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Milota Zdirad Polak's Sublime of Nature
Ibrahim, Robert ; Šmahelová, Hana (advisor) ; Hlobil, Tomáš (referee) ; Hrbata, Zdeněk (referee)
Sublime of Nature (1819), a lyrical poem in six cantos and with more than 1800 lines, written by a Czech poet and Austrian officer Milota Zdirad Polák (1788-1856), was at the time of its birth celebrated as the greatest Czech poem, its author labelled a genius and compared to the greatest European poets of the 18th Century. However, in the following decades Polák was gradually falling into oblivion, with literary historians of the end of the 19th and the beginning of 20th Century viewing Sublime of Nature as an unreadable work and its author as a non-poet. This attitude was also true for the 20th Century. However, in recent years some independent attempts have been made to bring Sublime of Nature back to both wider public and scholarly attention. The following dissertation joins these efforts. The aim of this dissertation is not an evaluation of Polák and his work; it is an attempt at interpretation of the text based on comparison of two versions of the poem (book and periodical) and on literary-historical setting of the work. Although Sublime of Nature appeared during a transient era of Czech literature characterized by its syncretism, this dissertation tries to relate Sublime of Nature to the context of (classicist) poetics and aesthetics of the 18th Century and in case of any borderline phenomena always...
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Jaroslav Hruban's "Neoidealistic aesthetics". A tribute to aesthetic value theory
Hanáčková, Martina ; Hlobil, Tomáš (referee) ; Foglarová, Eva (advisor)
This thesis would like to contribute to the spreading of the awareness of the aesthetic values of Jaroslav Hruban, not well - known representative of Czech aesthetics. The thesis focuses manily on Hruban's "Dante period", in which he manages to clarify his opinions on aesthetic value, namely that connected with art. This work tries to elucidate this thinker's concept of aesthetic value, which, due to its metaphysical background, proves Hruban's thinking to contain some neoidealistic elements, rather than to agree with then society on the terms of positivism. ln this aesthetic value, Hruban sees some potential in the skills to intensity mental activities and therefore broaden man's spiritual horizons. lt is in this way that the aesthetic value contributes to positive transforming of human life.
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