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The forest in the Late Middle Ages in the light of literary sources
Smlsal, Jiří ; Zilynská, Blanka (advisor) ; Nejedlý, Martin (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the depiction of the forest in medieval literary sources. It focuses on depiction of the forest in different types of sources: exempla, medieval romances, books of travels, chronicles. It focuses on literary motifs of the forest: the forest as desert, border and hiding place, fores as locus amoenus and landed property. The social construction of the forest is based on dichotomy cultura versus natura. The forest as a domain of nature represents the counterpart of the world of civilization. The bachelor thesis discusses the forest in terms of its function in literary text. The socially unacceptable actions are set in the forest. The dichotomy between town and forest is used to illustrate cultural norms. Keywords: forest, Middle Ages, literature, imagination
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Own literary work with comment
Řídká, Milena ; Hník, Ondřej (advisor) ; Peterka, Josef (referee)
The bachelor thesis Vlastní literární tvorba s komentářem (Author's Literary Work with a Commentary) consists of three main parts. First, the author presents her own fairytale named Zvědavé koťátko (Nosy Kitten) in prose as well as a poetry. The fairytale is aimed at preschool children, first written as prose, later made into a poem. The second part consists of author's commentary, concerning the creation process of the piece of work. The author informs about the characters of the story, goals of the text, as well as the final touches to the piece of work. There are three assessments of the work, in the third part of the thesis. There is a literary expert opinion, an opinion of a preschool teacher (a person who knows well the target age-group), and a layman opinion. The final part of the thesis is a reflection on the three opinions mentioned above.
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Receptive and intertextual strategies in Terry Pratchett's novel cykle "Discworld"
Cermonová, Klára ; Kubíček, Tomáš (advisor) ; Mocná, Dagmar (referee)
This thesis is focused on The Discworld, book series written by English writer Terry Pratchett. It examines which tools the author is using for achieving such a readability and catchines of his novels. Investigations are done in several layers: characters, word of the story, themes and motives. Intertextuality is the next topic of the work. It is mainly focused on intertextuality regarding the readers. Other interest of this thesis is to clarify position of the Discworld among fantasy pieces as it is usually classified as fantasy. Finally, it shows quality of Pratchett's series and it argues with the statement that his work is popular mainstream literature.
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Paradigm of Czech modern and postmodern feminism in the context of European culture
Fuxová, Bohuslava ; Ferrarová, Eva (referee) ; Pachmanová, Martina (referee)
This study presents an anthropological and historical analysis of the women's movement in Europe and its interaction with and influence over the development of the women's emancipation movement in Bohemia since the romantic period. Specifically, this study focuses on and understands European feminist literary achievements as crucial to instigating and informing the various developmental stages of the emancipation movement in Bohemia. In mapping the features of the Czech women's emancipation movement not only onto major works of European feminism but minor ones as well, this study examines the full range of influence had by feminist writing in the Czech lands, including that of works that have fallen into obscurity. By reconstructing international feminist writing in its historical context, this study is able to identify "lost" texts and consider closely their movement between feminism and romanticism, liberalism and capitalism. Against this backdrop, this study brings the individual efforts of both known and relatively unknown feminist pioneers in Bohemia to the fore in an attempt to grant them the public recognition they deserve. Thus, this study traces the currents of global feminism in order to achieve a powerful local effect.
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Bible as a Literary Work of Art in Literature Classes at Czech High Schools
Přibylová, Kateřina ; Klumparová, Štěpánka (advisor) ; Hausenblas, Ondřej (referee)
The first part of this thesis informs about the Bible in general, its origin, division, language and translations. Translations into the Czech language are looked at in greater detail as well as various adaptions that are at disposal of Czech high school teachers. One of the chapters discusses biblical phrases and shows the way they have infiltrated Czech culture. The Intertextuality and the Bible chapter looks at all the literary works that have their origins in the Bible. It also offers a text which may be used during literature classes. The second part of the thesis discusses school documents and text books as related to the Bible. After Czech general educational programs analysis, the thesis offers options on various ways of implementing some of the general educational programs targets during classes, both in Language and Communication or Man and Society educational area. There follows an analysis of three individual school educational programs, each of which addresses the Bible differently, works with it in a different grade and in different areas. Chapters concerning textbooks discuss what information and texts are made available to the students and evaluate these. The practical part of this thesis covers an analysis of a minor survey which was carried out among the fourth grade high school...
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Myth and Literature: The Werewolf
Benešová, Anna ; Ébert-Zeminová, Catherine (advisor) ; Šuman, Záviš (referee)
anglicky: Title of the thesis: Myth and Literature: The Werewolf Keywords: myth, literature, mythology, mythodology, mythanalysis, mythocriticism, werewolf Abstract: This thesis deals with the relation between literature and myth. Literature transcribes the myth from a language of symbols to the language of literature. This process limits the multiplicity of meaning and the variety of renderings of a myth but at the same time makes it possible to preserve the elemental message and make it comprehensible for the socio-cultural reality of the author and subsequently for the reader. The objective of this thesis is to show on the example of the werewolf how a myth works in literature. After researching into the domain of mythology and mythocriticism, Gilbert Durand's method, called mythodology, was chosen as the principal route to approach the subject of this thesis. Mythodology comprises of two phases: mythanalysis and mythocriticism. The method is used for the study of the myth of the werewolf in four literary works from the different periods and of the different genres. In the final part are studied and analysed some socio-cultural consequences of the psychological nature of myth and its transcription into literature.
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Body Modification in Cyberpunk,
Dudziaková, Marie ; Rychlík, Martin (referee) ; Šisler, Vít (referee)
The rigorous thesis Body Modification in Cyberpunk, Cyberpunk in Body Modification examines the intersection of these two topics from their mutual perspectives and monitors the extent to which they influence and shape each other. In its first part, the author deals with the representation, form and role of body modification in selected works of cyberpunk literature. The issue analysis is carried out by means of combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches. The author quantitatively evaluates 503 mentions of body modifications on a given sample of 7 major cyberpunk literary works, using 25 variables. The qualitative analysis, structured in 7 thematic areas, amplifies the qualitative findings. From the analysis results, the author draws definition of typical cyberpunk body modification, which she describes as invasive functional modification of the body that was created with the help of modern technologies. Based on this definition, in the second part of this rigorous thesis, the author focuses on the existing body modifications that meet these aspects. She creates 7 categories of functional cyberpunk body modifications, which she illustrates by examples. From this point of view she closer monitors the situation in the Czech Republic and also mentions the associated QRbodies project that was...
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