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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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Forming of Vojvodina`s Hungarians national identity in the literary and publicistic works in the period between the world wars
Matela, Matěj ; Gál, Eugen (advisor) ; Pelikán, Jan (referee)
The purpose of this bachelor work is to present the evolution of creating the national identity of Hungarians in Vojvodina in the period between the two world wars and especially their literary activities. The first part of the work is focused on the historical and social situation of Hungarians in former Yugoslavia, i.e. what ways has their life changed after the ratification of the Treaty of Trianon and incorporation to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, further on the outline of political rights, situation in education etc. The following chapter presents a picture of literary and publicist activities. The main literary movements are defined in this part of the work and the crucial journals, anthologies and the most important personalities, who used to form the cultural life in Vojvodina in the between-war period, are stated there. The conclusion of the bachelor work, based upon fiction, publicist texts and using the scientific literature (especially works written by Hungarian authors acting in Vojvodina), is dedicated to the main theme, i.e. the creation of national identity of Hungarians living in the between-war Yugoslavia, or more precisely to the view of these personalities of the existence of Vojvodina`s literature and personal national/regional identity.
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Reading of images and reading of text as a way towards new experience from the book
Štěrbíková, Kateřina ; Novotná, Magdalena (advisor) ; Kafková, Helena (referee)
Štěrbíková, K.: Reading of images and reading of text as a way towards new experience from the book. /Thesis/ Prague 2014 - Charles University, Faculty of education, department of art education, 125 pages. The thesis examines the illustration of children's books - one of the forms of fine art. The illustration is considered to be one of the ways for the development of critical thinking, visual literacy and key competencies of younger school-age children. Therefore, this thesis focuses on the current concept of book illustration. Based on an intensive research the thesis is trying to detect those properties of book illustrations encouraging children to active participation and active relationship with the book. The interpretation of the image (illustration) is dealt with in close connection to the process of understanding conceptual meaning of the text reacting to the level of literacy skills achieved by Czech pupils. The program Critical thinking through reading and writing offers the option of increasing the level of literacy and at the same time the possibility of deepening the relationship of the child with the book. The goal of the thesis is to prove that if the viewer works with the book as one complex unit, which encourages flexible thinking, there is a chance for him/her to find a new,...
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The portrait of mystic poet Mahadevi Varma
Zmeková, Barbora ; Kostič, Svetislav (advisor) ; Marková, Dagmar (referee)
This thesis presents the mystic poetess Mahadevi Varma, whose poetic work is of the Chhayavad period of Hindi poetry. The thesis introduces the reader to the dynamics of modern Hindi poetry. The main focus is on Varma's life and includes an analysis of her poetic work. The paper addresses Varma's use of traditional Indian literary elements in a modern context, which represents characteristic features of Chhayavad in general. A distinguishing factor of this thesis are translations of Mahadevi Varma's poems from Hindi into Czech. The translations are not direct translations but take poetic license to retain the spirit of the poetry in Czech.
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