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Milan Kundera's The Joke supervised. Critical reception of the novel in the context of its release and today.
Batistová, Anna ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Jonáková, Anna (referee)
Thesis "Milan Kundera's 'The Joke' supervised. Critical reception of the novel in the context of its release and today" deals with critical reflection of the novel 'The Joke' in the period from the end of the 1960's up to current reviews. The author dedicates first chapters to the cultural and political background of the release. The core of the thesis focuses mostly on critical reception of the novel, which is divided into three historical periods. In the first part of the critical historical analysis and qualitative analysis, the author examines critical acceptance of the novel in the aftermath of its release (1967-1969), in the Czechoslovakian and exiled journals and literary magazines in particular. The second part considers critical reaction to the novel throughout 1970's and 80's, and stresses outcomes of the reception in the sixties, official normalized critical reviews and the acceptance in the exile and samizdat literature as well. Finally, the last part of the thesis offers contemporary critical response to 'The Joke', analyzed on the basis of Czech journals, literary magazines and newly emergent Kundera's monographs and on the basis of French critical reception of the Milan Kundera's collected work in the prestigious La Pléiade Gallimard edition. Summarizing critical reception in each...
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Milan Kundera as author of French proses
Lebedová, Anna ; Jamek, Václav (advisor) ; Pohorský, Aleš (referee)
The subject of this work is the analysis of prose written in French by Milan Kundera, in particular his last three novels La Lenteur (1995), L'Identité (1998) and L'Ignorance (2000). In our analysis we are focusing mainly on the method of construction of his novels, process of characters interpretation and the identification of narrators. These works are compared to Kundera's most architecturally elaborated novel of his Czech creative cycle called Immortality (1993). The goal of this work is to estimate the characteristic of his creative style in French language.
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Milan Kundera's The Joke supervised. Critical reception of the novel in the context of its release and today
Baumová, Anna ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Bednařík, Petr (referee)
Diploma thesis "Milan Kundera's 'The Joke' supervised. Critical reception of the novel in the context of its release and today" deals with critical reflection of the novel 'The Joke' in the period from the end of the 1960's up to current reviews. The author dedicates first chapters to the cultural and political background of the release. The core of the thesis focuses mostly on critical reception of the novel, which is divided into three historical periods. In the first part of the critical historical analysis and qualitative analysis, the author examines critical acceptance of the novel in the aftermath of its release (1967- 1969), in the Czechoslovakian and exiled journals and literary magazines in particular. The second part considers critical reaction to the novel throughout 1970's and 80's, and stresses outcomes of the reception in the sixties, official normalized critical reviews and the acceptance in the exile and samizdat literature as well. Finally, the last part of the thesis offers contemporary critical response to 'The Joke', analyzed on the basis of journals, literary magazines and newly emergent Kundera's monographs. Summarizing critical reception in each period, historical context is of primary importance to a profound understanding of the topic. The aim of the thesis is to find out...
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"Conditions of exile: language, text and history in the work of Libuše Moníková and Milan Kundera"
Reuter, Magdalena Antonia ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
This diploma thesis aims to demarcate the term "exile" and its conditions, further the thesis explores the impacts this experience has on a writer's work, especially the problem of writing in a foreign language and the character of translation. Concretely the present thesis is based on the literary work of Libuše Moníková and Milan Kundera. The first chapter examines the general research field in detail and the occurrence of related themes in the production of both authors. The following two chapters treat individual aspects of work created under the condition of exile - language and translation on the one hand, the correlations of text and history on the other. The findings of all analyses performed within this diploma thesis relate not only to the individual authors, but can be employed to specify and supplement the over-all picture of Czech literature of the second half of the 20th century, as the phenomenon of exile is essential for the understanding of this specific period. Keywords Literature in exile, Milan Kundera, Libuše Moníkové, Prague Spring, translation.
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Three "Ulysses" in The 21th Century: Milan Kundera, Dany Laferrière, Michèle Rakotoson and Their Returns to Native Lands
Cenigová, Jana ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (advisor) ; Šuman, Záviš (referee)
This thesis discusses topic related to return to native land in three contemporary Francophonic novels. The study is founded on the paradigm described in Homer's Odyssey: mythological return of Odysseus to Ithaca is used as a base for analysis of a chosen piece of work which is Kundera's L'Ignorance, a novel of Malagasy writer Michèle Rakotoson Juillet au pays and L'Énigme du retour of Haitian novelist Dany Laferrière. The main aim of this thesis is to find out how the tradition of Homer's myth is reflected in mentioned stories of odyssey. Key words Francophone literatures, Milan Kundera, Dany Laferrière, Michèle Rakotoson, exile, identity
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Typology of figure in the writings of Milan Kundera
DINDOVÁ, Lenka
Bakalářská práce se bude zabývat typologií postav v dílech Milana Kundery. Teoretická část práce se bude zabývat charakteristikou autora a jeho typu poetiky, dále teorií literárních postav a různých typologií dle vybraných teoretiků. V následující části budou podrobně rozebírány důležité postavy z děl Milana Kundery, budou analyzovány charaktery a zdůrazněny podstatné rysy postav. Dále se práce bude soustředit na míru realističnosti postav a jejich vykreslení. Výklad a interpretace bude důsledně vycházet ze studovaných textů
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The motif of a relationship as the way of looking at the world and the human existence in it. Kundera´s The Laughable Loves, The Joke and The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
ZAJÍCOVÁ, Karolína
This bachelor work is going to elaborate on the motif of a relationship in Kundera´s shortstories The Laughable Loves and his two novels, The Joke and The Unbearable Lightness of Being. I have chosen these particular works in order to try to describe the variations of the motif of a relationship since the beginnings of Kundera´s prosaic work where we could find the concepts of his great novels regarding the motif of a relationship between two people which will develop into anthropological and even existential problem´s of the people, the conflict between the human being and the history. It will be focused on the interpretation of a relationship as the motif and its overall scope of thoughts and its significance for the creating of a story. From the methodological point of view, this work inclines to hermeneutics, in other words the analysis of one motif leads to deeper understanding of various aspects and interpretations of the relationship
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Speech Acts in the Play Owners of the Keys by Milan Kundera
SVOBODA, Marek
This thesis deals with the theory of speech acts which is based mainly on analysis of speech and its function in communication. We use speech not only to convey something but to also do something, to change the state of things around us and to accomplish specific goals. Speech acts in a literary piece are then analyzed on theoretical basis, specifically in Milan Kundera's dramatic play Majitelé klíčů.
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"Qui a revé cette histoire?" Kundera´s French Novels
VOLFOVÁ, Eliška
This dissertation deals with three selected French novels written by Milan Kundera: La lenteur, L´identité, L´ignorance. The aim is to make an analysis of these works, which are known as "the French cycle". We focus especially on the process of the construction of a narrative world (by using the semantics of fictional worlds and narratological concepts), as well as on the thematic level of these works. At the center of our dialogue with the novels is the question of whether they could create a real cycle, and what are the aspects that could connect them to each another. We also pay attention to the position of these works in the context of Kundera´s other writings.
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Humour in a selected of Czech prose literature of 1960s
BLAŽKOVÁ, Táňa
The thesis deals with the era of the Czech literature in the second half of the 20th century. It focuses on the description of the humorous elements in selected literary works. The works are different in topics and genres too and in the end the works are reflected all together. The main literature sources are the analyzed titles and the book f essays called Silence and laughter by Sylvia Richterová. The first chapter presents an outline of the atmosphere of the 60s, the second chapter defines the topic and genre specifications of the works published in this decade. The third chapter is a methodological guide to comicality. Chapters four to seven analyze individual literary works in several basic points ? composition, language, characters and a description of the nature of the characters as well as the description of the theme.
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