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Literary, cultural and historical influences in the works and beliefs of Oscar Wilde
Lorenzů, Alex ; Beran, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Quinn, Justin (referee)
The thesis deals with the cultural and literary influences that can be traced in the works of Oscar Wilde. Its aim is to map out and elucidate some of the important motifs of the author's work and aesthetics in their own context as well as in the wider cultural-historical one. The methods used will be comparison of relevant materials, analysis of certain expressions typical of the author with their connotations, explaining the intertextual allusions in Wilde's work, and historical sources. The requisite attention will also be paid to Wilde as a representative of a subversive element of Victorian society and how this relates to his sexuality; that is to say, exploring the issue of the tabooing of non-heterosexuality, which may have been a decisive factor in Wilde's criticism of the conventions of his era and to his search of positive role-models in the ancient tradition both for his art and for his personal philosophy. Keywords Ancient Greece, ancient Rome, fin-de-siecle, homosexuality, intertextuality, l'art pour l'art, LGBTQ*, Marius the Epicurean, metatextuality, non-heterosexuality, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Victorian era, Walter Pater.
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Italy seen by Czech authors of travel books before the First World War
BÁČOVÁ, Pavla
This thesis is devoted to the topic of representation of Italy in the travel literature by Czech writers in the period before the First World War. The corpus contains the following lyrics: Rome 1906-1907 by Josef Svatopluk Machar, Memories from a journey to Italy by Josef Stejskal and Summer in Italy by Jaroslav Hilbert. In the first part I will introduce and describe historical and cultural development of Italy and also the fact how the Czech lands looked up on Risorgimento. Then I describe the individual authors, their literary works and selected corpus works. I define the circumstances of the origin of the text and find the answer to the question why cited authors focused just on Italy. In the second part I analyse the selected works thematically, I create a synthesis and in conclusion I assess, how in the period before First World War, the Czech society was looking up on Italy.
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Postmaterialist value orientation and its diffusion around the world
Sekerová, Simona ; Dostál, Petr (advisor) ; Hanzlík, Jan (referee)
The thesis introduces Inglehart's theory of the diffusion of the postmaterialistic values also in light of other related theories such as Maslow's theory of the hierarchy of human needs or Kuhn's theory of scientific revolutions. The thesis then continues to present opinions of other scientists who disputed Inglehart's theory on various points, such as specifically Fukuyama and Huntington, who contested Inglehart's view on the causal relationship between the socio-cultural environment unique to each society and the universal principles that are arguably common to all postmaterialistic societies. Finally, the thesis explains the methods used to measure the proliferation of postmaterialistic values within societies and presents data collected in several dozen European states since the 1980s.
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The photo editor as a gatekeeper
Vodáková, Lucie ; Turek, Pavel (referee) ; Láb, Filip (advisor)
Bachelor thesis deals with the work of Czech photo editors in a daily and weekly papers. The work analyzes what their function in media is, what their common day looks like, who they are speaking with and then what their daily decisions about photographs are. The first chapters describe the role of photo editors as gatekeepers. I try to compare what was their job earlier, when the time of technological convergence didn't exist. I deal with a photo editing practicies like searching, selection and gathering materials too. The second analytic part consist of the deep interviews with photo editors and other members of newsroom. I compare their information with the information of foreign media books. The object of the thesis is to show on six chosen important Czech daily and weekly papers how the photo editors work, what is their leading role and whether they are important for the organization or not.
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Reception of the work of Ferdinand de Saussure in the literary criticism of the Prague linguistic circle.
PROCHÁZKOVÁ, Iveta
This bachelor thesis called Reception of the work of Ferdinand de Saussure in the literary criticism of the Prague linguistic circle deals with F. de Saussure's basic linguistic thesis and their acceptance in Prague linguistic circle. The thesis is divided into two parts: the first one explains the most important terms of F. de Saussure, the second one focuses on searching these terms in works of Roman Jakobson and Jan Mukařovský. The aim of this bachelor thesis is an analysis of the attitudes of R. Jakobson and J. Mukařovský to F. de Saussure's text - Course in General Linguistics - particularly in connection with application of some thesis to work of art.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: TITUS ANDRONICUS Complex scenographic elaboration
Lippertová, Dominika ; DAVID, Milan (advisor) ; GLOGR, Karel (referee)
This thesis is focused on scenographical treatment and conception of Shakespeare's play Titus Andronicus. Beside the historical and theoretical outline of the time of the play's creation, the thesis analyzes selected Czech and foreign productions of this play, with regard to its conceptional and graphic aspect. Furthermore, the thesis focuses on a complex analysis of the scenographic concept itself, and the graphic procedure as well. Thesis also marginally examines the central characters and the treatment of costumes.
The goal of this thesis is to approximate the graphic treatment of a specific play and to describe processes of searching for own and personal graphic procedure used. This thesis is not only a historical analysis; it is also a subjective view of the issue given, that is supposed to approximate the specific scenographic adaptation of the play to the reader.
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Problem of the deith from phenomenological point of view
Němec, Michal ; Hogenová, Anna (advisor) ; Blažková, Miloslava (referee)
This paper deals with some philosophical terms in the history of the European culture starting with the Greek one and ending with the our one, the cosumer one. These terms are the terms of being, work, death, soul, resposibility and freedom. Firstly it treats phenomenology in its start. Eventually we will deal with philosophy in the history of our culture. In the chapter about work and death we will look for work's and death's mutual relations. In the end we will analyse the problem of taking care of the soul as a possibility of searching for our being. The aim of this work is to show that work is a representative elemnt of the fear of death and that only taking care of the soul can release the fear.
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Blend of Historiography and Fiction in Pat Barker's Trilogy Regeneration
Duarte, Barbora ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Grmelová, Anna (referee)
This thesis explores the factual and fictional content of Pat Barker's war trilogy Regeneration, which consists of the novels Regeneration (1991), The Eye in the Door (1993) and The Ghost Road (1995). The aim of the thesis is to find various historical facts Barker uses in her trilogy and analyze how the author incorporates them into her fiction. In searching for the factual content of the trilogy, the thesis focuses on certain historical events, matters or issues which create the background of the trilogy. Some of the main characters of the trilogy and their real prototypes are analyzed. The thesis attempts to describe the trilogy as an antiwar literary work, depicting the impact of the war on soldiers and those who come in contact with them.
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Database of conservator reports with text searching and image retrieval
Beneš, Miroslav
The goal of this work is to design a database of conservator reports with text searching and image retrieval. Conservator report documents the process of artwork restoration. Database would represent a knowledge base, which could be used as a information source. Database could also make use of acquired experiences for restoration of other artworks. Several small samples are taken from artwork's surface. They are analysed and two pictures are taken. One in white light, the other in ultraviolet light. The co-occurrence matrices of various displacement vectors are computed from these images. Several features are extracted from the matrices. The feature vectors of images in database and query images are then used for similarity comparation.
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