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Another Way Out: Women in Kate O'Brien's Fiction
Homolková, Šárka ; Wallace, Clare (advisor) ; Pilný, Ondřej (referee)
Kate O'Brien was one of Ireland's best female writers; moreover, she was one of the first to centre on the Catholic Middle Class in her writing, as this class was long neglected. O'Brien was famous for her women-oriented books in which she portrayed the lives of women of the rising bourgeoisie of Ireland at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century. We can trace a certain development in O'Brien's writing, throughout her career she becomes more radical and comes to voice feminist notions about women being equal to men as well women's seeking independence from the world dominated by men. Most of her novels are family-oriented and may be called Bildungsromans as the protagonists, which apart from two books are all female, develop and grow to maturity and learn to understand the world and their place in it. As this thesis examined how the women in O'Brien's novels reflect the situation of women in her home country, it is apparent that throughout her life the writer became more radical and sceptical towards the fate of women in Ireland. Therefore, in her first written pieces she portrays women in their traditional roles as dutiful wives, daughters, or mothers. It is only in her later writing that the women manage to emancipate themselves and lead their lives independently. In O'Brien's first two...
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Another Way Out: Women in Kate O'Brien's Fiction
Homolková, Šárka ; Wallace, Clare (advisor) ; Pilný, Ondřej (referee)
Kate O'Brien was one of Ireland's best female writers; moreover, she was one of the first to centre on the Catholic Middle Class in her writing, as this class was long neglected. O'Brien was famous for her women-oriented books in which she portrayed the lives of women of the rising bourgeoisie of Ireland at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century. We can trace a certain development in O'Brien's writing, throughout her career she becomes more radical and comes to voice feminist notions about women being equal to men as well women's seeking independence from the world dominated by men. Most of her novels are family-oriented and may be called Bildungsromans as the protagonists, which apart from two books are all female, develop and grow to maturity and learn to understand the world and their place in it. As this thesis examined how the women in O'Brien's novels reflect the situation of women in her home country, it is apparent that throughout her life the writer became more radical and sceptical towards the fate of women in Ireland. Therefore, in her first written pieces she portrays women in their traditional roles as dutiful wives, daughters, or mothers. It is only in her later writing that the women manage to emancipate themselves and lead their lives independently. In O'Brien's first two...
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The development and style of Ossianic myth
Homolková, Šárka ; Pilný, Ondřej (referee) ; Procházka, Martin (advisor)
This thesis is mainly concerned with the development of the Fenian narratives about the adventures of Fion (later Finn or Fingal) and his war-band, the fian, as it was told by his son, the bard Oisín (later Ossian). The Fenian tales are unique in literary history because they have fascinated people for more than thousand years and are still being written. Since the 12th century when the first codex, The Book of Leinster, containing the first five stories about Finn mac Cumhaill and his fian appeared, hundreds of books with the same thematic saw the light of the world. Some are almost unknown today or even lost and others, on the other hand, became an inspiration for the whole era. The story about the hero Finn and his army of warriors was first written down in Ireland in the 13th century (according to other sources already in the 12th century) and was the main narrative of the Fenian cycle. However, the story itself is much older circulating as a part of oral tradition of Ireland and Scotland for centuries. The original story has changed immensely during the centuries due to its oral character. The same happened to the role of Finn and his troops of young warriors, the stories won on significance and become one of the major cycle of tales of Ireland and later Scotland. In the first story where one of the...
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