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Vladimír Holan's metaphor in the collections Vanutí and Na postupu in the light of Ricœur's "live" metaphor
Koryntová, Lucie ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee) ; Langerová, Marie (referee)
The collections Vanutí (1932) and Na postupu (poems written in 1943-1948, published in 1964) are both of particular importance within the development of the poetry written by Vladimír Holan (1905-1980). The collection Vanutí, full of strongly bound, hermetic verses put together into intimate, lyrical compositions is a direct counterpoint to the collection Na postupu, written in free verse and accompanied by clearer expression of epic nature, orientated towards historical and everyday topics of the society. With respect to the relation between poetry and reality and as far as the way of creating meaning goes, the key notion is the metaphor. However, theoretical foundations of classical metaphor are unsatisfactory in this case - they cannot describe the originality of Holan's poetry sufficiently. By applying the theory of "live" metaphor, formulated by Paul Ricœur in his essays La Métaphore vive (1975) and Interpretation theory: discourse and the surplus of meaning (1976), we can achieve the most detailed description of typical metaphors in both collections. Thanks to Ricœur's pattern X is/is not Y, which expresses ambivalent predication present in live metaphor schematically, a peculiar dynamics of emerging sense (typical for each collection) is established. Metaphors that can be found in the...
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Vanutí of Holan - between mimesis and maniera
Koryntová, Lucie ; Binar, Vladimír (referee) ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor)
In the thesis, the author tries to answer the question, "How to read the poetry of Vanutí by Vladimír Holan?" she tries to decide whether it should be considered with respect to mimesis or maniera. After a theoretic introduction which outlines the meaning of these terms, the author aims at retracing the hesitation between mimesis and maniera that can be seen in the reception of this collection during the 1930's. The following part of the thesis contains interpretations of some of the poems - these focus on the analysis of language deformations and the imagination of the collection. The hesitation between mimesis and maniera, i.e. between an independent aesthetic structure and a new enunciation of the world, is finally revealed as one of the constitutive traits of the collection.
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