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Empathy possibilities with literary characters in the reception of Jan Balabán's short stories
Klečka, Petr ; Neumann, Lukáš (advisor) ; Laufková, Veronika (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with reader empathy towards literary characters in Jan Balabán's short stories, specifically focusing on the means of text construction that enable this empathy. The theoretical part of the thesis first defines the subjects of the empathic response - the literary character and the reader. Subsequently, the empathic process is also defined. In the practical part, three short stories from different short story collections by Jan Balabán are then analysed, because the sub-research of the bachelor's thesis is focused on the transformation of the means of text construction key to eliciting an empathic response in the context of Balabán's work. The analyses themselves are structured into the different levels of literary character, narrator, story, space-time and language. The analyses then show that the empathic response in the reader is elicited in a similar way in the first two stories, mainly due to the blurring of the distinctions between the narrator's zone and the character's zone, which evokes a similarity with interpersonal interaction, as well as due to the sites of non-determinism that result in the elicitation of so-called external inferences. The third short story is more descriptive, the character's feelings are captured more explicitly, there is no blurring of the...
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Jan Balabán: From the Point of a Centre and/or a Periphery
Vildová, Hana ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Mravcová, Marie (referee)
The following work will be focused on the interpretation of the literaty piece of work by writer Jan Balabán. We are going to find, if we can classify this piece of work as from the Point of a Centre and/or a Periphery. At first we will look into the issue of a figure, its specific features. Shlomith Rimmon-Kenanová's works , and Seymor Chatman' s works will bring something interesting and new. Further we will try to find those features in the Balabán's books . We also will account the reviews of theese books.
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Language and style of Jan Balaban´s stories
TUŠOVÁ, Barbora
The focal point of my thesis is going to be a language analysis of Jan Balabán´ short stories, speciffically collections called Možná, že odcházíme a Prázdniny, it means in English We Maybe Leave and Holidays. I am going to deal with specific language style means and their functions in Balabán´ texts. In my initial theoretical part I am going to introduce briefly functional style of art and theme which is significant for the writer. And more I would like to introduce the other parts of his work. In my practical part I am going to study the text from various linguistic levels, from phonetic, lexical, syntactic and morfological levels,. Analysis is going to be completed by parts of Balaban texts where I will explain language phenomena.The result of my thesis will be the language analysis of both collections and their comparison.
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