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Fictional communication and representation of consciousness in narrative fiction
Koten, Jiří ; Kubíček, Tomáš (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee) ; Češka, Jakub (referee)
The thesis deals with the topic of narrative fiction. It primarily focuses on the nature of a fictional discourse and the general issue of fictionality. Problems are viewed from a pragmatic point of view, i.e. we are primarily concerned with the behaviour of participants in communication exchanges, exploring the activity of speakers (authors) and recipients (readers). Our starting point was the so-called "theory of pretence", which was promoted by founders of the speech-act theory in order to explain and clarify fictionality. According to these scholars, the language of fiction is "parasitic" (Austin); it's an utterance lying outside the circumstances that could make it a successful illocutionary act (Searle, Ohmann). The path to more appropriate reformulation of "illocutionary" theory of fictionality leads through the scope of possible worlds. This approach suggests that a fictional discourse should be considered as a narrative of facts about the world (Lewis). In this case, in addition to the authors who imitate narrative, we can also take into account their fictional counterparts, narrators, who narrate either truthfully or falsely. Furthermore, it is believed that the creation of fiction is not an imitation, but a full speech activity, "doing things by words", which requires world-formative power. It...
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Computer naratology: narrative templates in computer games
Praks, Vítězslav ; Hrbata, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Češka, Jakub (referee) ; Kubíček, Tomáš (referee)
Relations and actions between literature and computer games were examined. Study contains theoretical analysis of game as an aesthetic artefact. To play a game means to leave practical world for sake of a fictional world. Artistic communication has more similarities with game communication than with normal, practical communication. Game study can help us understand basic concepts of art communication (game rules - poetic rules, game world - fiction, function in game - meaning in art). Computer games are interpreted in the study using naratological and ludological approach. Computer is tracted as a narrative medium (to narrate means to demonstrate, to present any content, not only epic content). Computer games are interesting phoenomena for its specifical aspects: interactivity, self-narration and computer simulated narration. Main attention in this study is focused on phoenomena of computer generated literature (prose and poetry). The main purpose of this area is in study considered for literary analysis of "belles lettres". Author examines and demonstrates plausible computer generated fiction analysis of narrative texts. Two such analysis are proposed in a study, one of them (prose analysis - fabule generation) is detaily manifested on concrete literary text.
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Josef Váchal: The reflection of green thinking
Justová, Magdalena ; Rynda, Ivan (advisor) ; Češka, Jakub (referee)
This thesis discusses the work of Josef Váchal from a perspective of environmentalism and aims at identifying possible features of this ideology. These features emerge subsequently from environmentalism's initial definition. It focuses mainly on Váchal's work "Šumava umírající a romantická". First, the life, work and this artist's relation to nature is introduced, then the historical context and the circumstances of the work's origin. The main aim of this thesis is to analyse the piece "Šumava umírající a romantická" according to the above mentioned criteria based on the method of hermeneutic text analysis. Finally, the thesis assesses which features of environmentalism are present in the writing and discusses whether, based on the findings, Váchal can be identified as environmentalist.
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