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Non-fiction literature on the concentration camp's experience within the so-called first wave of the war literature
Krajčovičová, Monika ; Janáček, Pavel (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
The Dissertation devotes to the literature representation of the czechoslovakian prisoners's life in concentration camps during the second world war. The work analyzes the documentary witnesses, that were published in 1945-1947 and with the date of publishing belong to the so-called first wave of war literature. The introductory part devotes to the place of concentration camps problematic to the historical context, the second part of dissertation define a term the first wave of war literature. The central theme then create following parts. In the third part an author define matter of the concentration camps and create mutual relation between "theme" and "motiv" with respect to the main topic. With the help of primary literature an author create a list of motivic stereotypes, that relate to prisoner's life in the concentration camp. An author defines these motivic stereotypes and completes them with the samples from primary literature. The last part of dissertation analyzes a response of the concentration camp books in the freed political prisoners journal. The analysis is pointed to the critical reflections, reviews and polemics about publishing concentration camps book.
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Textual analysis of the plays by Ivan Vyskočil
Rožníčková, Pavla ; Janoušek, Pavel (advisor) ; Janáček, Pavel (referee)
Ivan Vyskočil (narozen 27. 4. 1929 v Praze) je osobnost, která se svou uměleckou činností zásadně podílela na konstituování české kulturní společnosti 20. století. Je nezbytné, abychom Vyskočilovy nejen umělecké aktivity sledovali v kontextu společenském a zároveň v kontextu jeho života. Ivan Vyskočil vyrůstal se svou rodinou na pražském Spořilově. Jeho sousedy byly například rodina Jiřího Suchého, Ctirada Pospíšila (Před koncem protektorátu se Ivan Vyskočil poprvé účastnil divadelního představení právě u Pospíšilů na balkoně.). Vyskočil navštěvoval chlapeckou školu u sester Voršilek ve Voršilské ulici společně například s Janem Tichým, budoucím výtvarníkem, či s Jiřím Pištorou, pozdějším básníkem. Brzká setkání s osobnostmi, které byly později též nedílnou součástí českého kulturního života, bylo důvodem profilace Vyskočila - umělce již v raném věku. První umělecké pokusy tedy můžeme sledovat už na Spořilově, hlavně po válce, po příchodu dvou františkánů P. Cyrila (Josef Kadlec), doktora církevního práva, aP. Inocence (František Kubíček). Pod jejich vedením byl upraven prostor pod kostelem na klubovnu a sál. Působilo zde asi dvacet lidí, mimojiné i otec Jiřího Suchého se svým loutkovým divadlem. Vyskočil během gymnaziálních studií píše pro tuto "scénu" své prvotiny. Je autorem většiny textu kabaretu Múza...
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Transformation of Czech literary context after 1989
Hrubá, Eva ; Janáček, Pavel (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee)
This thesis focuses on the key period in the life of Czech society which relates to political and all-society changes linked with the year 1989 and the fall of the communist regime. The results of transitology research, focusing on the transformation of society from a totalitarian into a democratic system proved, that the process and result of the society transformation greatly depends on the ability to absorb the heritage of the past. Conscious evaluation of the part of life in nonfreedom and under oppression seems to be absolutely essential for further development, even though it might bring, that the newly built society might sometimes find difficult so solve. Using the transitology knowledge and the findings from the research of the transformation of society from a non-democratic into a democratic constitution, the thesis tries to map, how much the social change has affected the Czech literary context. It focuses mainly on the change of literary life elements, i.e. participants in the literary communication. It follows the processes and their consequences, which are typical for the transformation from a totalitarian-directive model of literary life into a democratic-liberal one. The most significant consequences are difficulties to come to terms with the past, when proscribed authors and their works...
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A minor writer of the major sixties: Hana Bělohradská, her literary career and oeuvre
Kredbová, Veronika ; Janáček, Pavel (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee)
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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Zdeněk Lahoda's novels within the context of Czech mystery fiction of the 1960s to 1990s
Hudečková, Hana ; Janáček, Pavel (advisor) ; Menclová, Věra (referee)
The goal of this work was to develop a biographical characteristics of the writers and translators Zdeněk Lahoda, characterize his works of fiction with regard to his efforts to the translation and its integration into the development detective fiction genre in the context of criminal czech literature since the 60 to 90 of the 20 century. The work seeks to define a genre thriller. This paper summarizes the work of Zdeněk Lahoda soothe and compares his own work, and his translation work. Greater efforts to Zdeněk Lahoda dedicated his translation activities, often translated socrealistic ideological literature, detective stories, adventure tales and stories. His own work has not fit into the context of 90th Years, and therefore do not issue his work again.
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Big Pimpin'. The Poetics of Czech Hip Hop Mainstream.
Segi, Stefan ; Janáček, Pavel (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee)
5 Abstract This thesis is focused on the poetics of czech hip hop lyrics. It deals with meanings lyrics can posess inside the frame of different models of youth subcultures or in context of dominant culture. The comparathive method showed being of good use because of cultural transfer, that lies in the very basics of hip hop music and culture. The relation between music and lyrics in a whole of single performance, whether is it concert or record, is also an important topic of this research. Key words hip hop, rap, popular culture, lyrics, subculture
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Czech literature under the shadow of the Third Reich
Borovička, Lukáš ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Janáček, Pavel (referee)
The aim of this work is to re-construct the mentality of the 1930s in Czechoslovakia. Methodologically, it is based on the Belgian concept of "worldview" (Center Leo Apostel), "a symbolic system of representation that allows us to integrate everything we know about the world and ourselves into a global picture." From this perspective, every text represents a certain worldview (the boundary between literary and nonliterary texts isn't relevant). Stanley Fish's notion of "interpretative community", defined generally, is transferred into literary history, where it allows to divide cultural field into plural subcultures. In the second part, I analyse the identity of the nation in terms of cultural and political relations with other countries. The Sudeten crisis means crisis of the national identity, questioning of the state borders and thus of the existing Order. Other tendencies, typical for the Czech literature of the 1930s, are the disputes between democratic and totalitarian principles, between Modernism and Conservatism, between apolitical and politicized literature. Other current topics are e.g. reflection of a Jew, conception of "labour" and in this framework oscilation between Masaryk's democratic conception and forced labour in the context of dictatorship or the vision of the "crisis of civilization"...
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Science-fiction as a Picture of the Time Period
Farkaš, Martin ; Vašák, Pavel (advisor) ; Janáček, Pavel (referee)
Velký rozvoj vědy v 19. a 20.století ovlivnil nejen každodenní život člověka, ale i vznik a rozkvět literatury science fiction (sci-fi, SF). Informační a technický boom zasáhl do všech oblastí běžného života. Dá se konstatovat, že lidský život se především v posledním století radikálně změnil. Srovnatelnou proměnu bychom asi v historii lidstva hledali marně. Dnes je vliv vědy viditelný ve všech vrstvách společnosti. V řadách čtenářů literatury sci-fi jsou v převážné většině laikové. Ale je pravda, že sci-fi není psána speciálně pro vědce, není to jakási studnice zaručených návodů pro vědecký výzkum. S úspěchy na mnoha dosud neprobádaných polích vědy (vstup člověka do vesmíru, genetické manipulace aj.) se rozšířil i repertoár témat literatury sci-fi. Na základě bouřlivého vývoje žánru se také sci-fi tematicky velmi přiblížila ke klasické literatuře. Stále se ovšem využívají i základní témata, která vymyslel již Herbert G.Wells, zakladatel proudu sci-fi se zaměřením na společenské a filozofické otázky. Sci-fi za poměrně krátkou dobu své existence prošla složitým vývojem. Zažila nebývalý rozkvět i pád. Období fascinace technikou se střídalo s obratem к člověku, období filozoficky zaměřené tvorby s lacinou akčností. Přesto sci-fi dospěla. Stala se rovnocenným partnerem hlavního proudu literatury. Spolu s ním má...
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Fantasy genre in Czech literature after 1990
Hloušková, Zuzana ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Janáček, Pavel (referee)
This thesis survey development of recently establishing genre - Fantasy - in last two decades. Thesis define Fantasy genre from literature theory point of view. It trace out feature attributes, narrative sequences and genre variants. Thesis describe historical genesis and its purposes as well as actual trends of this genre in framework of world literature. Following part is focused on expansion of Fantasy in context of Czech literature backround since 1990's. It is also focused on Czechoslovak fandom influence on Czech literary production. It contains analysis of factors effecting writer and reader cultivation such as contests, genre oriented magazines or recensions. Aquisition of this work is the digest of most considerable Czech authors inculding their published works and comprehensive overwiev of anthologies published in 1990-2007.
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A family picture through the short stories of Ignát Herrmann
Fuchsová, Ilona Anna ; Vaněk, Václav (advisor) ; Janáček, Pavel (referee)
This Diploma thesis interprets five collections of stories by Ignát Herrmann (Drobní lidé I. [Small people I.], Muž bez třináctky [A man without number thirteen], Rodiny a rodinky [Families and little Families], Staří mládenci [Old Bachelors], Z chudého kalamáře [From the poor inkpot]) written between 1870 and 1900, and focuses on the subject of 'the family'. 'The family' is initially qualified as a basic social unit, and subsequently implanted in to the context of Czech middle-class society between 1870 and 1900 as a two generation family, with a definitive and functional division of male and female roles. The analysis of Herrmann's characters in numerous family roles, clearly illustrates the importance of 'the family' in the author's stories, and is conclusively considered as the high point of Herrmann's work.
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