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"Major Zeman": Comparative analysis of verbal narratives and TV serial presentations
Krausová, Martina ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Činátlová, Blanka (referee)
The diploma thesis "Major Zeman": Comparative analysis of verbal narratives and TV serial presentations deals with two narrative media that depict the Zeman's story: a literary narrative by Jiří Procházka and its realization as TV series. Factors affecting the resulting form of both versions were identified by means of a gradual analysis of each of the versions. These factors were external interventions made by a management of a TV company and by its professional advisors as well as a mutual rivality of producers of the series. A focus to a TV audience and a literary ambition of Procházka, who attempted to step over the boundaries of a crimi genre, played their roles as well. These all resulted in two differently conceived fiction worlds. The narrative world, built on a myth-building principle, appears to be coherent, joined by an unifying ideological line. On the contrary, the TV series world appears to be scattered.
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Representations of the Czech Historical Era of 1950s in Contemporary Czech Literature
Dobrý, Marek ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Špirit, Michael (referee)
The thesis deals with the literary production reflecting the 1950s in Czechoslovakia in terms of books published within the years 2000 to 2010. Based on the dominant discourse's analysis, reflection of this period in print media compares the way discourse penetrates the literary speech and also the way of their contrast. The author, giving the wide cross-section of released books, tries to maintain the opinion that projection of the 1950s is happening thanks to a myth created contrary to the construction myth. For this reason the literary speech is being called the re-mythologization reflection of the 1950s. Another goal of this work is to find neuralgic points of the myth and to decode their function - whether ideological or social. During the mapping of the books concerning in 1950s the attentions is paid to the texts that try to disturb the re-mythologization dominant literary speech described in detail. In connection with a slight representation of resembling texts author attempts to discover the causes of the non-existent need to see a different point of view in history through literature. Key words: 1950s, literary speech, discourse, myth, power, ideology, function
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Totalitariankitsch and underground. The semiotic model.
Kubíček, Jan ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Špirit, Michael (referee)
As a consequence of a process of semiotic totalization of public life in totalitarian societies, a system of social, esthetic, ethic and language norms becomes radically altered. This system is partially described in Totalitarian kitsch section, in chapters called Totality, Kitsch, Art, Language, Esthetics and Myth. In a passage called Underground, totalitarian realism and Egon Bondy's and Ivan Vodseďálek's gauche poetry is interpreted as a model reply on totalitarian society conditions. A concept of total poetry is introduced. We ask a question: what actually total poetry is, if not an art? Eleven answers are being sequentially found: 1. it is a complex of apocryphal texts of socialistic realism, 2. it is a game about art, 3. it is culture at the phase of being born, 4. a method of phenomenological reduction, 5. a language game, 6. de-construction of myth, 7. occupation of game position within totalitarian society, 8. a myth, 9. a semiotic clearance process carried out through semiotic rage, 10. symbolization of reality and realization of symbol, 11. call for a game. In the end, we try to define total poetry in relationship to avant-garde, modern art and postmodernism. Three points have been discussed in a chapter called Kitsch and underground: 1. recapitulation of acceptation of Egon Bondy's and...
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The Space as a Part of the Fictional Worlds in the Novels
Kolářová, Martina ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Mravcová, Marie (referee)
The theory of the fictional worlds is an interesting source not only for theoretical thinking about literature, but for concrete interpretation, too. I applied it as a method for an analysis of the novel space. In the chosen works I paid attention to the topoanalysis with the goal to know, how much space participates on the creation of the meaning of the text. I was interested most of all in such texts, which were to consider working with the space - the task was thento realize in which way and how much. The results showed, that some categories like road, boundary, passage or home can work as universal points, which can be used for the interpretation, but with the note, that it isn't advisable only to work with too many categories, which could make in the result the interpretation even poorer than before.
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Memory lanscapes in centraleuropean literature - Galicia and Bukovina
Iljašenko, Marie ; Činátlová, Blanka (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee)
MA thesis Memory landscapes in centraleuropean literature - Galicia and Bukovina is dedicated to an analysis of the links between landscape, text, memory and cultural identity. Using cultural-semiotic and comparative approaches, it delimits and examines the mnemonic constructs that appear in German written, Polish and Ukrainian literature related to the regions. Two, mostly theoretical chapters are dedicated to the chosen approaches. The order of examined texts follows the development of mnemonic constructs, a process that takes place in all the literatures. The constructs were developed after Galicia and Bukovina ceased to be a part of one of the states. The thesis' structure is topical, each chapter includes an account of German written, Polish and Ukrainian literature. The first chapter focuses on the imaginary topography, geography and symbolic landscapes of Galicia and Bukovina. The second chapter examines the cultural identity that is anchored in the mnemonic constructs. The third chapter concentrates on various myths, constructs and literary phenomena that contributed to the image of Galicia and Bukovina as memory landscapes.
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In the land of steel and lyres. Subjects and ideology in culture of Czech Stalinism (1948-1953)
Schmarc, Vít ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Bauer, Michal (referee) ; Šámal, Petr (referee)
Thesis In The Land of Lyres and Steel is an analysis of official culture of the high Stalinist period in Czechoslovakia (1948-1953) based on up to date concepts of ideology. For them ideology as such is not a notion of an error, misunderstanding or manipulation but true condition of social being as an interaction of subject in inter-subjective structure. Main aim of the thesis consists in semiotic mapping and criticism of ideology; therefore it reconstructs mechanisms, by which reality is created by and in ideology - including parts that were repressed to hide antagonisms in ideological structures. Material for this analysis comes mostly from the works of young authors, whose poetics and fantasy were artistically formed in the Stalinist period. This thesis is not trying to go on in common fashion: looking for universal and uniform but on the contrary - to search for unique and distinctive. Using the concepts of socialist realism common in Anglo-Saxon tradition it perceives this cultural-political system not as ultimate product of supreme power but as active horizon of negotiation between subject and ideology. The conclusions are partial observations on the level of basic appellations of ideology: reproduce, transform, include / exclude and their realization in different fictional worlds of poetry, which are...
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Danube: journey, memory, city and death
Satinská, Lucia ; Bílek, Petr (advisor)
The 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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Time-Symbolic Horizons of Characters in Several Types of the Contemporary Czech Novel
Kudlová, Klára ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Trávníček, Jiří (referee) ; Papoušek, Vladimír (referee)
Mgr. Klára Kudlová Anotace dizertační práce (Časově-symbolické horizonty postav v několika typech současného českého románu): Anotace: Teoretická část této práce uvádí a představuje nejprve skupinu naratologických konceptů navržených prostředí literárně-vědného kognitivismu a vztažených k problematice postav (v pracích Uriho Margolina) a jejich konfigurací (v práci Catherine Emmott(ové)) a k modelování příběhového světa (u Davida Hermana). Tyto koncepty jsou pak propojeny s tezemi, které Ricoeurův Temps et recit předkládá ve vztahu k románu a jemu vepsaným "spojnicím" historického času. Na pozadí takto založené syntézy je pak vypracován samostatný koncept románového žánru a dále model časově-symbolických horizontů postav. Jednotlivé časově-symbolické horizonty jsou chápané jako obligátně přítomné v "půdorysu" románu a spojené s plány přítomnosti, minulosti a budoucnost, jsou zde označeny jako horizont autorit, horizont současníků a horizont dědiců; horizont věčnosti je pak založen na propojení s oblastí apriorního smyslu a je chápán jako horizont fakultativní. V interpretační části práce byl pak uvedený model časově-symbolických horizontů a konfigurací postav v nich využit pro interpretaci a typologické usouvztažnění několika podob soudobého českého románu. Těmito podobami byly jednak ženský a "autentický"...
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The Holocaust as fiction
Tomáš, Filip ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee) ; Špirit, Michael (referee)
180 Abstract The English-language title of the work Holokaust jako fikce is not entirely unambiguous, because the equivalent, The Holocaust as a Fiction, due to its indefinite article, comes close to denial of the Holocaust as a historical phenomenon. That is of course utterly unacceptable nonsense; however, we encounter denial (concealment) of the Holocaust in history even during the course of the war. Here the author intends to emphasize the basic limits of his own theme. It is not the Holocaust as a historical event - the extermination of European Jewry by means of National Socialist politics in the years 1939-45 - but rather the literary works representing these events. The methodological point of departure is the theory of fictional worlds (Lubomír Doležel etc.), and what interests us is the transfer of actual events into possible and fictional worlds, the representation of the results of that crossover in literary works. The work is divided into four chapters. After delimiting the approaches terminologically and theoretically, each focuses on a functional approach to the given representation. The Holocaust is investigated in this manner in three main chapters: the Holocaust as testimony, the Holocaust as a limit situation and the Holocaust as a literary transduction. The Holocaust as testimony devotes...
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Believability of Narratives and of (fictional) Worlds Generated by them
Špidla, Kryštof ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Hrbata, Zdeněk (referee) ; Bauer, Michal (referee)
The dissertation thesis called Narrative Texts' and their (fitonal) world Plausibility and (Fictional) Worlds created by These Narratives is based on the hypothesis that there is a specific feature of narrative texts: plausibility. The dissertation thesis is focused on the role of a reader in the process of the narrative worlds' actualization and there are also distinguished two sorts of narrative texts - narrative texts, which construct possible fictional worlds; and narrative texts, which create non-possible fictional worlds such as distinct kinds of self-voiding fictions. The thesis also differentiates between two sorts of plausibility - plausibility of fictional worlds and plausibility of fictional narrative act. Reference of narratives which means relation between fictional and actual world represents the fundamental issue. The dissertation thesis also concerns the relationship of plausibility of fiction and actual world changes, in other words - the relationship of plausibility and cultural- historical horizon. Reference frames also represent crucial concepts. These frames establish means of reception and plausibility reliance on them. The theoretical findings are illustrated through concrete examples of narratives - primarily through contemporary Czech prose. The dissertation thesis...
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