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The view from outside - the February revolution 1948 in the novels of Zdeněk Němeček, Egon Hostovský and Lubor Zink
Malinová, Lenka ; Schmarc, Vít (advisor) ; Vaněk, Václav (referee)
In her work, the author compares three novels of the exile writers, Egon Hostovský, Lubor Zink and Zdeněk Němeček. The novels Missing, February and the story Shadow bring together the theme of the February revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1948. The author grapple with three main topics, which appear in all three novels: binary worlds and dualism, betrayed word and image of the history. In this work these newfound motives are put into the context with the general principles of literature in exile.
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"Jesus Kind" Egon Bondy as Bohumil Hrabal's inspiration
Marek, Jakub ; Schmarc, Vít (advisor) ; Špirit, Michael (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with Egon Bondy's influence upon Bohumil Hrabal. First of all it sketches their relationship which was very friendly and which took place mainly in the fifties of the twentieth century. In the next section there is presented in two ways the influence of Egon Bondy on Bohumil Hrabal's literary works. As the first way is intended the influence of Bondy's concept of total realism upon Hrabal's early texts (see especially the story Jarmilka, also e.g. the story Blitzkrieg or the text collage Mrtvomat), the second way shows how was Egon Bondy used as a literary figure by Hrabal (e.g. the story Zamilovaná or prose Něžný barbar). The first point of interest is therefore origination and evolution of mythology of Bondy how it was processed by Hrabal in his proses and poems. Concurrently, this thesis tries to refer to works of other authors in which the Bondy's figure also occurs and then compare it with Hrabal's texts. In next part this thesis deals with Hrabal's inspiration coming from Bondy's poetic method of total realism which served him as a proper way of depiction of "estranged" reality of the fifties.
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The view from outside - the February revolution 1948 in the novels of Zdeněk Němeček, Egon Hostovský and Lubor Zink
Malinová, Lenka ; Schmarc, Vít (advisor) ; Vaněk, Václav (referee)
In her work, the author compares three novels of the exile writers, Egon Hostovský, Lubor Zink and Zdeněk Němeček. The novels Missing, February and the story Shadow bring together the theme of the February revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1948. The author grapple with three main topics, which appear in all three novels: binary worlds and dualism, betrayed word and image of the history. In this work these newfound motives are put into the context with the general principles of literature in exile.
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The body and corporality in the service of socialist realism
Marešová, Ina ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Schmarc, Vít (referee)
Ina Marešová The body and corporality in the service of socialist realism Abstract The thesis analyses images of the body and embodiment during socialist realism in poetry, prose and periodicals between 1945 and 1956 as well as during the so-called 'normalization' period in Czechoslovakia. Individual forms of embodiment are presented via a system of binary oppositions (individual - collective body, public - private, functional - dysfunctional, male - female, beautiful - ugly etc.), on the basis of which it attempts to demonstrate how the 'natural' symbolism of the body became a tool for representing a specific value system. The thesis describes the coming to terms of socialist realism with the individualised and fragmented body as a legacy of naturalism, the avant-garde and surrealism through the adaptation of the individual body to typified resemblances (images of the enemy, man, woman, leader). These emblematic reductions were, in many cases, taken from popular literature which, despite being rejected by socialism, guaranteed popularity amongst readers and was intelligible to the largest part of the population. The highest level of embodiment was the staging of the collective body, the 'spartakiada' performances, which were co-responsible for creating the myth of national unity, discipline and the will to...
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In the land of steel and lyres. Subjects and ideology in culture of Czech Stalinism (1948-1953)
Schmarc, Vít ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Bauer, Michal (referee) ; Šámal, Petr (referee)
Thesis In The Land of Lyres and Steel is an analysis of official culture of the high Stalinist period in Czechoslovakia (1948-1953) based on up to date concepts of ideology. For them ideology as such is not a notion of an error, misunderstanding or manipulation but true condition of social being as an interaction of subject in inter-subjective structure. Main aim of the thesis consists in semiotic mapping and criticism of ideology; therefore it reconstructs mechanisms, by which reality is created by and in ideology - including parts that were repressed to hide antagonisms in ideological structures. Material for this analysis comes mostly from the works of young authors, whose poetics and fantasy were artistically formed in the Stalinist period. This thesis is not trying to go on in common fashion: looking for universal and uniform but on the contrary - to search for unique and distinctive. Using the concepts of socialist realism common in Anglo-Saxon tradition it perceives this cultural-political system not as ultimate product of supreme power but as active horizon of negotiation between subject and ideology. The conclusions are partial observations on the level of basic appellations of ideology: reproduce, transform, include / exclude and their realization in different fictional worlds of poetry, which are...
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Socialist realism and so called total realism: main characteristics of poetics, similarities and differences
Sieberová, Jana ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Schmarc, Vít (referee)
This diploma thesis mainly deals with the relationships between the poetic manifestations of socialist realism and so called total realism in the early fifties. The first part focuses on general issues; within it I try to describe characteristic features of both poetics, for total realism it is done mostly in the background of comparison with like-minded concepts (Hrabal's poems from the fifties, the works of former members of Group 42). In other chapters of the text I am thinking about a total realism from two aspects: first, as an alternative form of realism, which defines itself against the official art, as well as a program that is dependent on the official art to some extent by paraphrasing or using some of its means and resources.
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