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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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Female heroines in N. S. Leskov's short stories
Zbranková, Claudia ; Nykl, Hanuš (advisor) ; Kosáková, Hana (referee)
The aim of this bachelor's thesis is to introduce three main female characters of short stories from the beginning of 1860s.Characters are researched from the same and predefine categories, so Leskov's aimed plan of illustration female heroins is pointed . Then in single chapters of thesis the main facts about Leskov's life and writings and literature analysis of chosen short stories. Key words N. S. Leskov, Female heroines, Character, Poetics of Leskov, Literary science, Russian literature 19. century, Short story.
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"The Dead" - A critical compilation of existing interpretations
Fíl, Lukáš ; Pilný, Ondřej (advisor) ; Armand, Louis (referee)
The essay collects and discusses several reading perspectives of 'The Dead,' a short-story by James Joyce from his collection Dubliners (1914). It contends that the story is very much open to creative reading and subjective interpretation, as it may be seen as a platform for various discourses, hidden and unfinished stories, themes, historical testimonies, etc. It argues that 'The Dead' even successfully dramatizes the very event of interpreting a literary text. At the same time, the paper pays attention to how the story is closely tied to its author's personality, life history, and how the whole collection to great extent derives from Joyce's overall scepticism held towards his countrymen in Dublin. The chapter "A Biographical Reading" discusses James Joyce as an interpretive principle for the story. It reflects on Richard Ellmann's essay "The Backgrounds of 'The Dead'" and notes its positive aspects, but it also acknowledges drawbacks of what is called a biographical method of reading 'The Dead.' The next chapter, "The Dubliners Project," starts by outlining two reading perspectives that don't defy one another, but may rather be seen as mutually enriching. The first sees 'The Dead' as an individual piece of writing, whereas the second as an integral part of the collection. The chapter then...
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Changes of narrative technique in Kageró Nikki
Miko, Michael ; Švarcová, Zdeňka (referee) ; Tirala, Martin (advisor)
My thesis Changes of Narrative Technique in Kager Nikki attempts to analyse one of the first Japanese literary diaries (nikki), of mid 10th century, and one of the so-called four great literary diaries of the Heian period (794-1185), in terms of narrative techniques used by its author, known today as "the Mother of Mitchitsuna." Introduction, containing the purpose, objectives and method of my thesis, and my introductory remarks on the theory of narration are followed by a summary of some basic biographical data of the author where it was my ambition to concisely outline her life story and to review both her literary work and legacy. This leads to another section, which strives to further organise relevant information on the diary and to define it in the context of literary history. Approximately one third through, the thesis begins to describe in more general terms the diary's structure with regard to its story build-up and the emphasis on gradual transformation of writer's prosaic style, inseparably intertwined with the diary's storyline. Subsequently, the analysis reveals some narrative techniques typically used by the writer, in an attempt to describe them and as a result to underpin their alterations in time. Concluding remarks try to definitively assess the overall relevance of the methods used. Annex...
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Dramatist and performer Werner Schwab. A contribution to Austrian postmodernism
Narwová, Michaela ; Tvrdík, Milan (advisor) ; Zbytovský, Štěpán (referee)
The thesis gives a comprehensive picture of Werner Schwab, Austrian playwright and performer. He ranked among the most performed German-speaking authors at the time of his death in 1994. The main objective of this work, whose basis lies in Schwab's dramatic production, is to provide a comprehensive monographic study. The thesis deals not only with the dramas, but also with their relationship to the theatrical production of Thomas Bernhard and Elfriede Jelinek. The chapter on the author's personal life is followed by chapters "Postdramatic Theatre", "Theatre of Cruelty", and "Folk Play", where you can find the answer to the question of the place of Schwab's drama in the overall concept of literature at the end of the 20th century. Particular attention is paid to the unique language usage he developed, called "Schwabisch" after the author.
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Signifying in the fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt
Koy, Christoper Erwin ; Ulmanová, Hana (advisor) ; Veselá, Pavla (referee) ; Jařab, Josef (referee)
(English): The dissertation is fundamentally a study of intertextuality. Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an African American novelist, essayist and short story writer whose voracious reading habits of classical Western literature as well as the writing of his contemporaries had a substantial impact on his writing, an impact which is investigated for the first time applying the theory of African American rhetoric of Henry Louis Gates. The study applies the notion of "signifying" (as Gates describes it in The Signifying Monkey) to Chesnutt and his use of fiction by Ovid, Apulieus, Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Washington Cable and Albion Tourgée. The research explores how Chesnutt quotes from, revises and parodies, (among other mimetic strategies), the language, plots and characters of the aforementioned writers. Abstrakt (česky): Tato disertační práce se zabývá studiem intertextuality v díle afroamerického autora románů, esejí a povídek Charlese W. Chesnutta (1858-1932), který byl ve své tvorbě významně ovlivněn vlastní horlivou četbou klasické západní literatury i literární tvorbou svých současníků. Tato disertace je prvním pokusem o prozkoumání těchto vlivů, a to s využitím teorie afroamerické rétoriky, jejímž autorem je Henry Louis Gates. Práce aplikuje pojem "signifikace"...
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Man in Karol Wojtyla's Early Work
Burda, Petr ; Ventura, Václav (advisor) ; Med, Jaroslav (referee) ; Šprunk, Karel (referee)
The following work presents anthropological analysis of early publications by Karol Wojtyla. Each work (i.e. philosophical, poetical, dramatical) is gradually analyzed. Next part, it presents the comparison Wojtyla's thought of some modern thinkers and their points of view on man, to which Wojtyla directly or indirectly reacts, such as Karel Marx, Ernst Bloch, Sigmund Freud, Erich Fromm and Jean Paul Sartre.
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The story of Wang Zhaojun in Cao Yu's eponymous drama
Stebelská, Zdeňka ; Maršálek, Jakub (referee) ; Andrš, Dušan (advisor)
Cílem naší diplomové práce je tematická a literární analýza Cao Yuho nové historické hri Wang Zhaojun s přihlédnutím k historickým a politickým souvislostem v době vzniku hry, které zásadním způsobem formovaly celkové pojetí a poselství díla. Před samotnou literární analýzou považujeme za důležité nastínit historický i literární vývoj v Číně ve zlomovém období počátku dvacátého století a Májového hnutí, které je charakterizováno značným vlivem evropských podnětů při formování státu i literatury. Ve čtyřicátých a padesátých letech dvacátého století akcentujeme politické, společenské i literární vlivy, které podmínily a zásadně ovlivnily Cao Yuho divadelní tvorbu. V souvislosti s divadelní hrou Wang Zhaojun považujeme za podstatné zmínit vztah mezi Zhou Enlaiem, tehdejším premiérem ČLR, a autorem divadelní hry i politickou zakázku, o které se autor v doslovu sám zmiňuje a která divadelní hru zásadním způsobem utvářela. Usilujeme o zmapování vývoje, konkrétních prostředků a strategie v literatuře zcela nového ztvárnění příběhu o čínské císařské konkubíně Wang Zhaojun, a to především ve smyslu popsání a vymezení postavy Wang Zhaojun tak, jak se objevuje v Cao Yuho stejnojmenné divadelní hře. Klademe si za cíl popsat a porovnat "novou" literární postavu Wang Zhaojun v protikladu k historicky starším ztvárněním...
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The tiny little town of Palermo is setting asleep. The specifics of a Sicilian detective story using the confrontation and comparison of criminal novels by Andrea Camilleri and Leonardo Sciascia
Malá, Jaroslava ; Flemrová, Alice (advisor) ; Pelán, Jiří (referee)
The detective genre originated in the first half of the 19th century and it does not seem to be loosing its pace. On the contrary, new authors have been occurring, bringing new rules and attitudes to the classical formo Detective novel is usually c10sely connected to the settings it describes. The aim ofthis thesis is to find out specific features ofthe Sicilian detective novel. We have chosen two authors and their works for a detailed analysis: Leonardo Sciascia and his novels II giorno della civefta and A ciascuno il suo and Andrea Cami11eri and his La forma dell' acqua and II cane di terracofta. The thesis has two parts. Part one has three chapters: in first chapter we deal with the history of detective novel, the European detective style and the Anglo - Saxon style, or the classical and American detective stories. ln chapter two, we focus on the isle of Sicily, its history and the unique character of its inhabitants and their culture. ln the final chapter, we pay attention to the works of the most famous Sicilian writer Luigi Pirandello e. g.Ilfu Maftia Pascal or Cosi e (se vi pare) , his search for reality, human identity and the relativity ofthe truth, all ofwhich occur in Sicilian detective stories.
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Region of the visionary. Spiritism from the region under the Krkonoše mountains in Czech literature
Krotilová, Lenka ; Hrabáková, Jaroslava (referee) ; Stejskalová, Anna (advisor)
Nejznámější z děl věnovaných tomuto tématu se přičinilo o to, jak je kraj označován. Jde o Blouznivci našich hor od Antala Staška. Právě tento povídkový cyklus pro mne byl výchozím bodem. Rozsáhlá práce Jaroslava Kozáka Spiritismus. Zapomenutá významná kapitola našich dějin a zvláště zde zpracovaná bibliografie byly dalšími z počátečních impulsů práce. U některých autorů, kteří se spiritismem zabývali a psali o něm, byl problém určit přesně dějiště, protože oni sami je přesně nevymezili. Spiritismus byl rozšířen po celých Čechách, takže díla se mohla vztahovat k libovolnému regionu, a pro naše potřeby by se tedy nehodila. Navíc knihy, které vycházely v edici Spirit, vznikaly často tzv. médijní cestou a nedosahovaly vysoké literární úrovně.
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