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Analysis of translation of the short story Girls by Oksana Zabužko
Duricka, Tatjana ; Hrdlička, Milan (advisor) ; Ivanovová, Darina (referee)
This dissertation is dedicated to the Ukraine writter Oksana Zabuzhko. At the beginning I'm describing literary-historical and biografical circumstances which led to the birth of her creation. Then I'm focusing on the charasteristic of her prosaic work and her style of writing including the very detailed analysis of her collections of stories named " Sister, sister". This dissertation is as well describing the position of female literature in the present Ukraine literacy process and Oksana Zabuzhko 's part in its development. Second part of my dissertation is focused on the analysis of the translated story called "Girls", from the collection of stories "Sister, sister". Evalution criterions are in this case the questions of equivalence - adequacy of the translation, translation of (un)translatable lexical units in Czech, the problems with translations of facts, translation of foreign languages' parts in original text and reproduction Olga Zabuzkova's style in all levels - syntactic, lexical and expressive as well. Minor mistakes in the translation to the Czech version were revealed during the research, but overall the translation is rated as a very successful one. The translator succeed in transfering of artistic values and pragmatic effect of the original work into Czech language.
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Political voice of Aphra Behn
Hoblová, Kristýna ; Nováková, Soňa (advisor) ; Clark, Colin Steele (referee)
The Political Voice of Aphra Behn Kristýna Hoblová, 2013 Abstract This work of literary history analyses the relationship between the fiction of Aphra Behn and the developing partisan politics of the Restoration period, focusing on Behn's use of set tropes of political rhetoric of both Whig and Tory supporters and on the influence of her feminist views on her political writing. It rests on the assumption that in the Restoration period the public and private spheres were still closely interlinked and thus almost any kind of literature engaged in politics, ranging from formal treatises to drama and amatory fiction. The thesis opens with a chapter setting up the historical background and the literary context of the reign of Charles II and James II, which offers a brief overview of the main rhetorical strategies of all kinds of political writing - the household analogy of formal treatises, the Cavalier libertine culture of the Restoration comedy, the relationship between romance and allegory, Tory feminism developed by Margaret Cavendish and methods of political rhetoric employed by John Dryden, the author closest to Behn in political and religious adherence. The third chapter uses this context to sum up Behn's approach to politics in the whole of her work, employing some of her pindarics to prove her...
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Feminism in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich: A Comparison of Her Early and Late Poems
Cimalová, Natalie ; Veselá, Pavla (advisor) ; Quinn, Justin (referee)
This BA thesis examines the development of feminism in the poetry of Adrienne Rich between the 1950s and the 1990s. Feminism in Rich's poetry took years to develop from strict formalism in the 1950s that only alluded to the unequal status of women in patriarchal society, to bold free verse and feminist attitudes in the 1970s, and finally to an engagement with marginalization of certain groups of people due to their race, nationality, class or religion. Rich examined the marginalization of women in society already in her first collection, A Change of World (1951), through poems such as "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" or "An Unsaid Word," which are characterized by the perfection of form. Formalism was still a prominent hallmark of the poems in Rich's second collection, The Diamond Cutters, and Other Poems (1955), but a certain loosening of Rich's style, deviations from the tight stanzaic structure and a bolder approach to criticizing male authority over women can be seen in these poems. This concerns for example poems "Living in Sin" and "Perennial Answer," which address traditionally assigned gender roles. Between the 1950s and the 1970s, there was a major change in Rich's poetry, because it became significantly radical both in terms of feminism and free-verse. This significant shift is most prominent in...
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Political voice of Aphra Behn
Hoblová, Kristýna ; Nováková, Soňa (advisor) ; Clark, Colin Steele (referee)
The Political Voice of Aphra Behn Kristýna Hoblová, 2013 Abstract This work of literary history analyses the relationship between the fiction of Aphra Behn and the developing partisan politics of the Restoration period, focusing on Behn's use of set tropes of political rhetoric of both Whig and Tory supporters and on the influence of her feminist views on her political writing. It rests on the assumption that in the Restoration period the public and private spheres were still closely interlinked and thus almost any kind of literature engaged in politics, ranging from formal treatises to drama and amatory fiction. The thesis opens with a chapter setting up the historical background and the literary context of the reign of Charles II and James II, which offers a brief overview of the main rhetorical strategies of all kinds of political writing - the household analogy of formal treatises, the Cavalier libertine culture of the Restoration comedy, the relationship between romance and allegory, Tory feminism developed by Margaret Cavendish and methods of political rhetoric employed by John Dryden, the author closest to Behn in political and religious adherence. The third chapter uses this context to sum up Behn's approach to politics in the whole of her work, employing some of her pindarics to prove her...
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Analysis of translation of the short story Girls by Oksana Zabužko
Duricka, Tatjana ; Hrdlička, Milan (advisor) ; Ivanovová, Darina (referee)
This dissertation is dedicated to the Ukraine writter Oksana Zabuzhko. At the beginning I'm describing literary-historical and biografical circumstances which led to the birth of her creation. Then I'm focusing on the charasteristic of her prosaic work and her style of writing including the very detailed analysis of her collections of stories named " Sister, sister". This dissertation is as well describing the position of female literature in the present Ukraine literacy process and Oksana Zabuzhko 's part in its development. Second part of my dissertation is focused on the analysis of the translated story called "Girls", from the collection of stories "Sister, sister". Evalution criterions are in this case the questions of equivalence - adequacy of the translation, translation of (un)translatable lexical units in Czech, the problems with translations of facts, translation of foreign languages' parts in original text and reproduction Olga Zabuzkova's style in all levels - syntactic, lexical and expressive as well. Minor mistakes in the translation to the Czech version were revealed during the research, but overall the translation is rated as a very successful one. The translator succeed in transfering of artistic values and pragmatic effect of the original work into Czech language.
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The feminine world in the work of María Luisa Bombal
Norocká, Monika ; Poláková, Dora (advisor) ; Sánchez Fernández, Juan Antonio (referee)
This work examines writing of the Chilean author, M. L. Bombal (1910-1980), one of the first exponents of surrealism in prose in the region of Latin America. The work presents the position of women in the Latin American society of the first half of the 20th century to the reader, and on this background attempts to analyze the feminine world the author creates in her work. It focuses on its heroines and situations they live in and on this basis, investigates different components of their world - matrimony, love, sexual life, dream-like world and their fusion with nature. Another objective of the present work is to put in contrast of the feminine and masculine worlds and to capture the difference between them. It also briefly comments on the problems of feminism and its potential influence on the Bombal's narrative. Keywords: María Luisa Bombal, The House of Mist, The Shrouded Woman, feminine literature, surrealism
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A Comparison of Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Bowen
Synková, Blanka ; Wallace, Clare (advisor) ; Nováková, Soňa (referee)
This thesis compares short stories by the New Zealand-born author Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) and the Anglo-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), namely Mansfield's short story collection Bliss and Other Stories (1920) and Bowen's The Demon Lover and Other Stories (1945). It aims to offer a relatively complex view: it discusses the form as well as the content of the short stories, illustrating the arguments with concrete examples from the short stories, famous ones as well as less known; it suggests various influences that may reflect in the short stories, it offers opinions of notable critics on the individual authors and it also occasionally mentions the authors' own opinions on their work and literature in general. There are three chapters in the body of the thesis. One of them provides contextual information about the possible influences that may have shaped the authors' writing as well as about some critical approaches to their work. The other two chapters analyse the form and content of the stories, respectively. The discussion of formal aspects of Mansfield's and Bowen's short stories focuses on various features of the short stories that may be described as impressionist or lyrical, and on technical devices that may be compared to film. The analysis of content is concerned especially...
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Lenka Procházková, her literary career, life and oeuvre - a monograph
Zídková, Lea ; Janáček, Pavel (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
This thesis deals with the course of literary career and with the forms of work of Lenka Procházková, an author, whose literary career started in the turn of late seventies and early eighties in the unofficial literature. As a signee of Charta 77 and a daughter of Jan Procházka - highly acclaimed, yet unpopular for the regime after 1968 - she became a banned author, whose work could not be published within an official structure of Czech literature in the seventies and eighties. Her literary career continues until these days. In the Introduction part the reasons why our interest is aimed at Lenka Procházková in the first place are being described. The basis goals of our work are also stipulated within the Introduction section. In section Fundaments of Research hypotheses for the approach to the following analyses are introduced. In Sources of Information part all used sources are being introduced - already published literary works as well as sources unpublished or materials which have not been compiled yet (archive materials, letters, reminiscences of observers, family and friend eyewitnesses etc.) In the chapter called Life Circumstances accompanying and determining the literary career of Lenka Procházková we present a comprehensive and detailed biography of the author which cannot be found...
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Italian Journalist Matilde Serao
Bolková, Anna ; Flemrová, Alice (advisor) ; Pelán, Jiří (referee)
The topic of this thesis is the life and journalistic work of the premier Italian journalist and writer Matilde Serao. The first chapter is dedicated to the brief overview of the Italian journalism in the turn of the 20th century. Following chapter is focused on the personal and working life of Matilde Serao and also her work itself is put into the basic context and is briefly described. After that, six chosen journalistic publications are thoroughly analyzed in six subsequent chapters. These publications are: Il Ventre di Napoli, Il paese di Cuccagna, Nel paese di Gesù. Ricordi di un viaggio in Palestina, San Gennaro nella leggenda e nella vita, Evviva la guerra! a Parla una donna. Based on these analyzes, variables and constants of the Matilde Serao's work, qualitative differences and aesthetics added to journalistic texts are evaluated in the final chapter of the thesis.
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