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Echoes of Ovid's Metamorphoses
Stašová, Ema ; Pokorný, Martin (advisor) ; Hrdlička, Josef (referee)
The aim of this study is to compare selected episodes of Ovid's Metamorphoses with three works of modern literature containing the theme of metamorphosis, and to follow their intertextual relations, dependency and innovation of Ovidian themes. On the basis of a comparison of the ancient and the modern text it is examined which motives remain constant during centuries and which, on the contrary, are evolving and shifting their meanings. Through the perspective of the Metamorphoses an attempt is made to interpret the works from a less usual angle. The most significant Ovidian characters that are examined in this study are Teiresias, Daphne, Hyacinth, Orpheus, Ceres, Icarus, Callisto and Io.
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The Influence of Virginia Woolf on Contemporary British Fiction in selected works by Pat Barker, Toby Litt and Ian McEwan
Kocianová, Tereza ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to focus on the phenomenon of Virginia Woolf's influence on contemporary fiction. It attempts to demonstrate the frequent stylistic, thematic and personal imprint of Virginia Woolf in recently published works of British authors. Particular examples are drawn from Pat Barker's novels Life Class (2007) and Toby's Room (2012), Toby Litt's Finding Myself (2003) and Ian McEwan's Saturday (2005). The thesis concentrates on contextualising the allusions found in the four selected novels with the factual information from Woolf's life and her social, cultural and professional milieu. The literary modernist strategies, narrative techniques and characteristic themes employed in the works by Woolf are compared with those used in the selected novels. Key words: Virginia Woolf, Modernism, Bloomsbury Group, Allusion, Intertextuality, Themes, Narrative strategies
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Posmodernity in the work of Enrique Vila-Matas
Grabec, Jan ; Sánchez Fernández, Juan Antonio (advisor) ; Poláková, Dora (referee)
This thesis deals with the work of the Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas. The text firstly focuses on Vila-Matas himself and subsequently contemplates the role of this author within the scope of the Spanish, Hispanic and ultimately also international literary history. Given the fact that Enrique Vila-Matas is, in many aspects, an exemplary post-modern writer, it is interesting to follow the paralels in his narrative approaches and compare them with reflections of reality by various sociologists and philosophers, such as, for example, the French philosopher Francise Lyotard. Vila-Matas is a direct follower of the so called metaliterary approach to literature - literature about literature - the development of this method can be encountered in the Spanish prose of Jorge Luis Borges. This manner of writing is very close to the literary theories of Jacques Derrida or Julia Kristeva. Thoughts of these authors are easily applicable to the works of Vila-Matas due to the fact that they are essencially identical or better to say, they are fictionally implemented in the works of Vila- Matas. This part of the thesis focuses, among other issues, also on the very term intertextuality, a term very significant for the work of Vila-Matas. The last part of this paper deals with the analysis of several prosaic...
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Narrative Structures in Virginia Woolf's Shorter Fiction
Kovačeva, Elizabet ; Wallace, Clare (advisor) ; Nováková, Soňa (referee)
Thesis Abstract One of the basic principles of modernism was to evaluate existing traditions and cultural norms, to innovate them, and to get rid of them if necessary. The need and urge to innovate proved to be immensely productive in the short story genre. The short story is now perceived as independent of other prose forms precisely thanks to the modernists. Virginia Woolf was one of the most enthusiastic innovators of the form, her work in the genre is nevertheless often overlooked in comparison to her novels, or even in comparison to other short story writers, such as Katherine Mansfield or James Joyce. This thesis deals with selected narrative structures in Virginia Woolf's shorter fiction. It works with the basic assumption that when Woolf's short stories are read, her novels have to be taken into account as well due to numerous thematic and other affinities. However, it is also of importance to evaluate Woolf's short fiction without measuring them against her novels as these are two distinct genres. The thesis introduction presents an overview of the literary and cultural context of the times in which Woolf lived and wrote, with emphasis on her familiarity with the Russian writers, primarily Chekhov, and the first Post-Impressionist painters. The thesis then carries out four separate analyses of four...
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The beginnings of intertextuality - breaking the boundaries of the boundlessness
Pračke, Šimon ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Málek, Petr (referee)
1 Abstract The bachelor thesis deals with the problem of intertextuality as the change of view of text and opening his imaginary boundaries, especially in the context of establishing this concept. The first part describes Bakhtin's concept of the polyphony and the dialogism understood as the initial impulse from which intertextuality subsequently develops. The second part deals with the development of intertextuality by Julia Kristeva and its subsequent extension to society-wide cultural space. Third part is an overview of subsequently established conceptions. Based on the foregoing the idea of text which appears as a central and crucial for intertextuality itself is then in the final section revised in relation to particular conceptions of intertextuality. Key words text, intertext, intertextuality, Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin, Julia Kristeva
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Fanfiction and Intertextuality
Abbasová, Veronika ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Činátlová, Blanka (referee)
Summary: The aim of this thesis was to classify the intertextual relationship entered by fan fictions. A fan fiction is a modern literary form, which developed mainly in the second half of the 20th century and has been experiencing real boom since the beginning of the Internet era. Intertextuality is a basic condition for the existence of fan fictions, as these are derivatives of other texts (usually certain popular culture products). Fan fiction is created in fandom as a product of fan activity. These texts are unauthorized, they don't bring profit to their creators and can have a subversive character. Besides the basic intertextual relation to canon, fan fictions enter into a variety of other intertextual relationships. Among these are relationships to the cultural canon similar to those formed by traditional literature. Fan fiction borrows motives and plotlines from fairytales, myths, the Bible, poetry and songs, fiction and movies. On the other hand, fan fiction also enters into such intertextual relationships that are specific for this literary genre. These are so-called crossovers - mixing of several fictional worlds, and relationships to other works of fan fiction - parodies, continuing other authors' stories, replies to so-called challenges and prompts (ideas for stories).
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Lars von Trier in Czech Theatres: stage adaptations and their cinematographic prototypes
Kaňková, Markéta ; Janoušek, Pavel (advisor) ; Just, Vladimír (referee)
This thesis concentrates on the phenomenon of theatre adaptation of films in context of czech contemporary theatre. It's goal is - on examples of theatre transcriptions of Lars von Trier's films - to capture and describe difficult process of adaptation, which is wageing during the transformation of films and film texts into their theatre versions. During the process of analyses, we will try to trace not only the concrete transfigurations, but to name possible approaches and techniques revelating during the act of adaptation.
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Daimón: The Unity and the Contradiction of the Lope de Aguirre's World
Janoušková, Petra ; Housková, Anna (advisor) ; Sánchez Fernández, Juan Antonio (referee)
The present work is focused on interpretation of the novel Daimón, written by Argentinian writer Abel Posse. It indicates the context of the "Latin America's new historical novel", comments the historical background of the story, touches the concept of time in the novel. Then the work analyses in detail the composition of the novel which is structured as a Tarot cards reading, explains the importance of the Tarot not only for interpretation of the Daimón novel, but also for understanding the World in general. Key words: Tarot, Lope de Aguirre, Abel Posse, new historical Latin America's new historical novel, dialogism, parody, heteroglossia, spiritual path, Toltec, Toltec shamanism, Carlos Castaneda, concept of cyclical time, contradictions, realization.
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Intertextuality in academic writing: citation in soft and hard sciences
Štěpánková, Jana ; Malá, Markéta (advisor) ; Šaldová, Pavlína (referee)
Based on a corpus analysis of 72 research articles, this thesis examines citation practices in four academic disciplines, two soft (linguistics and art history) and two hard (biology and astronomy). The first part provides quantitative results for the usage of two basic types, integral and non-integral citation. The non-integral type is preferred mainly in biology (91%), whereas astronomy and linguistics do not show such strong preference. In art history, both types are used with similar frequencies. The second part is focused on integral citation and examines instances of its sub-types (verb-controlling, naming and non-citation). The third part analyses the distribution of citations in the individual sections of research articles which shows to be dependent on the structural organization of the article. In general, two tendencies have been found: in articles with IMRD structure (biology and linguistics), citations occur mainly in the introduction and discussion. In astronomy and art history, citations are almost evenly distributed across the text. The last part of this thesis is focused on reporting verbs and their semantic classification (research, cognitive and discourse acts). Astronomy shows strong preference for research acts verbs, whilst biology employs this type only slightly more often...
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