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Theme of pilgrimage in the canonized works of Czech literature
Guse, Michal ; Mravcová, Marie (advisor) ; Hrbata, Zdeněk (referee)
The rigorous work is a beautiful insight into the literary problems of pilgrimage. Author has chosen three fundamental works from the literary canon of the Czech literature and put it through a detailed literary and philosophical analysis. In the first part we see the general overview and explanation of the issue of pilgrimage taking us to the origin of the word and its various meanings of the Czech and world literature, where the topic appears. Important is the processing route of Bachtin's chronotope theory, the concept of time and space by him and later by modern theories of Bílek and Kenan. An extra chapter is dedicated to each of the three analysed works, where are unrolled different theories of views on the theoretical bases. Finally, there are summarized and evaluated the common and different points of surveyed works. The output has a rich list of literary works and it also has a beautiful accompanying illustrations. The theme of pilgrimage through the prism of individual epochs is interesting and worth reading.
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Walking and writing the world. An approach to modernity in Bohemia and France from the beginnig of the 19 th century to the 1948's
Matysová, Kristýna ; Hrbata, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Kyloušek, Petr (referee) ; Hrbata, Zdeněk (referee)
Walking and writing the world. An approach to modernity in Bohemia and France from the beginning of the 19th century to the 1940's In Christian allegoric texts the Pilgrim traditionally symbolizes the journey of mankind to heaven. From the second half of the 19th century on, poets, travelers, and vagabonds pursued the quest of an afterlife from within city walls. This dissertation examines the different representations of modern wandering via an in-depth analysis of the theme as encountered in French and Czech literature and arts from the early 19th century to the 1940's. It reveals, in chronological order, the different artistic approaches to modernity. By bringing out the various patterns that emerge from the texts, while taking into account the historical and social contexts in which they were created, this work adds to existing knowledge on the cultural similarities between France and Bohemia. It also examines the different literary genres which originate from mankind's need to walk and write the world.
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The Italian historical novel between 1827 and 1840
Löwensteinová, Klára ; Pelán, Jiří (advisor) ; Hrbata, Zdeněk (referee) ; Obstová, Zora (referee)
The doctoral thesis deals with the genre of an Italian historical novel between 1827 and 1840, tracks its evolution, constants, and ideological tendencies. The analyses of seven texts - chosen according some criteria, stipulating that the works always had to be the first historical novel of each author, they had to represent the advance of genre properly, and at the same time, had to be interesting literary types - focus on the genre of significant structural elements, i.e. they study the period of stories, plots, spatiotemporal relations, characters, narrators in relation to the readers and to the sources, proportion of fiction and history, historicism and ahistoricism, and paratext. The results of research bring surprisingly standardized repertoire of historical novels of the studied period. Single aspects - e.g. the critical choice of period, the preponderance of antagonists over protagonists, the tragic end of heroes, the viewpoint of narrators, historical parallels, create a clear anti-model of the modern, sovereign, and nascent Italian state.
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Negative humanism of Michel Houellebecq
Kavalír, Ondřej ; Hrbata, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Šotolová, Jovanka (referee)
Tématem následující práce je románová tvorba Michela Houellebecqa pojímaná ve dvojím kontextu - v kontextu negativního humanismu a nového realismu, který se projevuje v současném francouzském románu. Pracovní hypotézou je teze o spojitosti nového realismu a negativního humanismu v opětovném zájmu o svět společenských jevů, v obavách o jeho stav i v antropologickém a existenciálním zkoumání lidského údělu. V prvních dvou kapitolách se pokusíme vytyčit základní body této spojitosti, jak v souvislosti s tradičním realismem, tak ve vztahu k současné realisticky zaměřené románové tvorbě (Dubois, Beigbeder, Duteurtre, Quintreau). Třetí kapitola je věnována formální výstavbě Houellebecqových románů, analýze jejich intertextových odkazů a ve své druhé polovině také popisu paralel a inspirací, jež spojují Houellebecqovy romány s autory klasické realistické tradice (Balzac, Flaubert, Zola) a s Célinem. Po tomto zařazení do kontextu současného i literárně historického se ve čtvrté, závěrečné, kapitole zaměříme na způsob, jakým se negativní humanismus projevuje především v románové antropologii Michela Houellebecqa, a na jeho inspiraci (Schopenhauer, Baudelaire).
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The king and the pilgrim. To the question of the identity of the characters in the Italian novels of the 20th century
Štichauerová, Olga ; Hrbata, Zdeněk (referee) ; Flemrová, Alice (advisor)
This work is focussed on the question of problematic identity of literary characters. The characters are chosen from the modern italian novels to show the theme of crisis of a human identity as a constitutive element for the literature of the twentieth century. The first novel which is being interpreted and compared is "Un re umorista" by modernist Alberto Cantoni. The main character of this novel is the king of noname country who feels his "king's" identity as a role, only a mask. He considered himslef as two different persons, but one of them, the king, is not authentic, real. The second novel, called Il fu Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello, is the story of the identity as a social sign and its loss. The identity of human being in Pirandello's conception is closely linked with a society and its rules and law. To have an identity means to be a part of society, community, family and the only meaning of identity is the social meaning. Mattia Pascal lose his identity when he is said to be dead. At fisrt he finds his situation as a challenge and new chance to be free, to start a new life and create it from basis on his own. He made a new identity for himself with a fictitious past and name. Then he tried to make this identity real and valid but eventually he realised that it is not possible and he could not...
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Karel Sabina as imitator and creative artist. Text kinship as a source of meaning and knowledge about Sabina's work and its relationship to the works of other authors, especially K.H.Mácha
Charypar, Michal ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Hrbata, Zdeněk (referee) ; Haman, Aleš (referee)
The text has the character of a monograph about the literary work of Karel Sabina, which should function as a supplement and a counterpart of the hitherto published "Sabinian" text s focusing mainly on K. Sabina' s "moral profile". It i s a series of interpretations interconnected by a consistent methodical approach- the conception of intertextuality, based especially on Harold Bloom's and Mojmír Otruba' s theories. The main goal ofthe application ofthis method is noetic, i.e. to gain new information about Sabina' s work (in relation to the works of other authors) and with the help ofthe information to attempt to redefine Sabina' s position in the Czech literature and literary history. The text shows Karel Sabina from a new perspective as an extraordinarily talented writer deeply involved in most of the important events forming the total cultural progress ofhis time (late 1830s to early 1870s), and gives thus also a new image about the Czech romanticism. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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The term "Romand literature" and the role of publishers in the formation of literary life in francophone Switzerland in the 20th century
Břečková, Veronika ; Pohorský, Aleš (advisor) ; Hrbata, Zdeněk (referee) ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (referee)
This dissertation contributes to the studies of Francophone literatures in Czech universities by presenting Swiss French written literature, called "Romand literature" in Switzerland, and explaining the role that Swiss publishers played in the formation of literary life in the second half of the 20th century, precisely from the end of the Second World War to the beginning of the 1980s. The term "Romand literature" is explained in connection with the conception and evolution of other Francophone literatures and their particular emancipation efforts in the 20th century. The answer to the question of what the identity of Romand literature is and how this literature might be defined is found in the process of institutionalization of Romand literature, and here the institution of the publisher is at the center of interest. Other literary institutions - in the sociologic notion of social structures and relations having a relative authority in the defined space and time - such as Romand literary reviews, literary critics and history, universities, and literary awards are presented in relation to the notion of Romand literature and to the institution of a publisher. The dissertation takes into consideration the main events in the evolution of literary institutions in the first half of the 20th century. The...
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Computer naratology: narrative templates in computer games
Praks, Vítězslav ; Hrbata, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Češka, Jakub (referee) ; Kubíček, Tomáš (referee)
Relations and actions between literature and computer games were examined. Study contains theoretical analysis of game as an aesthetic artefact. To play a game means to leave practical world for sake of a fictional world. Artistic communication has more similarities with game communication than with normal, practical communication. Game study can help us understand basic concepts of art communication (game rules - poetic rules, game world - fiction, function in game - meaning in art). Computer games are interpreted in the study using naratological and ludological approach. Computer is tracted as a narrative medium (to narrate means to demonstrate, to present any content, not only epic content). Computer games are interesting phoenomena for its specifical aspects: interactivity, self-narration and computer simulated narration. Main attention in this study is focused on phoenomena of computer generated literature (prose and poetry). The main purpose of this area is in study considered for literary analysis of "belles lettres". Author examines and demonstrates plausible computer generated fiction analysis of narrative texts. Two such analysis are proposed in a study, one of them (prose analysis - fabule generation) is detaily manifested on concrete literary text.
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Milota Zdirad Polak's Sublime of Nature
Ibrahim, Robert ; Šmahelová, Hana (advisor) ; Hlobil, Tomáš (referee) ; Hrbata, Zdeněk (referee)
Sublime of Nature (1819), a lyrical poem in six cantos and with more than 1800 lines, written by a Czech poet and Austrian officer Milota Zdirad Polák (1788-1856), was at the time of its birth celebrated as the greatest Czech poem, its author labelled a genius and compared to the greatest European poets of the 18th Century. However, in the following decades Polák was gradually falling into oblivion, with literary historians of the end of the 19th and the beginning of 20th Century viewing Sublime of Nature as an unreadable work and its author as a non-poet. This attitude was also true for the 20th Century. However, in recent years some independent attempts have been made to bring Sublime of Nature back to both wider public and scholarly attention. The following dissertation joins these efforts. The aim of this dissertation is not an evaluation of Polák and his work; it is an attempt at interpretation of the text based on comparison of two versions of the poem (book and periodical) and on literary-historical setting of the work. Although Sublime of Nature appeared during a transient era of Czech literature characterized by its syncretism, this dissertation tries to relate Sublime of Nature to the context of (classicist) poetics and aesthetics of the 18th Century and in case of any borderline phenomena always...
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