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Religion and Humour: Comical Layers in Old Norse Religious Texts and Their Relationship to the Offical Religion
Michalíková, Jana ; Starý, Jiří (advisor) ; Chlup, Radek (referee)
This paper focuses on the comic layers in Eddic mythological poetry, namely in Lokasenna, Hárbarðsljóð and Ϸrymskviða, and on their relation to the Old Norse religion. In the past, these comic and seemingly blasphemic poems used to be interpreted as a display of criticism of the religious system or, due to the impossibility to date their origin, as a product of late decadent paganism or even as a Christian satire of this religion. This paper shows that such interpretations are not necessary, and that the comic Eddic poems could have existed as a functional part of the Old Norse religion. It points out the affinity of the categories of religious humour and chaos. Subsequently, it presents various theories, mostly from the field of anthropology of religion, which show that a temporarily confrontation of order with chaos can be a desirable practise for a religion, and that humour can serve as a suitable means to achieve such a confrontation. The second part of the paper focuses on the particular Eddic poems. It analyses in detail their comic layers, and examines the possibilities of their function within the Old Norse religion on the background of the notion of piety and blasphemy in their time. It demonstrates their link to the tradition of ritualized verbal duels and other socio-cultural phenomena,...
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The Style of Arnošt Goldflam's Plays
Denková, Magdaléna ; Mareš, Petr (advisor) ; Bozděchová, Ivana (referee)
This thesis presents Arnošt Goldflam as playwright with a peculiar position in the Czech culture. It summarizes basic knowledge about nature and style of dramatic texts and, on the basic of this knowledge, deals with stylistic and linguistic analysis of the part of the author's works which are original dramatic texts. It's based on the corpus of twelve games, that represent this kind of his creative work from the 80's until recently. The objective of the thesis is to determine the basic characteristics and language instruments involved in the structure and meaning of each game. Based on the analysis of instruments stylish construction of various levels and areas of language it defines the most significant common features stylish of all included texts and also author's progression in the use of language and style formation. Goldflam's theater work is characterized not only by choosing subjects, but also in the way of their language and staging interpretation. Author's creative activity is still undone, the thesis offers a view of only the selected area of his work. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Boundaries of Humour
Holada, Matouš ; Paulíček, Miroslav (advisor) ; Chylíková, Johana (referee)
This paper examines the phenomenon of controversial humor on the social networking site Facebook. Here there exist several entertainment pages, dedicated to the purpose of publishing and sharing comic material; most notably jokes in the form of humorous images. Sometimes, some of these jokes become a source of conflicts and a target of criticism by certain Facebook users, who consider them unacceptable. The present study therefore aims at examining the characteristics of these jokes, to help shed light on what is today considered inappropriate in the sphere of humor. For this purpose, an analysis of jokes and comments on them, left by their readers, was conducted on several Facebook pages. This research revealed the fact that jokes about current, medially covered disasters where the biggest source of controversies. Further inquiries into their nature then showed that aversion to this type of humor cannot be explained by applying superiority theory (contrary to certain other types of humor; for example ethnic or sexist jokes). The source of conflicts about disaster jokes is therefore seen in the clash of disparate views, held by Facebook users about the nature of norms, governing what is and what isn't acceptable to joke about. The conclusion to this paper then suggests possible directions for...
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Characteristic of Czech great people in play "České nebe"
Bernatová, Lenka ; Brožová, Věra (advisor) ; Mocná, Dagmar (referee)
Considering the fact that this bachelor thesis concerns one of the plays of the Jára Cimrman Theatre wchich is based on the mystification, several theoretical information about the mystification is situated at the beginning of the thesis. The core of this thesis deals with the characters that appear in the 15th Jara Cimrman Theatre play - České nebe. The persons are important Czech personalities who are for various reasons admitted to the heavenly commission to decide about the faith of the Czech nation. They are: Jan Amos Komenský, Svatý Václav, forefather Čech, Jan Hus, Karel Havlíček Borovský, grandmother of Božena Němcová, marshall Radecký and Miroslav Tyrš (The last named are not in the heavenly commission. They enter there as guests). Each character is characterized from the perspective of the authors. This view is compared with the characteristics of the characters in the historical didactical guidbooks, in some cases the characteristic of the guidebook is applied to the play. At the end, the real characters from another Jára Cimrman Theatre plays (Blaník, Záskok, Afrika) are more generally characterized. Translation © sl. Kateřina Vokáčová
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T. R. Field's poems from 1954 to 1955
Bartoňová, Barbora ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Kovařík, Petr (referee)
This thesis deals with the poetic works of T.R.Field, particularly those which date from the period of his hospitalization in the Bohnice Mental Asylum in mid-1950's. It presents the poet's personality and aims to analyze his works from the perspective of literary theory with the main focus on mystifying the reader, humor, and literary stylization. It draws on Field's published texts and on his literary estates and other documents which are kept at the literary archives. Poems from this period are compared with Field's works from between the two world wars, in particular with the collections published under the names Kosoctverce na ohradach and Lomikel na dlasnech. The thesis concludes with an attempt to define the meaning of Field's poetic works.
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Mystification in the plays of Jára Cimrman
Švarcová, Hana ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Mravcová, Marie (referee)
This bachelor thesis analyses the mystification of the Theatre of Jára Cimrman. In the individual chapters it describes the basic areas that constitute the form of mystification. In these chapters is discussed the relationship between mystification and language comic, writing plays, text-appeal, magazine Český svět and acting. At the same time common features between Jára Cimrman Theatre and radio broadcasts Vinárna U Pavouka, which the theatre took over the basic principle - mystification from are pointed out. In the conclusion which is based on the description of partial relations is discussed that the mystification of the Jára Cimrman Theatre only works if there are present all the individual components. By mutual interdependence of all components and their consistent cooperation is achieved the maximum effect.
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Humour in the Campus Novel of David Lodge
VOLDŘICHOVÁ, Magda
The subject of this work is analyses and interpretation of David Lodge´s campus novels. In the concrete, the diploma paper is focused on sources and elements of comicality, especially humour, satire and parody, in Lodge´s free trilogy Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work. The starting point of this diploma paper is characterisation of the genre of the campus novel, with the inclusion of the social situation in the period of the genesis of this genre, and the short outline of its representatives, with emphasis on the novel of Kingsley Amis Lucky Jim. In the following the work considers the ways of the realisation of comicality in the text and from this basis the practical part derives. The main aim is to point out the ways of usage of comic in Lodge´s campus novels and this purpose is achieved in the analysis of the particular texts.
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