|
|
Changes of Poetics in Josef Topol's Literary Works
Horník, Ondřej ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
1 This bachelor thesis analyses several major topics across the dramatic works of Josef Topol. It mainly deals with conflicts of worldviews of main characters of each play and explores similarities in these worldviews across Topol's plays. It examines the consistency of words and deeds of the characters in relation their attitudes. It shows gradual shift of Topol's focus from conflicts of the individual with society to relationships between characters themselves. The thesis hereby aims to prove that the playwright is exploring his topics increasingly, as time passes, as universal human themes and not as specific conflicts of particular persons determined by their place in society. It also shows that the pessimism present in the artist's late works may be only partially attributed to his forced displacement from active cultural life; roots of this pessimism are present even in his early works.
|
|
|
Czech LiteraryDreams. (The Interpretations of Three Kundera's Novels)
Kovácsová, Adéla ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
Diploma thesis Czech literary dreams deals with interpretation of three novels by Milan Kundera (The Joke, Life Is Elsewhere, The Book of Laugter and Forgetting). The core of the interpretations lies with the dreamy parts of the novel. The meaning of the text was sought within relations of more and less noticeable subjects and intertextual references. The interpretations of chosen Kundera's novels are partially observed through the context of works of Ludvík Vaculík, in particular by the context of The Czech Dreambook.
|
|
|
Samizdat in terms of textology and editorial work
Fučíková, Zuzana ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Kosák, Michal (referee)
The thesis examines the production of the Czechoslovak samizdat "edition" of the 70's and 80's of the 20th century. It focuses mainly on textual and editorial care given to samizdat typescripts. The first part describes the samizdat self-reflection in the articles from the typewritten periodical Kritický sborník from the 80's. The second part engages in samizdat Edice Expedice and examines how its production was processed by publishers under publishing conditions after the year 1989. It analyzes mainly two aspects - handling with samizdat sources described in editorial comments, possibly what it means for the textual quality of samizdat publications, and if the authentic literary historical context of the works is properly conveyed in the new published books. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
|
|
|
Motive of the City in Bohumil Hrabal's Selected Prose
Tvrdíková, Linda ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee)
in English The work aims to determine the basic characteristic of the motive of the city and its variation in selected works by Bohumil Hrabal. Research areas are some proses from short story collection Pearls of the Deep, An Advertisement for the House I Don't Want to Live in Anymore and novels Gentle Barbarian and Too Loud a Solitude. Theoretical basis of this thesis consists of publications dealing in general with space in literary works or specifically with the motive of the city. The thesis focuses only on the analysis of texts whose events are located in a metropolitan environment (specifically Prague). Those texts whose events is a smaller town (Nymburk, or Lysa nad Labem) are left aside. Proses are analyzed by date of the first edition and the short stories in their respective order in the short story collection. First, there is a detailed analysis of specific forms of the motive of the city in particular works. On the basis of this analysis the common elements of these forms are eventually determined, and thus the complete characteristic of the motive of the city in the work of Bohumil Hrabal.
|
|
|
Construction of the novel by Josef Škvorecký Obyčejné životy
Horák, Ondřej ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
(in English): The aim of this thesis is to observe the composition of Josef Škvorecký' s novel Obyčejné životy (Ordinary Lives). The backbone of the novel is the division of the whole text into two time-distinguished narrative zones (the narrator's present and past). The thesis readers' attention is also drawn in the third section of the book called "Notes and Explanatory Notes". Not only does the thesis focus the use of the italics in the book and other highlighted texts throughout the whole novel but it also analyzes its use in other masterpieces (Sedmiramenný svícen - The Menorah, Příběh inženýra lidských duší - The Engineer of Human Souls, Scherzo Capriccioso - Dvorak in Love, Nevěsta z Texasu - The Bride of Texas). The specific non-exhaustive examples of the use of the six types of the italics are implemented into the assessment.
|
|
|
Literary Criticism and Journals 1945 -1948
Hladík, Jakub ; Merhaut, Luboš (advisor) ; Špirit, Michael (referee)
1 SUMMARY The present thesis deals with cultural and cultural-political journals published between May 1945 and February 1948, as well as polemics that went on during that period. The thesis consists of two interconnected parts - the journals' profiles and the literary-historical introduction that analyzes certain important issues and problems in regard to the journals and selected personalities, placing them in the contemporary social context.
|
|
|
Literar-critical work of Jan Lopatka in the context of his personal library
Špinková, Tereza ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee)
The thesis highlights the literary-critical work of Jan Lopatka in the context of his personal library. It is a literary-historical and critical description of his work by characterizing and defining thematic blocks, which Lopatka systematically pursued in his personal library. It centers on a comparison of the significance of his work and pinpoints defined blocks in Lopatka's library fund and their significance in his literary criticism. Based on a complete inventory of his personal library (prepared by the author of this thesis) and its knowledge, research characterizes his work mainly from this perspective. Attention will also be paid to manuscripts, typescripts and notes in his books.
|
|
|
The Cultural Space and Memory in the Work of Viktor Fischl
Štychová, Michaela ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Špirit, Michael (referee)
The aim of this work is to show, how the collective, or rathert he cultural memory is realized in the work of Viktor Fischl in the term of the Holocaust, in which way is the traumatic experience objected in "remembering" in particular Fischl's books, how the characters deal with this experience. Theoretical framework is mainly based on Aleida and Jan Assmann's essays and studies and Maurice Halbwachs's important and inspiring book Collective memory. The main focus of this paper is based on its practical part in which the author tries to clarify and verify conceptions of cultural memory in literary texts. The emphasis is put on those post-war Fischl's proses which reflect the Holocaust exactly from the perspective of author's time, spatial and also empirical distance. This distance creates a very specific form of remembering and its narration. In the conclusion the findings are summed up and generalized. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
|
|
|
Jiří Kolář: The "New" Beginnings of His Poetry and its Position in Interpretation of His Writing
Šnellerová, Tereza ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Vojtěch, Daniel (referee)
In this diploma thesis, the "new" beginnings of Jiří Kolář's poetry are addressed. The main focus lies upon the genesis of his early poetry in the period of his "Křestný list". The "Křestný list" was issued as Kolář's début in September 1941, however, neither its publication nor Kolář's accession into literature were as immediate as they might appear in sources available so far. It took nearly ten years until the young poet's first oeuvre was issued and he had undergone a certain development in the meantime - he had gained more experience and become mature as a poet and person. The first part of the thesis is aimed at portraying this period (i.e. the years of 1937-1941/2) within the process of all events of literary history which could have impacted Kolář, his poetry and the final appearance of his first colletion. In the second part of the thesis, the given events (e.g. the acquaintance with Václav Pekárek, František Halas and Jindřich Chalupecký or the problems with the censorship in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia) are put into the wider context of Kolář's juvenile and hitherto unpublished texts that are now in the possession of Vladimír Karfík and in the inheritance of Jindřich Chalupecký. The interpretation of these is the core of this one and also of the third part of thesis. The integral...
|
|
| |
guest ::
RSS feed.