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Merciless Parallel Lines: Railways in European Literature 1830-1914
Špína, Michal ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee) ; Burget, Eduard (referee)
Merciless Parallel Lines: Railways in European Literature 1830-1914 (Mgr. Michal Špína) Abstract The doctoral thesis addresses the so far underexplored subject of early literary depictions of railway, investigating the cultural impact of the new, mechanized means of transport, as reflected in fiction. The introduction explains the reasons to focus geographically on Europe (as opposed to the different social context of American and colonial railways), to limit the time span to the 1830-1914 period (after which railway gradually loses its leading role in transport) and the topic to the "look from the outside" (i.e. not the act of travelling itself or the interiors of railway stations and trains). Following up to Wolfgang Schivelbusch and Wojciech Tomasik, railway is seen as the paramount agent of industrialization and modernization. Further, spatial relations and the phenomenon of infrastructure are accentuated. The following four chapters each study two interconnected issues: the construction of railway lines and their linearity; the images of the ruining of the idyll in connection to railway noises; the signal box topos in connection to fatefulness; and the fully developed railway system, acquiring the function of a peculiar environment in the short story collection Mugby Junction by Charles Dickens and...
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Jakub Deml as Remembered by Josef Jelen
Burget, Eduard
In 1998 the Catholic priest, poet and journalist Josef Jelen published his memoir Jeden z prokletých (One of the Damned) in an attempt to justify his position and views in the years of the so-called normalization. In the memoir Jelen tends to emphasize his friendships with a number of influential writers: the most important of them would have been Jakub Deml whom Jelen continued to visit in Tasov into the 1950s. at the beginning of the 1960s Jelen resigned from the priesthood and shortly afterwards became a secret collaborator of the Communist State Security.
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Writer and playwright František Zavřel (1884-1947) in cultural context of the first half of the 20th century.
Burget, Eduard ; Pokorný, Jiří (advisor) ; Galandauer, Jan (referee) ; Pavlíček, Tomáš (referee)
Title: Writer and playwright František Zavřel (1884-1947) in cultural context of the first half of the 20th century. Author: Eduard Burget Department: The History and History Didactics Department Supervisor: prof. PhDr. Jiří Pokorný, CSc. Abstract: The writer and playwright František Zavřel was an interesting personality of the Czech cultural life in the first half of the 20th century. He was excluded from the cultural context of the First Republic due to his opposition to the democratic traditions, extreme individualism, and fascist opinions. This dissertation attempts to examine different aspects of Zavrel`s life in cultural and historical contexts. It analyzes Zavrel`s literary, dramatic, and journalistic work in the context of literary art. The purpose of the dissertation is to show how his opinions were reflected in his work and how they were received by his audience. It also shows how he dealt with the cultural institutions and authorities. The dissertation proves that a concrete example of an individual life can expand a view of the interwar Czechoslovakia and shed more light on the "dark side" of its cultural policy. Keywords: Literature, Theatre, The Second World War, Culture, Politics
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