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Poetry Writing as a “Meeting” with the Czech Past and Present. The Exile Poetry of Ivan Diviš‘s Departure from Bohemia
Flanderka, Jakub
The Exile Poetry of Ivan Diviš‘s Departure from Bohemia deals with Ivan Diviš’s poetic work Odchod z Čech (Departure from Bohemia), which is composed as a stylized “meeting” of a poetic subject with the external world. This “meeting” revolves especially around the themes of emigration and living in exile, and the situation in Czechoslovakia during the period of “normalisation”, which was a particularly strong one for the author, as well as the contemplation of the poet’s subject over his relationship to the motherland. Diviš’s leaving Czechoslovakia was the resolution of an arduous moment in his life, when – as an individual – he came into a clash with momentous historical events (and not for the first time). As such, this became an opportunity for him to reconsider the theme of Czech national identity and milestones of Czech history through his poetry.
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The Prague Legends in the Poems of Sebestian Hnevkovsky
Vítová, Andrea
The gripping stories of the old-Prague legends inhabited by supernatural beings and bringing moral advice, gave to the balladic poems of Sebestian Hnevkovsky, the autor of the Enlightment period, a suitable base for the travestying interpretations satirically focused on the contemporary society.\nThe tales of the princess Drahomira or of the ”devil´s“ obelisk at Vyšehrad, composed by Hnevkovsky in the early 19th century (i. e. in the epoch of the Puchmajer´s anthologies) were focused on the ordinary city people. The content reminding of the well-known stories and the simple way of narration enabled the author to fulfil his intention: to address a wide audience of readers and to amuse them. In his later works from the 1840s Hnevkovsky inclined namely to the genre of historical legend and to the romantic aspects of the Prague legends. However, even in this later poems (Šemík or Podvyšehradská hlubina) he didn´t give up the methods and motives characteristic for the haunted tales from the early 19th century that attracted attention of readers.
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The probing of the Czech poetry of the 90. years of the 20. century
Manová, Vilma ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
This thesis examines the poetry of poets who officially entered the Czech literary scene in 1990s - after The Velvet Revolution. That was a period of time when Czech literary life changed completely. The thesis focuses on the artists born during the 1960s and the early 1970s - Petr Borkovec, Martin Langer, Pavel Kolmačka and Petr Hruška. The thesis concentrates on the analysis of their first two individual collections published between 1990-1998. What is important is the fact that the authors are not negatively influenced by the cultural politics from the communism era. First, the thesis outlines the events on the Czech literary scene after the revolution. Then it offers a view of the individual poets' works. This part also presents the critical reflection of the period, while the main focus is on the interpretation of poetic works. Through analytical reading this thesis follows the fundamental motive constants and it also reflects other important components of the early authorial poetics. The aim is to point out the tendencies in young Czech poetry at the time of sudden multiplicity of possibilities and to prove or disprove the presence of traditional poetics. Keywords: Czech poetry, 1990, poetic debut, Petr Borkovec, Martin Langer, Pavel Kolmačka, Petr Hruška
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Myth and Memory in Poetry of Karel Šiktanc
Svatoňová, Eva ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
This thesis is focused on poetry of Karel Šiktanc published between 1966 and 1977. Its purpose is to interpret four of his books from this period (Zaříkávání živých, Adam a Eva, Český orloj, Tanec smrti aneb Pámbu ještě neumřel), dealing especially with themes that are common to all of them. The main theme interpreted in this thesis is the poet's concept of a man firmly rooted in society and in space, being connected with their history. The ambition of this thesis is to explain how Šiktanc builds the portrayal of an individual human, whose being is determined by the community, in which he or she lives, acquires its language, memory and history (dated back to the mythic past), and who is also a part of its great story.
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Poetry of Ludvík Kundera
Hubená, Ester ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
The thesis focuses on the poetry of Ludvík Kundera. It introduces his work in chronological order and within the contemporary literary-historical framework. The analysis and the interpretation of his early poems often refer to the war period. Language and its potentiality are a main concern in Kundera's other work. His poetry is defined in the context of avant-garde modern art: surrealism, dadaism and expressionism. The thesis researches the impact of Brecht's poetics on Kundera, too. It also introduces the persona of the artist, who significantly contributed to forming the Czech literary field during the second half of the 20th century. Kundera's poetry relates to Czech and foreign artists and their works. The poems rise from ordinary occasions, as well as showing the poet's intertextual approach. Experimentation, wordplay, lyrical humour and irony are an inherent part of Ludvík Kundera's work.
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The Corpus of Czech Verse
Plecháč, Petr ; Kolár, Robert
In following we present the Corpus of Czech Verse (i.e. lemmatised, phonetically, morphologically, metrically and strophically annotated corpus of Czech poetry) and the online tools that give access to its data. The following online tools are described: Database of Czech metres, Gunstick, Hex, Euphonometer, and Babel. English presentation of these tools may be found in Plecháč, Kolár 2015 or at the website of Versification Research Group (http://versologie.cz/en/).
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