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French reception of Czech written novels by Milan Kundera
Jelenová, Tereza ; Hrbata, Zdeněk (referee) ; Bílek, Petr (advisor)
The thesis deals with French acceptance of and reaction to Czech written novels by Milan Kundera which were published in France between 1979 and 1990. The thesis presents French reception of three books: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of being and Immortality. We are approching the pieces by applying the receptional and aestetical theory. The aim is to present that one work can be read in many ways, then we illustrate concretely how the opinions of the reviewers differ, how they comprehend the novels and how they describe them. The thesis is divided into ten parts. There is an introduction, the second part (theoretic base), the third part (short presentation of French press), three big parts named after three novels, whose French reception we are dealing with, a conclusion, a summary in Czech, a summary in English and a bibliography. Each of the three big chapters is also divided into smaller chapters, in which we subdivide the reception of literary context, the reception of genre, characters, themes and composition and also the evaluation of author and his novel. In the conclusion, we resume the development of the image of Milan Kundera and his novel in French reception, we describe the metaphors in the language of reviewers and we submit the analysis of the French press. In...
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A minor writer of the major sixties: Hana Bělohradská, her literary career and oeuvre
Kredbová, Veronika ; Bílek, Petr (referee) ; Janáček, Pavel (advisor)
The thesis deals with the course of literary career and with the forms of work of Hana Bělohradská - an author whose literary activity in the 60's helped to determine the shape of a period which is not only in the literary context called " The Great 60's". The reasons of interest in the work and life of Hana Bělohradská are described in Introduction. The writer is here introduced as the author whose literary career (as it is understood by P. Bourdieu) is in her days very untypical. And furthermore there are formulated the basic goals of this work. Hypotheses for the approach to the following analyses are introduced in the part called Fundaments of investigation. Furthermore there are introduced the theories which the work is based on as well as the reasons why there were chosen as theoretical fundaments of this work exactly these concepts. As the basic theoretical concept was chosen the theory of the field of literary production of the sociologist Pierre Bourdieue. The roots used in following investigations are introduced in the part called Sources of information - the sources which were already compiled (literary abstracts, lexicons and studies) as well as the sources which were so far not elaborated (archive materials, remembrances of eyewitnesses etc.).
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The kinds of identity in the Czech interwar romance
Svobodová, Marta ; Heczková, Libuše (referee) ; Bílek, Petr (advisor)
The graduation thesis focuses on the types of social identity created between the lines of the story about the romantic love. The selected books (the thesis choose the texts, which were published as books, although there is also a huge range of texts published as part-issues) fall into the works of the most popular writers in the interwar era in the new established Czechoslovakia (Javořická, Zahradník-Brodský, Utěšitelová, Kyzlinková etc.). The analysis of the texts shows, that the period, when they were published, influences the social meaning of the concepts used as motives, which sketch in the dramatic or on the other hand the lyric atmosphere. The new established state as the new social-political organization uses the metaphors of the Czech national revival as social stereotypes to remake and reinforce the Czech national identity. Though there are other types of identity as local identity, religious (Christian) or gender identity, they all at least partly embody in the changed national identity.
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Representations of the Velvet Revolution in Czech prose-fiction
Čujanová, Milada ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Janáček, Pavel (referee)
The essay analyses and compares representations of the historical event that was a very important turning point in Czech history - the Velvet revolution - in the prose-fiction. It deals with 8 texts: Tereza Boučková - Krákorám, Indiánský běh; Bohumil Hrabal - Listopadový uragán; Ivan Klíma - Čekání na tmu, čekání na světlo; Vlastimil Třešňák - Klíč je pod rohožkou; Martin C. Putna - Kniha Kraft and Jiří Hájíček - Dobrodruzi hlavního proudu. The comparison is based on 20 distinctive features such as the inner/outer perspective, irony, pathos, euphoria, solidarity, the revolution as a starting point/end point of the story, the hero is active/passive in the revolutionary events etc. The essay occupies as well with the emblems that are connected with the events of the 17th of November 1989, the day when the Velvet revolution started, and it is also analysed how the most important personality of the Velvet revolution - Václav Havel - is in these texts represented.
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Young Czech poetry in the 1980s and the 1990s (Valency of the lyrical subject in selected poetry debuts)
Kapustová, Andrea ; Bílek, Petr (referee) ; Špirit, Michael (advisor)
MA-thesis Young Czech Poetry in the 1980s and 1990s. Valency of the Lyrical Subject in Selected Poetry Debuts focuses on poetry debuts of selected Czech authors of the 1980s and 1990s and attempts to chart similarities and differences in the young poetry of these periods. The main concern of the thesis is the lyrical subject with regard to its valency potential. An important factor in the formation of the lyrical subject is the grammatical person, which constitutes the basis for the perception of the lyrical subject and for the interpretation of the text. The method of the thesis is critical reading of the debuts and first texts. The thesis has six main parts. Initially, the literary historical context of the 1980s and 1990s Czech poetry is outlined, followed by a literary theoretical discussion of the lyrical subject. The core of the thesis consists of readings and analyses of the debuts with regard to the lyrical subject's valency, and subsequent comparative study of the texts of both periods of Czech poetry. The thesis arrives at the conclusion that the lyrical subject is expressed differently in the 1980s and 1990s: It is emphasised in the 1980s, while in the 1990s it stays rather hidden in the text. The reception of modern lyrical poems is one of the open questions of the thesis.
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Literature of architextual tension
Šidák, Pavel ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
The dissertation deals with the literature influenced by religious experience. We do not attempt an overall solution of the issue of the relationship between aesthetics and theology; our goal is to describe the so-called "Catholic" literature as one of the possible models of "religious" literature. An ideal example of this model and the material basis of the thesis is Jan Čep's book Zeměžluč (Centaury, 1931). The study is divided into three parts: the first one summarizes the existing discussion of the problem in general (chapter 1), in theology and literary criticism (chapters 2 and 4), and it examines the usability of the term "ideology" (chapter 3). The second part develops our theoretical basis, the theory of intertextuality and interdiscursivity (chapter 6). The subject of this study is not a literary-historical era nor a genre in the traditional sense. We see it as a coalescence of two textual (semiotic) areas. The theory of interdiscursivity allows us to follow the textualization of religion: the mechanism through which real Catholicism as a religious fact turns into a system of signs, i.e. into a text, which is subject to the general laws and possibilities of a text description (Lotman, Piatigorski) (chapter 7). We regard the resulting area of a literary structure as a homogenous phenomenon of...
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Two centuries of Serbian novel
Doležal, Jan ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Černá, Milada (referee) ; Jedličková, Alice (referee)
This dissertation is the first complex presentation of the Serbian novel in the 19th and 20th centuries. The dissertation deals with the dynamics in the development of the Serbian novel from its beginning till the year 2000 and helps to create a complex picture based on concise analyses of 165 novels. The dissertation depicts the ways in which Serbian authors adopted universal stylistic forms (Sentimentalism, Realism, Modernism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Nouveau roman, Postmodernism) and focuses on autochthonic styles in Serbian prose (Zenitism, Neonaturalism, Nationalistic Realism). It demonstrates the high quality of the Serbian novel, but it also points out the weaknesses and cul-de-sacs of the Serbian novel. The centre of the dissertation covers the years 1961-2000 since this period has not been systematically worked on, despite the fact that the novel genre played a major role in Serbian literature in the last 40 years of the twentieth century. The most significant feature of the Serbian novel, which for rather a long time (till the twenties of the last century) lagged behind the novels of the so-called dominant literatures, is its close association with the turbulent history of a nation with opposing cultures, religions and socio-political systems. The authors, regardless of poetic adherence to...
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