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Modern pedagogy and didactics in the autobigraphical works of Pavla Moudrá ("Z dívčích let do plného života" trilogy)
Bečanová, Nikola ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Słowik, Olga (referee)
My thesis focuses on didactic and pedagogical thoughts of Pavla Moudrá in regards of the Z dívčích let do plného života trilogy, published between 1911 and 1936. Broader study of her work and articles concerning upbringing and educating children is also included, because of her spiritualistic notions and pacifistic background. The important aspect of said trilogy is the amount of autobiographical themes, which we can trace and find Moudrá's own experiences and views. The form used in the books to support sense of authenticity, a child-written diary entries and the contrast to mature, thorough language creates a space to look at depicted events with hindsight and re-evaluate them. Her reasoning draws from personal experience and her surroundings, as well as early 20th century European schools of thought open to new principals. Contemporary findings and arguments in the fields of education and didactics will be confronted with Moudrá's work as part of this thesis.
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Chiaroscuro and Josef Čapek.
Rozbořilová, Adéla ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee)
This thesis deals with literary work of Josef Čapek in relation to the concept of visual contrast. First, the historical background is set up, with highlights of then exposed interest in Baroque era on one hand, and increasing threat of World War II on the other. Both of these moments were relevant in connection with one of the most crucial cultural events in First Czechoslovak Republic: the exhibition of Pražské baroko 1600-1800. The essential hypothesis suggests that based on what has been indicated, some elements of the Baroque aesthetics appeared to be relevant for Josef Čapek's unique artisic expression as well, since they became subject of integration to his aesthetic frame. In this respect, the common ground between Čapek's modern artistic approach and Baroque aesthetics is believed to be shaped by the notion of visuality. Finally, these ideas are applicated on Čapek most prominently Baroque-influenced works, Kulhavý poutník and Psáno do mraků. Keywords: Josef Čapek, Baroque, exhibition, Pražské baroko 1600-1800, visuality, contrast, chiaroscuro, Kulhavý poutník, Psáno do mraků
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Program of the Czech Decadent Movement and the Question of Intertextuality. Tho Work of Miloš Marten
Kantoříková, Jana ; Vojtěch, Daniel (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee) ; Lishaugen, Roar (referee)
The Program of the Czech Decadent Movement and the Question of Intertextuality. The Work of Miloš Marten This thesis explores the work of Miloš Marten (1883-1917) seeking to analyse its decadent narrative as a modern narrative that brings into play the unity between the pinnacle and the decline. It departs from the comparison between the style and interpretation of the two versions of Cyklus rozkoše a smrti (orig. The Cycle of delight and death; 1907 and 1917/1925) and the study of the realisations of this work. For this purpose the study contextually examines the conceptions of "intertextuality" from fin de siècle authors-critics, meaning their conceptualisations of similarity and/or identity of literary works which frequently involve a confluence of degeneration theory, the argument of the non-ethical nature of plagiarism and theory of decadence. All were often used as instruments of disqualification as well as justifications for a modern aesthetics and style. Reconstitution of Marten's theoretical reflection on artistic genres evidences his research of a harmonizing modern culture within an anti-syncretic tendency: mythology and revolt against myth Order being shifted to tragedy and parable, while the novel is designed as an analytical-critical synthesis. Applying contemporary approaches to...
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The Image of the City in the Early Formation of Jiří Kolář
Knappová, Alžběta ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
This bachelor's thesis focuses on how Jiří Kolář depicts the city in his poems in the first half of the 1940s. As a member of Group 42 (known as Skupina 42 in Czech), Kolář was strongly influenced by its poetics. Disagreeing with the tendencies of art for art's sake in modern art, the group aimed to depict reality as truthfully as possible and to create art that would be of use to people and the society. The reality and the people were supposed to be shown without stylization. In particular, the artists' main focus was to portray the reality of the metropolis, because, according to Group 42, it was the natural environment for modern people. This thesis analyses the literary devices used by Kolář to depict the reality of the city and their development in time. The analysis relies on a broader theoretical framework of the poetics of the city in literature. It is shown that, when depicting his own experience with the city, Kolář uses features of the spoken mode and contrast. He connects those into elaborate structures as a reflection of the non-linear nature and complexity of reality. Kolář's city is not a background for action - it presents itself as a living organism, just like human life.
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The Poetry of Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic in the Perspective of Cognitive Poetics (The LIFE - DEATH Contrast and the Conceptualization of Senses)
Štěpánková, Kateřina ; Vaňková, Irena (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
With starting point in cognitive linguistics, cognitive poetics and theories of linguistic picture of the world, the thesis will be focused on creation of conceptual opposition LIFE - DEATH in poetry of Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic. This conceptual opposition is substantially constituted on the basis of the semantic field of senses and sensory perceptions. This thesis contains this area too. The first part of the thesis will be concentrated on conceptualisation of senses and opposition LIFE - DEATH in Czech linguistic picture of the world. The second part will be focused on poetry of Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic. The author of the thesis will analyse specific metaphorical and metonymical extension associated with the target area LIFE and DEATH, and the sensory perception (including colors). Then the author will focus on the text connotations associated with the terms of the semantic fields (those with regard to prove opposition LIFE - DEATH). Keywords anthropocentrism, the linguistics picture of the world, Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic, cognitive linguistics, connotations, metaphor, metonymy, poetry, senses, death, body, meaning, life
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Czech Faces of Franz Kafka before World War II
Soukup, Jiří ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
The present study focuses on the analysis of the changes of Franz Kafka's reception in the Czech context before World War II, i. e. on the analysis of Czech translations and critical reflections in Czech language of his works. The study is divided into two symmetrical (in time) parts: the first one focuses on Kafka's reception in his lifetime (1909-1922), the second one on the reception after his death (1924-1939). In the first part, translations of Kafka's office publications are analyzed in the context of their origin, Kafka's part (as an author) in the formation of the original texts as a source for their translation and set in the context of his belletristic works; in the prosopographically oriented analysis the aim is further focused on the reception of Kafka's belletristic texts in his lifetime and on different strategies of translation by authors who translated his texts into Czech during his lifetime (Milena Jesenská, Milena Illová, Jaroslav Dohnal), Kafka's responses and how they are reflected in his work. The analysis in the second part is structured mainly according to the tendencies of reception whose focus shifts gradually from expressionist to surrealistic interpretations; the analysis of gradual changes of Kafka's image in the Czech press which reflects the changing reception of his...
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The Image of Sexuality in Modern Arabic Novel
Jeníková, Jitka ; Ondráš, František (advisor) ; Lišková, Iva (referee) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
The intention of this doctoral thesis is to present a comprehensive account of the evolution of the way sex and sexuality are portrayed in modern Arabic novel and put it in the context of given era, culture and religion. On a selected sample of 30 novels printed between 1934 and 2009 we can trace clear evolution of the central themes, all of which are constantly present throughout the hundred-years-existence of modern Arabic novel. For the sake of greater comprehensibility the thesis is split in two big parts, i.e. female and male sexuality, and further arranged into thematic subchapters all of which discuss specific issues related either to male or female sexuality. Furthermore, individual chapters deal with the topic in general, put it in proper cultural-religious framework and fill in all available historical and statistical data. Next comes the part dedicated to analysis of selected novels portraying sex a sexuality with excerpts translated directly from primary sources. Aside from peculiar themes typical for Arabic culture such as honor, virginity and related issue of honor killings this thesis discusses the way modern Arabic novels deals with both female and male homosexuality, discovering one's body and masturbation, abortion, sexual violence, impotence, infertility and prostitution. Also it...
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Czech Literary Anarchism in the Context of Socialism and the Women's Movement (1890-1914)
Hylmar, Radek ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee) ; Merhautová, Lucie (referee)
Czech Literary Anarchism in the Context of Socialism and the Women's Movement (1890-1914) Abstract The thesis focuses on Czech pre-WWI anarchism. It analyses it as a modernist movement comprising various activities spanning political propaganda, proposals of social organisation and thinking about moral values as well views on the arts and literary production. The aim is to present literary texts written by anarchists against a backdrop of other types of expression. At the same time, the thesis assesses anarchism in the historical context of other political, social, artistic and philosophical movements. We study the interweaving of ideological and aesthetic schemes of Czech anarchism, especially with socialism and feminism, but also concerning decadence, Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy and writings of the German Friedrichshagen poets' and anarchists' circle. The thesis focuses on how anarchism understands human beings and their relationship to the world and society. Given the anarchists' focus on the free individual, we present strategies of emancipation from traditional conventions and institutions such as marriage, family and the state. We also concentrate on reforms concerning morals and similarities with the feminist turn to one's own bodily and psychical experiences as starting points for setting...
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Our (Beautiful, Healthy, Modern and National) Body: Visual Representation of Physical Culture and Sports in the Context of National Identity Formation in the Interwar Czechoslovakia
Španihelová, Magda ; Svatoňová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Švácha, Rostislav (referee) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
Magda Španihelová Our (Beautiful, Healthy, Modern and National) Body: Visual Representation of Physical Culture and Sports in the Context of National Identity Formation in the Interwar Czechoslovakia Abstract This PhD thesis describes visual representation of partial aspects of physical culture and sports in interwar Czechoslovakia. The general phenomenon of social affiliation and national identification is critically observed in four central chapters, together with the usage of symbolic figures that are in periodical visual productions exposed as different body types. Aside the Sokol gymnastics club and its' attempt to formulate the national body, the central figure is the wrestler Gustav Frištenský who as the bearer of traditional concepts of health and beauty also represented the responsible modern citizenship. The dancer Milča Mayerová provides the framework for the exposure of dance culture as a characteristic phenomenon of the cultivation of the female body by movement, which enabled the body to mediate and visualise certain processes of modernity. The athlete Zdena Koubková completes the evocation of national bodies with a modern athletic figure of extreme abilities. Hence, this PhD thesis by crossing two thematic axes - visual representation of the body and sports physicality in Czechoslovak...
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From Scribe to Ministerial Counsellor: The Involvement of Jiří Mařánek in the Cinematography of the Forties and Fifties
Kupková, Marika ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Skopal, P. (referee) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
1 Abstract The thesis focuses on the involvement of Jiří Mařánek in the management of the Film Department of the Ministry of Information during the years 1945 - 1948. His ministe- rial engagement is related to the contemporary strengthening of the importance of literary preparation of the film and to the associated state dramaturgical supervision. Jiří Mařánek belongs to the circle of writers connected on one hand through their affiliation with the interwar avant-garde movements, on the other hand by their postwar involve- ment in the power apparatus that ended by the political and economic changes in the late forties and fifties. His professional fate speaks about the changes of cultural policy of the state, about the institutional development of the cinema and about the relations between literary and cinematic arts. It is a testimonial of what a successful professional career meant for a man of letters and what relationship it had to the cinema. We follow therefore a relatively brief but breakthrough episode of a writer and retired officer in the position of the Ministerial Counsellor, and we try to place its course and causes into a complex network of historical and social contexts and personal motivation. Focusing on this personality unburdened neither by a historical uniqueness, fundamental role of...
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