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The character of a priest in Czech literature of the 19th century
Trdlica, Vilém ; Vaněk, Václav (advisor) ; Hošna, Jiří (referee)
The thesis analyzes the prose works of Czech literature of the 19th century, in which a character of a priest appears. The thesis interprets the passages of selected works of K. V. Rais, K. Klostermann, J. Š. Baar, I. Herrmann and B. Němcová. The works of fiction, which elaborate on the psychology of the characters more deeply, are set into rural environment. The priests enter various relationships and conflicts with the parishioners. By that, either a picture of a traditional village is illustrated, or, its profound transformation is depicted. The thesis is also devoted to analyzing the description of mutual relations between priests. For the figure of a priest in Czech literature is typical that he communicates with believers mainly through his office, but that he also expresses his social feeling beyond that. The thesis concludes that, in Czech literature of the 19th century, the priest is generally perceived and depicted as a character with predominantly positive features.
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Rhyme and Stanza in Czech Verse, especially in the Poetry of Jan Neruda
Říha, Jakub ; Vaněk, Václav (advisor) ; Tureček, Dalibor (referee) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
The present study focuses on the two broad areas of theory and history of Czech verse, rhyme and stanza. The first part of the study is dedicated to the rhyme. It contains a historical and terminological introduction and a comprehensive description and interpretation of principles of rhyme in Czech accentual-syllabic verse (19th century). The characterization of the principles of rhyme in other versification systems (syllabic verse, quantitative verse) and in free verse is allocated in the separate sections. Methodologically, the first part is based on the tradition of Czech structuralism. The second part, dedicated to the stanza, brings a similarly conceived interpretation of stanzaic forms in the Czech syllabic and accentual-syllabic verse. Given the absence of Czech tradition, the second part is methodologically inspired by French metrics. In addition to terminological and methodological apparatus the second part includes an inventory of basic stanzaic forms in the Czech verse and its analysis. A separate section within the second part is devoted to the small group of quantitative stanzas employed in Czech verse. The third part contains three case studies on rhyme and stanzaic forms in the Czech poetry of the second half of the 19th century, with special attention to the poetic work of Jan...
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Female characters in early proses of Julius Zeyer
Kumžáková, Karolína ; Vaněk, Václav (advisor) ; Činátlová, Blanka (referee)
(in English): This bachelor thesis looks at female characters in early novels of Julius Zeyer. The main theme of the thesis is Šalda's statement that highlights a strong position of women in Zeyer's novel and devides female characters into angels and hellcats. The aim of the thesis is to verify this division in following novels: Ondřej Černyšev, Román o věrném přátelství Amise a Amila and Gompači and Komurasaki. The analysis of novels focuses on differences in artistic interpretation of female and male characters, reflecting the polarity of the woman as angel and the woman as devil, and explores the position of female characters in all their subtleties.
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Characters and stories of Prague's underworld as reflected in late 19th and early 20th century fiction
Bartoňová, Barbora ; Vaněk, Václav (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with various genres which, at the turn of the century, depicted life of the Prague offscourings, i.e. socially excluded and frequently humiliated inhabitants of Prague. The main objective is to give a characteristic of a homeless character, the man on the street, also known as the "Prague vagabond", a character which regularly appears in literature of the period. The thesis discusses several specific Prague vagabonds whom it subsequently compares to the literary type of vagabond (the author used Daniela Hodrová's theoretical findings about the literary type) and shows the impact the city environment has on him. Besides that, the author follows the way the city itself is described as the vagabond of Prague is closely connected with and to a large extent determined by his home city. Primarily, the thesis works with fiction (although a few plays are included as well) and aims to focus on authors of the period who are not widely known today, e.g. R. J. Kronbauer, K. L. Kukla, V. Plaček, F. L. Šmíd, and J. Hais Týnecký. Keywords Prague, Prague offscourings, vagabond, beggar, social issues, literary character, environment
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The Reflection of White Mountain time in Czech historical Prose of 19th century
Bruknerová, Tereza ; Vaněk, Václav (advisor) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee)
(in English): The theme of the thesis is a reflection of the White Mountain events and life in the time after White Mountain in Czech historical prose of 19th century. On selected prose works (especially proses created by Alois Jirásek) will be shown the way how Czech society perceived the White Mountain battle and its consequences. Attention will be paid to the way how the individual historical prose shaped the myth of White Mountain and what were the national and political interests and ideals or differences and the preferences of the individual authors who approached to the White Mountain theme.
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Author fairy tale at the begining of the twenties of the 20th century
Meixnerová, Karolína ; Vaněk, Václav (advisor) ; Králíková, Andrea (referee)
The present thesis aims at describing the genre of literary fairytales. The study is mainly concerned with the 1920', the decade of the upswing of the genre. The classification of Hana Šmahelová and Vera Vařejková was chosen as the default material for the classification of the literary fairytales. The literary fairytale is thus regarded as a special kind of story with fairytale elements. In order to accurately capture the characteristic elements of the literary fairytale, the theoretical part of the thesis was enriched by an interpretation of chosen texts, which substantially influenced the entire development of the genre. Namely, the thesis is based on the comparison of the social fairytale (J. Wolker, M. Majerová), the fairytale carrying the theme of war (R. Medek) and finally, literary fairytales, which are to be found in the three collections Nůše pohádek (1918, 1919, 1920).
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Changes of religiousness in the Ještěd Prose by Karolina Světlá
Kamenická, Andrea ; Vaněk, Václav (referee) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
The dissertation entitled "Changes of religiousness in the Ještěd Prose by Karolina Světlá" deals with an analysis of the Ještěd Novels by the author Karolina Světlá. It characterises the depiction of vernacular devoutness in the novels by means of an analysis of the changes in thecharacters' religious consciousness and their subsequent interpretation. The objective of the paper is to shed light on the progressive qualitative changes in Karolina Světlá's works of prose and interpret them against the backdrop of the defined problem area, which is the period concept of devoutness and attitudes to faith as such. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Fairy Tale Drama around the turn of the 19th and the 20th century
Šestáková, Kristýna ; Vaněk, Václav (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is an attempt to define and characterize the genre of fairy tale drama and also by analysing individual plays we outline the changes within the entire genre. When defining the term of fairy tale drama, we highlight mainly the elements that show the difference between the fairy tale drama and the fairy story. As to the changes within the genre we will first focus on authors from other countries and then we will deal with Czech authors. To characterize the changes within the genre in Bohemia, we have selected seven texts in which we will observe the circumstances leading to their conception and creation, as well as the composition, reception, motives, the way of describing space-time and the psychology of the characters featured.
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Zkáza lidství - synthesis of dystopia, apokalypse and mysticism
Křižková, Aneta ; Vaněk, Václav (advisor) ; Machek, Jakub (referee)
Bachelor thesis focuses on detailed description and thorough analysis of an unusual science fiction novel Zkaza lidstvi by a czech unknown author Josef Akana. The novel (written in 1928) seems to be rather problematic to classify, since it borderlines across various genres such as science fiction, utopia and apocalypse which are represented in the opening chapters. This bachelor thesis analyses the tendency of czech interwar literature, summarizes real war threat common themes and reflects general concerns about social development which also happened to be extremely emphasized in the literature of twenties. Key words Josef Akana, Zkaza lidstvi, science fiction, utopia, dystopia, apocalypse, interwar literature
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