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The Italian historical novel between 1827 and 1840
Löwensteinová, Klára ; Pelán, Jiří (advisor) ; Flemrová, Alice (referee) ; Pechar, Jiří (referee)
This doctoral dissertation deals with the theme of Italian historical novel in 1827-1840. The first, methodological part presents its premises and summarizes the present research about historical novel in Italian literary history. The second part introduces the contemporary context, the most relevant concepts of the debate that concerns the historical novel, and points out the possible influence of W. Scott; also the most typical themes, motifs and characters during the productive period of genre. The third, analytical part presents seven representative historical novels where the distinctive features are analyzed: e.g. historical settings, spatiotemporal relations and their author's intentions, relation between history and fiction, tools for emphasizing the truthfulness and plausibility of the story's plot, relation author-narrator-reader. The fourth, synthetic part tries to summarize the possible novel stereotypes, especially category of point of view and author's interventions, intentions of spatiotemporal settings, connection between history and fiction, the main structural lines, motifs and features and the most distinctive characters.
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The Italian historical novel between 1827 and 1840
Löwensteinová, Klára ; Pelán, Jiří (advisor) ; Hrbata, Zdeněk (referee) ; Obstová, Zora (referee)
The doctoral thesis deals with the genre of an Italian historical novel between 1827 and 1840, tracks its evolution, constants, and ideological tendencies. The analyses of seven texts - chosen according some criteria, stipulating that the works always had to be the first historical novel of each author, they had to represent the advance of genre properly, and at the same time, had to be interesting literary types - focus on the genre of significant structural elements, i.e. they study the period of stories, plots, spatiotemporal relations, characters, narrators in relation to the readers and to the sources, proportion of fiction and history, historicism and ahistoricism, and paratext. The results of research bring surprisingly standardized repertoire of historical novels of the studied period. Single aspects - e.g. the critical choice of period, the preponderance of antagonists over protagonists, the tragic end of heroes, the viewpoint of narrators, historical parallels, create a clear anti-model of the modern, sovereign, and nascent Italian state.
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