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Literary work of Mahmud Darwish
Mišúnová, Katarína ; Ondráš, František (advisor) ; Oliverius, Jaroslav (referee)
MIŠÚNOVÁ, Katarína: The literary work of Mahmud Darwish [bachelor work]. - Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Institut of the Middle East and Africa. Supervisor of the bachelor work: PhDr. František Ondráš, Ph.D. Degree: Bachelor. Prague: FFUK, 2015. 57 p. The goal of the bachelor work is to introduce the significant Palestinian writer and poet Mahmud Darwish to the Czech and Slovak readers. Mahmud Darwish dedicated his life and work to his mother land - Palestine. His literary work - collections of poems and prosaic work written in arabic language - encourage the people of Palestine who live in the area of Israel or in exile. Thanks to his great literary talent he soon became famous not only in arabic countries, his work is beeing constantly translated into more than twenty languages including Czech and Slovak languages. This helps to inform the world about the misery and suffering of Palestinian people. He is considered to be the spokesman and advocate of Palestinian people and is also called "the national poet of Palestine". The first chapter introduces the life of Mahmud Darwish, the historical and political facts that influenced his life and brought him to the literary creation. The goal of this chapter is to point out his steps, decisions and his activity in the field of culture...
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The Unusual Identity - Polona Glavan. Commented Translation of selected short stories
Bernardová, Eliška ; Nedvědová, Milada (advisor) ; Kozár, Aleš (referee)
Topic of the thesis are selected short stories from the book Guerrillas (Gverilci, 2004) by the Slovene writer Polona Glavan. The first part introduces the writer and her work. It focuses on the literary historic classification of her works as well. It explains the movement of minimalism in art and its appearance in the literature. The last topic of this part is the Slovene generation of minimalists. The second part of the thesis contains the main theme - commented translation of the selected short stories. It means the text analysis of stories and analysis of the selected problems connected with the process of translation. There are presented steps which have been used as well. The thesis is mainly focused on the appearance of minimalism in texts by Polona Glavan and the suitable translation of them to the Czech language.
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Joseph Georg Meinert and His Work in the Context of the German Cultural Life in the Czech Lands at the End of the 18th and in the First Half of the 19th Century.
Čížková, Martina ; Vodrážková, Lenka (advisor) ; Tvrdík, Milan (referee)
The presented thesis contextualizes Joseph Georg Meinert's life and his writings in German spiritual life in the Czech lands at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. It aims to analyze the subject matter of the whole spectrum of his works. His writings attest to the life of this German-speaking teacher, tutor and professor as well as scholar. Equally, they show the cultural and historical development at the time when the patriotism in the Habsburg monarchy begun to evolve. In the thesis Mainert's texts are divided into groups according to their genres and recurring themes and motives. Next, the texts are analyzed by comparison with the information occurring in the secondary literature and the preserved fragments of Meinert's diaries. The results of the analysis confirm that Meinert's creations authentically documented the historical, political and cultural circumstances of that time. The creations influenced not only the patriotically thinking fellows and writers in the Austrian, Czech and German lands, but as an editor he also had influence on the less educated readers of his journals. Meinert's writings were mostly received positively. His poetic work related to the negatively perceived historical events can be seen as an exception. Above that, the analysis showed that...
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Legacy of Adalbert Stifter in his home region
Kumpfová, Karolína ; Skopek, Robert (advisor) ; Koura, Petr (referee)
1 Abstract The topic of this thesis, "The legacy of Adalbert Stifter in his home region", is focusing on Adalbert Stifter, a novelist writing in the German language, and native of Horní Planá. While the story of his life will not be overlooked, this thesis concentrates mainly on his legacy, related to his home region. The purpose of this thesis is to map all monuments of Stifter's life, and the cultural projects linked to this gifted writer, that were realised in his home region. The following text is split into five chapters. The first chapter describes the life and work of Adalbert Stifter. The second chapter is focused on the Czech translations of his works. The third chapter shows how Adalbert Stifter's heritage can help develop the Czech-German relationship. Chapters four and five contain the analysis of the memory of Adalbert Stifter in his home town and in the region
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Bernard Malamud's Selected Fiction in the Context of Black-Jewish Literary Relations
Simonová, Anna ; Ulmanová, Hana (advisor) ; Veselá, Pavla (referee)
Although Bernard Malamud's fiction has been frequently regarded as allegorical and symbolic, Malamud did not avoid the period's social issues in his works, such as the racial question and the changing nature of relationship between American Jews and African Americans. The present thesis aims to discuss Malamud's selected fiction dealing with Black- Jewish relations, namely short stories "Angel Levine," (1955) "Black Is My Favorite Color" (1963) and the novel The Tenants, (1971) and to place them into the context of Black-Jewish relations in the United States and of Black-Jewish literary dialogues and the tensions they express. It thus seeks to evaluate Malamud's role in the discourse of Black-Jewish relations in America. Calling upon a theoretical framework, outlined in chapter 2, based on philosophical and sociological findings of Judith Butler, John Searle, and Michael Omi with Howard Winant, the study examines the role of language and literature in constructing the Self and the Other (understood both as individual and collective identities, including categories of race and ethnicity), suggesting thus that literary texts, such as Malamud's selected fiction, are a part of discursive dialogue through and against which American Jews and Blacks construct their identities. Apart from the approaches to...
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Literary-didactic potential of Capek's Apocryphs
Michálková, Lucie ; Klumparová, Štěpánka (advisor) ; Hník, Ondřej (referee)
The main aim of this thesis is to show the didactic potential of the Apocryphal Tales by Karel Capek as well as to suggest the possible ways to include it in the high school literature education. The theoretical part of this thesis mainly deals with the author - Karel Capek and the concept of the Apocryph. These theoretical chapters study the Apocryphal Tales in detail, especially, focusing on the origin of the book and the existing editions, content and formal analysis, author's work with the intertexture and artistic progress used by Karel Capek. The special part is dedicated to the possible reasons of underestimation of the Apocyrph within author's other works. The practical part targets the didactical potential of the Apocryph. There are described the possibilities of the work with all the texts and possible ways how to work with the idea of Apocryph. The crucial part shows the detailed analysis of the didactical potential of seven selected texts integrated with extended commentary to the structure of this chapter. Another very important part pursues the verification of didactical potential of one of the Apocryph in the framework of secondary school education. This part contains the commented version of the preparation for the high school lecture and its concluding reflection that comments on the...
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Against adaptation: toward transdisciplinarity and minor cinema
Petříková, Linda ; Roraback, Erik Sherman (advisor) ; Nováková, Soňa (referee) ; Burt, Richard (referee)
Against Adaptation: Toward Transdisciplinarity and Minor Cinema Linda Petříková Abstract Over the past decades, the field adaptation studies has been trying to break new grounds and escape the confines of the predominant fidelity discourse. This thesis wants to propose new perspectives that have been widely underrepresented, at least in the Anglo-American context, drawing attention to the great relevance to adaptation of the writings of French critical thinkers, most notably Gilles Deleuze and his two-volume publication on cinema and Jacques Rancière and his continuation/reevaluation of Deleuze's film-related concepts. Without directly addressing questions of adaptation, the way both philosophers think about cinema is inseparable from their thinking about literature and indeed about other arts and media, exemplifying new transdisciplinary approaches to adaptation this thesis hopes to encourage. Even though it might seem counterintuitive, considering the efforts of adaptation studies to cut the roots it has grown within literary departments, I chose three Shakespearean adaptations for the case studies as I believe that such focus will enable us to see more clearly the significance of interstices as much as of the links the films form with the text. Jean-Luc-Godard's King Lear, Orson Welles's Chimes at...
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The Revenge in Norbert Frýd's and Viktor Fischl's Works
Gričová, Andrea ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Špirit, Michael (referee)
The bachelor thesis focuses on two novels - Krabice živých and Dvorní šašci in which both authors describe events of Second World War. It deals with stylistic and composition processes of both writings and also with the theme of revenge and the related guilt and punishment in connection with the World War II and holocaust. The first part of the thesis deals with Norbert Frýd and his writing Krabice živých, it also states his factual life data, because they serve the better understanding of the origin of the work. The second part of thesis deals with Viktor Fischl and his writing Dvorní šašci and also states the factual data from his life. In the conclusion it summarizes the collected findings. Keywords Norbert Frýd, Viktor Fischl, the Revenge, Second World War, Literature
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