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Erika Olahova Short Stories
Truhlářová, Nikola ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Špirit, Michael (referee)
The work is focused on the analysis of short stories by Erika Oláhová. The aim is a comprehensive view of the author's work in the context of the tradition of oral narration and classical gypsy's genres, which are vakeriben and paramisa. The mapping of various aspects of the stories points to recurring motives. This motives work as the unifying element of all narrative. Stories are described through language, narrator and character speech, as well as through the concept of heroes and anchoring stories in space and time. In these individual categories there are common elements, which formed the plot.
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The Theme of Homosexuality in the Works of Japanese Modernists
Abbasová, Veronika ; Tirala, Martin (advisor) ; Paulovič, František (referee) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
The PhD thesis deals with the topic of male homosexuality in the works of Japanese modernist authors; its aim is to discern in what ways homosexuality is portrayed in these works. In the theoretical part, the thesis first provides a wider definition of modernist literature, which encompasses not just the so-called pure literature but also popular literature works from the same period. It then offers an overview of male homosexuality in Japanese history from the Heian period to the 1930s with an emphasis on artistic representation of male homosexuality. Starting from the Tokugawa period, the focus is on individual discourses on male homosexuality - legal, medical and popular. The theoretical part also contains the methodology used for achieving the aim of this thesis, which is based mostly on post-structuralism and queer theory. This methodology is used in form of concrete tools - discourse analysis and deconstruction of binary oppositions underlying the social constructs of gender and sexuality. These approaches are complemented by strategies created by Martin C. Putna and Gregory M. Pflugdelder, who use a combination of topic and textual strategy analysis together with biographical and autobiographical information about the author to find different types of homosexuality representation in literary...
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Vlajka the Magazine: its Methods, Means and Aims
Tomášek, Lukáš ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the aims, methods and means of communication published in the magazine called Vlajka during 1928-1942 period. Mostly it focuses on the topic of Jewry and Communism (based on the sources and specialised literature study it presents the most striking Jew and Communist presentation models) - regarded as national enemies due to the Vlajka's "fight". The thesis also concerns Christianity, which is a form of defence from Jewry and Communism for Vlajka. Author's interest also lies in the belles-lettres texts' character and Vlajka's relations to art and chosen Czech literature personas. Eventually, the paper reflects ways of thinking on the woman (and woman social role) theme.
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Vertical, temporal and sound constants in the Karolína Světlá's novel Kříž u potoka
Zajíčková, Kateřina ; Vaněk, Václav (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
The main purpose of submitted thesis is the complex analysis and interpretation of the novel Kříž u potoka (The Cross at the Stream) written by Czech female writer Karolína Světlá. The thesis brings several new perspectives how to construe this literary work and perceive its inanimate components as a mediator of the plot or as it's direct participant. Interpretation is demonstrated on three most significant constants which are present in the storyline - vertical space, time and sound as well. However, the author also outlines another options of viewing this literary work through different marginal perspectives. The result of this thesis should be the broad analysis of the text, which would bring its comprehensive picture from dissimilar points of view.
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Woman as a narrative strategy, ideological construction and living experience in early stories by Marie Majerova
Babilonová, Nikola ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee)
The bachelor's thesis deals with three collections of short stories about women and love written by Marie Majerova in the early 20th century (Plané milování, Dcery země and Mučenky). The analysis is focused on a woman as main character and follows her gradual transformation within the particular collection of stories. The goal of the thesis is to point out the author's diverse ways of depicting woman main characters and author's looking for an authentic woman role. Marie Majerova also tries to point out man character, which is integral to woman's life. Author leaves both to tell their story in a dialogue as well as in their internal thoughts. The second half of the thesis focuses on narrative strategies used by the author to construct characters of the fiction world. In order to analyze them, Stanzel's concept of narrative situations and Hrabal's suggestion of focalization were chosen as theoretic basis. This fact also helps to better description of author's work with presentation of the character's thoughts.
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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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The Concept of the National Verse in Czech and International Theory of Verse 19th and 20th Century - Questions, Problems, Polemics
Čermochová, Klára ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Baluch, Jacek (referee) ; Schwarz, Wolfgang (referee)
The chief subject of this dissertation is a description of the reflections on the poetry of 19th and 20th century, in connection with questions of national identity, national self-confidence, tradition and openness to European space. I deal with the question, how these topics are (often unconsciously) reflected in the prosodic debates of certain periods (especially during the Czech National Revival or at the time of the formation of independent Czechoslovakia) and how influence the views on how the Czech verse looks or should look, for what purposes poetry is to serve or what threatens the national literature and language. I also follow the changes in the relation of the theory of verse to the poetry itself and compare the concept of the verse and its basic categories in Czech and international theory. This work is composed of four isolated parts, relatively independent of each other. These are partial probes on selected topics from the history of Czech and foreign literature and its reflection. The first chapter focuses on the syllabotonic reform of the Czech verse and on the motivation, which led to its acceptance or rejection. I investigated the reasons, which led some authors to the partial violation of rules and some authors to attempts to establish quantitative verse. The topic of Czech iamb...
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Deep Time of the Earth: Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Sirůček, Jiří ; Svatoňová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
The shock caused by the discovery that the existence of Earth transcends mankind by billions of years was, after the Copernican heliocentrism, yet another radical disruption of the idea of the human as the centre of the world and the universe. Even thought the concept of deep time was, along with the questioning of the uniqueness of the subject, accepted relatively soon in the field of exact sciences, the dualistic, teleological and anthropocentric thinking partially persists in number of areas of the humanities up to the present day. This bachelor's thesis uses the conception of deep temporality of Earth as a motive through which it follows currents of philosophical thinking that "betray" the post-Kantian tradition and seek to reflect the outer world lying beyond the limits of subjectivity, to turn the attention to the non-human and to imagine its qualities, although with the necessary awareness that it always will be a speculation. The text at first introduces some of the contemporary tendencies in continental philosophy, particularly speculative realism, object oriented ontology and new materialism, and connects them with works from the area of geology that consider options for cognitive comprehension of the vast temporality of the Earth. The bachelor's thesis consequently applies the findings...
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Narative strategy in Jana Krejcarová's fiction
Kuglerová, Tereza ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Králíková, Andrea (referee)
This bachelor's thesis will address the prose works of Jana Krejcarová-Černá from the 1960s. With a theoretical basis in Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan's Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poeticsand taking into account the works of Mieke Bal, the thesis will focus on analysing the story in these texts and in particular the creation of diegetic levels and the narrator. The aim of the work is to draw attention to specific narrative techniques used by the author when constructing her officially published prose.
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Body in Libuše Moníková's Prose
Martinovská, Anna ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Šebek, Josef (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to present possibilities of interpretation of the body in Libuše Moníková's three works - Ujma, Pavana za mrtvou infantku and Zjasněná noc. The interpretation is preceded by a large theoretical part providing the philosophical basis of my readings: the concept of bodily subjectivity as introduced in Maurice Merleau-Ponty's and Judith Butler's philosophical thought. The chapter devoted to Merleau-Ponty is focused primarily on the body seen as a foundation of our subjectivity, speech and thought. Judith's Butler account of the body will be studied in relation to her analysis of performative gender, power norms and subsequently materiality and corporeality. In the second part of the thesis, I will make use of these concepts while interpreting the prose of Libuše Moníková. I focus on a body as a subject of power inside the fictional universes of the proses, I analyze the relation of bodily borders to subjectivity and intersubjectivity in all three works and focus on the ways we can see them as subversive in relation to gender norms. Final part of the interpretation focuses on the narration of the proses and on their "metanarrative" moments. I will argue, that the proses listed above can be seen as examples of an "embodied narration" through their fragmented structure,...
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