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Šrámek (Krška): "Stříbrný vítr" on a Silver Screen
Semler, David ; Mravcová, Marie (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
in English In my bachelor thesis I compare the novel Stříbrný vítr1 by Czech author Fráňa Šrámek with the movie adaptation made by Czech filmmaker Václav Krška. The most important aspects of Šrámek's novel are: disrupted composition, poetic language and the subject perspective of the main character Jan Ratkin. The composition is formed by the crucial points of the life of Ratkin during his growing up. Šrámek's poetic language is full of metaphors, metonymies and personifications. The most important stylistic feature of the text is its subjectivisation which is used to express the shifts of the mood of the main character. The main topic of the novel is the youth and how it is changed on its way to adulthood. The name of the novel "Stříbrný vítr" is a metaphor for the longing of the main character, who longs to revolt, to love and to know the world. The filmmaker Václav Krška altered both the story and the whole message of Šrámek's piece of art. Krška changed the time frame from thirteen years to one year, therefore the main story is no longer about Ratkin's growing up, but it depicts one year of his almost adult life. Another change was to focus on the love motive while neglecting other motives e.g. Ratkin's revolts and his effort to evolve both sexually and spiritually. The main story is therefore...
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Tonic Verse and the Czech Language
Zindulková, Klára ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
Chief subject of this work is a detailed description of the metrical structure of accentual verse and its place in the system of versifications. Definitions of this metrical system in the Czech theory of verse are compared to the international concepts of accentual verse. Then the category of isochrony is described. Isochrony is a property of language, on which the priciple of accentual verse is based on. In the next part of the work I present an overview of the types of accentual verse in Polish, English, Russian and German. Special attention is paid to the category of strict stress-verse, its relation to the accentual verse and also to some of Czech literary works. Further in the work I focus on metrical analysis of the texts written by five czech poets, which are more or less based on the accentual principle. The most attention is paid to the drama Faëthon by O. Theer. I elaborate on author's comments and critical reviews of his contemporaries, comparing them with the modern metrical descriptions. The last part is devoted to the problem of translating accentual verses into Czech, connecting this versification with "sylabotonic" translations of quantitative verse and also oral character of accentual versification in general.
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Journalism of Josef Čapek
Hošnová, Kateřina ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee)
Dissertation work is based on journalistic texts by Josef Čapek from years 1910 to 1920 in confrontation with his correspondence and literary work. In the first place, his articles from given period are concerned with fine art. His life story is also reminded, the way how he accepted new perceptions both of contemporary fine art and literature. The principal moment in his life was his journey to Paris where he acquainted himself with new styles of art. Cubism, expressionism, civilism and neoclassicism had the greatest impact on him. After his arrival in Bohemia he contributed to different art magazines and he was a member of several art groupings. In his art-critical essays he reported on exhibitions and activities of different art societies and analysed the work of particularly modern artists. His essays show that Josef Čapek refused traditionalism, kitsch and manner tendencies not only in art but also in practical life. His style might be defined both uncompromising and essayistic.
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Anti-Semitic Reviews Vlajka and Národní republika
Borůvková, Marianna ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
Summary: The bachelor thesis deals with the anti-Semitic journals Vlajka and Národní republika between the years 1933 and 1938. It focuses on the negative stereotypes of Jews and forms of their depiction and evaluation (expressive style, allusiveness, generalization, escalation of contrasts, comparison with animals etc.). The bachelor thesis follows and describes the development of anti-Semitic stereotypes in the above mentioned period in relation with Nazi movement in Germany. Key words: anti-Semitism, Image of a Jew, Thirties of 20th Century
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Stanislav Zedníček: The Miserable Seeker
Čeplová, Miroslava ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
This work, focusing on the person of Stanislav Zedníček, delineates poet's position in literal context of his and so of our time through study of extant documents, correspondence and other archives. The aim of this work is also to found specifics of Zedníček's poetry and to relate his work with group of authors like Jakub Deml, Vladimír Holan, František Halas, Jan Čep, Jan Zahradníček and Jaroslav Durych.
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Peter Borkovec: The poet of a form
Horynová, Michaela ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
The following paper describes the literary work of the poet Petr Borkovec during the nineties. The first part contains a summary of sources for the poetics of Borkovec, dealing primarily with the culturology of russian acmetism. It consistently keeps to the terms of the "classical" current in context of modern russian poetry, since this context serves as a good basis for reading Borovec's poetry. The second part contains interpretations of the author's poetic collectons in chronological order, as they were published during the nineties. It attempts to seek out the issues the first part deals with in the actual literary works and thus sets out to show the development of the poetics of Borkovec. KEYWORDS: poetry, acmetism, expressionism, point of view, space, avant garde
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Characters of Space in the Trilogy Trýznivé město by Daniela Hodrová
Macháčková, Klára ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
This bachelor thesis aims to interpret the trilogy Trýznivé město (subsuming parts called Podobojí, Kukly and Théta) by the Czech novelist and literary scholar Daniela Hodrová. A complex structure of the novel is in the analysis "opened" through the categories of space and characters; an axis of the thesis is the idea that in the poetics of D. Hodrová, some places can acquire certain features of living creatures (such as memory, free will, temper etc.) and vice versa, that some characters can coalesce with the space they inhabit. In spite of a firm mutual connection between the two categories, they will be discussed separately, in the following order: after having defined the background (using mainly theoretical works of D. Hodrová as secondary sources), firstly, we will focus on the localization of particular topoi (i.e. "literary loaded" places, e.g. the mountain, the pass, the abyss etc.) and on the description of their connotations in terms of the general sense of the trilogy; the attention will be also given to the non-topographical places (i.e. objects or parts of the body). Then, we will consider the issue of characters, primarily their ambivalent status between personalities, though fictional, and mere literary constructs performing certain functions, and also their transformations...
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Poet František Daniel Merth
Merthová, Kristýna ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Färber, Vratislav (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the poetry of the Catholic priest František Daniel Merth. It briefly describes the poet's life and deals with his collections either published officially or self-published in the form of bibliophilic editions. Attention is paid to their origination, verse and rhyme structure, strophic form, themes, motifs and - in some cases - to certain lexical peculiarities. Merth's correspondence with Jaroslav Med, Věroslav Mertl and Zdeněk Kalista is used in the thesis as well as other archive materials.
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Josef Čapek's Early Literary Work in the Context of Modern Art
Kováčová, Eva ; Vojtěch, Daniel (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
Josef Čapek belonged among those Czech artists who dealt with problems of form and function of a modern art work in the beginning of 20th century. Both theoretical reflections on art and his early fiction represent Čapek's specific approach to the debate about modern and avant-garde currents in the times of stylistically inconsistent situation. This thesis analyses the confrontation of aesthetic principles of these art movements. Its focus is to show to what extent was Josef Čapek influenced by the principles of the individual movements and to describe the way in which he acquired and modified them. The goal is to outline Čapek's path from a survey of modern forms to his own independent viewpoint. Key words Josef Čapek, Modern Art, Manifest Česká moderna, Neoclassicism, Cubism, Expressionism
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The Life and the Early Works of Josef Mach
Havlátová, Bára ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee)
The Abstract The Bachelor work is based on the interpretation of life, early work and import of writer Josef Mach. According to these criteriors the work is devided to three thematical spheres. The first part represents the Mach's biography, which gets out of original information from his work, from his correspondence and from the documents of instituitons, which his life was connected with. The second part of the work analyses Mach's early two poem digests from the formal point of view and mainly from the semantical point of view. The last part of the work takes aim at representative secondary literature about Josef Mach and at development of publication and adapting of his work. The aim of this work is first effort of completing of information about this czech poet, who influenced home literature and literature abroad, and second to give the elementary thematical view of his early work.
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