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Orientace, 1966-1967. Literature, art and criticism.
Děkanovská, Lucie ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
This work discusses the first two years of the magazine Orientace (1966, 1967). It describes how this bimonthly issued magazine works towards outside environment - how it communicates with the public and other magazines and how they react back. It also focuses on describing the structure of the journal - whether it has fixed sections, editors, topics for analysis, what disappeared from the contents during years 1966/67 and on the other hand what was added. The continuous formats of the magazine such as: Kulatý stůl, 1 + 1 = 2, Slovo má..., Kritický metr na metr knih are analysed more in detail. The magazine Orientace itself serves as a main source, next contemporary reactions and criticism in other periodicals and cited professional literature were used. The contribution of this thesis is the enclosure - annotated bibliography of the first two years with the authors and subject index.
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Listy, čtvrtletník pro umění a filosofii 1946-1948 (The History and Development of the Review, bibliography)
Hladík, Jakub ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
The present thesis deals with three volumes of Listy, review for arts and philosophy, edited by Jindřich Chalupecký and, subsequently, co-edited by Jan Grossman and the undisclosed editorial board, published in 1946-48 first as a quarterly, later as a monthly. The main focus of the thesis is on the description of single issues, their analysis, outline of the articles and general depiction of the goals the editorial board attempted to fulfill. Furthermore, the thesis analyzes the contemporary literary context and the place of Listy within it. The thesis also includes the review's annotated bibliography with the author and subject indexes.
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The Metaphor in the Poetry of Social Realism of the 1950s
Ondroušková, Světlana ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
Based on Lakoff's theory of conceptual metaphor the thesis provides an insight into how the myth of the cult of leadership and the "new" land is realised in poetry of Social Realism of the 1950s. The analysis is based on understanding the myth as a "true story". The inicial part thus deals with the way of creating narrative of the leader in Social Realism. The other chapters contemplate on the how the effect of "real" is achieved, particularly using the metaphors of a "building", "container" and orientational metaphors. Concerning the hagiographic nature of the poetry, the thesis aims at explaining certain analogies and discrepancies between the myth of Social Realism and the Christian myth. Key words: Social Realism, conceptual metaphor, narrative, myth, real 4
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Characters in Short Prosaic Works of Jaroslav Durych
Jumrová, Pavla ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
The thesis presents a typology of characters in short prosaic works of Jaroslav Durych. In the introduction the readers get acquainted with contemporary approaches of the theory of literature towards the characters and with the ways to make typologies of characters. The author's opinions about art and man are quoted too because Durych's fiction is influenced by his artistic and religious opinions. Next, Durych's prosaic works are characterised in relation to trends in literature. Information about previous works concerning characters in prosaic works of Jaroslav Durych is also given in the introduction. The central part of the thesis is focused on the analysis of characters in short prosaic works. Both female and male characters are analysed by means of the same criteria: character-definition v. character-hypothesis, character-subject v. character- object, name, appearance, soul, death, love to God and their human partner. Within each section, e.g. Appearance, short prosaic works are analysed in chronological order to show how the characters were altered and how they were influenced by various trends in literature, etc. Eventually, differences between female and male characters are named, and two basic types of female characters and two basic types of male characters which can be found in Durych's...
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The image of the Bohemian forest in Czech and German-written literature since 1945. Landscape lost and rediscovered homeland, the space of meeting and passing by of the nationes
Denková, Helena ; Vaněk, Václav (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
The image of the Bohemian Forest in Czech as well as in German written literature is above all determined by the troubled geopolitical development of this region. Most of Czech texts about Šumava originated during the time of the communist regime, while German-writing authors concern themselves with this theme mainly only after the year 1989. The Bohemian Forest is usually considered an area on the Czech side of the border by the Czechs, German-writing authors, on the contrary, regard the Bohemian Forest, i.e. "Böhmerwald" as a region going beyond borders, belonging geographically, historically and culturally to the borderland of the three states. The Bohemian Forest represents landscape as well as civilisation in both Czech and German written texts. Literature reflects particularly on current topics such as, for example, nature preservation, vanished German villages, the rediscovery of the Bohemian Forest after the year 1989 and others. Authors writing in Czech as well as ones writing in German also deal with the problem of relationships between the Czech and the Germans.
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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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The Representation of Shoah: Children Writing the Holocaust
Vlasáková, Šárka ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Mravcová, Marie (referee)
Aim of this diploma thesis is to compare different forms of narrating of the holocaust through Children's eyes. Pure child's narration has much bigger impact on reader than narration of an adult, enriched with metaphors and attributes. In this way child's point of view extends the ethical dimension of holocaust narration. We will examine the discourse of child's narration in three diaries (The Diary of David Sierakowiak, The Diary of Mary Berg, The Beautiful Days of My Youth by Ana Novac), one Fictional diary (The Unloved. From the Diary of Perla S. by Arnošt Lustig) and a novella (Child of the Shadows by Henryk Grynberg). Children's narrators of the holocaust are characterized by psychological maturity, which contrasts with their official age. On the other hand they reveal childishness, while growing up, because of their unfinished childhood. In those books we will examine changing of the narrators discourse and his depiction of space (ghetto, concentration camp, shelter) and persons (family, friend, Nazis). We will also focus on distinct motives that form these books (e.g.: hunger, guilt, comic, Paradise, game).
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Criminal and Adventure Motives in Pavel Kohout's Novels
Horáčková, Kristýna ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Špirit, Michael (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with analysis of Pavel Kohout's Novels, which were formed in the period of seventies to the nineties. This analysis is focused especially on observation of criminal and detective motifs in novels Katyně, Kde je zakopán pes, Hodina tance a lásky and Hvězdná hodina vrahů. Due to the close interconnection of works and their author, the first part deals with the life of the writer, and emphasis is put on the period after the year 1968. The thesis also deals with the topic of criminal literature, with its development and with definition of rules, which could be found out within this kind of literature. Our intention is to analyze individual works in the terms of particular motifs and methods, which appears in Pavel Kohout's novels. The roles of the main characters and their action in connection with crime are analyzed in particular works. We also observe to what extent are the works influenced by rules and principles of criminal literature. To the characteristic feature of selected novels belongs especially the work with suspense and with reader's expectation. Key words: detective story, criminal literature, investigator, victim, motive, rules, expectation, perspective, composition, versatility
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Josef Knap - Writer and Editor
Mashehová, Lajla ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
This work was an attempt, foremost, to introduce the until now unpublished correspondence of two men of letters: Josef Knap and Jan Čarek, between the years 1925 and 1949. Their correspondence is preceded by vignettes of both authors, as a presentation of their main biographical details. In this regard there are mentioned the contributions of Josef Knap, particularly through his Sever a východ review, which a whole generation experienced growing in parallel to the mainstream.
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The Topic of Human Identity in Václav Havel's Work
Voralová, Hana ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee)
In the first part of the text is a short overview of historical events and changes over the society inside of the normalization Czechoslovakia. It means especially establishing of the Charta 77 and VONS as the most important organizations in battle for human rights and freedom during this period. It was also described a psychology of communism whose consequences within national identity have been way too serious because they intervene in the present. Václav Havel was one of the main representatives of Czechoslovakian dissent and his plays were featuring the problem of human identity in this painful period. An objective of this work was to find a connection between problems of human identity loss inside the real normalization society and inside of Václav Havel's works. A considerable part of this text was dedicated to analysis of his special method of writing. His plays, essays and correspondence have been compared. The play Largo desolato (1984) was selected for a detailed interpretation and for the finally comparation with the texts of another Czech dissidents (Kantůrková, Kohout, Vaculík). Keywords dissent, drama, identity, communism, normalization
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