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From horror character to girl's idol. Vampire in contemporary literature for young adults
Koubová, Denisa ; Píšová, Ina (advisor) ; Brožová, Věra (referee)
This thesis deals with the evolution of vampire as a literary character in contemporary production for young adults. Its aim is not to describe all existing works but to cover only the most interesting representations of a vampire in various epochs. The thesis describes the most influential works building the literary stereotype of a vampire and proposes an evolution line. The crucial works in this genre are: Vampire, Carmilla, Dracula, Interview with a Vampire, The Vampire Diaries, True Blood, Twilight, House of Night, Vampire Academy and Vampire Boardingschool. Based on them we create a typology according to the appearance, character and narrative role of a vampire. The thesis begins with an anthropological introduction, especially with the origin of the vampires in Easteuropean folk tradition. Farther more we deal with most common genres used to enrich the vampire literature and theory of a literary character as a narrative category. The analysis covers the evolution of a vampire character from its naturalistic appearance to its very civilized pole in the contemporary young adults fiction. We close with the chapter describing the character of a vampire as a literary symbol.
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The drama "Yoshitsune and the thousand cherry trees." Minamoto No Yoshitsune as a martial strategist, courtier and literary myth.
Ryndová, Jana ; Švarcová, Zdeňka (advisor) ; Rumánek, Ivan (referee) ; Hýbl, Ondřej (referee)
In her doctoral thesis the author would like to present the play Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry trees (Yoshitsune senbonzakura) as a unique piece of Japanese drama which has a great complexity and an outstanding place within the corpus of Japanese literature. Even if the play can be compared to Chushingura mono in its importance, Yoshitsune senbonzakura has not been widely translated to western languages. There are two exceptions, however: the English translation (Jones, Jr. 1993) and the German translation (Klopfenstein 1982). While comparing the two translations and using the most full original texts available (as preserved in Takeda Izumo and Namiki Sosuke Joruri Collection and Yuda Yoshio's Bunraku Joruri Collection), the author's goal is to present the play to Czech readers and its interpretation to Czech scholars. As for the flow and structure of the interpretation of Yoshitsune senbonzakura the author begins with an analysis of the historical background of the legend of Minamoto Yoshitsune, capturing the life of Yoshitsune from the time of Heiji rebellion (1159) when he was born to his death in 1189. Next the author concentrates on the legend itself as it evolved within the course of Japanese literature. With a shift from the court literature of Heian period towards the battlefield...
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Character of a good person in novels by Božena Němcová
Gavendová, Petra ; Brožová, Věra (advisor) ; Mocná, Dagmar (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the character of "a good person" that is in all works by Božena Němcová. The theoretical part deals with the time context of her work and on the author's life. In the following analysis of chosen short stories - Karla, Divá Bára, Chudí lidé a Dobrý člověk - special character features of the good-person type are discovered. This type should help to reduce the social evil by playing the part of a model.
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Women Protagonists in Selected Works by Xu Dishan. Thematization of Emancipation of Women in Early Phase of Modern Chinese Literature
Bašová, Hana ; Andrš, Dušan (advisor) ; Lomová, Olga (referee)
Thesis abstract This thesis provides a comprehensive typological characterization of the main female protagonists in the work of a Chinese writer Xu Dishan (1893 - 1941). By way of introduction issues of literary figures and a typology of female characters are presented. The compilation part of this thesis includes writer's biography and an overview of his literary work. The main part of the thesis presents a list of the moral, philosophical and religious aspects of Xu Dishan's protagonists. According to the results of this analysis Xu Dishan is an author, who differs in many ways from his contemporaries and uses his woman protagonists to explain his world view.
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CV of Jára Cimrman
Zetková, Klára ; Mocná, Dagmar (advisor) ; Peterka, Josef (referee)
This writing deales with the genesis of characters of Jára Cimrman. From his plays arranged chronoligically are extracted the most important points of his life, which should be used to assess, if it creates consistent, finished komplex of literary figure in the literary fiction. At the same time, the data are used to assess how the character was developping, if Mr. Zdeněk Svěrák and Mr. Ladislav Smoljak had predeterminated direction, which they sould také or if they had not and Jára Cimrman was developed play by play. Before the practical part there is mentioned in the writing theoretical part, dealing with literary fiction, literary mystification and literary figure.
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The drama "Yoshitsune and the thousand cherry trees." Minamoto No Yoshitsune as a martial strategist, courtier and literary myth.
Ryndová, Jana ; Švarcová, Zdeňka (advisor) ; Rumánek, Ivan (referee) ; Tirala, Martin (referee)
In her doctoral thesis the author would like to present the play Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry trees (Yoshitsune senbonzakura) as a unique piece of Japanese drama which has a great complexity and an outstanding place within the corpus of Japanese literature. Even if the play can be compared to Chushingura mono in its importance, Yoshitsune senbonzakura has not been widely translated to western languages. There are two exceptions, however: the English translation (Jones, Jr. 1993) and the German translation (Klopfenstein 1982). While comparing the two translations and using the most full original texts available (as preserved in Takeda Izumo and Namiki Sosuke Joruri Collection and Yuda Yoshio's Bunraku Joruri Collection), the author's goal is to present the play to Czech readers and its interpretation to Czech scholars. As for the flow and structure of the interpretation of Yoshitsune senbonzakura the author begins with the historical background of the legend of Minamoto Yoshitsune, capturing the life of Yoshitsune from the time of Heiji rebellion (1159) when he was born to his death in 1189. Next the author concentrates on the legend itself as it evolved within the course of Japanese literature. With a shift from the court literature of Heian period towards the battlefield stories and...
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Reader's Popularity of Characters in Harry Potter by Children of Primary School and Secondary School
Gazdačková, Michala ; Hník, Ondřej (advisor) ; Hausenblas, Ondřej (referee)
The diploma thesis is focused on the problems of children readership and its main aim is to reveal the influence of the literary work that is very popular among readers on the interpretation of concrete literary text. By the means of research it tries to detect how the work Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling and its popularity affect the perception of literary text with respect to pupils of the 6th grade in primary school and students of 1st year in secondary school. The defined aim is studied mainly through reader's perception of literary characters in the concrete literary text; the main focus is aimed at perception of character hierarchy, creation of relationships with characters and perception of the main character of the work Harry Potter. Thanks to these findings it is possible to say whether the children readers are able to perceive the concrete literary text independently on the work by J. K. Rowling and its popularity or whether they are constantly under its influence and are not able to free themselves from its dominance. According to final discoveries it is possible to approach the work within the context of literary classes and overall literary education. Summarizing the results, the research has revealed that the influence of the phenomenon called Harry Potter and its popularity is quite...
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Handicapped person in the contemporary Czech prose for children and youth
Čumpelík, Karel ; Brožová, Věra (advisor) ; Hník, Ondřej (referee)
Resume The thesis deals with monitoring image of handicapped person in present Czech literature for children and youth. It involves creation from the 90th of the 20th century. Its aim is focusing on selected representative works of various authors and identifies the way of inclusion the physical, mental and social handicap. Selected works are different, they vary in genre, approach to disability and also in age of target readers. The reasons for this diversity is capture the range of options to solve this task as clearly as possible. The primary aspect is in particular literary and aesthetic, but the thesis also affects the emerging elements of educational, moral and ethical. It is engaged in construction of the main character and other characters, while the deciding recognition of differences is when the main character has handicap and on the other hand when handicap is viewed from a distance. In this diversity is also important the narrative perspective, that with their variations can lead to emphasize the heart of disabled person and his own emotionality, or more likely monitor the interaction of handicapped individual with world and other people. The thesis also investigates, whether there are any genre clichés, such superficially happy ending, or over-idealization of characters and considers modelling...
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Motivation to Action of Characters in Durych´s Short Novels and Short Stories
HRMA, Josef
The diploma work Motivation to action of characters in Durych´s short novels and short stories deals with prosaic production of Jaroslav Durych with the intention to find and to understand the motivation to action of charakters in short novels and short stories. The chracters of the stories represents singificant elements and so this diploma work is focus to factors that influence a decision of the characterers in Durych?s short stories and novel stories. Some of the characters at the first look seems irrationally, but we can discover the course of actions that explain their action. The better understand of motivation can help to more accurate the interpretation of short stories and short novels and identify of sence.
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Character and its representation in literature
SEVERA, Tomáš
The submitted bachelor thesis focuses on issues of literary character. First, it pursues the individual axis of research of a literary characters ? in their relation to the plot and its superiority or subordination, its way of existence as a textualized human being or as a text function inseparable from a literary work, in the final chapter then, it deals with the comparative study of literary characters and resulting various typologies formed by Edward Morgan Forster, Joseph Ewen and Daniela Hodrová. Before that, the thesis presents concepts of literary character of some significant authors, from Aristotle through Russian formalists, French structuralists and Seymour Chatman to linguistically inspired narrative grammars of Vladimir Jakovlevič Propp and Julien Greimas. Afterwards, the contributions of Tzvetan Todorov, Gérard Genette, Franz Karl Stanzel and Seymour Chatman to the problem of focalization are concerned. In chapter seven the thesis deals with the ways of characterization of characters in literary works or art. Finally, in the last chapter it sees the literary character at background of theory of fictional worlds.
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