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Searching for identity in so-called Palank cycle written by Ladislav Ballek
Erdélyiová, Veronika ; Pátková, Jana (advisor) ; Chmel, Rudolf (referee)
The thesis is of an analytical/interpretative character, focusing on the search for identity in the so-called "Palánek" cycle by Ladislav Ballek. The source texts are Ballek's novel collection Južná pošta (1974) and novels Pomocník (1977) and Agáty (1981). The comparison focuses mainly on the specific approach to national identity. The analytical part aims to grasp the different forms of human identity and to explain their specific nature (national, historic, cultural) with emphasis on the interpretation of specific texts with regard to their broader validity in the context of Slovak literature.
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Representing Courtship and Marriage in the English Novel, 1780-1860
Vomáčková, Lenka ; Nováková, Soňa (advisor) ; Beran, Zdeněk (referee)
This thesis focuses on the motifs of courtship and marriage as experienced by the female characters in the novels published from the end of the 18th century till the second half of the 19th century. These novels include Evelina (1778), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Jane Eyre (1847) and The Mill on the Floss (1860). As all these novels are written by female authors, the thesis provides a unique female perspective of the issue. The chosen texts deal with the motifs of courtship and marriage, play with the conventional discourse, and at the same time challenge the established perception of the role of a woman in the process of courting. Besides discussing the novels, I explore also the way the themes of courtship and marriage are presented in the original 18th and 19th century literature. For this purpose, I scrutinized various conduct books and essays of the period. The first chapter of the thesis is introductory and explains the main ideas and terms used in the thesis. The second chapter focuses on the social background the heroine comes from - her family, character and education. Hence, the role of the family is discussed in reference to the process of courtship. Great attention is given primarily to the role of a father as a possible social guardian and the model of a future husband. The third...
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Italo Calvino the story-teller
Vítková, Iva ; Pelán, Jiří (advisor) ; Flemrová, Alice (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the work of important italian writer of twenteeth centrury - Italo Calvino. First part presents life and work of this writer. Central part of this work are analysis of three Calvino's works. The Path to the Nest of Spiders is writer's debut published in 1947. Calvino's inspiration comes from second word war, when he belonged to guerrilla's group. It's a story of a young boy living in one of these groups and describing a life in this epoche. Second analysed book are Cosmicomics. It's a book of short stories published in the sixties. Stories take place in universe and are recounted by tranforming being Qfwfq. Calvino intention was to create new myths. Last analysis belongs to If on a winter's night a traveler, the work from his experiental period. In the conlusion part are identified constant and changing elements in Calvino's writing. As repeating elements were indicated game, fairytale, myth, space of narration, components of autobiography. On the other way as changing elements were found theme, genre and inspiration. The aim of this thesis is to introduce original style of Italo Calvino and point out how special and privileged was his position in cultural life in Italy in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Roman maritime trade in the Adriatic area according to finds from the shipwrecks.
Zerzánová, Veronika ; Čechová, Martina (advisor) ; Stančo, Ladislav (referee)
in english language In my work I want to follow up Roman maritime trade in the Adriatic sea. I would like to describe the most common cargo according to finds from the shipwrecks. If need be also from where to where the merchant ship sails. I Intend to focus also on parameters of Roman merchant ships, next harbours and navigation routes. I would like to point out benefits of undersea research and it's importance for contemporary state of investigation. Than I want to describe common methods of undersea researches. The work is divided into seven chapters. The first is handling with historical connection of shipping in this area. Second chapter is dealing with Roman trade ships, it's looks, size, capacity and wals of constructions. Third charter is the largest. It offers repertoary of ship's cargo. It divides the most common cargo into: amphorae, stone objects, other ceramics, art and craft objects, metal objects, grain and glass objects. Fourth charter is dealing with harbours and anchorages and fifth chapter is dealing with navigation routes in the Adriatic sea. Sixth charter is handling with benefits of undersea researches. Seventh charter concludes the work by descriptions of the most common methods of undersea researches. Concusion summary the knowledge gained.
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Italo Svevo's novels
Sklenářová, Simona ; Pelán, Jiří (advisor) ; Flemrová, Alice (referee)
This thesis aims to introduce the Italian writer Italo Svevo and his three key novels: Una vita (A Life), Senilità (As a man grows older) and La coscienza di Zeno (Zeno's Conscience). At the beginning I briefly summarize the history of multicultural Trieste, which had considerable influence on the author and which is the setting of the three novels. The bio- bibliographical section will chronologically portray Svevo's personal and professional life and his literary and dramatic works. The connecting point of his works is "inettitudine", or indifference, ineptitude and passivity of the main characters lives. Further, one of Svevo's topics handled repeatedly is the family, relations between its individual members, love and rivalry. The work focuses on Svevo's novels. Finally, I try to compare all three works, to find differences between them and summarize the overall continuity and transformation of Svevo's heroes.
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Reflection of Social, Economic and Cultural Changes in Britain in Selected Early Victorian Fiction
Šišková, Martina ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Topolovská, Tereza (referee)
The thesis "The Reflection of Social, Economic and Cultural Changes in Britain in Selected Early Victorian Fiction" aims to investigate the relationship between the First Industrial Revolution in the Great Britain and the English fiction of this era. It deals with the question if the selected authors reflected major industrial and social changes in their writing and if so, what particular events they described. Further, it is focused on the relationship between the novelists and their works, in other words, if there is any connection between their class origin and their point of view of the social problematic displayed in particular novels. It also tries to find out if the prose writers identified themselves with their novel characters and/or if they projected their own life experience into their stories. The work concerns with literary movements represented in selected early Victorian novels: Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, Hard Times, Oliver Twist and The Personal History of David Copperfield the Younger and William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair. Key words: Social changes, the Industrial Revolution, the Victorian society, social mobility, the class conflict, the novel
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Roman Lamps From Cemeteries in Gerulata (Rusoviec)
Frecer, Robert ; Musil, Jiří (advisor) ; Ondřejová, Iva (referee)
This catalogue documents Roman lamps from the cemeteries of Gerulata (modern-day Rusovce). It consists of 16 Bildlapmen, 89 Firmalampen, and one special shape. These lamps were found mainly in two large cemeteries, in both cremation and inhumation graves, dated from the last decades of the 1 st century AD to the dawn of the 3rd century. Of the Bildlampen, several lamps with angular voluted nozzles (Loeschcke type I) and one fragment of a circular lamp with a rounded nozzle (Loeschcke type VIII) are represented. Of the Firmalampen, both Loeschcke types IX and X are found, type X and its variations being the most numerous (67 lamps). The iconography of relief decorations shows a range of mythological and profane images. Twenty different makers' stamps in relief are found, two without parallels, with Fortis as most common. The production, transport and copying of Firmalampen is described; resulting endeavors to locate their point of origin are determined to be often unreliable without chemical analysis. Both the relationship of lamps to other grave goods as well as their purpose in graves are assessed; lamps are found to have been an available luxury, as appropriate in a Romanized society. Most lamps had worn bases, and some had blackened wickholes; most are burned by their inclusion in the funeral pyre. The...
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