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Carmen and Colomba, femmes fatales?
Kubíčková, Tereza ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (advisor) ; Pohorský, Aleš (referee)
The aim of the bachelor thesis Carmen and Colomba as femmes fatales? is to describe the origin and expansion of the myth of the femme fatale across the 19th century French literature. Through the analysis of the two main female characters Carmen and Colomba of the writer Prosper Mérimée, it is possible to illustrate the general applicability of this myth. The first part of the thesis is dedicated to the definition of the term femme fatale, its expansion in the 19th century and also to the question concerning the relevance of this literary myth. The following chapter covers the analysis of the two mentioned female characters by defining the types of their male victims and their closer analysis. The last chapter provides a space to discuss the development of the myth of the femme fatale over the second half of 19th century, primarily in the piece Les Diaboliques of Barbey d'Aurevilly, but also in the crystallization of femme fatale into the mythological-biblical based figure of Salomé in the end of the 19th century.
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Lolita in Serge Gainsbourg's life and works
Sotonová, Jana ; Jamek, Václav (advisor) ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (referee)
The topic of this bachelor thesis is the motif of 'lolita' (an adolescent girl as the object of erotic interest) in works of a french singer, songwriter, poet, actor, screenwriter and director Serge Gainsbourg. The majority of his works were written for women or about them. Enchanted by the character of Lolita from the Nabokov's book of the same name, he wants to find it's embodiment even though he considers the character to be abstract. His obsession with the idea of 'lolita' as an archetype is significantly influencing his works just as his emotional life. The first part presents Serge Gainsbourg. The second part treats the topic of 'lolita' in Nabokov's works. The main part aims at Gainsbourg's works in which the influence of the motif is the most apparent. Finally, the thesis compares the Nabokov's and the Gainsbourg's conceptions of 'lolita' and it resumes the differences between them. Key words : lolita, obsession, myth, eros
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The myth of Orpheus in the poetry of the 19th and 20th century
Jupová, Andrea ; Jamek, Václav (advisor) ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (referee)
This bachelor thesis The myth of Orpheus in the french poetry of 19th and 20th century deals with the mythological references left in the work of significant authors of the modern French poetry. In the first part of the thesis, the Pre-literary and literary versions of the ancient myth of Orpheus are mentioned. We are focusing on the writings of Ovid and Virgil which are analysed. In the following chapters of the second part, constituent motifs are looked up in works of chosen authors from the period of romanticism to the forties of 20th century in connection with particular literary context. The specifical usage of the myth and his changes are observed and described. In the third part; all authors' adaptations are compared also with indication the importance of ancient mythology in the modern literature.
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Child narrators in two novels: La vie devant soi and Monsieur Ibrahim et les Fleurs du Coran
Hálová, Kateřina ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (advisor) ; Pohorský, Aleš (referee)
The aim of this work is to compare the narrators in two stylistically similar novels, La Vie devant soi by Romain Gary and Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran by Éric- Emmanuel Schmitt. The narrators will be analyzed from different points of views and then compared. The aim is to prove that even though children are storytellers, both books are not of children's literature. To be able to prove this it is necessary to outline the history of children's literature and its tendency throughout history. Narrators will be compared from the following perspectives: external characteristics, internal characteristics, language, communication with "reader", the concept of time and space, the relationship with the "mentor", response to the death and the founding of life basis. The end part will include the results of the analysis.
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Aimé Césaire / Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine : Two Poetics Reacting to Two Periods, Colonial and Postcolonial
Šarše, Vojtěch ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (advisor) ; Pohorský, Aleš (referee)
This work is dedicated to francophone authors : Aimé Césaire and Mohammed Khaïr- Eddine, to their creation and to the epoch when it was written. Even though they were originated from different countries (Martinique and Morocco) and from different epochs (before and after the decolonization), their poetics are similar in many points. Even if their historical experiences are closely connected by phases of french colonialism. The goal of this work will be to compare their poetics and to analyse how the epoch influenced and interconnected those two authors, and how they reacted to it. In the first part the common will to renovate their national literature will be described and their means to achieve this goal will be explored. The following part will be concentrated on the work of those two writers, on the characteristic attributes, on the recurrent symbols in their works and on the significance of the place of birth. The last part will be dedicated to the context, in which the authors wrote, and will clarify how the context unit or divide them. In this work, we will continuously compare common aspects of their poetics and in the same time the modification of those aspects during the transition from the colonialism to post- colonialism. Then, we will explain how this passage of the regime changed the...
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Monologue in contemporary drama of the French-speaking Switzerland
Tichá, Alžběta ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (advisor) ; Pohorský, Aleš (referee)
Title: Monologue in contemporary drama of the French-speaking Switzerland Author: Alžběta Tichá Department: Institute of Romance studies Supervisor: doc. PhDr. Eva Voldřichová Beránková, Ph.D. Keywords: Drama, Switzerland, monologue, French, literatures of French speaking countries Abstract: The main aim of the present thesis is to present monological works of authors from the French part of Switzerland. Due to the fact that French Switzerland shares a large part of its literary development with neighbouring France, this thesis is divided into two parts. The first one is concerned with monologue in French theatre in general. There are three chapters that present issues related to the definition of theatrical monologue, the development of monologue as an individual form, main questions that arise in connection with contemporary monological plays, as well as several French dramatists that have had a significant influence on this specific genre. The second part is focused on works of three authors coming from French Switzerland. Each of them has written and published at least three monological plays. Namely, these are Robert Pinget, Jacques Probst and David France Jakubec. They all represent completely different creative approaches therefore each of them is presented in a separate chapter. The main objective...
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Comparison of Time and Memory Categories in Maurice Blanchot's and Pascal Quignards's Essays with the Conception of the Memory in Patrick Modiano's works
Kucherov, Anton ; Šuman, Záviš (advisor) ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (referee)
Anton Kucherov Comparaison des catégories de temps et mémoire dans les essais de Maurice Blanchot et de Pascal Quignard avec la conception de la mémoire dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Patrick Modiano Comparison of Time and Memory Categories in Maurice Blanchot's and Pascal Quignards's Essays with the Conception of the Memory in Patrick Modiano's works _____________________________________________________ This work aims to compare the perception particularities of time and memory categories in the philosophical essays of Maurice Blanchot and Pascal Quignard with the Patrick Modiano's memory of return. This study contains a historical overview of memory and time categories interpretation and examines the particularities of the artistic and subjective memory through the texts of Maurice Blanchot and Pascal Quignard, as well as total novels of Patrick Modiano. This study represents a psychological analysis of memory and its overpersonal, total, fragmental, non-linear and individual process. The realization of this work is ensured by the method of the memory places developed by Pierre Nora, as well as the heuristic method and through phenomenological psychoanalysis. The subject area of memory is important because the concentration of the cultural space needs a treatment of the past. The memory today is a means, an...
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Huysmans's À rebours as A Parody of The « Experimental Novel » ?
Krausová, Eliška ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (advisor) ; Pohorský, Aleš (referee)
The aim of the bachelor thesis Huysman's Naruby, as a parody of Experimentalního románu, is an attempt to consult Huyman's novel Naruby not only as a source of decadent symbols but also as a critical and parodying work with which its author tries completing his separation from "the father of Naturalism", Emil Zola. Particularly from Zola's notion of naturalism described in a literary critical work Experimentální román. At first the work is concerned with Experimentální román and tries to delimit the basic principles of naturalism which are defined there. Moreover, there is also a short introduction of Joris Karl Huysmans, especially from a creative development point of view, as well as an outline of the relationship between him and Emile Zola. The next chapter is dealing with an analysis of the novel Naruby itself and with searching for potential parodying aspects, namely from the perspective of smaller units, such as a conception of the space and time or perception of reality. In the end, the work points to mutual contradiction in terms by both authors, especially Zola's tendency to decadent aesthetics in the late works.
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Film adaptations of Émile Zola's Nana
Škutová, Martina ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (advisor) ; Šuman, Záviš (referee)
In this thesis, four movie adaptations of naturalistic novel Nana by Emile Zola will be analysed. It will describe differences caused by the time in which the adaptations were filmed covering the period from the third decade of the twentieth century, when the most famous adaptation of Nana by Jean Renoir was created, till its modern form from the year 2001. The thesis will be mainly interested in the loyalty of each adaptation to the book. It will describe dominant features of the novel and assess how the directors succeeded in the preservation and depiction of the typical Zola's style together with the atmosphere and overall impression of each film. Throughout the work, I will try to answer a question whether the directors put emphasis on the same storylines as Zola did in the original novel and what is the cause of their modifications. Based on the analysis of each film, the thesis will discuss the topic of movie adaptation and its independence on the original novel. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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