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The Novel Shengsi pilao by Mo Yan and Historical Fiction in the Contemporary Chinese Literature
Hovorková, Petra ; Andrš, Dušan (advisor) ; Lomová, Olga (referee)
The novel Shengsi pilao, written by a contemporary Chinese author Mo Yan, is a free continuation of authorʼs preceding writings recounting the lives of family clans in the Shandong province countryside during the 20th century. The novel employs a specific literary style in exploring history of the PCR from 1949 to 2000, using a story of a landownerʼs soul reincarnating itself to several different animals to be finally born as an extraordinary child. Some of authorʼs preceding works were characterized as "new historical fiction (NHF)", a wave of last century late 80ʼs Chinese fiction. NHF revives some of traditional Chinese fiction narrative techniques and introduces certain literary innovations at the same time. Thus it differs from earlier historical fiction, both traditional and modern. Its main characteristic is deconstruction of authorial representation, challenge to legitimacy of the official history and negation of Chinese modernity. This theses brings forward an analysis of narrative techniques, subjects and general meaning of the novel within the context of authorʼs previous work and considers its relation to NHF.
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Characters in Chinese 17th-century vernacular short stories
Zábranská, Lenka ; Andrš, Dušan (advisor) ; Lomová, Olga (referee)
This bachelor thesis has its main focus on the literary genre of the Chinese vernacular short story. The thesis discusses characteristics, process of formation and coherent theories of the genre, and it also presents the most important 17th century short story writers. The thesis focuses on the analysis of features of literary characters, and it also includes a literary analysis of selected short stories highlighting shared characteristics of their protagonists. Individual chapters aim to provide an outline of the characters typology, specific methods of characterisation and the role of characters as elements of the semantic structure of the stories under scrutiny.
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Zheng Chouyu - the life and works of the classic author of Taiwanese
Piper, Zuzana ; Lomová, Olga (advisor) ; Andrš, Dušan (referee)
Mým úmyslem bylo v této práci postihnout charakteristické rysy básnické tvorby, kterou se Zheng Chouyu natrvalo zapsal do dějin moderní taiwanské poezie. Snažila jsem se poskytnout co nejširší úhel pohledu na Zheng Chouyuho rané dílo a všímala si jak témat a motivů, tak i formálních a jazykových prostředků. Součástí charakteristiky stylu bylo také zamyšlení nad vztahem Zheng Chouyuho díla k tradiční čínské poezii. Soustředila jsem se na estetickou hodnotu básní a posuzovala je jako samostatné entity, i když nebylo vždy možné zcela přehlédnout společenské vlivy, které měly podíl na jejich vzniku. Centrem mého zájmu bylo čtení básní a následná analýza jazyka, techniky zpracování, témat, stylu a obraznosti. V textu jsem uvedla příklady vybraných básní typických pro dané téma nebo pro námět zpracovaný v jisté kapitole. Soustředila jsem se na interpretaci jednotlivých básní a na jejich rozbor.
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'Drinking wine' by Tao Yuanming
Fuksa, Daniel ; Lomová, Olga (advisor) ; Zádrapa, Lukáš (referee)
Thesis abstract The aim of this thesis is to show the basic meanings of wine (jiu 酒) in some of Tao Yuanming's poems, titles of which contain the word 'wine'. The first chapter of the present work concerns itself with the main question of the thesis as well as the theoretical approaches towards the interpretation of the Chinese poetry and gives a brief biography of Tao Yuanming and the intellectual background of his works. The second chapter with its detailed interpretation of all the poems from Tao Yuanming's series 'Twenty Poems After Drinking Wine' (Yin jiu ershi shou 飲酒二十首) represents the main part of the work. The third chapter is dedicated to the poems 'On Stopping Wine' ( Zhi jiu 止酒) and 'An Account of Wine' (Shu jiu 述酒). The second and third chapter also include an annotated translation of all of the poems into Czech. In the case of the poem 'An Account of Wine', it is the first translation to the Czech language so far. The two remaining chapters deal with the motif of wine and its various meanings in the above-mentioned poems. The work shows that the motif of wine in Tao Yuanming's poems can carry different meanings that might be divided into several categories. Those categories of the motif of wine correspond to the poet's attitudes to life as presented by his works.
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Animal in Chinese folktales
Šimková, Monika ; Lomová, Olga (advisor) ; Sehnal, David (referee)
Se zvířecími hrdiny se setkáváme v pohádkách všude na světě. Spektrum zvířat a jejich rolí je široké; na různých místech se proměňuje v závislosti na mnoha faktorech, které jsme výše popsali. Některá zvířata jsou pro určité role typická, jiná jsou snadno zaměnitelná a získávají specifičnost až v momentě, kdy se stávají nositeli symbolického či alegorického významu. Předchozí kapitoly se pokoušely vymezit a charakterizovat kategorie čínských pohádek se zvířecími hrdiny, zasadit je do kontextu čínské lidové tradice a širších kulturně historických souvislostí, na základě primárních pramenů zmapovat výskyt jednotlivých zvířat a zachytit jejich charakteristické vlastnosti, které jsou jim tradičně připisovány a toto ilustrovat komentovanými ukázkami z lidových pohádek. Vzhledem k tomu, že čínská civilizace je odedávna civilizací agrární, ve které každodenní život lidí nezávisí na zvířeti jako kořisti či predátorovi, a čínská pohádková tradice tedy není historicky spjata s divokou přírodou, zvíře nezaujímá v čínské pohádce nikterak dominantní postavení. Zvířecí pohádka je v rámci jednotlivých pohádkových druhů v Číně zastoupena okrajově. Prostředí, v němž čínská pohádka vzniká a "žije," je výrazně venkovské. S různou intenzitou se to projevuje ve výše vytyčených motivických okruzích. Vliv venkovského prostředí je...
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Dong Qichang's texts on painting and their relationship to Mi Fu's History of Painting
Pejčochová, Michaela ; Lomová, Olga (advisor) ; Černá, Zlata (referee) ; Jacoby, Marcin (referee)
Dong Qichang's Texts on Painting and their Relationship to Mi Fu's History of Painting Michaela PEJČOCHOVÁ Doctoral dissertation summary The study entitled Dong Qichang's Texts on Painting and their Relationship to Mi Fu's History of Painting presents an analysis of the critical texts on painting by two important figures of the old Chinese art world, Dong Qichang (1555-1636) and Mi Fu (1051-1107). It is based on the conviction that old historical and critical treatises on painting record information important for our understanding of the actual painting practice in ancient periods, which is difficult or even impossible to document by the surviving pictorial evidence. Both authors of the texts discussed here were scholars, artists, critics and collectors and counted among the foremost literati of their day - Mi Fu was one of the initiators of the "literati culture" during the Northern Song period (960-1127), while Dong Qichang with his theories was highly influential during its late phase. Their texts thus document literati opinions on the aesthetics and history of painting in their respective periods. The focus of the study is the corpus of Dong Qichang's texts on painting that includes treatises like The Significance of Painting (Huazhi), Notes from the Studio for Meditation over Painting (Huachanshi...
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Donghai yuge - "Ci" Lyrics of the 19th Century Chinese Woman Poet
Dolejší, Adriana ; Lomová, Olga (advisor) ; Andrš, Dušan (referee)
Gu Taiqing (1799-1876) also known as Gu Chun was poetess of Manchu origin, author of shi poems, ci lyrics and the first Chinese novel written by woman. Research of the diploma thesis is based on ci lyrics collection Fisherman`s songs from Eastern Sea and partly on shi poems Collection from the Tower of Celestial Wandering. Gu Taiqing`s poetry, of which some translations are included, is strongly autobiographical and it almost represents chronicle of her life. Poems give opportunity to explore her curriculum vitae, lyrics on the other hand create space for Gu Taiqing`s unique poetry language. Gu Taiqing expresses herself in many ways - as devoted wife, loving mother, faithful friend, art enthusiast, traveller and flower fancier. The main directions of her poetry was poetic interview or exchange with her husband Yihui and poems addressed to her friends - poetesses, members of The Autumn Red poetess circle. Gu Taiqing was inspired by each of the following Song poets: Zhou Bangyan, Jiang Baishi, Li Qingzhao, and their specific influence on Gu Taiqing`s poetry will be shown with examples in the diploma thesis. Gu Taiqing's poetry connects traditional literature with the first diffident exploration of the new territory. Gu Taiqing`s unique poetic expression completes woman chambers poetry and shows the...
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Chthonic band - between music and politics
Kacafírek, Marcel ; Lomová, Olga (advisor) ; Hudeček, Jiří (referee)
Univerzita Karlova v Praze Filozofická fakulta BAKALÁŘSKÁ PRÁCE Marcel Kacafírek Skupina Chthonic - mezi hudbou a politikou Chthonic band - between music and politics Ústav Dálného východu Vedoucí bakalářské práce: Prof. PhDr. Olga Lomová, CSc. 2018 Abstract (in English): The goal of the thesis is to introduce Taiwanese death-metal band Chthonic (Shanling 閃靈) and its political opinions, which led its lead singer Freddy Lim (Lin Changzuo 林昶佐) to participate in the elections to the Legislative Yuan in Taipei in 2016. It focuses on important historical events by the historical narrative of the Taiwan independence supporters and their correlations with the opinions of the band as well as the issue of taiwanese identity. The vital part of the thesis is the analysis of the album Bú-tik (Wude 武德 [2013]), in which Freddy Lim has composed the historical events. The analysis will lead us to a conclusion, which reflects the influence of the band on the political situation in Taiwan, the methods used to promote its opinions a its popularization on metal genre through political activism.
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