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Autobiographical Reflections in Jane Austen's Fictional World
Vošmíková, Marcela ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Grmelová, Anna (referee)
This thesis deals with autobiographical reflections in selected novels of Jane Austen. The theoretical part looks into the social, historical, and cultural background in Jane Austen's lifetime. It also gives a general outline of literary genres in the late 18th and early 19th century. The practical part is focused on the analysis of various aspects in six Austen's books within the context of the available information about the writer's life. These novels are: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. This part deals with the question concerning an extent to which Austen's writing, the fictional worlds of her novels, can be attributed to the influence of her personal life and experience.
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Postmodern Themes and Strategies in The French Lieutenant's Woman
Valentová, Dana ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Grmelová, Anna (referee)
The thesis focuses on postmodern themes and strategies employed in The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles. The aim of this work is to discuss the postmodern themes and strategies, analyse these elements in the novel, and show what constitutes The French Lieutenant's Woman as a work of historiographic metafiction. The thesis also aims to show the main differences between the traditional nineteenth-century realist fiction and the innovative postmodern genre of historiographic metafiction.
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Human relationships in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
Leššová, Barbora ; Grmelová, Anna (advisor) ; Chalupský, Petr (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with Virginia Woolf's one-day novel Mrs. Dalloway. The main aim is to point out how Woolf's personal view on life, her own sense of significance and unique sense of observing human soul are reflected in her portrayal of the human relationships in the novel. The thesis shows how characters in Mrs. Dalloway are connected at a social, but also at a deeper visionary level. The method of used literary interpretation has gone from the original text of the novel and opinions of the critics, which have been combined with personal Woolf's own attitudes and perceptions found in her personal Diary and thus providing the reader with a better insight into the author's mind.
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Themes and narrative strategies in selected works of Ian McEwan
Ludvíková, Eva ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Grmelová, Anna (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to focus on selected works of Ian McEwan, The Cement Garden and Atonement. It attempts to compare and contrast the dominant themes and narrative strategies the author explores and employs in these novels. Also, the thesis concentrates on how the narrative techniques influence the structure of the texts as well as on how the readers perceive the main themes of his novels.
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Representation of the House in British Fiction (1906-2009). (E.M. Forster, John Galsworthy, Simon Mawer)
Hanzlová, Tereza ; Grmelová, Anna (advisor) ; Chalupský, Petr (referee)
The diploma thesis focuses on diverse representations of the house in selected British novels since 1906. The novels have been chosen in reference to the importance assigned to houses in terms of plot, characters, and setting, each offering a unique vision of the house. A house is perceived as a home, as a possession or as a work of art. The novels by E.M. Forster, John Galsworthy and Simon Mawer are viewed through the prism of Phenomenology, namely the essays of Martin Heidegger, Jan Patočka and Anna Hogenová. This type of analysis provides an insight into the motivations of the individual characters, but also a deeper understanding of the function and role of the house in fiction as well as in reality. All the works are studied accordingly in the context of a wider social, cultural and aesthetic background. Key words: British fiction, Phenomenology, House, Home, Modernism, Work of Art
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Blend of Historiography and Fiction in Pat Barker's Trilogy Regeneration
Duarte, Barbora ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Grmelová, Anna (referee)
This thesis explores the factual and fictional content of Pat Barker's war trilogy Regeneration, which consists of the novels Regeneration (1991), The Eye in the Door (1993) and The Ghost Road (1995). The aim of the thesis is to find various historical facts Barker uses in her trilogy and analyze how the author incorporates them into her fiction. In searching for the factual content of the trilogy, the thesis focuses on certain historical events, matters or issues which create the background of the trilogy. Some of the main characters of the trilogy and their real prototypes are analyzed. The thesis attempts to describe the trilogy as an antiwar literary work, depicting the impact of the war on soldiers and those who come in contact with them.
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