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The Tragic in Selected Works of Norwegian Literature of Recent Decades
Mittnerová, Lucie ; Humpál, Martin (advisor) ; Hartlová, Dagmar (referee)
The goal of this thesis is to analyze five selected novels of the Norwegian modern literature in terms of the theory of tragedy. The thesis focuses on four basic aspects of the topic. First, we are trying to capture and describe the concept of tragic in general. This is done with help of theories of the tragic that: 1) are generally considered significant in the area of tragedy 2) are interesting in connection with the interpretation of the novels chosen for this thesis. Secondly, we are trying to describe main topics that could help us to identify and investigate the tragic in the above mentioned works. After this, the thesis brings a closer analysis of the novels with regard to the previously described theories. It also focuses in this connection on some additional characteristics of tragedy, as well as more theories connected to the tragic area. Furthermore, these analyses lead to repeated encounters of various interpretations of classical and modern features of tragedy. The conclusion of the thesis points out the most significant features of the analyzed works that form, according to my opinion, the tragic basis in the novels (in this context, the thesis compares the five chosen novels with each other, thus showing that one of them differs from the rest). As a result, I come to the conclusion...
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The Contradiction Between Romantism and Biedermeier in H. C. Andersens'Fairytales "The Little Marmaid", "The Snow Queen" and " The Bell" and the Funtion of the Symbol of the Nature these Short Texts.
Kačenová, Kristýna ; Březinová, Helena (advisor) ; Humpál, Martin (referee)
The subject matter of this bachelor work is a conflict of Biedermeier and Romantism in H. Ch. Andersen's fairy-tales "The Little Mermaid", "The Snowqueen" and "The Bell". This work focuses on the said art movements in relationship to the everyday life. In the fairy-tales, it is examined if one of the art movements is rated positively and the other negatively or if one effects the characters negatively and forces them to leave their homes, and the other, however, forms them positively. The analysis of the natural symbols is a constituent part of this work. For both of the art movements, Biedermeier and Romantism, is nature very important and the natural symbols in the examined stories co-create the personalities of the characters and clarify their actions. The subjekt mater of this bachelor work is examined by the help of seconadary literature mainly in danish, but also in german, english and czech language. In the first fairy-tales is Romantism rand positively and Biedermeier negatively, in the third one are both art movements rated equally, both positively.
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Ole Jastrau's journey through the city, the image of a man and a city in Tom Kristensen's novel Hærværk
Vašáková, Lenka ; Březinová, Helena (advisor) ; Humpál, Martin (referee)
The thesis presents an analysis of the themes of the city, the journey and the pilgrim in the well known danish novel Havoc by Tom Kristiensen. The introductory part of the thesis includes a brief summary of the changes in the image of the city in the 19th and 20th century works of art and literature. Furthermore, it also focuses on the man-city relationship and stresses its reciprocity and the important role of the city in the process of the formation of individual identity. The following part of the thesis analyses the theme of the city in Havoc and focuses mainly on the influence, which the main character's feeling of alientation has on the depiction of the city in the novel. Another discussed topic is the main character's decision to intentedly reach the bottom of his existence, which is interpreted as the result of the post-world war I. urge to question and reassess the foundations of the society and its principels and values. The thesis compares and contrasts the main character's deroute with other famous litterary journeys and pilgrimages. Furthemore, it also analyses the predominant patterns of the main charcter's movement through the city and interprets its spiral course as emblematic of the main charatcer's search of identity. The final part of the thesis explores the importance of the...
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Stylistic Stringency and the Economy of Expression in Selected Works of Contemporary Norwegian Prose and in Their Czech Translations
Vacková, Martina ; Humpál, Martin (advisor) ; Hartlová, Dagmar (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to document the process of translating literary texts that have no stylistic equivalent in the target culture. The research is based on selected works by three contemporary Norwegian authors whose style is perceived as very specific. The theoretical part discusses current tendencies in Norwegian as well as in Czech prose writing and also approaches to literary translation developed in translation studies are presented in this part of the thesis. The other part of this thesis focuses on the unique styles of Hanne Ørstavik, Erlend Loe and Jon Fosse. The significant features of their styles are documented in analyses of their novels. These analyses at then used for the assessment of the Czech translations.
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Repetition as a means of expression in Jon Fosse's plays
Maxová, Pavla ; Humpál, Martin (advisor) ; Březinová, Helena (referee)
This thesis focuses on the phenomenon of repetition in the plays of the Norwegian author Jon Fosse. The concept of repetition is approached in a broader context. The analysis reveals that repetition in these texts is not merely a decorative aesthetic figure, but a deep structure which manifests itself in all components of the work. It can be observed on several levels, ranging from graphemic and phonemic to the compositional level, even transcending the boundaries of the individual works. As an example, the play Ein sommars dag was chosen and examined in the context of Fosse's complete dramatic output.
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Christian Symbols in M. A. Hansen's Novel The Liar as a Work of Christian Existentialism
Slouková, Radka ; Humpál, Martin (advisor) ; Hartlová, Dagmar (referee)
The Liar is one of the Danish writer Martin A. Hansen's best known and popular novels. The Liar is influenced by existentialism, one can call it a work of Christian existentialism. In my thesis I demonstrate which main features of Christian existentialism are present in the novel. In the first part I describe existentialism as philosophy. Existentialism came from France to Denmark. It is a philosophy that focuses on the concrete individual. People must create their own existentence by accepting responsibility for their action. The important concepts are freedom, choice and responsibility. They denote the authentic existence. People in the inauthentic existence are passive, they don't act and don't accept responsibility. Existentialism takes up the question of freedom, too. But one is condemned to freedom and can't escape. That's why the world is absurd and incomprehensible. One can find most of the existentialist elements in The Liar. The protagonist Johannes Vig lives an inauthentic existence. He likes to lie to the people. He is passive, he doesn't act. In the middle of the novel he understands that he didn't live right and tries to find a better way of living. It is not easy, Johannes has lost the fight about Annemari (the girl he loves) and slept with Rigmor (the woman who loves him). But now he has...
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The reception and influence of fin de siécle Scandinavian literature in Czechia
Thál, Jonáš ; Humpál, Martin (advisor) ; Hartlová, Dagmar (referee)
Práce se zabývá recepcí skandinávské dekadentně laděné literatury v českém kulturním prostředí, přičemž je brán v úvahu celkový evropský kulturní a myšlenkový kontext konce 19. století; akcentována je zároveň kulturní homogenita evropské literatury období fin de sicle. Skandinávská literatura je v práci vnímána jako důležitý element jak v českých periodicích (nejzásadnější je z hlediska tohoto pojednání činnost skupiny kolem Moderní revue), tak v běžné vydavatelské činnosti. Práce se detailněji věnuje osobnostem skandinávské literatury jako August Strindberg, Ola Hansson, Georg Brandes, Herman Bang, Arne Garborg a jejich vlivu na českou resp. evropskou literární scénu. Autor též zdůrazňuje význam osobního kontaktu mezi jednotlivými osobnostmi literárního a uměleckého světa fin de sicle.
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Categories language and its future implementation is an interesting view of the Danish
Haušildová, Kateřina ; Humpál, Martin (advisor) ; Gammelgaard, Karen (referee) ; Štajnerová, Petra (referee)
The aim of this dissertation is to give an overall picture of the category future and its language realization in the Scandinavian languages. In the first part of the thesis, the category is described from a philosophical point ofview. With support in one oftwo most int1uential theories on metaphysics oftime, the dynamic A-theory, I suggest an intuitively plausible and linguistically relevant modelof time which as opposite to the traditional time line is able to account for the striking temporal asymmetry known from several European and non-European languages. The usual time line has been replaced by branching future with branches representing potential future courses of events, of which some are more probable than others. On the basis of this model, future constructions in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish which are the language s ofthe so called 'futureless area' (Dahl 2000) are described. In the second part of the study, the inventory of the future markers in the three language s is discussed systematically according to their grammaticalization source dornains (modality, motion verbs and aspect). I describe the three central types of future markers in the Scandinavian languages, i.e. modal verb constructions (vil and skal in Danish, ska in Swedish), the de-venitive construction with kommer til at (Danish),...
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Irony speaks, or how to depict an elf wearing a hat that makes him invisible. Irony in the first chapter of the first part of Kierkegaard's work The Concept of Irony with Constant Reference to Socrates
Marková, Kateřina ; Kouba, Pavel (advisor) ; Humpál, Martin (referee)
The presented diploma thesis deals with the text called The conception made possible, which forms the first chapter of the first part of Soren Kierkegaard's dissertation The Concept of Irony with Constant Reference to Socrates. The diploma thesis has two parts. The first part is a contribution to the scholarly discussion on irony in Kierkegaard. It is an ironic interpretation of the text in question and it illustrates and describes the way in which Kierkegaard represents irony in this text. By means of an analysis of the discrepancy between the declared aim of The conception made possible and the actual realization of this aim, the first part of the diploma thesis comes to the conclusion that even though the representation of irony is not declared to be the aim of the text it actually is its real aim. It is just by means of this analysis that it becomes clear how Kierkegaard represents irony in the text. At the same time, the first part of the thesis shows that in The conception made possible Kierkegaard uses the indirect communication. The second part of the diploma thesis is a contribution to the field of literature: it consists of a Czech translation of The conception made possible which illustrates the explanations of the first part.
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