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Old English and Danish: A Structural Comparison
Ambrožová, Alžběta ; Čermák, Jan (advisor) ; Fúsik, Ondřej (referee)
The aim of the bachelor thesis is to compare Present-Day Danish and Old English, classify them from the point of view of morphological typology, and discuss some of their basic linguistic features, taking the history of both languages into account. The focus of the thesis will be a comparison according to the typology of the Prague School: the text will be structured on the basis of a typological scheme by František Čermák. Old English was not so strongly influenced by Latin, and its relationship with other Germanic languages, including Danish, is therefore much more visible than in Present-Day English. Vocabulary is the most prominent feature that the two languages have in common. On the other hand, there are significant differences between them in terms of morphological typology. Compared to Present-Day English, Old English was significantly more inflected, while Present-Day Danish is primarily isolating with some agglutinative elements. The objective of the thesis is to discuss the historical context in which both languages developed and show some of the typical features that they share. In the analytical part, specific examples of typological features will be discussed, and on their basis the overall character of both languages and their similarities and differences will be evaluated.
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"A Lover's Complaint": Shakespeare's narrative poem in four different Czech translations
Ambrožová, Alžběta ; Tobrmanová, Šárka (advisor) ; Beran, Zdeněk (referee)
This MA thesis focuses on four different Czech translations of William Shakespeare's narrative poem A Lover's Complaint (Antonín Klášterský 1923, Jarmila Urbánková 1997, Jiří Josek 2008, Martin Hilský 2009). The first part of the thesis characterizes the development of and changes in the Anglo-Saxon critical reception of this much-neglected work from its first publication up until the present day. Further, it shows the interdependence between the position of A Lover's Complaint in Shakespeare's canon and the interpretation of the poem's meaning. The second part focuses on the Czech critical reception and compares it to the Anglo-Saxon one. This part also introduces the four translators with respect to their literary and translation activities and describes the poetic and translation norms prevalent at the time of their careers. In the third (the empirical) part, the focus is on formal and semantic analysis of the source text, as well as of the individual translations. On the basis of these analyses it is examined to what extent the translations correspond to the source text; what shifts, losses or enrichments occur as a result of each translation. The individual translation methods are compared and contrasted. The ultimate objective is to describe the poetics of each translation and its...
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Assimilated Aliens: The Rise of David Levinsky and Portnoy's Complaint
Ambrožová, Alžběta ; Ulmanová, Hana (advisor) ; Pilný, Ondřej (referee)
How to be an alien in America? The answer, according to a sociologist, lies in the process of assimilation. By Park and Burgess, it is defined as "A process of interpenetration and fusion in which persons and groups acquire the memories, sentiments and attitudes of other persons or groups, and, by sharing their experience and history, are incorporated with them in a common cultural life" Assimilation takes place as a natural reaction to the encounter of different cultures and as such inevitably becomes a major issue in the 20th century America hosting huge waves of immigrants from all over the world, coming to the New World full of high hopes for new beginnings. Wandering for centuries as outcasts, Jews constitute an intriguing subgroup. Not only are some Jewish newcomers alien in their language, Yiddish peeking through their leaky English, they also do not conform in terms of their Judaic religion. Their cultural heritage clashes with the host culture of American WASPs and such a collision does not leave their Jewishness intact. The stories of immigrants are therefore essentially narratives of transformation. A key term in this discussion is one coined by Homi K. Bhabha, who, in his study on post- colonialism, claims the colonial subject, exposed to the dominant oppressor culture, acquires a "Double...
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