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From Intimate to Public - Constitution and Metamorphosis of "Women's writing" in the Context of Croatian literature
Vasiljevičová, Dajana ; Otčenášek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Nedvědová, Milada (referee)
From Intimate to Public - Constitution and Metamorphosis of "Women's writing" in the Context of Croatian literature Author: Dajana Vasiljevićova The bachelor thesis deals with the "women's writing" in Croatia, its constitution and transformations from the 1980s to present times. The main aim of the thesis is to map out characteristic discourses within literature in the context of social aspects of the Western orientated feminist movement in socialist Yugoslavia. It focuses on the analysis of femininity, sensibility and sexuality which are in opposition to values of patriachal society. The main part of the thesis comprises the analyses of three selected texts written by Croatian authors, namely Silk, Scissors by IrenaVrkljan, Marble Skin by Slavenka Drakulić and Steffie in the Jaws of Life by Dubravka Ugrešić as role models for the typology of "women's writing". The transformations of the genre were are examined continuously from the late 1970s when the theoretic aspects of "women's writing" were modified for the Croatian milieu. The confrontation of feminine identity with the patriachal phallogocentric discourse is based on hunger for recognition as an equal in society. The problem of a specifically female identity is solved in the transition from private object to public subject. This thesis...
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The transformation of historical narratives during the social and political turning point of 1988-1990
Socha, Jan ; Randák, Jan (advisor) ; Michela, Miroslav (referee)
This thesis describes the role of national history and its "official" interpretations as a tool to legitimize different political systems in Czechoslovakia at the turning point of 1988- 1990. The interpretation of history changes according to the social and political interests of the period when history is written. The historical narrative thus becomes important in reinforcing the symbolical legitimacy of the present political power. A specialized form of historical narrative is embodied in the national holidays' law. The paper compares the changes in the holidays included in the holidays' law between the communist era and after November 1989. For each change the thesis describes the arguments given in the legislative discussions. The legislative discussions analyzed present the arguments given for implementing and removing the days included in the national holidays' law. The media explanations reviewed originate from descriptions given in regime-supporting newspapers. The thesis demonstrates how the legitimacy of the present political system was strengthened by the changes in the national holidays' law and the public historical narrative chosen to introduce them.
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The theoretical background of Anglo-American land art and its transformation in Czech context
Lomová, Johana ; Klimešová, Marie (advisor) ; Pospiszyl, Tomáš (referee)
The M.A. thesis describes an artistic approach called Land Art and its development in the end of the Sixties and the beginning of the Seventies in both the USA and the ČSSR. Methodologically the thesis follows a premise that Land Art was shaped by its time (e.g. its social and political contexts). The thesis first introduces texts that were written by the American artists and are regarded as an important element in artistic efforts to create a new form of art. The Czech understanding and appropriation of land art follows. Since early Czech representatives of the land art did not produce similar texts themselves, the case of land art in Czechoslovakia is studied using contemporary writings by art historians and critics close to the artists. The difference in the understanding of land art in both countries may be summarized as critical on the side of American artists, and cosmological on the side of the artists in Czechoslovakia. However on a more general level, the meaning of land art as primarily a statement against the establishment and will for freedom, were present in both social and political contexts.
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Changes in lifestyle in the countryside since the First Republic to the present - case study
Ulrichová, Eva ; Duffková, Jana (advisor) ; Majerová, Věra (referee)
This diploma thesis "Changes in lifestyle in the countryside since the First Republic to the present" is a case study providing information on lifestyle changes in the last 90-years in the village Zavisice and causes of these changes. The substantial change affecting all others is moving away from agriculture as the main means of sustenance. The crucial processes causing the changes in the country life the lifestyle of the rural population in studied time period were collectivization in the 50th, socialization in the 60th, centralization in the 70th and 80th and transformation after the year 1989. This thesis looks at this topic from many angles, generalizes some conclusions thus creating a comprehensive insight into the lifestyle of the inhabitants of the Czech countryside in the last century. The contents of the largest in the text analyzes the transformation of customs, traditions, livelihood and leisure, children's games and duties, schooling, food, clothing, housing, change in approach to raising children, celebrating of the religious or secular holidays and family feasts, change of associations and interest groups. Information is gathered from the statements of witnesses, written historical materials (municipal, school and family chronicles, personal memoirs, newspapers) and the relevant...
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Czech and German variations to Faust
Šormová, Veronika ; Glosíková, Viera (advisor) ; Broukalová, Jindra (referee)
The diploma work deals with the origin and development of the legend about Faust and the variations of the topic in the German and Czech literature. Individual chapters concern selected works of various authors which offer interesting views of the Fausttopic; the emphasis is on the comparison between these works. The goal of the work is above all to point out the transformations ofthe motif from the flfst written legends until today.
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The depiction of the gentry in the novels of Zsigmond Móricz
Svobodová, Andrea ; Kolmanová, Simona (advisor) ; Schreierová, Angelika (referee)
In my dissertation I focus on the novels of Zsigmond Móricz that depict a certain social phenomenon known as the gentry. I concentrate on how Zsigmond Móricz portrays the gentry and the members of that class, the heroes of his novels, in the period of crisis of the Dual Monarchy and in the years between the two world wars. I was interested in discovering the view the author takes of the historical context and the reasons for the demise of this social class and associated phenomena, and his view of the gentry's potential for transformation. To obtain an understanding of the topic and the question I am looking at, I first focus on explaining the concept of the gentry and then go on to outline the historical and social context of the period under analysis and the literary context in which Móricz's novels on the gentry emerged. The central part of the study comprises analyses of four of his novels: Kivilágos kivirradtig (Until the Morning Light), Úri muri (The Pleasures of the Gentry), Forró mezők (Incandescent Fields) and Rokonok (Relatives). All four novels were written in the interwar years (1924-1932), the period on which I have chosen to focus in my dissertation. The novels I examine are ones that Hungarian literary history describes as social novels or novels about the gentry, or in other words, novels...
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The Establishment and Primary Development of Sacral Centre at St. Nicolas Church (today St. Giles) in Royal Town Nymburk
Veselá, Tereza ; Scholz, Stefan (advisor) ; Homolka, Jaromír (referee)
Resumé: The Establishment and Primal Development of Sacral Centre by the Saint Nicolas Church {today St. Egidius} in Royal Town Nymburk The study is based on cross-disciplinary methodic, on work with written and unwritten founts relating to beginnings and development of sacral centre by the St. Nicolas Church in Nymburk in the 13th and 14th century. St. Nicolas Church {today St. Egidius} has not already regular constructional and historical research. The study endeavors to ascertain amount of presumable appearance of the presbytery of the church. It aims to size up, which ones from the architectonical wholes or details should be original, historical and what times they could have been from. Long-term transformation of the church building can be research from the unwritten founts and single building. The latest discovering of old remains of constructional phases of the church appertains to Hilbert's restoration. The quantity of his plans and drawings has not already been studied in detail and there have not been any criticism of them. In this set there is both documentation of foregone state and materials relating to restoration. He had discovered many elements and restored some of them, but there are others which were appended by him. The study also enlarges about the Gothic brick architecture and...
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Metamorphosis of the feminine body in the contemporary French literature
Grochol, Jana ; Jamek, Václav (referee) ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (advisor)
The present study focuses on the problematics of perception of the bodily image as it appears in a women-written corpus. The theme of the metamorphosing female body has been investigated in three contemporary French novels : Biographie de Za faim by Amélie Nothomb, Truismes by Marie Darrieussecq and Rosie Carpe by Marie NDiaye. All written by female authors around the same age, these novels report on what it is like being a woman in a postmodern world. The female heroes are confronted with their own bodily self and the long-standing tradition of a male-dominated society. These testimonies, that comprise traumatising bodily experiences and difficult relationships with others, contribute to forge the feminine identity. The three female protagonists of the investigated corpus embark on an identity quest. They struggle against the established order to find their place in the society. Nothomb's narrator thematizes the difficult passage from a child to an adult body which imposes the body /mind separation on women. She perceives this transformation as a traumatizing experience of loss and denies it by confining her body. In a revulsion towards the adult female body anorexia is an attempt to defeat abjection. The hero of Truismes, on the other hand, constitutes an incarnation of the abject body. Providing a...
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Recommended Cycling Trails in Prague and Their Changes in 2001 -2006
Pistoriusová, Alice ; Šafránek, Jiří (advisor) ; Bartůněk, Dušan (referee)
title: Transformations recommended bike Prague 2001 - 2006 Recommended Prague's bicycle trails and Their changes 2001 -2006 Aim: Evaluate the changes that are happening along the cycle routes in relation to their original description of five years. Description of the route led to their passing without a map. A method: Written observations and recording changes in routes within the field survey. Analysis the status quo in relation to the original descriptions and state routes. results: A comprehensive overview of proven bike and updates. Assessment of clarity description routes due to the possibility to attend these trails without a map. Keywords: Prague, cycle path, bottleneck description. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Cinema in the typewriter. The phenomenon of fictious scenario in Czech lands
Felcman, Jakub ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Bregant, Michal (referee)
Bibliografický záznam Felcman, J. Kino v psacím stroji. Fenomén fiktivního scénáře v českém prostředí. (Rigorózní práce). Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Filozofická fakulta, Katedra filmových studií, 2011, 153 s. Vedoucí práce Doc. PhDr. Ivan Klimeš, PhD. Abstract This thesis is dedicated to a specific type of literary film art called rather innovatively in the paper as "a fictive screenplay". It is a literary work of art which uses different forms established as a basis for a transformation of a written art to a film: film thesis, libretto, literary or technical scenario. So called "fictive scenarios" are different from other creations of this type primarily by the apparent intention of the author to see them as a complete piece of art in its printed form without any ambitions or actual need for subsequent realization of its film version. The composition of the paper is based on a study of the relevant materials and is divided into three parts. The first part covers a compilation of texts collected by screen editor Kurt Pinthus in the 1910's (Das Kinobuch, the oldest Czech "fictive scenarios"). The second part covers film-related literary art pieces created by the Czech avant-garde in the 1920's. (Fictive scenario as a form of the Czech avant-garde.) The third part (Fictive scenario as a surrealistic playground)...
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