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Objects in Modern Lyric
Hankiewicz, Jakub ; Hrdlička, Josef (advisor) ; Pajak, Aleksandra (referee) ; Jareš, Michal (referee)
Objects in Modern Lyric Mgr. Jakub Hankiewicz Abstract At the beginning of the 20th century, there is a shift toward objects in poetry. Traditionally, its beginning is marked by Rilke's New Poems. Everyday objects had been present in poetry before this shift; however, what differed in comparison with previous generations was the way the new tendency portrayed mundane things. This dissertation describes some of the aspects of this change using Bill Brown's theory of objects. The common thread of the work is specific poetic tools that evoke such focus on an object that reveals its mysteriousness and estrangement. A thing is always also something else than what it appears to be in a given moment, and poets use their tools so that the reader experiences this fact while reading poetry about objects. The material for this dissertation is the work of Czech and Polish poets of the 1940s and 1950s. It is a period in which the shift to objects peaks in central European lyric, and it is also obvious across national literatures. Whereas in Poland, authors of this tendency are commonly interpreted in the context of the shift to objects, in the Czech Republic there have not until recently been many studies on poetry about objects. As a side goal, this thesis illustrates manifestations of the tendency of the shift to the...
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Don Quijote in-between Literary Theory and Literary History and in-between Outer and Inner Explanatory Contexs
Juračková, Pavlína ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Hrdlička, Josef (referee)
Cervantes' Don Quixote (1605, 1615) is one of the most significant works of European literature. In the 20th century, the two-part novel became one of the fundamental texts for literary and cultural theorists, on which they based their theoretical studies on writing, literature, and culture in general. But do external theoretical views agree with a specific literary history? The diploma thesis presents three selected interpretations of Don Quixote (by V. Shklovsky, M. Bakhtin, and M. Foucault), which are compared with the findings from Spanish studies and with the novel in the original. At the same time, the reading of theoretical works should not be primarily revisionist; the thesis has a comparative character, and the aim is to express the relation between external and internal views of Cervantes' novel.
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Relations between image and text: Problematic of the semantic gesture in Black Box, a collection of poems
Háječková, Tereza ; Činátlová, Blanka (advisor) ; Hrdlička, Josef (referee)
v anglickém jazyce: This bachelor thesis focuses on the issue of semantic gesture in a heterogenous, textual- pictorial complex of a collection of poems "Černá bedýnka", whose specific position among intersemiotic complexes is illustrated by examples taken from "Bledej gentleman" (with texts by Josef Kainar and photographic illustrations by Peter Župník) and "Dášeňka" by Karel Čapek (who is the author of both text and image in this book). Based on our own interpretation and analysis of the structure of "Černá bedýnka", our work tries to outline the most important points for understanding "semantic intention" as Aškenazy - with the help of intersemiotic relations of prototextual photographs and metatextual poems - constructed it in "Černá bedýnka". We've taken account also of the fact that Aškenazy used reportage photographs as a default image components for his poems.
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Where roads don't lead. Region as a motive and an instrument of narration in contemporary Czech and Polish poetry
Dohňanský, Tadeáš ; Hrdlička, Josef (advisor) ; Činátlová, Blanka (referee)
(in English) In this diploma thesis we will focus on the current possibilities of using the region as a motive and an instrument of poetic narration on the Czech - polish example. In recent years, regional literature has represented widely discussed, yet still semantically and conceptually ambiguous field in the area of literary theory. First part of thesis represents the basic concepts for research of regionalism in literature and also works with selected theories of Czech and Polish literary theorists. Second part presents interpretative chapters, which are concentrated on a concrete schemes of region in poems collections by Czech and Polish poets.
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Reflection of the Environmental Crisis in Contemporary Czech Poetry
Panušková, Charlotte ; Hrdlička, Josef (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
(in English): In this diploma thesis I am dealing with Czech (and by extension Slovak) environmental poetry. Particularly in Anglo-Saxon world, the environmental poetry (poetry that reacts on the current environmental situation) is well-established. This type of poetry has emerged just few years ago in Czech literary scene, and is still waiting for its stable position. One of the main reasons why this type of poetry emerged in Czech literary scene was a call přírodnílyrika.cz from 2019. It created a literary momentum and started a debate whether poets should thematize contemporary problems. Even though the poetry collections seem distinct and diverse, they have some common elements. This diploma thesis is mapping these environmental poetry collections and contextualizing them into wider poetry history.
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Carpathia - An insight into the contemporary studies of the periphery
Křižková, Aneta ; Činátlová, Blanka (advisor) ; Hrdlička, Josef (referee)
The thesis deals with a selected literary works by contemporary authors of the Central European area, which are associated with the landscape of Transcarpathian Ukraine. The thesis primarily focuses on the issue of imagining space from the narrator's perspective and a conception of its own identity in a relation to a referenced space, topography, collective memory. The initial precondition for interpreting texts is the peripheral character of the region and its features, such as nostalgy, memories of a place that is no longer, a fascination for exotism etc. Using a literary-comparative approach, the following texts are disscussed: Maroš Krajňak's Carpathia, Ziemowit Szczerek's Přijde Mordor a sežere nás aneb Tajná historie Slovanů, and Jinací by Taras Prochasko. Concerning space visualisation and its narrative potential related to the narrator's identity, the theoretical basis of the work is experimentaly set in a postcolonial framework. As such, the thesis intends to capture the resonance of the material in another culture (ie in the Czech, Slovak and Polish environment). Key words Central European literature, cultural context, periphery, postcolonialism, identity, landscape, Transcarpathian Ukraine
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Carpathia - An insight into the contemporary studies of the periphery
Křižková, Aneta ; Činátlová, Blanka (advisor) ; Hrdlička, Josef (referee)
The thesis deals with a selected literary works by contemporary authors of the Central European area, which are associated with the landscape of Transcarpathian Ukraine. The thesis primarily focuses on the issue of imagining space from the narrator's perspective and a conception of its own identity in a relation to a referenced space, topography, collective memory. The initial precondition for interpreting texts is the peripheral character of the region and its features, such as nostalgy, memories of a place that is no longer, a fascination for exotism etc. Using a literary-comparative approach, the following texts are disscussed: Maroš Krajňak's Carpathia, Ziemowit Szczerek's Přijde Mordor a sežere nás aneb Tajná historie Slovanů, and Jinací by Taras Prochasko. Concerning space visualisation and its narrative potential related to the narrator's identity, the theoretical basis of the work is experimentaly set in a postcolonial framework. As such, the thesis intends to capture the resonance of the material in another culture (ie in the Czech, Slovak and Polish environment). Key words Central European literature, cultural context, periphery, postcolonialism, identity, landscape, Transcarpathian Ukraine
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Rushes of the Disaster. Comparison
Vaněk, Jakub ; Hrdlička, Josef (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
The thesis presents research on relationships in the context of the unfinalized lyric project Potopa (The Flood) of František Halas. Main points of analysis are questions of fragment, catastrophe and of (lyric) speaker or witness in the sense of specific speech formed by the traumatic event. A reading of the poems belonging to The Flood (as well as the question of the borders of the text and questions of the whole and possible shape of the piece in general) is founded mainly in the context of Christianity, thematic and compositional connections and with regard to the historical event. I'm not so concerned with the national accents of the works of Halas at that time (his engagement in the Czech resistance was interrupted after the arrest of Vladislav Vančura and others by Gestapo - for Halas it's also the time of the most intensive work on Potopa). The aim is rather to see The Flood as a poem witnessing the horror and the catastrophe of the second world war in general. After the opening analysis of characteristic traits of The Flood follows comparisons with selected works of czech literature, primarily with Znamení moci (The Sign of Power) of Jan Zahradníček, Básně z koncentračního tábora (Poems from the concentration camp) of Josef Čapek and Čas (Apokalypsa mixte) (Time) of Jiří Kolář. In concrete...
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On Speech in the Poetry of Karel Šiktanc
Vinš, Ondřej ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Hrdlička, Josef (referee)
On Speech in the Poetry of Karel Šiktanc The diploma thesis focuses on the poetry of Karel Šiktanc from the 1970 s to the present. It aims to identify and describe those invariables that could characterize his poetic work. In order to accomplish that, two main theoretical sources are used. First, Martin Heidegger's essay Básnicky bydlí člověk, and second, a cognitive ethnolinguistics approach. The overall goal of the thesis is to demonstrate how language (or, more precisely speech) might be conceptualized (cf. the metaphor of speech as space) and what function does speech have in the magical thinking. Using Eugène Minkowski's term zvučení, a noticeable contrast between the sound of speech and silence in Šiktanc's imagery is commented on. Due to the vastness of data, the analysis concentrates on selected poems that are somehow emblematic of each collection.
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David Mitchell's World of Novels
Šplíchal, Martin ; Hrdlička, Josef (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with seven novels by the contemporary British novelist David Mitchell. Using textual analysis, it traces the ways in which the novels are connected, most visibly expressed through reappering characters and realities, and provides an overview of Mitchell's biblioverse. The work also notes the differences between the fictional and the real, which Mitchell's novels examine, and leads to a broader reflection on the meaning of storytelling or the meaning of a cultural encyclopedia.
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