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Pirandellian inspirations in selected comedies by Eduardo De Filippo
Arnsteinová, Sára ; Flemrová, Alice (advisor) ; Pelán, Jiří (referee)
This bachelor thesis attempt, based on analysis of selected works by Eduardo De Filippo, to assess the impact of pirandellian poetic on the creation of this artist. In the introductory chapters there are outlined issues and development of De Filippo's and Pirandello's playwright production. Other chapters are devoted to their meeting and subsequent collaboration, which consisted in De Filippo's translation of Pirandello's comedies in Neapolitan dialect (Liolà, Il beretto a sonagli) and in the De Filippo's dramatization of short story L'Abito Nuovo. In subsequent chapters there are present fundamental analysis of four comedies Uomo e galantuomo; Io, lerede; La grande magia and L'arte della commedia. From this gradually changing character of these works, we can observe how the character of pirandellian inspirations transformed in the work of De Filippo. After there is also characterized the role of dialect in De Filippo's comedies. In the penultimate chapter, on the basis of analysis, I am trying to define a different concept of humor in the playwright production of these two artists. I summarized the results of the analysis and important points that I found out during the work in the conclusion, while I am trying to define the strength of pirandellian inspirations in the playwright production of...
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The postmodern novel: Foucault's pendulum by Umberto Eco
Novotná, Alžběta ; Flemrová, Alice (advisor) ; Pelán, Jiří (referee)
Introducing part of the work is focused on short summary of Umberto Eco's bibliography and postmodern elements in author's novel writings. The focal point of the work is analysis of Eco's novel Foucault's pendulum, first the subject aspect (story, characters, cultural and historical references), then the formal aspect (narrative structure, interpretation, levels of reading and intertextuality). In conclusion, the novel is introduced in context of author's novel writings.
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Hyperbole, Imagination and Tradition in Luigi Pulci's Morgante
Žáčková, Magdalena ; Pelán, Jiří (advisor) ; Flemrová, Alice (referee)
- Hyperbole, Imagination and Tradition in Luigi Pulci's Morgante The epic Morgante, compiled at the end of the 15th century by the poet Luigi Pulci, stands at the turn of two historical eras. It is a meeting point of the Middle Ages and Renaissance with their literary influences and ideas. Also, it reflects the change in the development stages of the genre: from the period when the heroic narrative was declaimed by minstrels (joglars) on squares, this subject matter was gradually introduced into royal courts, where it was influenced by a more elevated culture. The main elements of this epic include the adoption of several literary traditions, the comic in many of its forms, and religion, all of which is underlined with the special imagination of the author together with allusions to his own life situation. Luigi Pulci adopted not only the tradition of the heroic matter full of typical medieval patterns (topoi) very popular in Italy at that time, but also the comic-realistic literary tradition of Tuscany, which provides his narrative with a different tone in many ways, and thus incorporates Morgante in a literary field different from the one which its predecessors were part of. Orlando is the most significant of these; it is a text that was used by Pulci as a direct inspiration for his work and most...
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Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah. Reality and fiction
Bursíková, Martina ; Flemrová, Alice (advisor) ; Pelán, Jiří (referee)
This thesis focuses on the selected topics of Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah and it attempts to examine the way the author works with facts and how he presents them. In the introductory chapter I gave an outline of Saviano's work and of the general characteristics of his literary style, his processing of facts and work with them and the main topics of his writings. In the beginning of my thesis, I addressed the topic of a literary style called the New Journalism. I presented its main ideas, representatives, literary goals and the core points of its manifesto. When assessing Saviano's work in the context of New Journalism, I believe it is crutial to consider its objectivity, genuine capture of reality and its comprehensive approach to narration of facts with a literary language of aesthetic dimension. Saviano's only deflection from this style would be in his role of the narrator. New Journalism seeked to push the role of the narrator to the background or to have it absent altogether whereas Saviano often appears in his own plays as a direct participant or an indirect commentator. The view of the author, the participant or the characters did frequently appear in the works of New Journalism. The most common form, however, was to expound and describe the character through its' own mind - which makes the role of the...
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Image of mafia in Leonardo Sciascia's works
Bubela, Petr ; Flemrová, Alice (advisor) ; Pelán, Jiří (referee)
The aim of my thesis is an analysis of the literary image of mafia in Leonardo Sciascia's works from the 60th and 70th of the 20th century. The literary techniques are documented using the examples of the concrete parts of the text in which the mafia operates. At the same time I give an account of the way Sciascia applies the genre rules of the detective story. The subjects of study represent four novels (The Day of the Owl, To Each His Own, Context and One Way or Another) together with one drama L'onorevole. The above mentioned works have been interpreted and analyzed in terms of the structure, genre and language used while the findings of other scholars focused on Sciascia's work have been taken into account of as well. Mafia constitutes one of the key motifs in the work of Leonardo Sciascia. His reoccurring interest stemmed from the fact that he was well acquainted with the phenomenon, partly due to his personal experience and partly due to his intensive study of the matter. Nevertheless he refused to attribute the existence of the mafia solely to Sicily. In his perception, mafia was only one manifestation of Power on which he critically reflected all his life. Sciascia perceived mafia as a result of the social conditions and as an integral part of the power system of Sicily, or consequently the...
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Luigi Pirandello and Sicily
Sevald, Václav ; Flemrová, Alice (advisor) ; Pelán, Jiří (referee)
The introduction familiarizes us with basic characteristics of Sicily and its inhabitants, as well as biographical facts regarding Luigi Pirandello's period of life during which he lived there. Subsequently, based on analysis of author's selected writings, we try to find out to what extent has Pirandello's work been influenced by the Sicilian environment, history, inhabitants and veristic themes. For the analysis we will make use of three stories (Certificate, Amphora, Pensaci, Giacomino!), two plays (Il berretto a sonagli, Liolà) and the novel I vecchi e i giovani. In the end we summarize the results of the analysis to determine the degree of influence on Luigi Pirandello's work. Keywords Luigi Pirandello, Sicily, modern italian prose, italian theatre.
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Antonio Fogazzaro's Little World of the Past
Jarošková, Karolína ; Flemrová, Alice (advisor) ; Pelán, Jiří (referee)
Antonio Fogazzaro's best-known novel The Little World of the Past, which was published in 1895 and deals with the love story which takes place in the vicinity of lake Lugano in northern Italy on the background of Italian unification called Risorgimento and evolves themes of belief and of conflict of different views of life. The novel is put into the European cultural and intellectual context, in which The Decadent movement was the main stream of this period. It is concentrated on the Italian history and literary movements as well. Furthermore there is the introduction of the author - Antonio Fogazzaro, which is focused mainly on his life and works. The main part of this thesis is dedicated to the novel itself and to its analysis like plot, the characters of the protagonists and the main themes, such as the occultism, the Catholicism, the conflict between belief and reason, and the conflict between progress and tradition. In conclusion there is the summary of the observations of the analysis and estimation of the contribution of the novel to Italian society.
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Céline in Bohemia
Kareninová, Anna ; Pohorský, Aleš (advisor) ; Pelán, Jiří (referee) ; Jamek, Václav (referee)
Céline in Bohemia The thesis presents a chronological documentary testimony about the process of acceptance and rejection of one of the most controversial figures of modern literature - not only in Bohemia. The corpus consisting of correspondence discovered, contemporary responses, photos and other documents, built on the base of Céline's life and work, follows the reception of all his writings since the debut to the present. The Czech critical reception (F. X. Šalda, F. Peroutka, J. Vašica, R. Weiner, K. Čapek, B. Hrabal, M. Kundera, underground, etc.) is being set in the international context. The thesis observes the historical and biographical circumstances in which originated Céline's work and that marked Céline's personal story. References to the circumstances, effects and responses in the background are not a complete and systematic thinning: important or interesting célinien sequences are mainly meant to expand and give the possibility of comparison. These Céline's portrait finally shows the shape of the Czech literary atmosphere during the eighty years since the Journey to the End of the Night (1932) until 2010. The first translation of the Céline's first published book Voyage au bout de la nuit was the Czech one (1933), response was huge. But while today Céline is discussed in relation to its...
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