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Children's View of Narration in Selected Pieces of Anglo-American Prose
BRABCOVÁ, Petra
The presented thesis focuses on the phenomenon of child narrator/protagonist in the role of the main actor and intermediary of fictional world in literature for adults. The first chapter is devoted mainly to the theoretical concept of narrator as a significant narratological category. The second chapter presents literature for children and youth in comparison to literature primarily intended for adult readers and looks for their mutual inspirations. Above all, the concept of children aspect is defined. In the practical part, the thesis aims for stylistic analysis, thematic interpretation and comparison of four narrative texts from Anglophone literature. These are The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Black Swan Green by David Mitchell, Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman and Cormac McCarthy's The Road. These texts, having a child narrator/protagonist in common, are not primarily intended to be read by children. I see this as a certain strategy of writers, which however fully functions only in such a case, when the authenticity of child narrator/protagonist is maintained. Thus, such elements which we could connect with the concept of children aspect are deliberately used there. My objective is therefore to link the concept of children aspect with a specifically defined literature for adults. I also inquire why child narrators/protagonists are used in literature for adults and what their functions are, how and to what extent can a child narrator/protagonist convey fictional world, what the children in the followed texts are like, how the perceive the world around them, how they impart to us what they see, think and feel, and what possibilities of description of the world through a child's eyes it offers to authors.
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WE SURVIVED. THE FATE OF FORCED WORKERS DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
PEŠTOVÁ, Denisa
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to approach to the life of forced workers, who were involuntarily recruited to work for The German Empire during the Second World War. This thesis has two parts. The first one is theoretical where you can find the accurate information from specialized literature. This information specifies particular characteristics of forced labour. It describes the method of oral history, dividing of forced workers, division of their recruitment and mainly their life conditions in time of forced labour. The second part of this thesis includes contemporary witnesses´ interviews collected by the oral history method. In this part of work there are compared the individual life stories. Furthermore, the obtained information are compared between the contemporary witnesses and bibliography.
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Aesthetic Distance in Fiction and Fictional Worlds
DURASOVÁ, Renata
This bachelor thesis focuses on the problems of aesthetic distance and its expressions in fiction and fictional worlds. It analyses texts dealing with the theory of fiction and searches them for a certain mode of dissociation, which can be identified with the concept of psychical distance. Based on illustrative examples concerning aesthetic situations, it shows that psychical distance is an artistic principle derived from the recipient's attitude, and therefore a basic factor for the formation of fictional worlds as such.
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Unreliability in Narration
HAVLOVÁ, Zuzana
The bachelor thesis is primarily focused on the aspects of unreliable narration in literature and deals with its characterization and assessment. It presents several theoretical expositions of unreliability accompanied by the analysis of the chosen literary illustrations demonstrating the discussed issues on the concerete samples. The indidvidual insights display that unreliability in naration is marked with disunity of opinion and a number of different attitudes. These facts result in substantially diverse interpretations of the particular literary works when apllying different criteria connected with distinct scholarly approaches. Simultaneously, the discrepancy of estimations and the thesis in general reflect dynamics, attractiveness and variety of this narratological category.
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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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Narratological Strategies in Ignát Hermann's short stories
MASÁK, Jakub
The topic of presented bachelor thesis is the narrative concept of short stories created by Ignát Herrmann. All analysed short stories are included in Pražské figurky and Drobní lidé. We will be focused on narrative strategies of chosen stories. The concepts of fictional narrator, narrative acts and the presentation of narration will be followed as well. Introducing theoretical part will define fundamental terms of narratology and the practical part will be analysing concrete stories. The final results will allow us to compare Herrmann?s stories with the most significant ones ? with the short stories of Jan Neruda.
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Fictional Worlds of Fanfiction
DVOŘÁKOVÁ, Andrea
This bachelor thesis introduces basic knowledge about the so-called phenomenon of fanfiction, i.e. a complex of narrative works of literature written by fans. It presents the most significant details and issues of this phenomenon and introduces its place among other works of literature. An explanation of how fanfiction uses a fictional world of a canonical work and a comparison of fanficion and transcript follows after. The thesis discusses fictional entities and the positions of an author, a narrator, and a reader. A summary of the most common terms used in fanfiction completes this thesis.
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Fiction Work of Hana Bělohradská Published in the 1960s
HRŮZOVÁ, Šárka
In my bachelor thesis I will deal with works of Hana Bělohradská which were published in the sixties of the twentieth century. In this her early works - Bez krásy, bez límce, Vítr se stočí k jihovýchodu and Poslední večeře I will mainly focus on reflection of displayed reality. I will try this reflection through narratological category of a narrator. I will define this narratological category in theory and then I will try to apply this theoretical knowledge on a narrator in the works of Hana Bělohradská. The important elements of my work will also be chapter which will focus on the personality, life and the benefits of the writer Hana Bělohradská. I will deal especially with the formation of her early poetics and also with the question of blame and offense in her work.
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Narrative Method in Olga Barényi´s Novel Janka
VOLFOVÁ, Eliška
This bachelor thesis deals with narrative strategy in the first Czech Olga Barényi´s novel. Janka, the novel from the early 40´s of the 20th century is still ignored by literary public. This work is trying to change this attitude and to demonstrate why this novel can be attractive for the readers. The aim is to make a detailed analysis of the novel, using mainly narrative methodology and to study which means the author uses in the story and if they are unusual or regularly used in the context of Czech period prose.
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Narrator in Prose of Jiří Haussmann
NOVOTNÁ, Michaela
In my bachelor work I will deal with the analysis of narrators in the prose by Jiří Haussmann. The important part of the work will be the methodological chapter which will delimit particular theoretical approaches to these problems. Then I will focus on the general typology of Haussmann narrators by means of which I will uncover further important aspects helping to create the final form of the narrative text - especially narrator´s credibility, his relationship to the fictional world and his narrative intention. The formation of narrative line in Haussmann prosaic texts will also be considered in the context of genre of satire and utopia. The objective of my work will be to find out how we can understand and interpret Haussmann texts through the category of narrator.
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