|
|
"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
|
|
|
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...
|
|
|
"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.
|
|
|
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...
|
|
|
The Review Scéna and the Czech Prewar Avant-Garde
Bálková, Anna ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to discover and to sname the specific resources and procedures which were present at the birth of the theatre expressionism in our country. The first method used to find the solution to that was a compilation of the secondary literature followed by the method of analysis and comparison of the selected articles in the review Scéna review published between 1913 and 1914. Doing this research we have found out the main expressionist resource in the theatre was especially the stage economy, i. e. reducing decorations to the minimum, acting in unity, a simplicity and an utmost coordination of words and gestures. The greatest benefit of this work is exploring the period of the early expressionism as well as analysing the review Scéna which had a leading role in presenting modern drama then. Keywords Josef Kodíček, František Zavřel, the review Scéna, early expressionism, drama and theatre, avant-garde
|
|
|
Theory and reality in Teige's Manifestos and in Poetry of Representative Poets from Devětsil Artistic Federation
Ondrák, Vít ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
This thesis is devided into two parts. First part is theoretical and it is focused on the four specific manifestos of artistic movements by Karel Teige which were written in 1921, 1924 and 1928. I tried to focus on the comparative reading and interpretation of theses texts. The second part is about specific realization of representative collections of poems based on these Teige`s manifestos. Authors of these collections of poems are Jaroslav Seifert and his Město v slzách and Na vlnách TSF, Vítězslav Nezval with his Podivuhodný kouzelník and Pantomima and Konstantin Biebl's S lodí jež dováží čaj a kávu and Nový Ikaros. Key words: proletarian art, poeticism, Teige, avant-garde, poetry
|
|
|
Play of shifts, diffractions, discontinuities and ruptures. Seijun Suzuki's film sign seen from philosophical perspective of Jacquese Derrida.
Slavík, Benjamin ; Svatoňová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the relationship of the thoughts of the French post-structuralist philosopher Jacques Derrida and the film theory, or film media, respectively. Assumption of the thesis is folowing: The film sign, like other signs, does not show a coherent structure; instead of that is being filled with changes, breaks, gaps or cracks. The first part of the thesis focuses on the analysis of some Derrida terms: Supplement, Differänce, Hymen, and the iterable structure of a sign. The follow-up section relates Derrida's theory to the discourse of media philosophy, specifically to the thoughts of the German philosopher Dieter Mersch. The third part deals with the nature of the film suplement, thus, the relationship between the reality of the film and the representation of reality by the film. This lead up to a key chapter, which substitutes the film-analogue for the film-inscription. The final part deals with a deconstruction of the Japanese film Tokyo nagaremono (1966), which was chosen as an effective example of previously discussed theory - a structure of changes, breaks, gaps or cracks. Keywords Deconstruction, media philosophy, Jacques Derrida, Dieter Mersch, post-structuralism, Seijun Suzuki
|
|
|
The I against the world. Heroism and banality in the works of Ladislav Klíma
Klíma, Matěj ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Hrdlička, Josef (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the relationship between the subject and reality in the work of Ladislav Klíma. Klíma depicts reality as something distressing against which the I struggles. In his work he poses reality as a problem. Literary characters as well as numerous author autostylizations often get into conflict with reality and attempt to solve it by absurd behaviour, banalization of reality and heroization of the individuum. Creativity gains special importance in this situation, as it provides subject with a refuge from the external world. In the act of writing the I constitutes itself as rebelling against the "principle of reality". Inspirations for theoretical approach to the topic can be found in Freudian psychoanalysis, Nietzsche's concept of heroic man, as well as Heidegger's existential phenomenology.
|
|
|
Object in fin-de-siècle poetry
Härtelová, Eliška Dana ; Hrdlička, Josef (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
v anglickém jazyce This thesis is based on the Kurt Oppert's term "Dinggedicht" (in English "object-poem" or "thing- poem"), through which it views the transformations within the conceptualization of the subject and things in modern poetry. Apart from poems associated with the name of R. M. Rilke, thingness is also seen from the perspective of the functional use of the object in a poem (e.g. a thing as a tool of characterization orironization), whichis related to theuse ofobjects in figurativelanguage - the thing as a part of the metaphor, simile or allegory. As part of the definition of a thing-poem, the thesis also deals with the issue of subject-object relationship, which leads also to the category of a lyrical "I" in the literary theory. The thesis is based on individual poems which represent a concrete, prototypical way of dealing with the subject in poetry. These poems are delimited by the second half of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20th century. The thesis is not based on strictly defined national literature, but it considers the German, French and Czech context in the comparative perspective.
|
|
|
"His glory shined through my body." Dialogical poetry of Louise Glück
Boháčová, Kristýna ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
The thesis explores the variety of dialogue in the work of American poetess Louise Glück (*1943). It also points out three options for crossing over the aesthetics of absence. The analysis concerns mainly poems included in the collection The Wild Iris (1992), but it also takes in consideration Gluck's other poetical books such as Averno (2006) and Meadowlands (1996). After naming the nodes which make the contact in the collections, the thesis surpasses the field of literature for creating the dialogue with the aesthetics of absence according to German composer Heiner Goebbels (*1952), with the negative theology of French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943) and with the absence of the other in the paintings of Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916). This interdisciplinary dialog seeks to describes one of the major tendencies of Gluck's poetry, which is the ghostly possibility of encountering with otherness
|
guest ::
