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Stereotypes in the Works of Jára Cimrman
Bulejová, Hana ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Činátlová, Blanka (referee)
This thesis deals with the dramatic work of Jara Cimrman, which is based on the cooperation of two authors named Zdenek Sverak and Ladislav Smoljak. In the introductory chapters we analyze the genesis of mystifying legend named Jara Cimrman, then his way from the radio show to the theatre and also his own cult, which all leads to the general poetics of the Theatre of Jara Cimrman. We can find some related attributes in this theatre, like specific acting, phenomenon of their workshops and imaginative humour. All of these attributes leads to the definition of repetitive stereotypes in the plays of this theatre. In this thesis we also try to define the genre of the plays, also their subject matter, topics and their motives. The aim of this thesis is to describe these motives and also its gradual progress as in the particular dramas, so in the social atmosphere of those days.
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30 cases of major Zeman (film version and short stories based on the film) and its aspects of mythization
Hřibová, Tereza ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Činátlová, Blanka (referee)
This thesis aims to analyze a number of mythmaking procedures in the narratives of major Zeman. Its main sources are both the TV series "30 Cases of Major Zeman" and the later adaptations o some of these cases into literary form. The thesis draws inspiration primarily from the theoretical concept of modern mythologies by Roland Bathes, the available analysis of the ideological discourse of normalization and the basic terminology of cultural studies. Its goal is to recognize various mechanisms of signification that embed symbolic meanings that establish the secondary mythical level of individual subjects. The interpretative part of the text focuses on an analysis of the modes of representation of "enemies" and the problematization of allusion and intertextuality as mythmaking instruments.
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Večerníček (TV fairy tale): narrative patterns and the semantic analysis of the genre
Kazdová, Miroslava ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Činátlová, Blanka (referee)
The diploma thesis is focused on Večerníček [TV Fairy Tale] as a specific audio-visual text primarily intended for children's audience. It offers a semantic analysis of the genre on the basis of general theory of popular culture, specifically television culture. It is based on the assumption that this popular serial genre has been firmly entrenched in Czech socio-cultural environment and therefore it might have a potential impact on the perception of similar narratives. The main intention of this study is to describe and interpret some of the narrative patterns as well as the main textual principles shaping the construction of the fictional worlds of the genre.
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Danube: journey, memory, city and death
Satinská, Lucia ; Činátlová, Blanka (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee)
MA thesis Danube: Journey, Memory, City and Death is, to a certain extent, a personal search for today's meaning of the river Danube in literature and culture. Practically, it contains texts from the antiquity until today, not chronologically, but in motivic spirals of journey, memory, city and death. It is geographically linked especially to German-Austrian, Slovak and Hungarian space. The chapters are buoy-like, because together they form the characteristics of Danubian culture, which are border, appropriation, palimpsest quality, and pleasure seeking. The chapter about journey deals predominantly with searching for Danube's identity and the character of traveler. The chapter about memory analyses chosen places of memory and certain historical figures. The third chapter, dedicated to Danubian metropoli (Vienna, Bratislava and Budapest), searches for common traits of their soul, which are realized through the concepts of border, pleasure and bridge. The last chapter about death in Danube deals with both images of death and river beings - fairies and nymphs. The whole text represents certain literary-cultural anthropology of Danube.
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The conception of hero in fantasy literature
Zbiejczuková, Irena ; Vaněk, Václav (advisor) ; Činátlová, Blanka (referee)
ZBIEJCZUKOVÁ, I. The conception of hero in fantasy literature. Diploma thesis. Prague: ÚČLLV FF UK, 2010-2011. This diploma thesis deals with typology of heroes and heroins in fantasy literature, with special regard to heroic quest from the point of view of literally composition. One part of the thesis applies to the defition and history of fantasy genre in both anglo-saxon and czech environment. The thesis therefore uses and cites both czech and foreign fantasy literally works. The aim of the thesis is to point to archetypical neomythic structure of fantasy texts and to their tendency to recreate heroism using particular examples of fantasy literature.
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Mythological and Mythogenic Aspects of Star Wars and the Specificities of its Stories in Regard to Serialized Storytelling
Pavlíček, Milan ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Činátlová, Blanka (referee)
Mythological and Mythogenic Aspects of Star Wars and the Specificities of its Stories in Regard to Serialized Storytelling covers the six stories of the Star Wars series in relation to Emil Volek's story model whose terminology and story typology is used to describe how the stories influence one another, which is to say, how the stories influence the reception of the other stories in the series and how the reception has changed over time. The diploma thesis also examines how myth is being applied to Star Wars and reflects whether such connection is justified. Both Star Wars and myth are given a definition and the relationship between the series and Joseph Campbell's monomyth, a concept frequently connected to Star Wars, is explored. The final part of the text describes narrative elements and processes participating in the creation of the original trilogy. An appendix covers various issues in regard to the translation of the series into Czech and briefly evaluates existing translations.
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Hoc est corpus. Literary anatomy: an introduction
Činátlová, Blanka ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Kubíček, Tomáš (referee) ; Czumalo, Vladimír (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to look for various literary aspects of body and corporality; an attempt to see body and corporality not only at the mimetic, but also symbolic level. The introductory theoretical definition of body and corporality is inspired by the philosophical, theological and anthropological approach. The phenomenological view treats body and corporality as the basic aspect of human experience - on the basis of the "existing" body experience one gets situated and settled in the world. Body brings the primary orientation in time and space, it relates man to the world's objectiveness. The theological context of body added the "living" body experience to the "existing " body experience. The assumption of the living, created body arises thoughts on spiritual body, on body as a condition for transcendental experience. The concept of embodiment calls for reflection on the bodily form of the sacred and forms a canon of body not only created, but also animated, sacrificed and resurrected. Together with the inspiration in cultural anthropology , the theological aspects of body and corporality also challenge the themes of shame and disease - the faulty, non-functional body as a crooked perspective of consciousness. Analyses of cultural anthropology make one look for cultural canons of body and...
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Urban notions and a literary text - City space and its representations in contemporary Czech literature
Derdowska, Joanna ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Petrusek, Miloslav (referee) ; Činátlová, Blanka (referee)
This thesis is an attempt to look into the matter of connecting urban space and literary work. The analysis of mutual relationship of these two entities is based on Czech literary texts written after 1989. The first, theoretical part of this thesis provides a view into the state of relatively new perspective in literary theory, which is literary anthropology. Literary anthropology is subsequently taken as a methodological basis of this thesis. This methodology permits us to apply interdisciplinary shifts that are especially conductive to the research of urban space. Secondly, discussions lead within or among theoretical approaches to space and literature, especially on the spatialisation of discourse (the spatial or geographical turn in humanities) and the discoursivisation of space (as a result of semiological approach which treats cultural entities as "texts of culture"). Analyzed reactions indicate that this widespread approach treating space as a text is not the only possible basis for its study. After introducing modernistic context, in the second, interpretational part of this thesis three possible poetics of literary representation of urban space are presented. Poetics of constriction comes out from the tradition of understanding the city as a space of peril, both as a result of geometrization and...
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James Bond: the film series analysed from the point of narrative mythmaking
Pensdorfová, Olga ; Činátlová, Blanka (referee) ; Bílek, Petr (advisor)
The diploma thesis James Bond: The Film Series Analysed from the Point of Narrative Mythmaking analyses the use of the verbal narrative categories in the film narrative, namely the film series with James Bond. It researches structure, story, types of characters and fictional worlds in these film narratives. The thesis shows that the composition of this narrative is based above all on the seriality principles. It also focuses on the film series with James Bond as a productive example of mythmaking via analyses of the ideological principles function within these narratives.
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Mythology of the body
Činátlová, Blanka ; Bílek, Petr (referee) ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor)
Toto poněkud velkorysé (ostatně to k žánru - mýtu, nikoli snad diplomové práce - patří) putování napříč časem i prostorem si na počátku kladlo za cíl hledat přítomnost a význam těla a tělesného v mýtickém vyprávění. Pokud přijmeme fenomenologický kontext těla jako mezního horizontu lidského pobytu ve světě a Neubaurovu charakteristiku mýtu jako příběhu, který nás slaďuje se světem a současně nás v něm zabydluje, pak nemůžeme nalézt sobě bližší témata než je právě mythos a tělo. Jako určující princip mýtické tělesnosti se ukázala především zjevnost. Ve všech třech stěžejních kontextech funguje mýtické tělo jako symbol. Ba co víc, ukazuje původní sílu tradičně chápaného symbolu. Dnes máme kvůli (nebo možní díky) zkušenosti moderního, symbolistního umění vnímat symbolické sdělení jako cosi co odkazuje buď na něco nejednoznačného nebo mnohoznačného. Původně však označoval symbol části celku, dvě poloviny rozlomeného předmětu (řecky "symbal1ein" - házím dohromady, spojuji). Spojením obou částí mohl tento symbol sloužit jako poznávací znamení; vlastník jedné části se prokázal jako posel, host, ztracený příbuzný. Symbol tedy v tomto kontextu funguje jako znamení sestávající ze dvou částí, které je viditelné až po spojení obou částí v jeden celek. Právě tímto způsobem bychom měli číst význam těla v mýtických...
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