf how a myth works in literature. After researching into the domain of mythology and mythocriticism, Gilbert Durand's method, called mythodology, was chosen as the principal route to approach the subject of this thesis. Mythodology comprises of two phases: mythanalysis and mythocriticism. The method is used for the study of the myth of the werewolf in four literary works from the different periods and of the different genres. In the final part are studied and analysed some socio-cultural consequences of the psychological nature of myth and its transcription into literature.
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400 Blows - film of many faces
Krásová, Kristýna ; Kalfiřtová, Eva (advisor) ; Šuman, Záviš (referee)
The film 400 Blows has been directed by French director Francois Truffaut who belongs to the New Wave, a movement in French cinematography in 1950s. This thesis examines not only the wider context of the author and the New Wave, the creation of the film and its great success at Cannes Film Festival in 1959 (best director). The main focus of the thesis is the analysis of the film's content, focusing on the autobiographical aspects and on the elements of the New Wave in the film as well as on more specific topics, namely childhood, one of the most important topics in Truffat's creation, and the character of Antoine Doinel, portrayed by Jean-Pierre Léaud, who is the hero of four other movies about other phases of his life.
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Novel Thérese Raquin by Émile Zola and it's literary inspiration
Raatzová, Tereza ; Listíková, Renáta (advisor) ; Šuman, Záviš (referee)
Title of the thesis: The novel Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola and its literary inspirations Keywords: naturalism, realism, love triangle, a female heroine, jealousy, murder, femme destructrice, Thérèse Raquin, Madeleine Férat, LʼAmoureuse comédie, Germinie Lacerteux, La Vénus de Gordes, Lʼassassinat du Pont-Rouge, Un mariage dʼamour, La Bête humaine, Émile Zola, frères de Goncourt, Charles Barbara, Adolphe Belot, Ernest Daudet Abstract: This thesis is mainly a literarily comparative study, analysing several literary works preceding and influencing Zola's novel Thérèse Raquin; namely in these works Zola had found the basic story for his next novel. The analysis of the following impact of the novel Thérèse Raquin on further Zola's work is also emphasised. The comparison of novels follows after the overall inclusion of Zola's works into the literary-historical context of his time. The aim of the work is first of all to reveal and make more familiar the Zola's fascination by the central theme and the main heroine of the novel Thérèse Raquin
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The Influence of Jack Kerouac on Jacques Poulin : Identity Search in On the road and Volkswagen blues
Töröková, Sára ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (advisor) ; Šuman, Záviš (referee)
Late 1950s, American writer Jack Kerouac publishes his novel On the road which completely change the perception of literature: 120-foot-long scroll of teletype paper, written in three weeks and using the technique of stream of conciousness, the novel narrate a story about Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty who are travelling around theUSA, inspired by Kerouac's own experience. The book has a roaring success and play an important role in forming a groupe of writers known as "beatniks". Almost 30 years later, Jacques Poulin publishes his sixth novel Volkswagen blues, story about a Canadian-francophone writer and a young Indian woman crossing the northamerican continent in order to find a lost brother. The objective of this thesis is to shed light on the influence of Kerouac's autobiographical narration on Poulin's work and analyse deeply the role of this American idol in the Canadian-francophone literature. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Teaching vocabulary
Havránková, Anna ; Klinka, Tomáš (advisor) ; Šuman, Záviš (referee)
This thesis presents different points of view on vocabulary. Its aim is to define its role in language teaching. There are four main chapters in the theoretical part: history of methodologies, psychological and neurolinguistic aspects of teaching, fields of vocabulary knowledge and finally stages of vocabulary teaching. The work addresses both the historical development and current tendencies. In the practical part, we first made a didactic analysis of selected textbooks which deal with vocabulary. Furthermore, a selected range of vocabulary (family) was analysed according to the techniques of introducing, semantisation and practicing activities. Several shortcomings were revealed, such as lack of information about the pronunciation, word grammar, register, audio recordings and especially dearth of language skills nowadays often emphasised in Europe. The last part of this work was to create a separate file for teaching the topic of family, so that on the one hand it corresponds to the theoretical knowledge and on the other hand, is based on an analysis of textbooks. Therefore it was possible to demonstrate their applicability to the given range of vocabulary. The aim of the thesis was to define the role of vocabulary in teaching, which we did not do only in methodology, but also in linguistics and...
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The role of secondary characters in Molière's comedies
Řádková, Tereza ; Šuman, Záviš (advisor) ; Pohorský, Aleš (referee)
This Master's diploma thesis deals with the work of French playwright Molière, to be more precise, with types of characters in his plays. The thesis is not only based on Molière's main works Don Juan, Tartuffe or The Miser but it also studies characters in comedies like The Bourgeois Gentleman, Scapin's Deceits and others. It distinguishes two categories, major and minor characters. Nevertheless the attention is particularly focused on the minor characters. The goal of the thesis is to show what importance the characters have in Molière's plays and what is their role. Keywords: Classicism, Comedy, Molière, Character, French Drama, French Literature, Secondary Character
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The Poetics of Solitude in the Poem The Night of Loveless Nights by Robert Desnos
Hrančík, Matouš ; Šarše, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Šuman, Záviš (referee)
(anglicky) This bachelor thesis aims to describe and analyse the vast poem The Night of Loveless Nights that was written by a French poet Robert Desnos and published in a book of poems Fortunes (1942). The first chapter comments Desnos' biography while focusing on its crucial moments including his participation in the Paris Surrealist movement during the 1920s. Notable links between Desnos, his work and Czech (Czechoslovakian) cultural region are mentioned as well. After a brief résumé of Desnos' bibliography and key poetry collections, the thesis focuses on the presented poem. We contextualize it, point out its heterogeneity and then describe its major poetic qualities: the use of poetic and linguistic means of expression, the motivic aspects and the categories of time and space. While doing so, we observe by what means the author emphasizes the solitude of the lyrical subject. The conclusion of the thesis presents a synthesis of gathered knowledge concerning the author and the presented poem.
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Two sexteenth-century French Translations of the Cento Probae
Stříbrná, Adéla ; Bažil, Martin (advisor) ; Šuman, Záviš (referee)
Cento Probae is one the important works of late Roman literature, which had a great success both in the Middle Ages and in the humanism. This is evidenced by the large number of manuscripts and printed witnesses, to which it is possible to add two French translations from the middle of the 16th century. The main focus of this master's thesis is to propose a detailed comparison of the texts with regard to contemporary translation practice. Based on this analysis, the author examines the purpose of these translations, the audience for which they were intended and whether there is any connection between them.
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Narrative Strategies in Anne Hébert's Novels
Hujová, Annemarie ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (advisor) ; Šuman, Záviš (referee)
(anglicky) The bachelor thesis Narrative Strategies in Anne Hébert's Novels focuses on the narrative techniques of this Quebec author in her works of prose. Based on two of her novels, namely Kamouraska and Children of the Black Sabbath, we will try to describe the narrative strategies that she uses to create the fictional world of her books. With a theoretical basis in Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan's Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics the thesis will focus on analysing the distribution of events in time in Kamouraska as well as the nature of Hébert's narrative categories time and space in Children of the Black Sabbat. The aim of the work is to draw attention to specific narrative techniques used by the author when constructing the narrative of her novels and to reveal their link to the semantic aspect of the story. Preflight Results Document Overview Preflight Information Title: Profile: Convert to PDF/A-1b Author: Hujová, Annemarie Version: Qoppa jPDFPreflight v2020R2.01 Creator: Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 Date: May 18, 2021 4:44:59 PM Producer: Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 Legend: (X) - Can NOT be fixed by PDF/A-1b conversion. (!X) - Could be fixed by PDF/A-1b conversion. User chose to be warned in PDF/A settings. Page 1 Results (X) Font TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT is not embedded. Font...
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