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The City Dweller´s Distrust of Folk. The Narrative Figure
Jedličková, Alice
This paper focuses on a strategy used to represent rural people, or “simple folk,” in narratives whose goal is to motivate readers to reassess their own attitudes towards the folk. The authorial intent of such works draws from the idea that traditional values are not appreciated and therefore must be discovered and protected (e.g., language, the past, the rural folk). Urban dwellers’ prejudiced perception of the countryside represented in such narratives can be simply formulated through contrasting images: for example, the progress, education, and conveniences offered by the city versus the backwardness, ignorance, and poverty of the countryside. This strategy is based on the distrustful or dismissive views of city people towards the folk as implicitly voiced by the narrator or by a specific character in the narrative. In contrast, we also find rather explicit counterarguments against these views in the speech of the narrator or in the speech, actions, and behaviors of the characters. In rural-themed prose from the 1850s through the 1870s, the subject matter of this study, this constellation of ideas and opposing ideas is regularly reflected in both the story and the narrative discourse and forms a stable narrative device, which substantially contributes to forming the narrative point-of-view and its effectiveness in persuading readers. In some works, this narrative device permeates the entire text and affects its genre - in Božena Němcová’s short story “Poor Folk” the “slice of life” genre intertwines with the genre of argument: every situation presented is in some regards an argument against the previously established idea that “city people distrust the folk.”
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„Time does not stand still, my friend...”Narrated and experienced time in the fiction of Teréza Nováková
Jedličková, Alice ; Piorecká, Kateřina
The main topic in Teréza Nováková's prose work Děti čistého živého came to be the religious plurality of villages and solitary residences around Proseč. The author decided to follow the fortunes of a fairly large group of characters over several decades. Hence the literary critics described this work of fiction as a novel chronicle. The author was also induced to do this by her ethnographically erudite approach to descriptions of the environments and the usual activities of the characters speaking together in their authentic dialect. However, the author's intention was different, as testified by the initial outline of the work, the author's diary, the novel manuscript and personal correspondence. This is also confirmed by an analysis of the narrative structure: by developing a novel methodology based on objectivizing narration and bold time structure, Nováková succeeded in creating a novel on the individual forms of time lived under the burden of the irreversible, inexorable march of physical time.
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Ekphrasis in the Works of Karen Blixen
Slouková, Radka ; Humpál, Martin (advisor) ; Březinová, Helena (referee) ; Jedličková, Alice (referee)
This thesis analyses ekphrastic passages in the short stories of the Danish writer Karen Blixen. It points out the various definitions of ekphrasis while drawing on a wider conception of this phenomenon which is based on the current intermediality discourse. The texts are analysed on two levels: 1) Ekphrastic thematization, i.e., the transfer of content elements from visual arts to literature, especially regarding landscape painting, portrait and still life. 2) Ekphrastic realization, i.e., the practical use of painting techniques in literary texts, such as the choice of colours or the depiction of light. The results of the analyses indicate a diversity of forms of ekphrasis in Blixen's works, be it in terms of scope, form or integration into the text structure. The results also point out the importance of the so-called pictorial model concept in the author's poetics.
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The artist of the late modernism
Hudymač, Martin ; Chmel, Rudolf (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee) ; Jedličková, Alice (referee)
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A short story or an autobiographical complaint? Characteristics of Czech Contemporary Short Stoires
Šesták, Petr ; Mocná, Dagmar (referee) ; Jedličková, Alice (advisor)
Based on the interpretation of selected texts, this work aims at describing some significant phenomenons of the contemporary Czech short story written by young and middle-age authors and at searching a short story-specific depiction of their conception of nowadays life. Its partial purpose is to figure out in which way the texts follow - or not - and influence - or not - the conventions of the genre. This analysis is founded on several Czech and foreign theoretical concepts of the short story; the studied materials being the texts of three authors of distinct poetics, namely Kateřina Rudčenková, Jan Balabán and Emil Hakl. Interpretations of these diverse texts reveal some common symptomatic aspects and coherences between the rejection of certain conventions of the short story genre and the testimony of contemporary life. The interdisciplinary-concepted closing chapter explores the possible relations between this specific literary message about the human being and his world and the sociological or philosophical reflections on postmodern times.
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Determining Conceptions of "Women?s Literature" and "Women?s Writing"
Stejskalová, Jitka ; Jedličková, Alice (advisor) ; Mocná, Dagmar (referee)
Diplomová práce pojednává obecně o "ženské literatuře" a "ženském psaní". Snaží se definovat tyto termíny a nalézt jejich rysy. Výsledek pak aplikuje na knihu Paměť mojí babičce od P. Hůlové. Při hledání definic se opírá o názory literárních teoretiků, naratologů, feministických teoretiček, sociologů, jazykovědců apod., kteří se к tématu vyjádřili. Postupuje po několika rovinách, nejprve zkoumá naraci, poté adresáta a čtenáře z hlediska pohlaví a dále gender a feministické teorie, které odkrývají rodové rozdíly. Vychází z předpokladu, že pokud se potvrdí, že kniha obsahuje rysy "ženského psaní", a navíc se zjistí, že adresát je ženské publikum a že čtenáři ženského pohlaví vyhovuje zpracování knihy Pamět mojí babičce, pak bude nevyvratitelné označení knihy za "ženskou literaturu". Na závěr se zamýšlí nad dalšími možnostmi, jak v této problematice pokročit, a nad potřebností termínů "ženská literatura" a "ženské psaní". Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Mythical paradigms of the avant-garde and its time
Micić, Tatjana ; Glanc, Tomáš (advisor) ; Procházka, Martin (referee) ; Jedličková, Alice (referee)
This paper is trying to present how changes of mythology, in Losev's sense, influenced art, literature and attitude towards poetic language. The study presents the Avant-garde movements in all theirs heterogenic forms, as the art of the period of crises, which appears in European culture and brought big changes in the consciousness of people. By describing an artistic attitude towards space and time we give examples how this new consciousness dealt with the spatial and time relations. Also this paper deals with the universal myths that are shown on the examples of the Avant-garde works of art. The chosen myths should present a desire of the Avant-garde movements to rebuilt, reconstruct and understand the very essence of the language of art and poetry. The Avant-garde art and literature cannot be understood if separated from the time when they appeared. Nevertheless, these movements carry in essence something that is generally characteristic of mythical thinking as well - that is, the periodical, instinctive return to essence and original purity with an aspiration to reconstruct the genetic moment and the act of creating. This phenomenon we analyze through myths that are omnipresent in European and other cultures and which appear in Avant-garde works as well.
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Narrative strategies in prose of Karolina Světlá
Klapková Myslíková, Daniela ; Jedličková, Alice (advisor) ; Mocná, Dagmar (referee)
Předmětem této diplomové práce je analýza prostředků, které tvoří součást narativních strategií v ještědských prózách Karoliny Světlé. Těžiště práce spočívá v analýze konkrétních narativních textů. Zvláštní pozornost je věnována vypravěči a jeho specifické stylizaci, která se projevuje zejména v rovině jazykové a komunikační. Tato stylizace je chápána jako prostředek transpozice některých prvků vyslechnutého lidového vyprávění, které stálo u zrodu těchto próz, do struktury textu. Na úrovni makrostruktury vyprávění jsou zkoumány funkční vztahy mezi narativy různých rovin. Předmětem analýzy jsou i rámcové narativy, které v některých případech slouží jako prostředky nastolení specifické komunikační situace lidového vypravěče. Dále jsou analyzovány způsoby konstrukce lidových postav v ještědských prózách, s důrazem na stylizaci jejich dialogů.
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Two centuries of Serbian novel
Doležal, Jan ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Černá, Milada (referee) ; Jedličková, Alice (referee)
This dissertation is the first complex presentation of the Serbian novel in the 19th and 20th centuries. The dissertation deals with the dynamics in the development of the Serbian novel from its beginning till the year 2000 and helps to create a complex picture based on concise analyses of 165 novels. The dissertation depicts the ways in which Serbian authors adopted universal stylistic forms (Sentimentalism, Realism, Modernism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Nouveau roman, Postmodernism) and focuses on autochthonic styles in Serbian prose (Zenitism, Neonaturalism, Nationalistic Realism). It demonstrates the high quality of the Serbian novel, but it also points out the weaknesses and cul-de-sacs of the Serbian novel. The centre of the dissertation covers the years 1961-2000 since this period has not been systematically worked on, despite the fact that the novel genre played a major role in Serbian literature in the last 40 years of the twentieth century. The most significant feature of the Serbian novel, which for rather a long time (till the twenties of the last century) lagged behind the novels of the so-called dominant literatures, is its close association with the turbulent history of a nation with opposing cultures, religions and socio-political systems. The authors, regardless of poetic adherence to...
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