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The role of graphic aids in school work with narrative text
Pospíšil, Albert ; Vojtíšek, Ondřej (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
The thesis explores the ways in which various visual tools, aids and organizers can be used to represent selected elements of narrative text in the school classroom in ways that aid comprehension of the text as well as its interpretation without constituting it themselves. Such aids include various maps, graphs, diagrams, but also text restructured in various ways in space, whether in the form of trees, clouds or various formulae, for example. The text is introduced by a theory of visual aids, their contribution to teaching and the ways in which they are conceived and understood in the context of aiding comprehension. On this basis, it then builds a basic categorization of the visual aids that may be encountered. This is followed by an analysis of some of these aids and tools and an assessment of their contribution to school teaching. The following section discusses some of the literary-theoretical concepts that help to illuminate the sub-issues of the tools analysed and also form the basis for the practical treatment of these tools in school work. The practical section then focuses on two texts: Božena Němcová's The Grandmother, where the it is viewed from the perspective of space and its boundaries, and The Brooch, a short story by American writer William Faulkner, which attempts to capture both...
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The Rebelling Material. Jiří Weil's 1920s Journalism and his Doctoral Thesis as a Revolutionary Gesture
Kittlová, Markéta ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Bauer, Michal (referee) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee)
This Ph.D. thesis deals with Jiří Weil's affinity with the Russian revolutionary, avant-garde culture and studies the ways the affinity manifested itself in the author's journalism and dissertation. It focuses on various realizations of the revolutionary gesture which Weil's activities linked to the Russian revolutionary culture are accompanied by as well as on the discordance associated with the gesture. Weil's activities are examined from a "rebelling material" point of view defined, following on Bohumil Mathesius' observation, as a conflict between ideology and intuition that is characteristic of Weil's work. The manifestations of the conflict became the focus of the comparative analyses based on the research material consisting of the selected Weil's 1920s and, occasionally, 1930s journalist texts and his dissertation defended in 1928 under the title "Gogol and the 18th Century English Novel" at Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague.
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Analysis of female characters and the theme of exile in the work of Iva Pekárková
Michálková, Denisa ; Šebek, Josef (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
The diploma thesis focuses on the prosaic work of the writer Iva Pekárková and on the development of her poetics in the time horizon from the 1990's to the present. Her texts depict her journey to exile in North America in the late 1980's, later work presents a very unconventional, but realistic depiction of life in the suburbs of New York City in the USA, while her other works follow the path of other genres, which are mainly travel novels and "blogbooks". Due to the time of her emigration (1985), Pekárková tells stories from later years than most other authors of Czech exile literature, and she also brings in the relatively unusual theme of multiculturalism, racism and various taboos for Czech literature. The thesis also focuses on the development of poetics in the author's work in relation to female protagonists, who are significant and interesting especially in terms of the themes they carry. The thesis will therefore in this second part primarily work with the theory of the three dimensions of literally characters discussed by James Phelan. This gradual development of the heroines is most evident in the first three novels, which will be the main basis of this thesis. It focuses mainly on the analysis and comparison of female characters, who acquire in the works of Iva Pekárková the forms of...
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The Forms and Transformations of Irma Geisslová's Poetic Work
Kýčková, Karolína ; Merhaut, Luboš (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the poetic work of the writer Irma Geisslová (1855-1914). On the basis of a chronological overview, description and analysis focused primarily on the themes, motifs and poetic practices of the author's individual published collections, the thesis aims to capture the characteristic features, forms and transformations of Geisslová's poetry, while reflecting, to the extent necessary, her contemporary responses and criticism.
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Erotic mystical concept of lyric subject in the hymns of Zachariáš Jelínek's hymnbook
Churáčková, Karolína ; Škarpová, Marie (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
The thesis is focused on hymnbook Písně jednoho pravdivého milovníka muk Ježíšových, which was published anonymously by Moravian exile Zacharias Jelinek in Berlin in 1758. It's a brief contribution to research about the influnce of pietistic movement in Czech literature aimed to point out an insufficient reflection of this topic in Czech literary historiography. The theme of this thesis is an analysis of lyrical subject in the hymns of Zacharias Jelinek's hymnbook in the context of pietistic hymnography and the tradition of christian erotic mysticism in general. Attention is given to the specific form of mystic relationship between the lyrical subject of Jelinek's hymns and Jesus Christ as the object of lyrical subject's affection.
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Poet Irma Geissslová: Private and public
Pohlová, Anna ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee)
This bachelors thesis looks at the work of Irma Geisslová through the lens of dichotomy "public" vs. "private". The theoretical section defines those essential terms, "public" and "private", and then extends the dichotomy with third term, "intimate". The theoretical section then introduces two specific subgenres of the diary, poetic diary and journal intime. Second part of the thesis aims to create two portraits of Geisslová's work, public and private, which are followed by analysis of Geisslová's intimate diary from 1896. The analysis focuses on composition, themes and motifs of the diary. The diary is unique in its monothemacity, to which all the motifs are subordinated to. Additionally, although the diary is mostly isolated from other private work, it contains motifs that permeate both the private work and the diary. Key words: Poetry of 19th century, Irma Geisslová, diary, public, private, intimate, women
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Hana Prošková's Detective Fiction
Hrnčárková, Anna ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
v angličtině This thesis focuses on selected detective stories written by Hana Prošková (Měsíc s dýmkou, 1966; Černé jako smola, 1969) and novel Stínová hra 1969 that include the detective duo of professional first lieutenant (later captain) Vašátko and bohemian painter Horác. This unlikely duo (sensible, grumpy, surly, inductively reasoning Vašátko on one side and eccentric, intuitively approaching Horác on the other), suggestive portrayal, and witty dialogue allow the author to play out unconventional plots that are far from being only about solving the case. The paper will concentrate on the psychological motivation of the crime and the actions of the individual characters and on the raised questions regarding guilt, justice, and ethics, which go beyond the conventions of the detective genre and crime fiction.
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Czech Underground Female Writers
Kubáč, Vilém ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Machovec, Martin (referee)
This thesis will concentrate on Czech underground women writers. It takes into account the phenomenon of "women's writing" and the positionof women writers within mainly male underground community.It assumes that the women writers in Czech underground consciouslycreated within the "women's writing" or that they were influencedby feminism. The thesis poses a question whether women writers in the underground were more emancipatedthan official or engaged writers in other countercultural communities,and also than women in the underground and outside the underground who were not literaryactive. It compares the work and the position of the women writers in the Czech underground with the those who createdliterature in the West. Female underground creators were very often engaged in music or visual arts, so the comparison with their other artistic activitieswill be important too. The thesis will focuse onthe period of culture startingfrom the 50s and the phenomenon of the "Edice Půlnoc" and Jana Krejcarová to the punk generation of the 80s.
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The Image of Female Exotic Dancers in Czech Literature during the Twenties
Wagebaertová, Elizabeth ; Vaněk, Václav (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
1 Abstract This bachelor thesis focuses on the intersection of gender and postcolonial analysis of exotic female dancers in selected works of Czech literature in the 1920s and 1930s. The characters themselves represent the intersection of different sorts of inequalities. They also combine many other topics such as dance, hierarchical power dynamics, gender and orientalist discourse. Therefore, I decided to use an interdisciplinary approach. The two introductory chapters provide the readers with some contextual information about real exotic dancers such as Josephine Baker, Mata Hari and Anita Berber in order to demonstrate the importance of this phenomenon. The third chapter summarizes the methodological approach used in this thesis and the fourth chapter presents the theoretical concepts that all my arguments are based on. The analysis of the main characters presented in the chosen works - specifically Divoška Jaja by Benjamin Klička, Gita Turaja by Anna Marie Tilschová and Rozkošnice by Jan Grmela - is offered in the following chapters. The paper concludes by confirming that despite some recurring motifs and similarities, the category of exotic dancers cannot be conceived as a homogeneous group.
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Food, Women, and Personal IdentitySelected Chapters from Contemporary Czech Prose
Słowik, Olga ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Parente Čapková, Viola (referee) ; Matonoha, Jan (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyse selected ways in which contemporary Czech prose manifests the complex interconnection of personal (female) identity, gender, and dietary practices. The first part of the thesis develops a theoretical and methodological framework based on anthropologizing approaches to literature, especially those developed in contemporary Polish literary criticism. In these approaches, literature is understood as one kind of linguistic - and more broadly cultural - practice, and interpretation is taken to be one of the most important tasks of literary research. Another theoretical impulse is feminist criticism, which the thesis reflects in its gynocritical selection of texts to analyse and in its understanding of corporeality, everyday life, and personal identity as always gendered. The main part of the thesis consists of four relatively separate interpretative chapters (2-5), which are probes into different ways in which personal (female) identity, gender, and dietary practices are grasped in contemporary Czech prose. The second chapter focuses on autobiographical prose by female authors who have experienced anorexia. The chapter traces the authors' association of the illness with the search for the self, and it addresses key aspects of this search, such as the conflict between...
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