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Motif of the Italian Journey in the GDR literature
Dušek Pražáková, Jana ; Tvrdík, Milan (advisor) ; Zbytovský, Štěpán (referee)
This thesis is concerned with a comparison of works written by GDR authors Hanns Cibulka, Waldtraut Lewin a Christine Wolter which deal with the motif of the journey to Italy. The analysis is based on spatial and intercultural theories, which are presented in the first part of the thesis. The genre of travelogue, the motif of the Italian journey in the German-language literature and political conditions for the creation and publication of travelogues in the GDR are also introduced. The core of the thesis is the comparison of eleven texts, especially travelogues, regarding the spatial and social dimension of travelling. The first aspect covers reflections of Goethe's Italian journey and the function of travelling, as well as the depiction of nature, urban space and architecture and the treatment of the garden motif. Regarding the second aspect, the author follows the narrative technics used in portraying the mediators between the travelling writers and the Italian culture, as well as in the depiction of tourists or strangers. An additional question of the study is whether (and possibly how) the writers reflect on the GDR regime against the background of the Italian scenery.
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Representation of Medic in Modern German-Language Literature. Analysis of Selected Works of Gottfried Benn, Arthur Schnitzler and Ernst Weiß
Štika, František ; Zbytovský, Štěpán (advisor) ; Tvrdík, Milan (referee)
This Work deals with comparing chosen German novels of the first half of the twentieth century, the main protagonist of which are medical doctors. The work focuses on the role of doctors in relation to society, as well as to the psychological profile of the protagonists themselves. Partial and comparing analyses, which besides other things take into consideration the analogies among the main protagonists and the authors of the books, or alternatively the common correlations between modern literature and medical sciences, focus on the following novels: Gottfried Benn's Gehirne , Arthur Schnitzler's Traumnovelle and Ernst Weiss' Ich, der Augenzeuge.
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Female characters and roles in the German-Turkisch literature
Prášilová, Dana ; Weinberg, Manfred (advisor) ; Zbytovský, Štěpán (referee)
Subject of the present thesis is an analysis of the role of women in German-Turkish literature at the example of two novels of Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Selim Özdoğan. At first, the thesis gives an overview of the history of the Turkish immigrants in Germany. Subsequently, the term of migrant literature is explained. These explanations are followed by a portrait of the authors and an analysis of their specific way of writing. Then the role of women in islamic culture is explained. Afterwards, the role of women in the novels "Life Is a Caravanserai: Has Two Doors I Came in One I Went Out the Other" and "The Blacksmith's Daughter" is analyzed. The thesis concludes with a comparison of the novels and a summary of the results of the analysis.
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Honour and virtue in signo temporis. On examples of female figures in G. E. Lessings's, F. Hebbel's and A. Schnitzler's works.
Poláčková, Zuzana ; Zbytovský, Štěpán (advisor) ; Weinberg, Manfred (referee)
The subject of this thesis was virtue and honour in signo temporis. It means that I've tried to focus on the concept of virtue and honour in a certain time period. I have chosen three different literary periods and three works as their representatives. It was the bourgeois tragedy "Emilia Galotti" by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, as the representative of the Enlightenment. For the first half of the 19th century I've chosen also a bourgeois tragedy "Maria Magdalena" by Friedrich Hebbel. And as the third example I analysed the novella "Fräulein Else" by Arthur Schnitzler. All of the three heroines are daugthers, who are strongly influenced by this fact. All of them find a tragic end. Two of them commit suicide and one persuades her own father to kill her. The fathers are also an important part of the plot, because their largely contribute to death of their daughters. Emilia in "Emilia Galotti" is stabbed by her own father, after she persuades him to kill her, because she is afraid of losing her virtue, which is at that times related with religion and identified with chastity. In the first half of the 19th century the religious aspect was still a part of the concept of virtue and honour. But the honour was now perceived more in the way of reputation. Klara in "Maria Magdalena", who lost her virtue by...
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Homoeroticism and Autoeroticism in modern prose
Dlasková, Kateřina ; Zbytovský, Štěpán (advisor) ; Weinberg, Manfred (referee)
In the first part the thesis deals with the definition and characteristics of the time period of the turn of the 19th and 20th century and intends to show the change in the perception of world and man and their psyche in the context of the new sexuality concept. The second part focuses on homoeroticism in the sexology of that time and its position in contemporary literary science, particularly in the work of Thomas Mann. In the last part the analysis of the three literary texts - "Death in Venice" by Thomas Mann, " The Confusions of Young Torless" by Robert Musil and Arthur Schnitzler's "Fräulein Else"- appears in order to explain the function of abnormal sexuality, specifically homoeroticism and autoeroticism, in German prose of the 19th and 20th century.
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Female Characters in Arthur Schnitzler's Works. Comparative Description, Analysis and Interpretation of Selected Texts.
Prajzlerová, Lenka ; Zbytovský, Štěpán (advisor) ; Tvrdík, Milan (referee)
The following text deals with the problem of the representation of female characters in Arthur Schnitzlerʼs work. The initial point of the interpretation is the basic division of the literary types of the turn of the century into femme fatale, femme fragile and femme enfant. Based on the analysis of seven selected works (Märchen, Liebelei, Reigen, Frau Berta Garlan, Fräulein Else, Traumnovelle, Therese. Chronik eines Frauenlebens) it discusses their position in the narrative structure. In the end, it comments the question of the typification of these figures and Schnitzlerʼs tendency to relate them to concrete groups.
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Bourgeois and Artist in Robert Walser's Novels
Kopřivová, Simona ; Zbytovský, Štěpán (advisor) ; Weinberg, Manfred (referee)
This thesis examines the urban and artistic themes found in the Berlin novels of Robert Walser. It is based on an exploration of the novels The Tanners, The Assistant and Jakob von Gunten. The introductory chapter defines the subject of research and sets out the aims of the thesis. The second chapter places the subject of the title in the historical and social context of the German-speaking world at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, while also taking in developments in Walser's native Switzerland. The third chapter examines the literature of the turn of the century, identifying the era's most important literary currents, and also looks at literary trends in Switzerland. As urban and artistic themes appear in such abundance in the literature of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the fourth chapter is devoted to Walser's contemporaries, who also reflected on them in their work. Chapter five examines Walser's personality and, in connection with the subject of the title, briefly refers to the short prose of his Berlin period. Individual novels by the author are analysed in chapters six through eight, and compared in chapter nine. The concluding chapter then summarises the thesis's observations and findings. Key words: Robert Walser, artist, society, turn of the century literature, Bildungsroman
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The Characters of Children at the Work of Adalbert Stifter
Petrusová, Kateřina ; Tvrdík, Milan (advisor) ; Zbytovský, Štěpán (referee)
Petrusová, Kateřina (2011): The Characters of Children at the Work of Adalbert Stifter. Prague: Institute of Germanic Studies, Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. This thesis deals with the role of children at the work of Adalbert Stifter, an Austrian author of the first half of the 19th century, born in Horni Plana (Oberplan) in Southern Bohemia. Adalbert Stifter was not just a writer and a painter but also a pedagogue (he worked as a supervisor of elementary schools for Upper Austria). All these activities, in association with his life experience and personal problems, were reflected in his literary work. I mainly focus on his three works: collections Studies (Studien), Colored Stones (Bunte Steine) and the novel (Bildungsroman) Indian Summer (Der Nachsommer). Childhood already appears in his early work, considered as a period of human development (Menschenwerdung). In Stifter's later stories, for example in his collection Bunte Steine, the characters of children are at the forefront: they are always confronted with the adult world and especially with the powerful laws of nature. This relationship is formulated in the foreword to this collection in the form of Stifter's gentle law (das sanfte Gesetz). The whole concept of the child is completed in the novel Der Nachsommer, where a...
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The representation of the nature in the chosen fairy tales from the collection Phantasus
Böhmová, Ellen ; Tvrdík, Milan (advisor) ; Zbytovský, Štěpán (referee)
The representation of the nature in the chosen fairy tales from the collection Phantasus by Ludwig Tieck. This thesis deals with the depiction of nature which played an important role in German literature of the early Romanticism. The analysis is based on three fairytales from Phantasus by Ludwig Tieck, namely, on two »nature tales« Der blonde Eckbert and Der Runenberg and one later tale Die Elfen. The thesis is divided into two main parts. The first one-theoretical, introduces the author of the tales, the background of Phantasus's origin as well as some schools of thoughts and philosophies of the period which deal with various natural phenomena. The second, main part, is focused on concrete interpretation of tales from the point of view of different depictions and functions of nature. The results are analyzed and based on this analysis the main functions and forms of literary depiction of nature are specified.
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Depiction of children in folk and art fairy tales
Zálešáková, Eva ; Weinberg, Manfred (advisor) ; Zbytovský, Štěpán (referee)
This thesis deals with analysis of the characters of children in selected folk and art fairy tales in German Romanticism of the 19th century. First of all, the term ʻfairy taleʼ will be explained along with its history and research. After that the European folk and art fairy tales and their differences will be defined. In the following chapter, the character of the child in the folk fairy tale ʻMarienkindʼ (which is the part of the brother Grimms' fairy tales collection Kinder- und Hausmärchen) will be compared with the character of the child in the art fairy tale ʻZwerg Naseʼ (written by Wilhelm Hauff). The thesis will concentrate both on external and internal profile of the child and on living conditions and family constellations in which the children are depicted. Moreover, the moral ideas that are mediated by behaviour will be analysed. The most important subject of this thesis is to show the differences in the depiction of children in the folk and art fairy tales and thereby to prove that the art fairy tale is separate literary genre.
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