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Odeon Publishing House: Current Profile and Media Image
Blažek, Radek ; Halada, Jan (advisor) ; Čeňková, Jana (referee)
1 Abstract The main goal of this bachelor's thesis is to present Odeon, an important Czech publishing house. The first chapter covers the history of Odeon since its founding in the 1920s by Jan Fromek during a renaissance in the communist era to the problematic privatisation in the 1990s. The first chapter ends in 1999 when Bertelsmann bought Odeon's trademark. The next chapter describes Odeon in its current state. Nowadays Odeon publishes many different book genres; senior editor Jindřich Jůzl chracterises it as literary fiction. I present all four editions of Odeon: Světová knihovna (World's Library), Nobelova cena (Nobel's Prize), Česká řada (Czech Edition) and Knihovna klasiků (Classics Library) including various prominent writers and important books that Odeon holds the rights to. A description of marketing and public relations is also included. A discussion of literary reviews and readers' praise for the books of Odeon makes up most of the third chapter. Reception was usually positive and complimentary of Odeon's quality. The last chapter looks into the Czech book market, Odeon's position in Euromedia Group and I compare Odeon with its main competitors which according to Jindřich Jůzl are Argo, Host, Paseka, Kniha Zlín and Mladá fronta publishing houses. In this thesis I learned that Odeon is a...
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František Kaván (1866-1941) in the Letters for his Wife and Friends
Charvátová, Eliška ; Ebelová, Ivana (advisor) ; Zachař, Michael (referee)
This rigorous thesis presents compiled and edited collection of letters from the czech landscape painter František Kaván (1866-1941), a scholar of Julius Mařák's painting school, to his second wife Pavla Kavánová-Šírová, the publisher and gallerist František Topič, the painter Oldřich Blažíček and the librarian and bibliographer Ladislav Jan Živný. The edition is based on 259 letters kept in the Museum of Czech Literature in Prague and the Archives of the National Gallery in Prague. The correspondence describes a life of the painter from the year 1894 to 1941. The rigorous thesis analyses and comments approachable literature and deals with relevant sources of material. Editorial comment summarizes principles and methods applied in this thesis, one part is dedicated to the editor Svatopluk Klír. The main parts are chapters based on commentary of selected passages of 259 edited documents with further relevant information in the apparatus. A part of the thesis are indices and list of sources and literature. Fulltext edition of mentioned documents is a part of my bachelor and diploma thesis. This edition of Kaván's letters from 19th to second part of 20th century reflects till now uncompiled sources and throug them give as a new insight into life and work the significant czech landscape painter, his...
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Bír Šawíš, Malá Oáza: Ostraka a další nápisový materiál
Dospěl, Marek ; Bárta, Miroslav (advisor) ; Ast, Rodney (referee) ; Coppens, Filip (referee)
MAREK DOSPĚL Bīr Shawīsh, Small Oasis: Ostraka and Other Inscribed Material ABSTRACT The present dissertation is primarily a publication of a group of primary sources. These sources come from the recent archaeological exploration by Charles University in Prague of the site of Bīr Shawīsh in the Baḥrīya Oasis ("Small Oasis" in Classical Antiquity) in Egypt's Western Desert and consist of inscribed material written in Hellenistic Greek or koinē. Their majority belongs in the family of documentary texts, while a smaller group consists of informal inscriptions. Both texts and inscriptions are written or incised on fired potter's clay supports and can be dated to around 400 CE. The core of this dissertation consists of an annotated edition of these texts and inscriptions (Chapter 3), immediately followed by a synthetic and interpretative Chapter 4 in which the cardinal issues inherent to the published material are treated in detail. An important part of the edition are the analytical indices and appendices. Chapter 1 serves as a general introduction to the work; Chapter 2 presents the historical and archaeological context of the edited inscribed material. The dissertation ends with Reference Bibliography and Plates of individual text-bearing artifacts. This work is the first comprehensive treatment of a group of...
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Critical Edition of Selected Christmas Songs of V. K. Holan Rovenský
Böhmová, Veronika ; Andrlová Fidlerová, Alena (advisor) ; Martínek, František (referee)
The thesis proposes a commented critical edition of five songs from the Christmas part of the Capella regia musicalis hymnal (Knihopis 1458), edited by Karel Holan Rovenský and published by Jiří Laboun the elder. The attempt to apply interdisciplinary linguistic-musicological approach results in an outcome that reflects the relation between language and music. However, the main focus of the thesis lies in the language characterization of the edited texts. Its main goal is to contribute to the scientific research of the baroque language in hymnography production and to make the songs accessible to the general public.
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The image of war and militarism in the 16th - 17 century through the eyes of Czech nobles
Opavová, Tereza ; Šedivá Koldinská, Marie (advisor) ; Holý, Martin (referee)
The main subject of the diploma thesis is the view of the war and the military through the early modern opinions of lower nobles, especially by Henry Hýzrl from the Chod (1575- 1665) and Sigmund Chotek of Chotkov (1521-1603). The time frame is set from the 16. to 17. century. Views on contemporary defence of the country are reconstructed on the basis of previously unreleased military debate which is titled Kriegsdiscurs über der hochlöblichen Cron Bohemia Landtdefension by Henry Hýzrl from the Chod. This debate is partly accessible in academic edition at the end of the thesis. The next source, for understanding the intellectual world of the Czech nobility during the wars with the Turks, is military instruction by Sigmund Chotek of Chotkov. The work is based on military debate by Henry Hýzrl from Chod. It is a completely unique view of the war through the view of the Bohemian nobleman.
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Christoph Demantius - Tympanum militare 1600 a 1615. Edition and analysis
Dobošová, Michaela ; Daněk, Petr (advisor) ; Baťa, Jan (referee)
Diploma thesis focuses its attention on life and work composer, poet, music theorist Christoper Demantius and his two collections compositions Tympanum militare (1600, 1615). First part of diploma thesis brings on updated composers biography, evaluation his creation and detection of all contexts with bohemian music culture in age before the Battle of White mountain. In the second part author makes thorough text and music analysis of both collections Tympanum militare. The obtained results includes into wider music-historical context. The part of this thesis is edition of collection from 1600.
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The world of Kryštof Popel jounger of Lobkowicz as seen in his diaries
Tůmová, Ludmila ; Šedivá Koldinská, Marie (advisor) ; Holý, Martin (referee)
The main goal of this diploma thesis was to introduce the personality of Kryštof Popel younger of Lobkowicz (1549−1609) based on his diaries, which came from the years 1602−1604. The edition of these diaries completes the whole thesis. Topics of the chapters are based on notes by Kryštof - they inform us about Lobkowicz's private and public life, and also about his patronage. The presented text also allows the reader to look into everyday life of the nobility, which took place in Prague palaces at the beginning of the seventeenth century.
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The Profile of Contemporary Publisher:HOST
Lukášová, Barbora ; Halada, Jan (advisor) ; Čeňková, Jana (referee)
In this thesis I try to outline running and production of the contemporary publishing house Host. The publishing house Host was established in 1990s' but the magazine Host, whose legacy the publishing house carries, has been working for several decades. The publishing house Host and the magazine Host have been coexisting simultaneously and shared almost the same editorial team. For that reason it is not quite possible to separate one from the other. In the first part of this thesis I introduce the initial existential period of the magazine Host from 1920s' to its samizdat publication in 1980s'. In the next part I try to ouline the beginning of the publishing house Host leaded by Dušan Skála in early 1990s'. The current shape of the publishing house and the magazine has been formed since the second half of 1990s' under the leadership of Tomáš Reichel and Miroslav Balaštík. In the main part of my thesis I try to describe the contemporary work of the publishing house Host which I make mostly through its book production. I also try to point out the transformation of the publishing house Host from a narrowly focused publishing house to a publishing house whose production can excite even a mass readerʼs interests. The aim of my thesis is primarily to introduce comprehensive description of publishing...
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Bedrich Smetana's Diaries.
Mojžíšová, Olga ; Ottlová, Marta (advisor) ; Gabrielová, Jarmila (referee) ; Jakubcová, Alena (referee)
Deníky Bedřicha Smetany představují rozsahem i výpovědní hodnotou unikátní pramenný soubor. Skladatel si je psal po většinu svého života a jsou tak nejen zdrojem cenných biografických údajů, ale i informací z rodinného prostředí a ze společenského a hudebního života. Ve smetanovské literatuře byly deníky dosud využívány především jako zdroj faktografických informací, publikovány z nich byly pouze vybrané partie, v celé šíři jejich problematiky, ani v oblasti ediční jim však zatím adekvátní pozornost věnována nebyla. Předkládaná práce podává podrobnou charakteristiku a analýzu všech deníkových záznamů Bedřicha Smetany v kontextu příslušných životních etap: 1. v době studií (1843-1847), 2. za pobytu ve Švédsku a na koncertních cestách (1857-1862), 3. během působení v českém hudebním životě (1862-1883). V bezprostředním propojení s jeho životními a uměleckými osudy sleduje jejich obsahové spektrum, rozsah a hierarchii jednotlivých tematických okruhů a jejich případné proměny v jednotlivých obdobích či během nich, i okolnosti, kterými byly podmíněny, jazyk, způsob záznamů, míru jejich objektivity. Součástí je též podrobný popis všech pramenů spadajících do kategorie deníkových záznamů. Pozornost je věnována i významu a roli deníků v rámci smetanovské pramenné základny a jejich poměru k dalším typům...
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