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Fairy-tale motivs in the Czech poetry of the 2nd half of the 19th century
Vlčková, Barbora ; Šmahelová, Hana (advisor) ; Vaněk, Václav (referee)
The bachelor thesis Fairy-tale Motives in Epic of the 2nd half of the 19th Century is based on an analysis of selected texts and their reading, which lead to the enlightening of meaning-creating function of fairy-tale motives in the 2nd half of the 19th Century. The thesis focuses itself on the form of a fairy-tale as a specific narrative form and on a transformation of its function within the context of poetry using fairy-tale features. At the same time, the reference to the tradition of folk fairy-tale is reflected, being represented by the personalities of Karel Jaromír Erben and Božena Němcová. Interpretation of the works is grounded on the study of Vladimír Propp Morfologie pohádky (Morphology of Fairy-tale) which established the structure of fairy-tale functions. The conclusions of this work are based on the comparison of the epic pieces Dědův odkaz (Grandpa's Legacy) by Adolf Heyduk and Vyšehrad by Julius Zeyer with Propp's functional analysis.
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The Depiction of Gypsies and Its Relationship to "Our" Village in 19th-Century Czech Literature
Soukup, Daniel ; Šmahelová, Hana (advisor) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee) ; Svatoň, Vladimír (referee)
Mgr. Daniel Soukup The Depiction of Gypsies and Its Relationship to "Our" Village in 19th-Century Czech Literature (abstract) The present study analyzes the "Gypsy" figures in 19th -century Czech literature as non- mimetic creations. A critique of the contrary approach, which sees "Gypsies" as distorted images of actual Romanies, is elaborated in chap. 1.3. The subsequent chapters focus on the concepts of "constructed strangeness", marginality and the numinous (1.4); the diverse cultural layers which make up the Gypsy stereotype (1.5); and the semantics of this stereotype (1.6). This general theoretical overview is followed by interpretations of four literary texts (chap. 1.7-1.10) which represent the archaic (demonizing), the romantic and the modern (ironic) layers of the Gypsy image. The spy Zatrán, a character in Josef Linda's historical drama Jaroslav Šternberg v boji proti Tatarům, can be seen as an example of a demonized Gypsy. Karel Hynek Mácha's novel Cikáni and Adolf Heyduk's lyrical sequence "Cigánské melodie" depict both the romantic desire to identify with the Gypsy and the impossibility to achieve it. Svatopluk Čech's short story "Cikánka" presents an ironic deconstruction of the Gypsy stereotype. The second part of the study contains comprehensive contextual interpretations of Gypsy motifs in...
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History and narration. Palacký's "Dějiny" as a source of historical imagination of nation
Činátl, Kamil ; Šmahelová, Hana (advisor) ; Brabec, Jiří (referee) ; Vašíček, Zdeněk (referee)
This doctoral thesis mainly focuses on the narration of history and its culture creating potential - that is to say, its ability to form imagined communities. Primarily, it deals with the grand historiographic syntheses of national history (Michelet, Palacký, Lelewel etc.) emerging mainly in the 19th century, in which an important part was not played only by enlightenment criticism ad heuristics, but also by the traditional imaginative power of narrative. In the thesis this model of a "new" national historiography is particularly represented by Palacký's Dějiny národu českého v Čechách a na Moravě (The History of the Czech Nation in Bohemia and Moravia). The detailed narratological analysis of this work, which in many respects was the founding text of the modern Czech historical consciousness, attempts to illuminate to which extent the modern idea of nation was constituted by the historical imagination. Therefore, the analysis does not concentrate only on Palacký's The History, but also on the adjoining "gravitation field" of both historiographic and artistic representations of national history. The narratological point of view is employed also in the analysis of the mutual relations between historiographic narrative and historical fiction (historical novel). In many regards, the obscurity of the...
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Fairy-tale in the work of Václav Tille - Říha
Vlčková, Barbora ; Šmahelová, Hana (advisor) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee)
Fairy-tale in the works of Václav Tille-Říha thesis is based on an analysis and an interpretation of Tille's fairy-tale writings and symbolist stories considering the means of developing symbolist poetics on an outline of a folklore fairy-tale. The target of this thesis is to grasp the function of fairy-tale features in Václav Tille's works which emerged from the intersection of literary adaptation of traditional folklore subjects with symbolist creation. The opening chapter deals with the historical context of Tille's works and its folklorist and literary aspects. The work aim, through the works of Václav Tille, to express a wider framework within the context of symbolist writing and Art Noveau fine arts.
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Image of the Czech Prehistory in Historiography and Fiction of the 19th
Futtera, Ladislav ; Šmahelová, Hana (advisor) ; Zbytovský, Štěpán (referee)
This thesis concentrates on the capturing of the development trends of evens of the representation of the Czech prehistory in the fiction and of its conception in the historiography. The term 'Czech prehistory' is approached in terms of the Czech tales, with emphasis laid on the character of Princess Libuše. The span of the thesis reaches from the Englightenment critic of Václav Hájek z Libočan's Kronika česká (Czech chronicle) by Gelasius Dobner to the argument about the authenticity of the Rukopis královédvorský (Manuscript from Dvůr Králové) and the Rukopis zelenohorský (Manuscript from Zelená hora) in the 1880s. Both cases resulted in reassessment of the relation to the stories from the Czech prehistory by the contemporary society. The first chapter, after introducing the topic, deals with critique of the Václav Hájek's Chronicle by Gelasius Dobner, which changed the relation to the Czech prehistory in the historiography of the Czech coutries, and the philosophy of Johann Gottfried Herder, which opened the way to the establishment of the modern nations, based on the language. The national communities were afterwords established based on their history and the stories about their origin. The next chapters pursue the adaptation of the material about the Czech prehistory in the German literature,...
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The comparation of women's characters in proses and fairy tales of Božena Němcová
Tlachová, Tereza ; Šmahelová, Hana (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
Summary: The focus of the thesis with the topic The comparation of women's characters in fairy tales and proses of Božena Němcová is compared female characters in selected Czech and Slovak fairy tales and proses of Božena Němcová. The emphasis is on description of the relationship between the two genres in terms mythic-archetypal and also in terms of narrative methods. The work focuses on a comparison of some key themes in the life of the female character, such as the theme of motherhood, marriage or family togetherness. Methodologically the work embodied in narratology, the theory of gender and psychoanalysis. This theoretical bases allow to define the differences between the heroines of fairy tales and prose works and point out the blending of the two genres on the plane of the women's characters.
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Different kinds and functions of death motives in the fairytales of K. J. Erben and B. Němcová
Hupáková, Kateřina ; Šmahelová, Hana (advisor) ; Vaněk, Václav (referee)
This thesis focuses on the death motives in the chosen magic fairy tales of Karel Jaromír Erben and Božena Němcová. In the first part, the historical context of both authors's fairy tales origins is defined. The second part, which is the main focal point of this paper, analyses six fairy tales written by K. J. Erben and six written by B. Němcová using Propp's method of morphological analysis. These fairy tales are afterwards examined from two different perspectives: firstly by the function which corresponds with the motive of death in the fairy tale and secondly by the way the situation of the death is depicted in the given fairy tales. The gained information are compiled to create a commented typology of the different death motives. Together with summarizing the concurrences and differences of the death motives in the fairy tales of K. J. Erben and B. Němcová, this is the main goal of the thesis.
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Picture of the age in rural stories in the second half of the nineteenth century
Budílková, Jitka ; Šmahelová, Hana (advisor) ; Vaněk, Václav (referee)
The aim of this paper is to describe the evolution of village prose in the second half of the 19th Century, I base my interpretation on the display changes to themes of old age. I watch both literary and historical development, but also the existential elements of old age. These then telling the help of theses philosopher Jean Amery. My interpretation is based on four major works, themes that deal with old age. It is a Babička (1855) by Božena Němcová, the story Na vejminku (70s of the 19th century)by Vítězslav Hálek, the story Konec života Karel Václav Rais and finally the story by Teréza Nováková. The analysis approaching from obvious at first glance, obvious concepts which binds age and progresses toward its existential component, that is how old people perceive time. The descriptions of the individual performs a gradual evolution from a pure literary and historical idylism to realism.
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Fairy-tale motivs in the Czech poetry of the 2nd half of the 19th century
Vlčková, Barbora ; Šmahelová, Hana (advisor) ; Vaněk, Václav (referee)
The bachelor thesis Fairy-tale Motives in Epic of the 2nd half of the 19th Century is based on an analysis of selected texts and their reading, which lead to the enlightening of meaning-creating function of fairy-tale motives in the 2nd half of the 19th Century. The thesis focuses itself on the form of a fairy-tale as a specific narrative form and on a transformation of its function within the context of poetry using fairy-tale features. At the same time, the reference to the tradition of folk fairy-tale is reflected, being represented by the personalities of Karel Jaromír Erben and Božena Němcová. Interpretation of the works is grounded on the study of Vladimír Propp Morfologie pohádky (Morphology of Fairy-tale) which established the structure of fairy-tale functions. The conclusions of this work are based on the comparison of the epic pieces Dědův odkaz (Grandpa's Legacy) by Adolf Heyduk and Vyšehrad by Julius Zeyer with Propp's functional analysis.
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The untraditionally traditional fairy tales by Karel Čapek
Kolomazníková, Hana ; Šmahelová, Hana (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
This paper deals with the fairy tales by Karel Čapek. In the first part, we mention the historical context: the interest in fairy tales, including the fights for fairy tales. We also deal with the anthology Nůše pohádek and its importance for the development of modern fairy tales. We further describe the place that the fairy tales have in Čapek's 1920s works and we analyze Čapek's fairy-tale-theory, which was presented in his theoretical essays. In the second part of this paper, we cope with Karel Čapek's fairy tales specifically, namely with their motives and style. Our aim is to show, why they are considered as untraditional.
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