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The Environment of the Fictional Space of Wuthering Heights
ŠEDIVÁ, Barbora
This bachelor thesis introduces the author of the novel Wuthering Heights in the context of the literature of 19th century and focuses on Emily Brontë´s relation with the enviroment where she grew up and which formed the relationship with the place where her novel´s plot is set. The aim of the bachelor thesis is to cover romantic elements of the novel Wuthering Heights, to characterize the gothic novel´s influence on the overall picture of the enviroment and to find confrontations of realistic, gothic and romantic elements creating the setting of the novel.
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Bram Stoker and Sheridan Le Fanu: An Anaylsis of their Irish Horror Fiction/Bram Stoker a Sheridan Le Fanu: Analýza jejich Irských hororových příběhů
HOLÍKOVÁ, Petra
The diploma thesis "Bram Stoker and Sheridan LeFanu: An Analysis of their Irish Horror Fiction" deals with the analysis of the varied aspects linked with the themes of horror stories of two Irish writers. Both writers, Joseph Sheridan LeFanu and Bram Stoker, were Protestants from Dublin whose works are renowned worldwide. An emphasis is made on the study of Gothic settings and the aim of the thesis is to specifically find and to analyze characteristic elements of Gothic fiction of these authors. This thesis is concerned with Bram Stoker´s Dracula (1897) and also with the story "Dracula´s Guest". It will analyse short stories such as the novella Carmilla and also "The Familiar" by Joseph Sheridan LeFanu.
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Transformation of the Gothic in Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture
Mikulová, Martina ; Nováková, Soňa (advisor) ; Beran, Zdeněk (referee)
Thesis abstract: Despite the fact that some critics view the period of the true Gothic as ending in the year 1820, others consider it to be a genre, as well as an aesthetic, which can still be perceived across various different cultural aspects to this day. Possibly the best way to approach the Gothic within the realm of literature is to observe several key examples of the Gothic topos, which was grounded in the original Gothic pieces of the eighteenth century. During the course of the nineteenth century, a historical period which from the cultural point of view appears almost inherently Gothic, British Gothic writing has undergone considerable changes and development, maintaining several of the key Gothic features, namely those of setting, isolation, and character types, modifying them in the process. Through this, it can be observed to what extent the aspects remain, and just how far-reaching their transformation was within the six exemplary works - Frankenstein, The Vampyre, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Carmilla, and Dracula. Another important aspect overlaying the selected works is that of monstrosity - a rather physical interpretation of the inner monstrosities of humans, or indeed an entire culture. The literary works, no matter how different at first glance they may appear to be, all utilize typical...
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The Role of Violence in Blood Meridian and The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Kubalová, Barbora ; Robbins, David Lee (advisor) ; Procházka, Martin (referee)
Violence has always been conspicuously present in the American nation, its culture and literature. Considering the immoderate abundance of violence in current entertainment industry, it would seem natural for the emotions to be dulled and able to process any abhorrent excess of violence; the reactions that both Blood Meridian and The Road by the American author Cormac McCarthy have gathered are thus all the more surprising. Face to face with the novels' unspeakable evil, many readers do recoil in horror and the pervasive violence of McCarthy's writings has provoked a wide range of critical perception. The novels may differ significantly in the setting − Southwestern United States of the 19th century in Blood Meridian as opposed to post-apocalyptic future of The Road - but the apparent gulf between both groups of characters and mainly between them and the reader is only another ruse of McCarthy's scheme, whereby he unveils uncomfortable truths about humankind. Although his meticulous study of sources might support the inevitability, even a penchant for bloodshed and carnage in specific conditions, it would be erroneous and contrary to McCarthy's portrayal to imply that it is anomalous rather than representative. The hostility in the novels should not be understood as a feature of a particular region or...
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Motion in Faulkner: An Analysis of Movement in The Sound and the Fury
Hesová, Petra ; Ulmanová, Hana (advisor) ; Matthews, John Thomas (referee)
The Gothic is an extremely viable mode in the history of American literature. As a genre concerned principally with distortions and aberrations, it provides a platform for writers to voice their concerns about periods of transformation and destabilized boundaries. William Faulkner, one of the leading authors of the American South, frequently employs the Gothic mode in his portrayals of the South as a traumatized region trying to cope with the echoes of the Civil War and with the disintegration of old aristocratic values, which manifests itself in the decay of institutions (such as the family) as well as a collapse of individual minds. This emphasis on the human psyche is evident especially in the novel The Sound and the Fury, whose main characters and narrators are representatives of the various extremities of the human psyche (severe mental retardation, suicidal tendencies, schizophrenia and paranoia). Faulkner's use of the Gothic mode is rather unorthodox and innovative, employing inversions and parody which can be appropriately demonstrated by the category of motion and his use of the traditional Gothic devices and character types. The traditional motion patterns - flight and pursuit, quest and purposeless wandering - that are originally connected predominantly with only one Gothic type (the...
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Comparison of lives and works of E. A. Poe and Stephen King/ What can make people write horror stories?
Kopečná, Kateřina ; Ženíšek, Jakub (advisor) ; Chalupský, Petr (referee)
The bachelor thesis is concerned with the comparison of lives and works of Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King. In the theoretical part of the thesis the horror genre and its typical features are introduced together with outlining both writers' brief biographies. The main part focuses on the analogies between the authors' lives and similarities in the topics and motifs of their work. Poe and King are world-wide famous horror writers; and besides the obvious similarities, such as the nationality and the choice of genre, there are many parallel events and influences in their lives that might have affected the literary production. The thesis provides a deeper analysis of those facets and it puts them in context with their works. The last part interconnects the findings made throughout and explores the tentative thesis as to whether there can be something that can "make" a person write horror stories.
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Horrors an Terrors in the Czech Literature of 1920s and 1930s
Frnochová, Anna ; Činátlová, Blanka (advisor) ; Hrdlička, Josef (referee)
This bachelor's thesis analyses a handling with a trivial literature in 1920s and 1930s. It includes a theoretical point of view as well as the explanation of basic terms associated with the trivial literature. A predominate analytical-interpretive part focuses on a variety of genres of the trivia literature at Czech writers Josef Váchal and Ladislav Klíma. The interpretive part comprises an exploitation and transformation of the trivia genres of bloody and gothic novels in the books "Krvavý román" and "Utrpení knížete Sternenhocha". Both of the authors come out in their work pieces of one of the paraliterature's genre, which is changed personally. It can be stated, that according to a completed analysis, there are two main features used for experimenting with these genres, such as irony and high level of stylization. Key words trivial literature, bloody novel, gothic novel, metatext, stylization, irony
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The Theme of Mystery in Lemony Snicket´s Series of Unfortunate Events
FRANKOVÁ, Nikola
The thesis will deal with interpretation of popular work written by Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) Series of Unfortunate Events with focus on a connection between the scrutinised stories and tradition of English Gothic novel, in wider consideration of a novel with mystery (Botting, Hodrová, Šklovskij). This theoretic and literary-historical context will be attended in the opening chapter. The main part focuses on the theme of mystery in the characters' characteristic as well as in the question of human nature and also in particular motifs (e.g. the meaning of initials V.F.D. [D.P.], motifs of the sugar bowl, poison and its antidote) and in the general atmosphere of uncertainty and danger. Special attention will be paid to the numerous intertextual references as well.
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The elements of horror in the stories of Ray Bradbury
HLADKÝ, Martin
This thesis deals with the interpretation of the horror elements in the short stories of Ray Bradbury. The theoretical part describes the main features of the Gothic novel and the links between this literary tradition and the genre of science fiction (e.g. the role of the novel Frankenstein). The practical part deals with the particular themes of Bradbury's stories: (the loss of identity, alienation, the role of memory, the fear of death, the presence of mystery). The thesis also deals with the way Bradbury evokes suspense and the atmosphere of horror.
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William Godwin's Caleb Williams and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
TRUHELKOVÁ, Jitka
The aim of this diploma thesis is the comparison of the interpretations of the two novels of English Romanticism: William Godwin?s Caleb Williams (1794) and Mary Shelley?s Frankenstein (1818). It will concentrate on the influence of the tradition of Gothic novels, especially on the motifs of secret, pursuit, crime and self-devision. It will also concentrate on the atmosphere of fear and suspense.
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