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The Poet of the Word: Christology in the Work of T.S. Eliot
Šmejdová, Barbora ; Pospíšil, Ctirad Václav (advisor) ; Houkal, Jan (referee)
Title: The Poet of the Word: Christology in the Work of T.S. Eliot The thesis focuses on the Christological analysis of the work of T. S. Eliot, a poet, dramatist and critic. The thesis is divided into two chapters. The first chapter describes historical and cultural background of Eliot's work, basic facts about his life and his literary and critical input. The first chapter is concluded by a reflection about the reception of T. S. Eliot in the Czech Republic and about the translation of his work to Czech. The second chapter contains the Christological analysis of Eliot's poetry and plays. The chapter starts with an analysis of Christological titles in individual poems. The second part of the chapter deals with the important moments of Jesus' life mentioned in Eliot's poems and dramas. The chapter also simultaneously contains references to particular places in the Scripture, which are relevant for given poems. Keywords Christology, T. S. Eliot, Catholic Theology, English Literature
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Existentionalism in the Works of John Fowles/Existencionalismus v díle Johna Fowlese
PETRÁNOVÁ, Eva
This master's thesis is focused on the theme of being and having in concrete works of John Fowles. The aim of this thesis is to analyse literary existentialism in the works of this eminent British prosaist. The thesis mainly concentrates on his first novel The Collector in connection with the theme of money and the question of human physical and mental freedom. Then the thesis compares Fowles' essays with his novel The Collector, particularly with a collection of his private philosophy The Aristos and his essays about nature Seeing Nature Whole, The Tree, The Enigma of Stonehenge.
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Analysis of Specific Space in the 19th Century Anglo-American Literature
HANUSOVÁ, Šárka
This thesis aims to analyse the specific space of Anglo-American Gothic fiction in the 18th and 19th century. The first part of the thesis deals with various aspects of Gothic fiction from a theoretical viewpoint. It contains the two possible concepts of the "Gothic". It lists typical features of the Gothic fiction and gives a brief overview of its development. Then, a crucial typology of space according to Vseticka and Pavera is introduced, as well as Mikhail Bachtin's related term chronotope. The theoretical part concludes with the reflection of the subversive nature of the Gothic fiction and its relation to similarly unconventional approaches of psychoanalysis and gender studies. The practical part of the thesis applies the aforementioned space typology to ten works of English and American Gothic fiction from 1764-1897, with short profiles of the respective writers in each chapter.
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His Dark Materials: Atheism in Philip Pullman´s Trilogy
ERTELOVÁ, Jitka
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to analyse atheistic elements in Philip Pullman´ s fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass). The introductory parts of the thesis briefly describe the life of the writer, his literary output, inspirational sources of the trilogy and a critical reception of His Dark Materials. The middle parts of the thesis deal with various types of atheism and describe the contents of the volumes of Pullman´ s trilogy. The last part contains the analysis of atheistic elements in the trilogy, specifically the analysis of religious topics and ideological and religious movements. The conclusion generally summarizes findings of the analysis of the above-mentioned elements.
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