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Differences in themes in selected works of Contemporary Multicultural British Fiction
Dobešová, Veronika ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee)
The submitted bachelor thesis deals with postcolonialism, one of the movement within the contemporary British fiction literature. Firstly, the work describes the factual and historical background leading to the establishment of postcolonialism. Subsequently, its charasteric features are demonstrated on works of two postcolonial authors - Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi. The bachelor thesis ends by the comparison of the two authors' points of view on selected themes. Key words: Contemporary British Fiction, Postcolonialism, Hybridity, Magic Realism, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi
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History in the English Fiction of the Last Decades
Nagy, Ladislav ; Procházka, Martin (advisor) ; Hilský, Martin (referee) ; Potočňáková, Magdaléna (referee)
The dissertation focuses on the contemporary British fiction discussing books that in a certain way reflect the changing perception of history and the relationship between historiography and fiction. Several thematic aspects of this reflection are examined, namely, attitudes towards the Victorian era, city, country, archive (relation between fictional narrative and historical sources - meta-textuality) and history as a "palimpsest", i.e., as a set of multiple, mutually permeable layers of text. The changing attitude to the past, which finally leads to doubts on strict division between historiography and literary fiction, is mostly discussed in books published mainly in the last thirty years, the only exception being John Fowlesʼs The French Lieutenantʼs Woman which the author of the dissertation perceives as a book of major importance for the subsequent re-evaluation of the attitude to history. Iain Sinclair, Peter Ackroyd, Alan Moore (London), Michel Faber (the Victorians), Graham Swift, Bruce Chatwin and Adam Thorpe (country), Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith (novel and history), A.S. Byatt and Julian Barnes (archive, literary heritage) are also discussed. " For the authors of historical fiction, history is, above all, a rich source of stories. These stories are told and retold, they are rediscovered and adapted for...
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