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Poetics of title. In conception of contemporery Czech fiction
Lesák, Josef ; Peterka, Josef (advisor) ; Kubíček, Tomáš (referee)
At the beginning is this thesis about general poetics of title (functions of titles, historical poetics of title, typology of titles and about relations between the text and the title of a literary work). This thesis briefly concerns with specifics of contemporary Czech literature (literature after year 1989) and its titles. Further, it deals with ways of atractivization of titles. The focus of this thesis consists of analysis of titles of contemporary Czech fiction. We wanted to answer the question, what are the titles about, analyzing the titles of different genres and types of titles. The hypothesis about titles has been confirmed. In the majority of cases it is truth that titles are closely connected with the subject matter of the book. Furthermore, some of the titles tell us something about authors, about their biography and their poetics. Thanks to their form they can signalize theme or/and genre, but they do not predicate of affiliation to popular or artistic literature (titles of artistic and popular literature differentiate not by their form, but rather by fitting-in to the text of a book that seems to be better thought through in the case of artistic literature than in the case of popular literature). Subtitles mostly refer to genre and theme. We also state features of postmodern titles...
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Constructing fiction
Šťastná, Eva ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Kubíček, Tomáš (referee)
Cílem naší práce bylo zodpovědět otázku "Jak to, že se fikční svět svému autorovi dává v některých případech s nutností?". Na cestě za zodpovězením této otázky jsme podnikli rozsáhlé zkoumání tzv. teorie fikčních světů, již jsme považovali za vhodnou k řešení této problematiky. Zkoumali jsme nejprve způsob, jakým fikčněsvětová teorie pracuje s pojmem světa. Zjistili jsme, že jej pojímá nekriticky a z velké části metaforicky. V druhé části jsme se pokoušeli odpovědět na otázku, zda fikční svět představuje možný svět tak, jak ho popsal Saul Kripke. Zjistili jsme, že nikoli, a že fikční svět může být možným světem jen v metaforickém smyslu, což právě umožňuje pojem jazyka. Poznali jsme tak řadu vlastností fikčního věta: zjistili jsme, že je neúplný, může být nemožný a především, že má modalitu. Jinými slovy, fikční svět je samostatný systém sám pro sebe, skutečný "svět". Ve třetí kapitole jsme se v rámci zkoumání přístupu ke skutečnosti zabývali pragmatickými teoriemi fungování jazyka, které předkládají více či méně relativistické pojetí pravdy jako kontextuální vázanosti výroku/faktu. Ukázali jsme, že fikčněsvětoví teoretici z těchto teorií zhusta vycházejí a že představa fikčního světa se bez nich téměř neobejde, především proto, že relativistické teorie pravdy umožňují postavit skutečnost a fikční svět na...
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Fight for Naked Life in Lustig's Presentation of Holocaust
Zimová, Lucie ; Kubíček, Tomáš (referee) ; Peterka, Josef (advisor)
This essay deals with the problems of Lustig's characters they without their real cause have to be commited the danger of the closeness to death. For understanding the choice and classification of the characters it is necessary the consequent face-off the biographical texts. A brief autobiography is indicated in the first chapter and then runs through the all other chapters (the biographic parts are in italics). The second chapter deals with the possibility of presentation of Holocaust in general and delimits the Lustig's opinion to this problems. My work treat of characters they found themselves in the threshold of sink or swim and they are obliged to fight for their dear life. Each of them chose other strategy how to approach a fight for naked life. This study divides the characters into four typological categories. To each of this category is devote one chapter with the brief presentation of the problems with several characters they correspond to this typology. First of them deals with the persons they fight against death by the act whether tragic defiance or revenge is concerned. Into this category the characters from following stories were put : Modravé plameny (Bluish Blaze), Dívka s jizvou (The Girl with the Scar), Nemilovaná (Not Beloved), Tma nemá stín (Darkness Casts no Shadow), Modlitba pro...
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Interactive narrativity
Lukešová, Anna ; Kubíček, Tomáš (referee) ; Bílek, Petr (advisor)
The thesis deals with the phenomenon of interactive narrativity, especially in codex-type texts. The aim of the thesis is to highlight the difficulties the current narratology has in coping with this kind of texts and to present an alternative approach to texts newly created mainly due to the development of modern technologies, the concept of cybertext postulated by Finnish theorist Espen Aarseth. Significant attention is focussed on the structural properties of this type of texts, which are the requirement of the feasibility of interactivity. The thesis is an attempt to assess generally both approaches and their advantages and disadvantages. The second part is devoted to an analysis of codex-type interactive texts. The aim of the list of selected literary works with an experimental structure is to demonstrate that interactive texts (or cybertexts) are based on the principles of traditional printed literature and are only an organic continuation of the experimental literature in another medium. A more detailed analysis of selected interactive texts aims to demonstrate the thesis of structural characteristics of interactive texts.
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Hoc est corpus. Literary anatomy: an introduction
Činátlová, Blanka ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Kubíček, Tomáš (referee) ; Czumalo, Vladimír (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to look for various literary aspects of body and corporality; an attempt to see body and corporality not only at the mimetic, but also symbolic level. The introductory theoretical definition of body and corporality is inspired by the philosophical, theological and anthropological approach. The phenomenological view treats body and corporality as the basic aspect of human experience - on the basis of the "existing" body experience one gets situated and settled in the world. Body brings the primary orientation in time and space, it relates man to the world's objectiveness. The theological context of body added the "living" body experience to the "existing " body experience. The assumption of the living, created body arises thoughts on spiritual body, on body as a condition for transcendental experience. The concept of embodiment calls for reflection on the bodily form of the sacred and forms a canon of body not only created, but also animated, sacrificed and resurrected. Together with the inspiration in cultural anthropology , the theological aspects of body and corporality also challenge the themes of shame and disease - the faulty, non-functional body as a crooked perspective of consciousness. Analyses of cultural anthropology make one look for cultural canons of body and...
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Fictional communication and representation of consciousness in narrative fiction
Koten, Jiří ; Kubíček, Tomáš (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee) ; Češka, Jakub (referee)
The thesis deals with the topic of narrative fiction. It primarily focuses on the nature of a fictional discourse and the general issue of fictionality. Problems are viewed from a pragmatic point of view, i.e. we are primarily concerned with the behaviour of participants in communication exchanges, exploring the activity of speakers (authors) and recipients (readers). Our starting point was the so-called "theory of pretence", which was promoted by founders of the speech-act theory in order to explain and clarify fictionality. According to these scholars, the language of fiction is "parasitic" (Austin); it's an utterance lying outside the circumstances that could make it a successful illocutionary act (Searle, Ohmann). The path to more appropriate reformulation of "illocutionary" theory of fictionality leads through the scope of possible worlds. This approach suggests that a fictional discourse should be considered as a narrative of facts about the world (Lewis). In this case, in addition to the authors who imitate narrative, we can also take into account their fictional counterparts, narrators, who narrate either truthfully or falsely. Furthermore, it is believed that the creation of fiction is not an imitation, but a full speech activity, "doing things by words", which requires world-formative power. It...
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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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Language dramas. Theory of literature and creative writing practice
Studený, Jiří ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Kubíček, Tomáš (referee) ; Fišer, Zbyněk (referee)
The coexistence and cooperation of theory of literature and creative writing practice is based on the necessity to build up a reliable methodological background for literary oriented creative writing itself. At the same time however this type of relation enables us to improve contemporary literary thinking with some new aspects derived from the vivid and authentic creative process dealing with specific literary forms and genres. In any case, the fundamental question of nowadays literary culture reamins the same, that is how to introduce at least some of the groundbreaking achievements of postmodern theory of literature to the institutionalized context of more or less traditional school system. Presented text reflects this kind of topic through the continuous comments on relationship between literary canon and spontaneous writing, and indirect, unconscious consequences of centralization and institucionalization or decentralization and deinstitucionalization of literary process represented mainly by creative writing practice. Two introductory chapters focused not only on methodic but also various cultural context of creative writing teaching, for example education through drama, rhetorics, therapy through art and zen aspects of creative activities, are followed with passages concentrating in particular on...
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An Own Novelette With Authorial Commentary
Blažek, Ondřej ; Peterka, Josef (advisor) ; Kubíček, Tomáš (referee)
This thesis consists of two main parts: the first is author's own novellete and the second is an essay which describes mainly the process of a creation of the story. By using literary-theoretical perspective the essay thus tries to uncover and analyse the problems a writer deals with during his work; it analyses the changes, which were effectuated by author in order to attain his original intentions. In particular, the essay focuses on questions such as: finding the suitable subject for the story; portraying the characters and pointing the conflict between them; constructing the sujet and spatiotemporal relations. It is also higly focused on a questions linked to autobiography, on the transformation of an authobiographical story to a fictious story. At the conclusion the essay responds to the reviews on the long-short story; the author evaluates himself as a creative personality and thinks of a practical use of the experience acquired through the writing of a literary work in teaching the Czech language and literature at school.
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