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Against adaptation: toward transdisciplinarity and minor cinema
Petříková, Linda ; Roraback, Erik Sherman (advisor) ; Nováková, Soňa (referee) ; Burt, Richard (referee)
Against Adaptation: Toward Transdisciplinarity and Minor Cinema Linda Petříková Abstract Over the past decades, the field adaptation studies has been trying to break new grounds and escape the confines of the predominant fidelity discourse. This thesis wants to propose new perspectives that have been widely underrepresented, at least in the Anglo-American context, drawing attention to the great relevance to adaptation of the writings of French critical thinkers, most notably Gilles Deleuze and his two-volume publication on cinema and Jacques Rancière and his continuation/reevaluation of Deleuze's film-related concepts. Without directly addressing questions of adaptation, the way both philosophers think about cinema is inseparable from their thinking about literature and indeed about other arts and media, exemplifying new transdisciplinary approaches to adaptation this thesis hopes to encourage. Even though it might seem counterintuitive, considering the efforts of adaptation studies to cut the roots it has grown within literary departments, I chose three Shakespearean adaptations for the case studies as I believe that such focus will enable us to see more clearly the significance of interstices as much as of the links the films form with the text. Jean-Luc-Godard's King Lear, Orson Welles's Chimes at...
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Comparative analysis of the national newspaper supplements Salon, Kavarna and Orientace
Farná, Kateřina ; Köpplová, Barbara (advisor) ; Šoltys, Otakar (referee)
Diploma thesis "Comparison analyses of national newspaper supplements Salon, Kavarna and Orientace" analyses supplements of national, daily released newspapers: Pravo (Salon), Mlada fronta DNES (Kavarna) and Lidove noviny (Orientace). Essential methods used in this work are quantitative analysis, applied to specified moths during years 2006-2008, and chronological analysis of chosen issues during years 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2005. Based on them, various evaluations of supplement main characteristics, specific features and differences were observed. Most important characteristics investigated in the work are: supplement content and graphic conception, placement within the carrying newspaper, structure of published literature forms, themes and sub-themes. There can be also found summary of each supplement history, list of its typical authors and internet version description. Author of this thesis also introduced related overview of Czech literary and cultural magazines (Literarni noviny, Host, Divoke vino, Revolver Revue, Tvar nebo A2) and briefly stated profiles of main national newspapers. To gain supplement readers characteristics, approximate sociological questionnaire was processed among university students.
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Personality and work of Karel Richter,author of the non-fiction literature in the medial and socio-political metamorphoses of time
Beneš, Martin ; Halada, Jan (advisor) ; Čeňková, Jana (referee)
The Thesis entitled "The Personality and Work of the Author of the Non fiction literature in the Media and the Socio-Political Metamorphoses of the Time" describes the influence of the various aspects of the communication process and its development (changes of the socio-political situation and the non fiction literature itself) in relation to the publicist, writer, historian and translator Karel Richter. He lived through the 1960s, the period of "normalisation" and the 1990s, when the market economy witnessed a rapid development - including the publishing sector. The work describes the metamorphosis of the communication process in retrieving information, the pursuit of political communication in relation to the non fiction literature and other aspects of this genre of the author's works. It focuses on the political and economic influences, which affected Richter's work, and the influence of his work in the media back on him. The Thesis is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part sums up scientific works written about the non fiction literature genre. In his own analyses Richter, too, tries to characterize the genre and its basic problem, which rests in non-established and diverse definitions often contradicting each other. This chapter also sums up the development of...
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Emma Bovary and Thérese Desquegroux: destructive womwn or victims?
Dobrovolná, Petra ; Ébert-Zeminová, Catherine (advisor) ; Listíková, Renáta (referee)
anglicky : Title of the thesis : Emma Bovary and Thérèse Desqueyroux : destructive women or victims ? Keywords : literature, G. Flaubert, F. Mauriac, Emma Bovary, Thérèse Desqueyroux, destructive women , victims, comparison Abstract : The thesis deals with two female characters of French novels from the 2nd half of the 19th century, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert and Thérèse Desqueyroux by Françoise Mauriac. The life and work of the two authors are briefly described as well as the time when they lived. The longer part of the thesis presents a content analysis and a formal analysis of the novels. The thesis places particular emphasis on the analysis of the story, the main characters and turning points in their lives. The aim is then to compare the two heroines based on the previous analysis of the novels and to highlight what they have in common and in what they differ and to answer the question of whether or not Emma Bovary and Thérèse Desqueyroux are victims, victims of circumstances, or whether they are inherently destructive and rightly described as monsters. All the important points of the thesis are summarized in the conclusion.
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Female sexual discourse in contrast to the Middle Ages and XX. century
Ondřejová, Dita Terezie ; Ébert-Zeminová, Catherine (advisor) ; Listíková, Renáta (referee)
Title of the thesis: Female sexual discourse in contrast to the Middle Ages and XX. century Keywords: perception of love, women, troubadours women, society, literature. Abstract: The main theme of this diploma thesis is to understand how the socio-cultural aspects and the changes affect the view on love in medieval literary production and production of writers of the 20th century. The focus of the thesis is primarily the writing of Marie de France, a representative of women author in medieval literature, and the deputy from production of contemporary writers - Simone de Beauvoir. In the introduction of my thesis I depick the development of literary genres in the historical context in the periods mentioned above. Next chapters directly address the theme of love from different perspective and the status of women in society. The last chapter analyzes the way women exhibit their emotions in the times of courtly literature and to devote part of the embattled Simone de Beauvoir and her different view on the concept of love in the contexte of female sexuality and experience life as a couple.
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Analysis of chosing text into reading books for 2nd grade of elementary school (focused on 9th class)
Procházková, Jana ; Klumparová, Štěpánka (advisor) ; Hník, Ondřej (referee)
Resume Principle of this bachelor labor is to analyze texts in reading books for pupils of age 11 to 15. It is focused on adolescent reader mainly. I tried to find out whether articles in reading books have respected a pupil as a specific reader with specific needs, interests and preferences. I analyzed six different reading books in my labor. Each of them represented another author's style of writing. My analyses on reading books have been more complex. First of all I have made short characteristics and next I closely analyze articles from different aspects, e.g. representation of national and world literature, representation of female and male writer etc. Part of my labor was a survey among pupils of ninth class which compared theoretical information's gained from specialized publication, information from questionnaires and the present state of adolescents reading. I tried to find out what is the interest in books or reading in a sequence on texts in reading books for pupils of age 11-15.
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A Dystopian Prediction of Inevitable Future in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Moldřík, Karel ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee)
The Bachelor's Thesis A Dystopian Prediction of Inevitable Future in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a thorough analysis of Huxley's masterpiece Brave New World. The work focuses on discovery of all the inspiration which could Huxley find in his life, in the society of the United States of America and in other thematically similar works of his time that could be taken as inspirational for writing the novel. Main literary works - Men Like Gods (1923) by H. G. Wells and We (1924) by Yevgeny Zamyatin, that are often mentioned with Brave New World, are analysed regarding possible inspiration in them and compared with Brave New World.
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