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The Theme of the Destruction of a World in the Hispanic American Literature
Flanderka, Milan ; Poláková, Dora (advisor) ; Housková, Anna (referee)
(in English) This thesis focuses on the theme of the destruction of a world in the Hispanic American literature. Its principal part is a detailed analysis of the novels The Villagers, written by the Ecuadorian author Jorge Icaza, and The Kingdom of this World, written by the Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier. Additional parts of the thesis are a concise outline of significant literary works which include the theme of the destruction of a world and a brief corpus analysis. The analysis compares the frequency of the usage of several words which are connected with the theme in the Hispanic American and Spanish literature. The thesis aims to answer the following questions: Is the theme of the destruction of a world characteristic for the Hispanic American literature? In which forms does it occur? How is the theme demonstrated in the literary works, and what are its features? The thesis also examines the relation between the Hispanic American reality and the presence of the theme in the writings of the authors born in that part of the World. The relation between the analysed literary works and the historical background of the period in which it was written is important for the theses as well as selected facts of the life stories of the authors. To a certain extent, it determined their literary output.
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The journey motif in ¡Écue-Yamba-Ó!
Šťastná, Anna ; Poláková, Dora (advisor) ; Zaťko, Roman (referee)
This thesis analyses the journey motif in the novel ¡Écue-Yamba-Ó!, which was written by Alejo Carpentier in 1933. The author had to leave Cuba, his birth country, for political reasons. He moved to Paris for 11 years where he gained a lot of inspiration for his literary production. The thesis therefore sets Carpentier to the cultural and historical context. Afterwards deliberates over variants of journey in literature, describes the journey horizontal, vertical, of life and the encounter motif, which is relationed to the journey motif. In the main part applies the theoretical findings to the analysis of the novel ¡Écue-Yamba-Ó!. Journeys in the novel are undergone especially by its protagonist Menegildo, but also by the most important woman character Longina. In the final part the thesis presents the theory of lo real maravilloso and sketches other adaptations of the journey motif in later novels of Alejo Carpentier. Keywords Alejo Carpentier, the debut novel, the journey motif, ¡Écue-Yamba-Ó!, Menegildo, Cuba
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The Theme of the Destruction of a World in the Hispanic American Literature
Flanderka, Milan ; Poláková, Dora (advisor) ; Housková, Anna (referee)
(in English) This thesis focuses on the theme of the destruction of a world in the Hispanic American literature. Its principal part is a detailed analysis of the novels The Villagers, written by the Ecuadorian author Jorge Icaza, and The Kingdom of this World, written by the Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier. Additional parts of the thesis are a concise outline of significant literary works which include the theme of the destruction of a world and a brief corpus analysis. The analysis compares the frequency of the usage of several words which are connected with the theme in the Hispanic American and Spanish literature. The thesis aims to answer the following questions: Is the theme of the destruction of a world characteristic for the Hispanic American literature? In which forms does it occur? How is the theme demonstrated in the literary works, and what are its features? The thesis also examines the relation between the Hispanic American reality and the presence of the theme in the writings of the authors born in that part of the World. The relation between the analysed literary works and the historical background of the period in which it was written is important for the theses as well as selected facts of the life stories of the authors. To a certain extent, it determined their literary output.
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The Return of the Baroque in Hispano-American Novel of the 20th Century - Asturias, Carpentier, Roa Bastos
Doležalová, Barbora ; Činátlová, Blanka (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee)
The diploma thesis "The Return of the Baroque in Hispano-American Novel of the 20th Century - Asturias, Carpentier, Roa Bastos" examines Baroque motifs and principles in the modern 20th century Hispanic-American novel. It explains how these traits alter in contrast to the historical Baroque, how they are modified or what other functions they acquire. An attempt was made to critically rethink and re-evaluate the literary theories dealing with the reappearance of the Baroque in Hispanic America, as we consider their approach to be generalising and reductive. The interpretative method is based on Josef Vojvodík's Povrch, skrytost a ambivalence and namely how it addresses the manner in which the Baroque, Mannerism and avant-garde relate to one another. A characterisation of the American Baroque as such has been drafted and an attempt to capture the differences between the European Baroque has been made. The essayistic work of Alejo Carpentier is treated with an emphasis on the relationship of the (Neo)Baroque and magic realism. Carpentier wrongly attributes to the continent what he installs through his own optics without realising that such an approach might be itself described as being Baroque. The interpretative part provides a linguistic, thematic and motivic analysis of Baroque traits in a choice...
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