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Early Short Stories of Yoshiya Nobuko
Havelka, Jan ; Tirala, Martin (advisor) ; Weber, Michael (referee)
This bachelor thesis is concerned with the early short stories by writer Yoshiya Nobuko from the collection titled Hana monogatari. First, I introduce author's life and work in general, together with historical context. In the next part, I list the methodological base which will be used to study selected short stories in the final part.
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Short Stories of Kōno Taeko
Baďurová, Jana ; Tirala, Martin (advisor) ; Weber, Michael (referee)
(in English): The topic of this work is the characteristics of the short stories by Kono Taeko. At first I am presenting the methodology - psychoanalysis. Then, I'm describing her life for better understanding of the use of some typical features. Especially the war and the tuberculosis had influence on her work. Subsequently I present possible interpretation of her stories in term of Shintoism (effort to purify) and Buddhism (achievement of liberation). In interpersonal relations Kono Taeko deals mainly with man- woman relationships and her attitude can be considered feminist. In the most comprehensive chapter concerning masochism I am trying to prove with Freud's theory "The child is being beaten" that her work is masochistic. In the end I am generalizing my findings. This work contains Czech translations of examples of her work and contains 68 pages.
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The Problems of Contemporary Society in Movies of Kurosawa Kiyoshi
Stejskalová, Tereza ; Tirala, Martin (advisor) ; Weber, Michael (referee)
This Bc. thesis focuses on contemporary cinema work of Kurosawa Kiyoshi (born 1955), in which we may discern themes concerning social issues, especially identity loss, alienation, inability of communication etc. It dwells in the interpretation of five films (Kyua, Ōinaru Gen'ei, Karisuma, Kairo, Tōkyō Sonata), which were made within 1997 and 2008, and attempts at clarification of these problems on the basis of the artworks. Apart from this, the work describes Kurosawa's work in relation to specific genres and evaluates his film career.
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Hoshi Shin'ichi and the genre shoto shoto
Holeyšovská, Linda ; Tirala, Martin (advisor) ; Weber, Michael (referee)
This thesis "Hoshi Shin'ichi and the Genre Shto Shto" is addressed to the work of the author, who is in particular renowned for his so-called short short story production. This very genre, which I've intended to focus on with the thesis, has eventually become Hoshi's domain and he thus contributed to the treasure of both Japanese and world's literature by more than one thousand original stories, that have gained the micro-story form considerable popularity of readership as well as acknowledgement and appreciation of experts with broad range of themes, distinctive humour and contemplation on society's nature and future. In addition to abstracting the history and development, basic characteristic features and variety of both themes and genres of the microfiction form also other areas of author's beneficial activity and his personal life and background - that as if predestined him for a writer's path - can't be omitted.
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Developing characters in Óe Kenzaburó's early fiction
Weber, Michael ; Švarcová, Zdeňka (advisor) ; Tirala, Martin (referee)
V historii teorie literatury se objevily zásadní otázky týkající se výzkumu literatury. Problém zkoumání literatury lze nahlížet z několika úhlů podle toho, jak se po opodstatnění jejího výzkumu ptáme. Úhel pohledu zkoumání nám vymezují, stejně jako v jakékoli jiné oblasti lidského zájmu, tázací slova Proč? Co? a Jak?. Ptejme se tedy: proč literaturu zkoumat? A je možné ji zkoumat? Je-li to možné, je nutné ji zkoumat, když bychom ji mohli pouze číst a těšit se jí, jak argumentovaly skeptické směry v historii literární teorie? V Teorii literatury se dočteme, že "nelze postulovat žádný obecný zákon, který by naplňoval smysl zkoumání literatury: čím bude obecnější, tím se bude jevit abstraktnějším, a tudíž prázdnějším, a tím více nám bude unikat konkrétní předmět uměleckého díla." 1 Můžeme k problému čtení přistupovat jako k individuálnímu a tedy individuálně řešenému. Zabýváme-li se však zkoumáním literatury v širším významu, veřejně, či dokonce profesně, pak je nutné mít pro takové počínání důvod a spatřovat za výsledkem takové činnosti smysl. Určitý "zákon", čili definici formulovat, stanovit hranici vymezující naši činnost. Např. stačí, budeme-li se domnívat, že zkoumání samo o sobě pouze jako vyšší forma "čtení" má za výsledek kvalitativně vyšší formu interpretace. Interpretace "literárních světů" je...
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Autobiographical elements in the Forbidden Colors by Mishima Yukio
Boulaouad, Sabrina ; Weber, Michael (advisor) ; Tirala, Martin (referee)
The bachelor's thesis deals with the life of author Yukio Mishima and autobiographical elements in his novel Forbidden colors. The main aim of this thesis is to compare the author's life with lives of the two main characters in the novel. I used comparative method to execute it. I put the story of the novel into historical context, that considerably influences the main character's decisions. I explore the opinions, attitude, and life of the author and put it into context with the life of the two main characters Yuichi and Shunsuke. The bachelor's thesis contains five chapters. The first chapter is about historical background of homosexuality in Japan during the Pacific war and postwar period, when the novel was written. Following two chapters compares the life and opinions of the author with the lives and opinions of the two main characters of Forbidden colors. Fourth chapter is dedicated to author's little sister. The last chapter compares Rudon's café with Brünswick café and explains what hattenba was. KEYWORDS: Mishima Yukio, Forbidden colors, pederasuto, uruningu, dondengaeshi, nanshoku, danshoku ka, gei, misogynism, narcism, Brunswick, cruising spot, gay boy, gay bar, Hiraoka Shizue , Hiraoka Natsu, Roman ha
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Age as a factor in politeness strategy and politeness expressions selection in Japanese
Báňová, Kateřina ; Kanasugi, Petra (advisor) ; Weber, Michael (referee)
This thesis addresses the speaker's age as a factor influencing their politeness strategies. The theoretical part defines politeness and language that express it in Japanese within the bounds of a specific illocutionary act - instruction to stop an inappropriate activity (forbiddance), in other words the so called negative face-threatening act. The practical part introduces the results of a qualitative study based on the method of a controlled structured interview with female representatives of three generations of a Tokyo family. I analyze language behavior of each generation's representative throughout their speech act in dependence on the formality of the situation and the concrete social constellation, with the aim of defining the influence of the speaker's age on her usage of strategies and concrete language means. The conclusion summarizes the outcomes of the research and confronts it with the general theory. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Narrative Structures in Hagiwara's collection Tsuki ni hoeru
Čihula, Filip ; Tirala, Martin (advisor) ; Weber, Michael (referee)
Bachelor thesis focuses on the poetry of the Japanese poet Hagiwara Sakutarō, the founding figure of modern Japanese poetry, specifically on his first poetry collection called Tsuki ni hoeru (Howling at the Moon, 1917). The goal of the thesis is to reconstruct narrative structures in the collection and to demonstrate applicability of the employed method for productive narrative analysis of this collection. The first part briefly presents the life and works of the author, an aesthetic-philosophical basis of his works and outlines its significant role in the history of Japanese literature. The second part of the thesis presents the basic terms and concepts of the model of transgeneric narrative analysis worked out by Peter Hühn and at the same time shows its limitations. The third part is trying to apply this model in the narrative analysis of selected representative poems of the examined work. The result of the thesis are the reconstructions of the narrative structures of these poems and obtained basic features of narativity in the analysis. Keywords japanese literature, Hagiwara Sakutarō, narratology, Peter Hühn, narratological analysis of lyric petry
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Place Names in The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Vozábal, Matěj ; Tirala, Martin (advisor) ; Weber, Michael (referee)
The main goal of this thesis is to analyse the role of utamakura, place names used as a poetic expression, in Oku no hosomichi, masterpiece of the haikai genre written by Matsuo Bashō. The first chapter provides a brief summary of the author's life and work, with a focus on his other travel diaries preceding the work in question. The second chapter deals with the journey that inspired this work and also with the differences between the journey as it happened in reality and as it was portrayed. It also looks into the definition of the term utamakura and into possible interpretations of utamakura as a literary space endowed with shared cultural memory. The last chapter consists of an analysis of the various forms, in which utamakura appear in the work itself, as well of the role they play as a poetic expression.
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The Motifs of Summer and Winter in Kokinwakashū
Tkáčová, Marína ; Tirala, Martin (advisor) ; Weber, Michael (referee)
Thesis abstract The aim of this bachelor thesis is an analysis of the motifs of summer and winter in the eponymous sections of the first imperial anthology of waka poetry named Kokinwakashū, i.e. The Collection of Old and New Songs published in 905 AD, and verify thus the hypothesis that, within these sections, as is the case with the sections devoted to Spring and Autumn, a system of poem arrangement based on the principles of temporal progression and integration in terms of association of nature imagery is employed. Throughout the analysis, our main focus is on the poems as a part of a sequence, and only secondarily as individual works of art. The thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter tracks the Chinese and Japanese tradition that predated the Kokinshū and influenced its system of poem arrangement. In the second chapter we present the Kokinshū anthology and its position within Japanese poetic tradition. The third chapter provides a closer look into structure of the Kokinshū, including the analysis of the Summer section and Winter section in two sub-chapters. The analysis consists of the original poems and work translations of the individual poems as they are arranged in the anthology, and of the comments on each poem from a perspective of its interrelations within the whole. In...
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