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Jewish Motifs in Petr Eidler's Detective Fiction
Svítilová, Lucie ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Jareš, Michal (referee)
The diploma thesis focuses on selected detective prose by Peter Eidler with a Jewish theme: Na šábes se nevraždí (2015), Nahá s Davidovou hvězdou (2016) and Smrt konvertity (2018). These are his first three detective novels with Jewish motifs. The thesis follows the character of the narrator, a not very successful private detective with family problems, who is present in all these texts, the plot, and its resolution against the background of the detective prose tradition and its conventions. The thesis especially focuses on the motifs of Judaism and the Holocaust, which play a prominent role in all these books and are specific to Eidler's prose. At first all books are described to avoid confusion in the following analyses. Keywords detective novels, Petr Eidler, Petr Balajka Na šábes se nevraždí, Nahá s Davidovou hvězdou, Smrt konvertity
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The effects pf VAT harmonisation on tax revenue in the European Union
Kabátek, Jan ; Schneider, Ondřej (advisor) ; Jareš, Michal (referee)
This thesis focuses on the revenue effects of the value added tax (VAT) harmonisation in the European context. We elaborate on the topic by means of a 30-year panel regression analysis of 15 European countries, which derives the impact of national VAT rate convergence towards the regional average. The regression results confirm that the harmonisation can raise efficiency of national VAT instruments, as the revenue increases with narrowing of the VAT rate differences. The results of the regression analysis are further used to estimate potential revenue gain from the VAT harmonisation in the year 2009. The computed revenue gain represents approximately 5% of the European VAT revenue. Apart from the revenue gain identification, we also analyse the current defficiencies of European VAT scheme, i.e., Cross-border shopping and Carousel frauds, and discuss potential solutions for both phenomena. In both cases, the VAT rate harmonisation is confirmed helpful, having potential to eradicate these inherent efficiency threats, or at least to facilitate the reforms necessary for their abolition.
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Comics strips as current media
Scharnaglová, Luisa ; Mocná, Dagmar (advisor) ; Jareš, Michal (referee)
Strip is an original comiscs' subgenre with a rich history and a wide range of current utilization possibilities. The main goal of these theses is to describe the usage of strip in the Czech environment and culture, especially after the breakdown of communistic in 1989. In the first chapter of my work I focus on the history of strip and on its development in course of centuries. The second chapter is dealing with the definition of strip as comics' subgenre and on its determination against other similar genres. The third chapter constitutes the most important part of my work and it deals with the Czech strip, and its most famous creators. Besides of it I also particularly focus on several translators of the most significant foreign strips. The last chapter attend to current usage of strip, especially in the advertising industry.
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Narrative aspects of comics
Kořínek, Pavel ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Jareš, Michal (referee)
The thesis entit1ed "Narrative aspects of comics" intends to apply a theoretical background of the dassic narratology to the visual/verbal medium of comics, using the remarks of the so-called "transmedial narratology". Following a short overview of the most important studies focused on comics narration, the three levels of comics narrative are established, Le. levels of "segment", "story" and "world". These levels are thereafter dosely examined. In addition to the common narrative aspects (e.g. space/spatiality, time/temporality, narrative speech, narrator, focalization and narrative events - in this case "sequences"), the thesis a1so pays attention to the typology / genre theory of comics as well as to the medium-symptomatic phenomenon of seriality, proposing the term of "shared fictious world". There are also short excursions devoted to other narration-shaping features.
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Objects in Modern Lyric
Hankiewicz, Jakub ; Hrdlička, Josef (advisor) ; Pajak, Aleksandra (referee) ; Jareš, Michal (referee)
Objects in Modern Lyric Mgr. Jakub Hankiewicz Abstract At the beginning of the 20th century, there is a shift toward objects in poetry. Traditionally, its beginning is marked by Rilke's New Poems. Everyday objects had been present in poetry before this shift; however, what differed in comparison with previous generations was the way the new tendency portrayed mundane things. This dissertation describes some of the aspects of this change using Bill Brown's theory of objects. The common thread of the work is specific poetic tools that evoke such focus on an object that reveals its mysteriousness and estrangement. A thing is always also something else than what it appears to be in a given moment, and poets use their tools so that the reader experiences this fact while reading poetry about objects. The material for this dissertation is the work of Czech and Polish poets of the 1940s and 1950s. It is a period in which the shift to objects peaks in central European lyric, and it is also obvious across national literatures. Whereas in Poland, authors of this tendency are commonly interpreted in the context of the shift to objects, in the Czech Republic there have not until recently been many studies on poetry about objects. As a side goal, this thesis illustrates manifestations of the tendency of the shift to the...
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The effects pf VAT harmonisation on tax revenue in the European Union
Kabátek, Jan ; Schneider, Ondřej (advisor) ; Jareš, Michal (referee)
This thesis focuses on the revenue effects of the value added tax (VAT) harmonisation in the European context. We elaborate on the topic by means of a 30-year panel regression analysis of 15 European countries, which derives the impact of national VAT rate convergence towards the regional average. The regression results confirm that the harmonisation can raise efficiency of national VAT instruments, as the revenue increases with narrowing of the VAT rate differences. The results of the regression analysis are further used to estimate potential revenue gain from the VAT harmonisation in the year 2009. The computed revenue gain represents approximately 5% of the European VAT revenue. Apart from the revenue gain identification, we also analyse the current defficiencies of European VAT scheme, i.e., Cross-border shopping and Carousel frauds, and discuss potential solutions for both phenomena. In both cases, the VAT rate harmonisation is confirmed helpful, having potential to eradicate these inherent efficiency threats, or at least to facilitate the reforms necessary for their abolition.
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Comics strips as current media
Scharnaglová, Luisa ; Mocná, Dagmar (advisor) ; Jareš, Michal (referee)
Strip is an original comiscs' subgenre with a rich history and a wide range of current utilization possibilities. The main goal of these theses is to describe the usage of strip in the Czech environment and culture, especially after the breakdown of communistic in 1989. In the first chapter of my work I focus on the history of strip and on its development in course of centuries. The second chapter is dealing with the definition of strip as comics' subgenre and on its determination against other similar genres. The third chapter constitutes the most important part of my work and it deals with the Czech strip, and its most famous creators. Besides of it I also particularly focus on several translators of the most significant foreign strips. The last chapter attend to current usage of strip, especially in the advertising industry.
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Does comics belong to literature? Literary substance of comics
Taud, Rostislav ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Jareš, Michal (referee)
At first, the thesis describes the question of the "literary substance" of comics and how czech comics theory has dealt with it. Although the theory claims now that comics is not a part of literature, there is no scholarly reflection of this point. In the second part of the thesis, comics is compared to literature from three different points of view: the autenticity of the artwork, the use of verbal language, and the artifact (work of art as an object). Nevertheless, it shows that literature and comics cannot be compared clearly: comics is an autographic two-stage art dealing with spatial parameters of writing and with a book as its artifact; literature is an allographic one-stage art and its artifact is (virtually) sound. The last part applies some approaches of literary theory (narration, narrator, poetics, reception, reader etc.) to comics. In spite of the mutual incomarability, comics could be analysed with the instruments of literary theory but it depends on how much the theory deals with the primary substance of literature, i.e. language.
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Narrative aspects of comics
Kořínek, Pavel ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Jareš, Michal (referee)
The thesis entit1ed "Narrative aspects of comics" intends to apply a theoretical background of the dassic narratology to the visual/verbal medium of comics, using the remarks of the so-called "transmedial narratology". Following a short overview of the most important studies focused on comics narration, the three levels of comics narrative are established, Le. levels of "segment", "story" and "world". These levels are thereafter dosely examined. In addition to the common narrative aspects (e.g. space/spatiality, time/temporality, narrative speech, narrator, focalization and narrative events - in this case "sequences"), the thesis a1so pays attention to the typology / genre theory of comics as well as to the medium-symptomatic phenomenon of seriality, proposing the term of "shared fictious world". There are also short excursions devoted to other narration-shaping features.
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