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Motifs, Images and (self)-Stylizations of Czech Decadent Symbolism
Fremrová, Anna ; Merhaut, Luboš (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
This thesis is focused on the decadent form of Czech symbolist literature at the turn of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. The main task is to present a complex catalogue of motifs and images used by Czech decadents in their works and also to analyse the main methods and strategies they used - in particular interstatuality, also connected with the decadent effort to capture the uniqueness of each passing moment, and synaesthesia. The thesis also focuses on the radical individualism of decadent authors and its connection with both the motifs used and the symbolist style in itself - in the form of self-stylization of the decadent authors who tend to identify with their own works and become (even in real life) their own literal subjects. Because of the prominent visual aspect of decadent literature, the thesis also takes into consideration contemporary art works and the relations between words and images.
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Landscape in the works of Jan Zahradníček and Jan Čep of the 1930s
Fedičová, Natálie ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
This thesis deals with poetic motives of nature in the work of Jan Zahradníček (Jeřáby, Žíznivé léto, Pozdravení slunci) and Jan Čep (Zeměžluč, Letnice, Děravý plášť) of the 1930s. The motives of nature found in the works of both authors are first described and analyzed. In the conclusion of the thesis it comes to summary of common features, that are behind the depiction of the relationship between man and the surrounding world in the work of both authors.
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Erotica and Sexuality in the Work of Franz Kafka
Petrželová, Anežka ; Topor, Michal (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
The basis of the thesis is the specification of the main terms of sexuality and eroticism as the possible clues to the interpretation of Franz Kafka's novel The Castle. The focal point of the thesis are several fundamental propositions creating a perspective which a novelistic setting could be seen through. The initial assumption gives the idea of a castle as an absolute factor of pleasure and even as the climax itself albeit constantly forbidden and unavailable. The sadomasochistic structure of the aforementioned setting corresponds to this. After determination of the terminological, methodological and semantic basis the main focus is on the area of sacral fetishism where the two concepts collectively generating a distinctive form of attraction converge. The thesis is focused on the circle of female characters and their specificities as well. The consideration is also given to an erotic motif of female servants, tempting ugliness, physical intimacy and estrangement, homosexual attraction, the absence of privacy and private life. Continuously analysed lines of fashionable fetishism, importance of clothing and the contact with a body are put in to mutual relations in the final charter dedicated to the character of the landlady. Key words: sexuality, erotica, Franz Kafka, The Castle, sadomasochistic...
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Child's Perspective in Poetry of Early Czech Avant-garde
Stehlíková, Blanka ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with the genesis and depiction of a naive children's perspective and generally with the importance of childhood in the poetry of the early Czech avant-garde, especially focusing on the work of Jiří Wolker, Zdeněk Kalista, Miloš Jirko and A. M. Píša. The first part of the thesis is focused on outlining the historical context of this issue and connecting it with the literary development of poetry in the early 1920s. For the second part of the thesis, the key is an analysis of this approach /motive in poetry and subsequent interpretation of the work of selected poets. Key words Czech literature - avant-garde - Jiří Wolker - Zdeněk Kalista - Miloš Jirko - A. M. Píša - 1919-1924 - naive perspective - childhood
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Representation of Japan in the works of Joe Hloucha
Bočková, Klára ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
The thesis analyses the manners of narrative space depiction in selected texts of Josef Hloucha. It focuses on the fundamental motives which recur in the texts. The thesis additionally places focus on a specific depiction of Japan and on the means of depiction through which the author mediates the picture of Japan, Japanese culture, tradition, customs etc., including the analysis of various types of realia which are incorporated by Josef Hloucha in his own texts. Hloucha's stance towards europeanization of Japanese culture is analysed in the end.
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Visuality in the Prosaic Work of Richard Weiner
Jončevová, Veronika ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Hrdlička, Josef (referee)
The BA thesis focuses on the possibilities of reading of the selected prose of Richard Weiner throgh its visual potential. Theoretically is based on the context of the first 20 years of 20th century (especially new established art movemets such as surrealism, expresionism and cubism). The first part discusses the term avant- garde and brief introduction of related concepts, introduction of the author and his work. The second part then interprets several selected texts from the books of short stories Prázdná židle a jiné prózy, Solný sloup and Škleb. This chapter is used to discuss the influence of the image on writer's prose and the way that the aspects of visual art can be applied in the process of reading. 1
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"Closed to the sun, open them selves to the glorious silence of the stars": An Attempt to Analysis of a Withdrawnnes-motif; topics generated by it and their consequences in the literature and "literatures" at the turn of the century
Dostál, Mojmír ; Hrdlička, Josef (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
The main aspiration of this thesis is to illustrate on several selected examples (or almost "cases" of clinical kind) from French, Russian, Polish, Italian (and in the second plan also German or English) writtings of the 19th and early 20th century the methods of application and presentation of the Withdrawnnes-motif in literature. And on the basis of them (after attempting to mapping out the network of their possible mutual influences, consequences, concurrency or filiations, in the interpretative part of the thesis, so on the II. to VI. chapter) try to define its final characteristics, periodisation, classification and his general definition. … and, moreover, or on the way to this purpose, perhaps to provide the reader a few other - perhaps more useful, or more interesting - information. Keywords: Autostylisation, Confusion of the dream and the reality, Decadence, Dreaming, Extreme mental states of mind, fin de siècle, Individualism, Literary motives, Modernism, Psychologism, Psychic naturalism, Solipsism, Transposition of identity, Withdrawnnes
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BEYOND THE MAN: Transformations of the image of the man in painting from the mid-1940s until the 1960s. Theoretical and methodological principles.
Murár, Tomáš ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Konečný, Lubomír (referee) ; Bydžovská, Lenka (referee)
The dissertation thesis deals with the interpretation of the "beyond-the-man" concept, which is being interpreted, on one hand, as a part of the art-theoretical and art-historical European modernity of the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, on the other hand, as a theoretical and methodological starting point for an interpretation of the transformation of the human image in the painting of the second half of the 1940s until the beginning of the 1960s. The foundation for such an interpretation is an assumption of the necessary transformation of the intellectual concepts after the World War II, as it was postulated by Theodor W. Adorno and how it was researched by Giorgio Agamben and Miroslav Petříček in the political-philosophical discourse. The thesis thus researches the "beyond-the-man" concept in the theory and history of art of the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century in a way of it being as re-formulated art-creative concept after 1945, evident especially in abstract painting. The interpretation of the "beyond-the-man" concept is developed on reading of Fritz Novotny's interpretation of Paul Cézanne's art from the beginning of the 1930s. Novotny in Cézanne's painting described the concept of "beyond-the-man" (Außermenschlichkeit) as a breaking point of the...
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"Wireless Imagination": poetic manifestos of F. T. Marinetti and their poetistic realizations
Divíšková, Radka ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Hrdlička, Josef (referee)
(in English): The work will deal with the influence of Marinetti's poetological manifestos on Czech poetism. In the first instance it will outline the background and poetics of Marinetti's poetological manifestos, especially the Words In Freedom. Another outlet will be the contactological part, mapping the activities of Marinetti in Prague and the main nodes of mutual contact between the futurism and Czech environment, especially Devětsil. The aim of the work is to show the similarity of the form and characteristic features connecting Italian futurism with Czech poetism on the top works of Czech poetism - it will be a work On the Waves of TSF of J. Seifert, The Golden Chains of K. Biebl and The Parrot on Motorcycle of V. Nezval.
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Merciless Parallel Lines: Railways in European Literature 1830-1914
Špína, Michal ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee) ; Burget, Eduard (referee)
Merciless Parallel Lines: Railways in European Literature 1830-1914 (Mgr. Michal Špína) Abstract The doctoral thesis addresses the so far underexplored subject of early literary depictions of railway, investigating the cultural impact of the new, mechanized means of transport, as reflected in fiction. The introduction explains the reasons to focus geographically on Europe (as opposed to the different social context of American and colonial railways), to limit the time span to the 1830-1914 period (after which railway gradually loses its leading role in transport) and the topic to the "look from the outside" (i.e. not the act of travelling itself or the interiors of railway stations and trains). Following up to Wolfgang Schivelbusch and Wojciech Tomasik, railway is seen as the paramount agent of industrialization and modernization. Further, spatial relations and the phenomenon of infrastructure are accentuated. The following four chapters each study two interconnected issues: the construction of railway lines and their linearity; the images of the ruining of the idyll in connection to railway noises; the signal box topos in connection to fatefulness; and the fully developed railway system, acquiring the function of a peculiar environment in the short story collection Mugby Junction by Charles Dickens and...
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