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Diákhálozat - student network and voluntary associations of (Czech)Slovak Hungarians
Hrncsjárová, Rebeka ; Gál, Eugen (advisor) ; Tóth, Andrej (referee)
The focus of the presented work is the presentation of the student network (Diákhálozat) connecting (Czech)Slovak Hungarians, its functions and significance. Student network is an organization connecting Slovak-Czech-Hungarian university students in Slovakia, Czech Republic, and Hungary. One of the primary possibilities for grouping people with the same interests, values or customs is associations. The thesis pays attention to student associations, their activities, work, and role in student lives, as well as Hungarians living in the already mentioned countries. Student associations are brought under the organization Diákhálózat, and thus they form a certain interwoven (student) network, thanks to which students devote themselves to various projects and activities within the associations and beyond. Keywords: student's associations; association activities; culture; Slovak Hungarians; Czech Hungarians
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Voluntary associations and periodicals of the Hungarian minority in the Czech Republic in the 21st century
Hromádková, Tereza ; Gál, Eugen (advisor) ; Tóth, Andrej (referee)
This thesis describes the development of periodicals and non-political organisations of the Hungarian minority in Bohemia and Moravia in the time frame from the end of the First World War to the early 1920s. It is organized into four main parts, which are further divided into chapters and subchapters. The first part deals with the interwar period, with a detailed focus on the Corvinia association, the Sickle movement and other important organizations. The post-war resettlement of a part of the Hungarian population from the regions of southern Slovakia to Bohemia and the communist takeover in Czechoslovakia are considered a borderline milestone of this part. The second part covers the Hungarian student clubs in Prague, Brno and Ostrava, as well as their publishing activities and music and dance groups. The third part of the thesis is focused on the Association of Hungarians in Czech Republic, its history, activities and the issuing of the association's magazine Prágai Tükör. The individual chapters describe the regional affiliates of the association, their members and unique activities. The last section briefly describes other selected Hungarian organisations currantly active in the Czech Republic. Key words: Hungarians in the Czech Republic, national minorities, associations, student clubs, periodicals
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Hungarian architects in Czechoslovakia 1918-1938
Čablíková, Johanka ; Sapák, Jan (advisor) ; Gál, Eugen (referee)
The presented work attempts to comprehensively describe the interwar activities of Hungarian architects in Czechoslovakia. It works with the socio-historical level, which examines the reasons for Hungarian migration. The text presents the issue of Hungarian identity, with a special focus on Hungarian Jews, and offers insight into the state of modern architecture in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Another level, based on research in the archives of the Czech Technical University in Prague and the German Technical University in Brno, presents the names of students of Hungarian nationality. The level of architects working in Czechoslovakia includes - Zikmund Kerekes, Ignác Vécsei, Zoltán Egri, Emerich Spitzer. Key words Hungarian architects in Czechoslovakia, architecture of the First Republic of Czechoslovakia, Hungarian migration to Czechoslovakia, Czech-Hungarian relations
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Running away from and towards form: About form and matter in the works of Witold Gombrowicz and Bruno Schulz
Blažková, Hana ; Benešová, Michala (advisor) ; Gál, Eugen (referee)
Witold Gombrowicz and Bruno Schulz - two Polish authors of the decades between the two world wars - are regarded as prime examples of the Polish avant-garde. The main focus of this thesis, as well as of the work of these two authors, is their approach to form and matter. Schulz describes a world in motion, where matter loses its original form and gains another, everything flourishes, disintegrates and forms again. Gombrowicz's approach is rather socio-psychological, he uses form to reflect on human relations, societal flaws and the creation of a person's identity. The thesis is divided into two parts - "Analysis" and "Synthesis". The Analysis offers a detailed study of the themes of "the absolute girl" and "travel back in time". In this part, I analyze these two motifs as they appear in Gombrowicz's "Ferdydurke" and Schulz's short stories "Spring" and "A Pensioner" as well as in other works by these authors. In Synthesis I argue that both Schulz and Gombrowicz created extraordinarily active literary characters - it is them who cause the disintegration and formation of the world. The final chapter of this thesis called "Analysis and Synthesis and the Beating World" searches for a world not limited by form - its pulse, or rhythm.
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Power and ideology in the work of Tibor Déry
Guziar, Matúš ; Gál, Eugen (advisor) ; Pátková, Jana (referee)
This thesis analyses the theme of power and ideology in the fiction of the Hungarian writer Tibor Déry. Through the techniques of textual interpretation and the New Historicism, it explores issues of class struggle, the conflict of ideologies in the twentieth century as well as aspects of the application of power and violence against individuals in Déry's novels at the thematic and motivational level of the plot. The author has been inspired by the ideas of Michel Foucault, Elias Canetti and Hannah Arendt in his analysis of the writer's texts. The interpretive part of the thesis traces the compositional and plot elements of Déry's novels The Unfinished Sentence and The Answer in particular, considering also other novels and novelistic texts. Keywords: Tibor Déry, power, ideology, Hungary, novel, communism, nationalism, twentieth century, violence
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Child as a narrator in contemporary Hungarian and Polish literature
Šotolová, Anna-Ester ; Gál, Eugen (advisor) ; Benešová, Michala (referee)
BA thesis Child as a narrator in contemporary Hungarian and Polish literaturs attempts to specify, describe and define the category of narrator - child on the basis of comparative analysis. While the first part of the work examines the category of narrator - a child in the 20th century literary-historical context, the second part is dedicated to the comparative analysis, where each of the chapters deals with concrete motives (language of proximity, corporeality of narration, otherness and exclusion, myth). These concepts are examined in the following titles: Ferenc Barnás: Devátý, Szilárd Borbély: Nemajetní, Tamás Jónás: Tatitatitati, Wojciech Kuczok: Smrad. The final part is dedicated to the summaries of knowledge acquired about the narrator - child in contemporary Hungarian and Polish literature, while it also deals with the motivation of authors to choose this perspective of storytelling.
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The Philosophical Dimension of Sándor Márai's Work
Garbacik-Balakowicz, Magdalena ; Gál, Eugen (advisor) ; Pató, Marta (referee) ; Görözdi, Judit (referee)
Mgr. et Mgr. Magdalena Garbacik-Balakowicz Filozofické souvislosti v literárním díle Sándora Máraiho The Philosophical Dimension of Sándor Márai's Work Školitel: PhDr. Evžen Gál, Ph.D. Abstract The present thesis explores the relationship between literature and philosophy in the works of a Hungarian prose writer Sándor Márai (1900-1989). The first chapter presents the methodology applied in the thesis. I discuss the main questions of hermeneutics as methodology of literary studies. As an example, I depict and critically reflect on three attempts to develop hermeneutics on a strictly literary academic ground - the approaches of Hans Robert Jauss (Aesthetic of Reception and his Literary Hermeneutics), Peter Szondi (Material Literary Hermeneutics), and Richard Palmer (A Hermeneutical Manifesto). In Hans Georg Gadamer's hermeneutics, however, I seek his propounded literary theory, i.e. Gadamer's approach to the interpretation of a literary work. On this basis I present the principles of the hermeneutic model of the analysis of literary texts that I will use to analyse Márai's work. Next part addresses the issue of the relationship between philosophy and literature. In a triple, thematically narrowing perspective, I deal with the relationship between literature and knowledge in general, then with the issue of...
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"Protimluv" as a Central European publishing house
Dohňanský, Tadeáš ; Benešová, Michala (advisor) ; Gál, Eugen (referee)
(in English) This thesis will be focused around an important, though relatively young Czech publishing house Protimluv. Its beginning dates back to 2002, when the first issue of Protimluv magazine was published, only to be later transformed into a publishing house and literary festival ProtimluvFest. The first part of the thesis is introducing the different aspects of Protimluv and additionally discusses their contribution to literary culture. The second segment brings the reader an understanding of the core value of this piece that is the differentiation of Protimluv's and classic approaches to Central European literature. Considering the analysis and interpretation of the magazine issues, as well as the fiction literature of selected Polish, Slovakian and Hungarian authors, the reader finds the essential motives and themes regarding this topic.
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From folksiness to fantasy - Transformation of folk motives and their new function on selected examples from Polish literature from Romanticism to the end of the 20th century
Jilečková, Alžběta ; Benešová, Michala (advisor) ; Gál, Eugen (referee)
The origin of fantasy motives dates back to the prescriptive era. Although literature itself is constantly developing, it's basic motives such as heroes or the text composition holds on to the classical archetypes, which helps the reader to stay oriented. Fantasy elements are a good representation of these archetypes. It is no secret that the authors of the modern and post-modern fantasy literature are often inspired by ancient mythical literature. On the contrary, these myths and archetypes research these texts and are, consequently, used in new variations. In this thesis, I try to analyze some of these motives such as the hero's journey, or the representation of the mythical characters and demonstrate their transformation from the simple folk archetypes to the complex elements used in modern literature. Apart from modern and postmodern literature, I also focus on the literature of the 19th century, due to the fact that it is the romanticism and the Young Poland era, where I found the first signs of the fantasy works in polish literature.
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