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Exotic tales, their analysis and impact on the Czech fairytale milieu
KODETOVÁ, Lucie
This thesis focuses on fairytales from exotic countries (and continents), specifically African, American, Australian, Japanese, Chinese, Indian and Inuit. Selected fairytales are introduced, analyzed and compared between each other. This work also focuses on finding similarities between these exotic fairytales and Czech fairytale background. General theoretical information about fairytales can also be found in the first part of this work. One of the goals of this thesis is also to get acquainted with new sources. The empirical part of this work examins the knowledge of sixth grade basic school pupils of international fairytales. Part of this research is also a survey about Czech language teachers from selected schools, focusing specifically on finding out practical use of fairytales during school lessons.
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Commented translation: La La La Through a New Lens: Music Talks to America (In: John McWhorter: Doing Our Own Thing: Degradation of Language and Music in America, and Why We Should, Like, Care. Gotham Books: New York City, 2004. ISBN 1-592-40084-1,
Tichá, Veronika ; Josek, Jiří (advisor) ; Šťastná, Zuzana (referee)
The aim of my thesis was to translate into Czech the first twenty standard pages from the chapter La la la Through a New Lens: Music Talks to America by John McWhorter, and provide the translation with a commentary. The commentary comprises four parts: The first part is a translation analysis, presenting extra- and intratextual factors of the source text, and outlining conception of the translation; the second part contents typology of problems and challenges, consisting in expression and word non-equivalence, cultural non-equivalence, and translation of specific features of the source text; the third part summarizes the types of shifts occuring in the translation, and the last part describes the translation method. Keywords: commented translation, translation analysis, grammar, syntax, lexis, stylistics, expression and word non-equivalence, cultural non-equivalence, America, The United States of America, music
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Textual Identity in Selected Novels by Philip Roth: Representation, Dissimulation, Creation
Lukeš, David ; Ulmanová, Hana (advisor) ; Pilný, Ondřej (referee)
The present study seeks to explore the ways in which Jewish identity is discursively deployed in three novels by Jewish-American writer Philip Roth: Portnoy's Complaint (1969), American Pastoral (1997) and The Human Stain (2000). Calling upon a framework of philosophical approaches to identity structured around the key terms of otherness, performativity and ethics, culled from theoretical writings by Judith Butler, Paul Ricoeur and Emmanuel Lévinas, the thesis analyses how writing about Jews in America functions as a political act, initially perhaps against the author's will, and engages the terms of "majority" and "minority." The central topos is that of otherness, viewed as inaccessible and irreducible (Lévinas), but endowed by the characters we will apprehend with powerful fictions, both appealing and repulsive, foci of desire and derision. In relation to our Jewish protagonists, white otherness (Chapter 1), black otherness (Chapter 2) and other Jews (Chapter 3) will be unearthed as crucial sites of imaginative investment which inform the creation of their individual Jewish-American selves. These selves are performed in discourse alternately with and against their discursive precedents, underscoring the aspect of performativity that Butler calls citationality and establishing an intricate...
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The meaning of ideas about the end of the word in the process of conquest and colonization of America
Brenišínová, Monika ; Křížová, Markéta (advisor) ; Binková, Simona (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis is to explore the possible influence of the idea of the end of the world on the process of conquest and colonization of America. The author tries to answer this question through the study of selected images of the Last Judgment. The purpose aim of this thesis is not to describe or stylistically classify given works of art, but to interpret them using the methodology based on the semiotic conception of culture as public symbolical system that allows to interpret the culture and its expressions in their social connections. As the topic of this work is related to the question of death and finality, the chosen works of art are interpreted also in connection with A. van Gennep's idea of "rites of passage", which enables to pass from one life stage to another. The main source for analysis is the photographic material, which illustrates images and reliefs of the Last Judgment in their natural environment.
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Emerging Voices: The Portrayal of Minorities in the Work of Willa Cather
Plicková, Michaela ; Robbins, David Lee (advisor) ; Ulmanová, Hana (referee)
The thesis seeks to explore the portrayal of the othered, marginalized individuals in the fictional work of Willa Cather. The primary focus of the text is the first-person narrative of My Ántonia (1917). Other complementary primary sources are Cather's remaining two prairie novels - O Pioneers! (1913) and The Song of the Lark (1915) - and two books of the author's later artistic creation - Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) and Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940). The former two books function as a preliminary mapping of Cather's concerns developed in My Ántonia, the latter two texts present Cather's later reflections of otherness. The thesis focuses on Cather's incessant examination of the workings of the white, male, heteronormative discourse in the context of modern American nationhood: by her "queer" writing, she aims to unearth and subvert the coercive social mechanisms, and give voice to those who were eclipsed from the project of the rising economic empire: ethnic others (African Americans, Native Americans, European immigrants), and gendered and sexual others (women, homosexuals and lesbians). The identity of modern American society reposes on the construction of the social other and the artificial category of normality. Cather, on the other hand, examines the difference - sexual, racial,...
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Atheism in America
Koranda, David ; Robbins, David Lee (advisor) ; Ulmanová, Hana (referee)
This diploma work analyzes the contemporary rise of the number of atheists in the United States of America, basing this presupposition on numerous nation-wide surveys, primarily conducted by Gallup Poll and Pew Research Center. It goes into depth on the definition of atheism and strictly delineates the meaning of this word and the use of its alternatives in the work. Given the fact that the thesis is written by a Czech author, it also provides necessary background covering the differences between Czech atheism and American atheism. Since the work is purposely not one of literary analysis but rather of socio-political and cultural nature, reasons for this decision are given in a separate subchapter analyzing Flannery O'Connor's novel Wise Blood. History of atheism in America is touched upon in the beginning of Chapter 3, but since the fundamental focus of this work is on the contemporary state of affairs, the roots of modern atheism in America are sought after mainly in the twentieth century. In particular, the greatest causes of the weakening of church's power and the rise of secularism (or atheism, for that matter) are given as following: Madalyn Murray O'Hair's fights against church's influence in public schools and against its public funding; the argument about the non-scientific nature of belief...
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Travel literature in the teaching of regional geography of America
JELÍNEK, Ondřej
This Diploma thesis consists of two basic parts. In the first section includes research on specialist geographical literature, nonfiction literature, travel and didactic literature and geography textbooks for the upper primary school. The second section of the thesis comprises of my own teaching manual which focuses on the regional geography of North America, specifically the United States of America. Based on his own traveling experience the author presents the pupils the geographic curriculum of the upper primary school through the medium of a travel story. The teaching manual was created in Microsoft Publisher 2010. The travel book is complemented by extended definitions of terms, tables, colour schemes and a number of personal photographs which were taken during journeys around the USA.
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Body-art in the trasformation man and woman
MÁLA, Jan
The topic of this work is to detect changes and development of contemporary body-art on the human body throughout life. Tattoos as a category of alternative art direction was inspired to create this work mainly with its inconsistencies, opinions differ on whether it is fully classifiable art. Theoretical work is divided into several parts, there will be a main topic of discussion of the tattoo in the cradle of this direction, which represents from 19 century America to date. The first part outlines the general characteristics of the items specified in the-art tattoo industry. Then move to the functional use of the field. In the third part of this work we try to approximate current distribution tattoo procedure followed by the individual motifs with categorical classification. The next chapter will proceed to the actual creation of the tattoo in the historical context and development of techniques in these parts of America, which will be part of this text primarily directed. In the penultimate section, we will focus on looking at the modern American scene from the environment groundbreaking 18th century. The final section should outline the psychological approaches to this field, not only from a historical perspective but also from the standpoint of contemporary psychology of modern society. The text is accompanied by inspiring the drawing artists, especially important for the practical part of this work, which takes us to the very essence of why the work was prepared, but also what resources corresponding to the tattoo was used. At the very end of the work to proceed on whether we can talk about the tattoo as a full-fledged artistic direction that should be accepted as a correct direction belonging to the arts.
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