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Wives and Whores: Female characters in the plays of Harold Pinter
Schormová, Františka ; Wallace, Clare (advisor) ; Pilný, Ondřej (referee)
This BA thesis discusses four female characters from three plays of the British dramatist Harold Pinter, placing them in context of depicting 'The Femine.' Pinter's female characters must not only be seen in the tradition of stereotypical depicting women, but also in context of the patriarchal concepts they have to face - the male dominance, male gaze and male bonding. The second chapter provides background for discussing female characters - reasons why to do so are provided and the idea of woman as 'the Other' is introduced. This concept led to the stereotyping of women and subsequently to their misrepresentation in fiction. The basic dichotomy of 'wife/whore' is investigated. The chapter also examines the specifics of representation on the stage with references to the development of drama. It concludes with placing Pinter within this context. The third chapter contains close reading of three Pinter's plays - The Homecoming, Old Times and Betrayal. The roles of female characters are examined in relationship to the power structures they are trying to dismantle. The chapter argues that even if they manage it, the victory does not challenge the patriarchal structure as such. The fourth chapter is focused on realisation of Pinter on Czech stages. It provides the history of the stagings, focusing...
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Gender in compulsory reading - Old greek myths and legends: gender analysis of the writing
Zochová, Iveta ; Jiroutová Kynčlová, Tereza (advisor) ; Knotková - Čapková, Blanka (referee)
This thesis Gender in compulsory reading - Old Greek Myths and Legends: Gender analysis of the writing deals with literary representation of gender issues in mentioned writing, written by Eduard Petiška. The very analysis is based on analysing of gender topics and issues we are interested in and focused on. These topics are compared and showed using examples from particular myths and legend. The question whether these topics are influenced by patriarchal order in the society is the crucial for this thesis. Despite the variability of Petiška's writing, which is necessarily caused by variations of ancient and continuously construated stories; some patterns and systems are there to be found and explored by contemporary gender theories, mostly by feministic literature criticism. In this thesis the method of resisting reading according to Judith Fetterley is used. The deconstruction of the text and its hidden values which are based on male domination and the reconstruction of it in order to show the new perspective at the same moment are the main goals of resisting reading. The characters from the legends are used in context of archetypal criticism method. Considering the literature-critical perspective, the method of close reading is chosen. The question of relations and using of power, considering...
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Gender analysis of chosen novels of Miloš Urban
Husáková, Martina ; Knotková - Čapková, Blanka (advisor) ; Matonoha, Jan (referee)
This diploma thesis A Gender Analysis of Selected Novels of Miloš Urban researches two concrete literary texts, novels Sedmikostelí and Lord Mord, which are analysed from gender perspective. By using two methods, feminist "resisting reading" and discursive analysis, there are uncovered various ways of female's characters construction, which are put in the social and cultural context. Theoretically the work is patterned on Judith Fetterley's concept, which was created during second wave of feminism, and it is connected to new poststructuralist and deconstructivist approaches. In this theses literature is perceived as space of impressing and encountering different discourses. Senses, categories and relations, incuding gender relations, are deconstructed in this space. This theses's core is the analysis of different categories and forms of femininity, which are reproduced in Urban's texts. It tries to show the possibility to read literary text "against the hair" and to not succumb to its interpellations. In this way it stresses personality of reading individual and his/her ability to complete/reshape text during every single process of reading and to produce new senses and categories. Keywords: feminism, gender analysis, Lord Mord, Sedmikostelí, Urban Miloš, resisting reading, women characters
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Woman characters in I. A. Goncharov's works
Slobodová, Dana ; Nykl, Hanuš (advisor) ; Kosáková, Hana (referee)
This paper focuses on the main woman characters in the novels of I. A. Goncharov A Common story, Oblomov and The Precipice. The aim is to analyze relationships between their heroines and other characters and to examine how these relationships subsequently form them. It shows that the attention payed to these processes is at least the same as the attention payed to the male characters (who are formally the main protagonists of the novels) and that they are in no way less interesting. We can also notice apparently repeated schemes, however, in each case they are modified in some way. The author always comes with a slightly different, new approach and thus we can say that although they may look similar from the outside, each Gontcharov's heroine is as unique as the setting which forms her. Keywords: literary characters, woman characters, classical Russian literature, Ivan Goncharov, A Common story, Oblomov, The Precipice
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Women Characters in Poetry of Viktor Dyk
Frühaufová, Klára ; Merhaut, Luboš (advisor) ; Vojtěch, Daniel (referee)
This work focuses on women characters in the poetry of czech poet Viktor Dyk, examines their basic features and symbolism and offers basic summary about their occurrences and relevance in author's poetry and in czech poetry at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. It's based chosen critical reactions on poetry of Viktor Dyk and particular examples from author's poems. It also offers basic material and ideologic starting point for further research of author's poetry and characters. Key words women characters, Viktor Dyk, poetry, decadence, atonement, loyality, Milá sedmi loupežníků
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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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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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Women characters in Willa Cather's fiction as a reflection of U.S. women's rights history
Heck, Lucie ; Procházka, Martin (advisor) ; Veselá, Pavla (referee)
Willa Cather (1873-1947) is nowadays regarded as one of the most important U.S. writers, and the volume of critical works, articles and dissertations devoted to her as a person and an artist is immense. One of the problematic relationship has always been, as can be seen from a number of critical essays and books, between Cather and U.S. feminists. The feminists would have liked to include Cather, as an feminist writer, into their group of the first-rate, woman-authored "female canon", however, such intent brought about an important question. Is it possible to regard Willa Cather as a feminist, considering her attacks on other women-writers, and her negative attitude towards the organized women's rights movement? This work's objective is to explore the background of Cather and organized women's rights movement's bizarre relationship, and answer the question above. To find out if Cather's work with its strong heroines empowered or weakened women in general, her novels and stories, rather then facts and assumption about her personal life, are used. The relevant parts of the plots from Cather's fiction are put into the historical perspective of the contemporary U.S. laws, showing that although Cather created exceptional woman characters, she let them deal with the same conditions and problems other...
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Melancholic Beauty. Representation of Woman in Czech Visual Art and Literature at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Century.
DOBROVOLNÁ, Kristýna
Among the historically very productive representation of Czech art of the late 19th and 20th century belonged to a special depiction of female figures. This concept represented mainly figurative painting by V. Hynais, J. Preisler, M. Švabinský etc., in which women were central themes as a representative of modern psychological symptoms (increased emotionality, melancholy, depression) and specific themes (fairy-tale, the perfect fusion of figures with the landscape). Fine art which shows clear parallels with contemporary literature, congruent women applied especially in the popular genre of fairy-tale drama (eg. J. Zeyer - Radúz and Mahulena, J. Kvapil - Princezna Pampeliška). Bachelor thesis is based on the comparison of the visual and literary materials and draws parallels and differences in the various artistic disciplines and between those literary texts.
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Typology and semiotics of female characters in the work of Ladislav Klíma
ADAMCOVÁ, Eva
Bachelor thesis focuses on the work of Ladislav Klíma and specially on his female characters. The theoretical part of thesis dedicated to semiotics and some basic semiotic theories. The practical part contains chapter about the position of women n society in history and also in the time of Ladislav Klíma. Next chapters of the practical part is about women in Klíma?s life, about specific female characters in his work and about some similar characters in literature and movies of Klíma?s time.
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