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Two centuries of Serbian novel
Doležal, Jan ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Černá, Milada (referee) ; Jedličková, Alice (referee)
This dissertation is the first complex presentation of the Serbian novel in the 19th and 20th centuries. The dissertation deals with the dynamics in the development of the Serbian novel from its beginning till the year 2000 and helps to create a complex picture based on concise analyses of 165 novels. The dissertation depicts the ways in which Serbian authors adopted universal stylistic forms (Sentimentalism, Realism, Modernism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Nouveau roman, Postmodernism) and focuses on autochthonic styles in Serbian prose (Zenitism, Neonaturalism, Nationalistic Realism). It demonstrates the high quality of the Serbian novel, but it also points out the weaknesses and cul-de-sacs of the Serbian novel. The centre of the dissertation covers the years 1961-2000 since this period has not been systematically worked on, despite the fact that the novel genre played a major role in Serbian literature in the last 40 years of the twentieth century. The most significant feature of the Serbian novel, which for rather a long time (till the twenties of the last century) lagged behind the novels of the so-called dominant literatures, is its close association with the turbulent history of a nation with opposing cultures, religions and socio-political systems. The authors, regardless of poetic adherence to...
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Towards the analysis of Ludwig Winders novel "Der Thronfolger. Ein Franz Ferdinand Roman" in the context of the narrative of early and late work of its author
Broukalová, Jindra ; Krolop K., (advisor) ; Stromšík, Jiří (referee) ; Tvrdík, Milan (referee)
Ludwig Winder patri k vyraznym predstavitelum prazske nemecke li teratury mezi valecneho obdobi. Po smrti Franze Kafky se stal clenem Prazskeho kruhu. Rodistem i nekterymi rysy sve tvorby je zaroven spjat s moravskou nemecky psanou literaturou. Narodil se 7. 2. 1889 v moravskem Safove a zemrel 16. 6. 1946 v anglickem Baldocku. Po maturi te na nemecke obchodni akademii v Olomouci nastoupil Winder do redakce videnskeho levicove liberalniho listu "Wiener Zeitung" a zurnalistice zustal verny po cely zi vot. Jeho novinarske pusobeni je spj ato predevsim s prazskym nemeckym denikem "Deutsche Zeitung Bohemia", v nemz byl 25 let redaktorem. Po pocatecnim tvurcim hledani se Ludwig Winder venoval proze, v niz byl cenen predevsim pro svou vecnost a objektivitu. Pozornost kri tiky i ctenaru upoutal Winder romanem "Zidovske varhany", ktery je pokladan za j eho nejvyznamnejsi dilo. Asi v polovine 20. let dvacateho stoleti se Winder odklani od expresionismu, ktery se u neho plne projevil pouze v romanu "Kasai" z roku 1917, a v j eho tvorbe se prosadila pro neho tak typicka vecnost, ktera se ohlasovala jiz v drivejsich pracich a byla v souladu s li terarnim proudem nove vecnosti, prevladaj icim tehdy v nemecky psane literature. Za roman "Stefi aneb Dörrova rodina prekonava krizi" a s prihlednutim k dosavadni literarni...
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Mikhail Bulgakov on the crossroad of prose and theatre way: novel Belaya gvardia and play Dni Turbinykh
Zgoda, Yaroslavna ; Hlaváček, Antonín (advisor) ; Hříbková, Radka (referee)
Mikhail Bulgakov has won the most acknowledgeable position in the world literature of the twentieth century among the Russian writers. His recognition is marked by the steep rise of interest in his works. Nevertheless the difficulty arises in the interpretation and understanding of many diverse associations and signs, which were determined to draw the reader's attention and to calm the anger of the official censorship. His novel "The White Guard" and the play "The days of the Turbins" put a particular stress on the situation of the White movement in 1918 in Kiev. It is all shown through the difficult decisions and choices of the Turbin family, which try to save the old values. The whole revolutionary atmosphere reflects the uncertainties of the historical period. There are many allusions, which describe the burning issues of the time. The meeting of the three coloured forces - white, yellow-blue and red - led to the tragic ending on the crossroads of the historical maze. Bulgakov masterly described everything he witnessed in prose and then brought it to the stage. The process was long and his creativity was marked by the censorship intrusion, which underlines the importance of the topic.
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German-language Novels for Girls at the End of the 20th and the Beginning of the 21st Centuries
Štíchová, Marie ; Bučková, Tamara (advisor) ; Glosíková, Viera (referee)
Das Thema meiner Diplomarbeit heisst: "Der Mädchenroman in der deutsch geschriebenen Literatur am Ende des 20. und Anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts". Mit dieser Arbeit wollte ich zeigen, wie sich der Mädchenroman in einem bestimmten Zeitraum geändert hat. Dafür wendete ich die Methode der Analyse ausgewählter Prosatexte an. Es handelt sich um eine Trillogie von Christine Nöstlinger (Gretchen Sackmeier; Gretchen hat Hanschen - Kummer; Gretchen, mein Mädchen) und zwei Prosatexte von Jutta Treiber (Der blaue See ist heute grün; Solange die Zikaden schlafen). Die Arbeit besteht aus zwei Teilen. Im ersten Teil habe ich mich mit der Kinderliteratur und ihrer Stellung im System der allgemeinen Literatur beschäftigt. Ich habe sowie mit den deutschen als auch tschechischen Fachpublikationen gearbeitet und die Kinder- und Jugendliteratur aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln betrachtet. Es wurden Geschichten aus der Kinder - und Jugendliteratur, einzelne Gattungen und spezifische Merkmale der Kinder - und Jugendliteratur behandelt. Dabei habe ich mich besonders auf die Gattung des Adoleszenzromans konzentriert.
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The French Lieutenant's Woman: novel as a palimpsest
Nagy, Ladislav
In the present work I set myself a task to interpret John Fowles's novel The French Lieutenant's Woman, probably author's most famous book. There were several reason why I chose this book: first, it was the book itself - the themes dealt with and the problems to which the book paid attention. Secondly, it was the significance of the book (and a kind of narrative strategy embraced here) for further development of British prose writing, especially for so called "middle generation" authors such as Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis Julian Barnes, Peter Ackroyd, Graham Swift and others. It was mainly because of the second reason that I decided not to interpret the novel along "existential" line which is what have been recently done by many Fowlesian critics. I did not regard the stance of the author, or the so called "authorial intention," to be something endowed with real "authority" - this approach I attempted to justify in the introduction. Instead of "authorial intention" I paid attention to various narrati ve strategies employed in the text - it is significant that one of these is the "unreliable narrator" which, I think, supports my approach in not regarding what the narrator (or the author outside his text) says as something unquestionable. In the first part of my work I thus dealt with the question whether Mr....
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Two centuries of Serbian novel
Doležal, Jan ; Bílek, Petr (advisor)
This dissertation is the first complex presentation of the Serbian novel in the 19th and 20th centuries. The dissertation deals with the dynamics in the development of the Serbian novel from its beginning till the year 2000 and helps to create a complex picture based on concise analyses of 165 novels. The dissertation depicts the ways in which Serbian authors adopted universal stylistic forms (Sentimentalism, Realism, Modernism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Nouveau roman, Postmodernism) and focuses on autochthonic styles in Serbian prose (Zenitism, Neonaturalism, Nationalistic Realism). It demonstrates the high quality of the Serbian novel, but it also points out the weaknesses and cul-de-sacs of the Serbian novel. The centre of the dissertation covers the years 1961-2000 since this period has not been systematically worked on, despite the fact that the novel genre played a major role in Serbian literature in the last 40 years of the twentieth century. The most significant feature of the Serbian novel, which for rather a long time (till the twenties of the last century) lagged behind the novels of the so-called dominant literatures, is its close association with the turbulent history of a nation with opposing cultures, religions and socio-political systems. The authors, regardless of poetic adherence to...
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"The victim of one's victim" The process of victimization in William Faulkner's The sound and the fury
Novotná, Ema ; Nováková, Soňa (referee) ; Ulmanová, Hana (advisor)
William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury was written eighty years ago but is still considered a unique and a remarkable novel. It was published in the "annus mirabilis" (Andrews 251), i.e. the miraculous year of 1929, which introduced literary works of authors who changed the world of literature substantially. Ernest Miller Hemingway's war novel A Farewell to Arms influenced other representatives of one literary generation, i.e. the Lost Generation just as Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own and Faulkner's essential novel participated in the genesis of a literary movement: Modernism, or American Modernism, respectively. The difficult structure of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury did not wait for first interpretations - it was discussed and analyzed the moment it reached the hands of critics, university professors and students. Scholars examined the peculiar specifics of Faulkner's style of writing as well as the tangled web of his meticulously constructed characters and his precisely arranged passages and chapters. Various aspects: his use of madness and sanity, his unique concept of time organized according to psychological rather than linear time, a stream of consciousness narrative, warped heroes, "disruptive female characters" (Roberts, XI) - all seen from the perspective of Faulkner's fictitious...
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Aldous Huxley's early novels of ideas: from Crome Yellow to Those Barren Leaves
Renner, Luboš ; Hilský, Martin (referee) ; Procházka, Martin (advisor)
The literary reputation of Aldous Huxley, the novelist, has scarcely ever been as good as that of Aldous Huxley, the essayist. In fact, as some critics claim, Huxley's novels have the crucial flaw of not being proper novels at all - they are (the critics say) 1 actually essays, some of them more skillfully dramatized than others. Whether the novels really suffer from their essayistic quality is a question to be answered by the reader; certain it is, though, that mixing the two genres, the novel and the essay, was Huxley's intention: As he once acknowledged in an interview, his aim as a novelist was ~to arrive, technically, at a perfect fusion of the novel and the essay"z. What are the main features of a Huxleyan essayistic novel? First , it is scarcity of plo t. In most Huxley' s novels nothing ever happens: people come and go, they meet and part, they (try to) make love, and - most importantly - they talk. This is, of course, true especially of Huxley's early conversation novels, a late novel like Ap e and E s s en c e probably being the most noticeable exception. Another aspect of the essayistic novel follows on the first. The scarce plot does not lead to any overall des i g n ; the novels end, as it were, in the middle of 'action'; there seems to be no single 'message' to be arrived at. Again, this...
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The motif of solitude in the works of Octavio Paz and Ernesto Sabato
Rusnoková, Kamila ; Sánchez Fernández, Juan Antonio (referee) ; Housková, Anna (advisor)
This study deals with the theme of solitude in the collection of essays entitled 'The Labyrinth of Solitude' by Octavio Paz and in the novel 'The Tunnel' by Ernesto Sabato. After an introductory chapter, which introduces the word 'solitude' from an etymological and semantic point of view, this thesis addresses the concept of solitude in general i.e. how this concept is understood in psychology and, last but not least, in philosophy. As the topic of this thesis is the motif of solitude in literary works the occurence of this theme throughout the history of literature will also be mentioned. The next crucial part of the thesis focuses on the analysis of the two selected works. The first one is the previously mentioned collection of essays 'The Labyrinth of Solitude'. The analysis of the individual essays, in the order in which they occur in the second edition published in 1959, represents the most extensive part of the present thesis. With the topic of the thesis in mind, the theme of solitude is emphasized, as it appears in all of the essays, although it is expressed on various semantic levels. The conclusion of this part is a summary, which aims to elucidate the starting points of Octavio Paz and facilitates the overall understanding of his work. In the following part of the thesis, the second selected work...
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Representation of the House in British Fiction /1906-2009)
Hanzlová, Tereza ; Grmelová, Anna (advisor) ; Chalupský, Petr (referee)
The diploma thesis focuses on diverse representations of the house in selected British novels since 1906. The novels have been chosen in reference to the importance assigned to houses in terms of plot, characters, and setting, each offering a unique vision of the house. A house is perceived as a home, as a possession or as a work of art. The novels by E.M. Forster, John Galsworthy and Simon Mawer are viewed through the prism of Phenomenology, namely the essays of Martin Heidegger, Jan Patočka and Anna Hogenová. This type of analysis provides an insight into the motivations of the individual characters, but also a deeper understanding of the function and role of the house in fiction as well as in reality. All the works are studied accordingly in the context of a wider social, cultural and aesthetic background. Key words: British fiction, Phenomenology, House, Home, Modernism, Work of Art
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