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Fictional languages in literature
Jelínek, Jiří ; Hrdlička, Josef (advisor) ; Pokorný, Martin (referee)
The purpose of this thesis is to introduce the so far ignored topic of fictional languages in literature. In the first part it focuses mainly on the function of the fictional languages in the literary works, and analyses the basic options of the fictional languages classification, based on whether they can be labeled as an independent work of art, as an autonomous part of a work, or as an instrument of the aesthetic function in the work. Furthermore, it divides the fictional languages in accordance to the way in which they take effect, either through the expression-form, through the expression- substance, through the content-form, or through the content-substance, taking the terminology from the Louis Hjelmslev's sign model. The second part consists of the analysis of the cases of fictional language usage in prose; these usages are grouped into three divisions. Languages, which help to create an invented world (and eventually add up to its authenticity), are represented by J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional languages. The dystopian languages include Newspeak from the novel Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell, ptydepe and chorukor from the play The Memorandum by V. Havel, and "Moon Czech" from the prose The True Excursion of Mr. Brouček to the Moon by S. Čech. Fictional languages related to philosophy are...
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Analysis of a cosmic egg motif in creation myths
Tvrdá, Pavlína ; Král, Oldřich (advisor) ; Hrdlička, Josef (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to compare similar cosmogonic narratives in Indian and Chinese culture. The most important elements are the motives of the egg and the giant/god who is formed from it. Comparative method consist of the comparison of the meanings and interpretations of the motives of these two elements, depending on the expectations and character of the source of this mythological narrative. Final findings are, that the importance of both motives in the texts and their participation in the process of creation of the world change chronologically, due to changes in religious, philosophical and social preferences. In Indian cultural environment in the begining, the vague motive of the egg slowly emerges and becomes a single creative element, gaining importance and continues to the stage where it reaches the same level of importance as the cosmic being. The primordial being on the other hand, loses its function of cosmic matter and passes it to the egg. The being itself then plays an active role rather than an object. China, for its religious scepticism suppressed motive of the egg until it was completely removed from texts. The primary role is played by the cosmic giant whose role is not focused on the creation of the world itself but the desintegration of the giants body, representing fission...
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Echoes of Ovid's Metamorphoses
Stašová, Ema ; Pokorný, Martin (advisor) ; Hrdlička, Josef (referee)
The aim of this study is to compare selected episodes of Ovid's Metamorphoses with three works of modern literature containing the theme of metamorphosis, and to follow their intertextual relations, dependency and innovation of Ovidian themes. On the basis of a comparison of the ancient and the modern text it is examined which motives remain constant during centuries and which, on the contrary, are evolving and shifting their meanings. Through the perspective of the Metamorphoses an attempt is made to interpret the works from a less usual angle. The most significant Ovidian characters that are examined in this study are Teiresias, Daphne, Hyacinth, Orpheus, Ceres, Icarus, Callisto and Io.
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Reflection of Musical Works in European Literary Modernism
Kovaříková, Olga ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Hrdlička, Josef (referee)
This paper focuses on intermedial relations between music and literature of European Modernism and early Avant-garde, and monitors the impact of music on literary texts, literature as a whole, and the essentially literary medium - the book. "Musical work", in this case, refers to Richard Wagner's music dramas and theoretical texts that outlined Wagner's artistic-aesthetic concept of Gesamtkunstwerk as a total work of art uniting all the arts. This paper follows the meta-aesthetic line of intimate, synaestheticly oriented intracompositional literary Gesamtkunstwerk in selected literary texts by Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Marcel Proust, and in The Blaue Reiter Almanac. It reveals the essence of analogies between music and literature, various manifestations of musicalization, and their significance for literary works and literature as a whole. It additionally emphasizes that the selected texts have also been influenced by already "literarized" music, as well as by esoteric teachings on speculative music, and highlights the gradual disintegration of boundaries between the arts, which led to their abstraction.
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Issues in Literary Hermeneutics
Válková, Natalia ; Pokorný, Martin (advisor) ; Hrdlička, Josef (referee)
The goal of this thesis is to explore the possibility of systematization of the literary hermeneutics as a method of interpretation. Three selective studies focused on the hermeneutic the- ory (namely problem of the language, understanding and textuality) should provide a theoretical and philosophical framework for the interpretative part of this thesis, which is focused on interpretation of a literary text, namely Joseph Brodsky's poem Isaac and Abraham. The thesis also explores con- cept of the literary hermeneutics, which stands between phenomenological-ontological hermeneu- tics and methodological-normanative orientated theory of interpretation. Despite the explicit tension between these two attitudes, there is also a space within the literary hermeneutics for their inspira- tional dialog.
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Nowhere and Somewhere: Utopia, Dystopia and Their Relative Location
Pomahač, Ondřej ; Pokorný, Martin (advisor) ; Hrdlička, Josef (referee)
The work criticizes the dichotomy utopia - dystopia, especially the way the two are being defined as genres in some theoretical reflections representing that represent the main approaches to the theoretical concept of utopia and dystopia. The work also analyses sample literary texts traditionally labelled as utopias or dystopias. In the first part we review some definitions and present their shortcomings. Consequently, we reject the attempts to make general definitions as they fail to become reasonable basis for literary research. The texts being accounted for are the classical utopias and dystopias: Thomas More's Utopia, Tommaso Campanella's The City of the Sun, Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's 1984. The second part offers a comparative approach to the text analysis based on textual relationships and the assemblage of text (the rules for building the text structure). Apparently, such analysis spares the need to make general definitions of the terms and to look for the nature of utopia and dystopia.
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Fragments of a Love Story (in Photographs)
Chybová, Barbora ; Činátlová, Blanka (advisor) ; Hrdlička, Josef (referee)
1 Abstract The diploma thesis Fragments of a Love Story (in Photographs) focuses on visuality of a lover's speech; it follows various possible connections between the media of photography and text. In comparison with the disintegrating lover's discourse, as developed by Roland Barthes in A Lover's Discourse: Fragments, and in a dialogue with it, the thesis highlights love story as a traditional way of expressing a love theme. The elaboration of the topic is based on the interpretation of works written by Vasily Rozanov (Opavshie list'ya), Jakub Deml (Listy Jakuba Demla Otokaru Březinovi), Ludvík Vaculík (Český snář), Bohumil Hrabal (Vita nuova) and others. An appendix that includes the discussed photographs accompanies the thesis.
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Horrors an Terrors in the Czech Literature of 1920s and 1930s
Frnochová, Anna ; Činátlová, Blanka (advisor) ; Hrdlička, Josef (referee)
This bachelor's thesis analyses a handling with a trivial literature in 1920s and 1930s. It includes a theoretical point of view as well as the explanation of basic terms associated with the trivial literature. A predominate analytical-interpretive part focuses on a variety of genres of the trivia literature at Czech writers Josef Váchal and Ladislav Klíma. The interpretive part comprises an exploitation and transformation of the trivia genres of bloody and gothic novels in the books "Krvavý román" and "Utrpení knížete Sternenhocha". Both of the authors come out in their work pieces of one of the paraliterature's genre, which is changed personally. It can be stated, that according to a completed analysis, there are two main features used for experimenting with these genres, such as irony and high level of stylization. Key words trivial literature, bloody novel, gothic novel, metatext, stylization, irony
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Wives of the last lords of Hradec
Míchalová, Kristýna ; Čechura, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Hrdlička, Josef (referee)
The thesis focuses on the life of gentlewomen at the turn of the 16th and 17th century. An example of the wives of last Lords of Hradec shows how they were enabled to realize in the "men' s world" of the early modern age and familiarizes the life of the last Lords of Hradec at the same time. The first chapter called "World of gentlewomen in the Renaissance and baroque times" is a brief introduction into the daily women' s life of the early modern age. It emphasizes the main fatal moments of the life of every woman. Marriage and birth of a descendant were very important landmarks as the family was a place where the woman should be of use. The husband' s death was crucial for both low- or high-born women. The position of every women relied on the position of her husband, therefore the social situation of each widow was treated by this. Following chapter describes briefly the history of the Family of Lords of Hradec, who, since the middle Ages, had been ranked among the most significant noblemen in the Czech Kingdom and whose power and position was based on a faithful service to the ruler. The third chapter is dedicated to Anna Hradecká of Rožmberk (1530-1580). Anna came from an important old Czech Lord' s Kin and her step-brothers were Vilém of Rožmberk and Petr Vok of Rožmberk. Marriage to Jáchym of Hradec...
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